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AlphaFace: High Fidelity and Real-Time Face Swapper Robust to Facial Pose

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.16429
1•PaulHoule•51s ago•0 comments

Scientists discover “levitating” time crystals that you can hold in your hand

https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2026/february/scientists-discover--levitating--t...
1•hhs•2m ago•0 comments

Rammstein – Deutschland (C64 Cover, Real SID, 8-bit – 2019) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VReIuv1GFo
1•erickhill•3m ago•0 comments

Tell HN: Yet Another Round of Zendesk Spam

1•Philpax•3m ago•0 comments

Postgres Message Queue (PGMQ)

https://github.com/pgmq/pgmq
1•Lwrless•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Django-rclone: Database and media backups for Django, powered by rclone

https://github.com/kjnez/django-rclone
1•cui•9m ago•1 comments

NY lawmakers proposed statewide data center moratorium

https://www.niagara-gazette.com/news/local_news/ny-lawmakers-proposed-statewide-data-center-morat...
1•geox•11m ago•0 comments

OpenClaw AI chatbots are running amok – these scientists are listening in

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00370-w
2•EA-3167•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI agent forgets user preferences every session. This fixes it

https://www.pref0.com/
4•fliellerjulian•13m ago•0 comments

Introduce the Vouch/Denouncement Contribution Model

https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/pull/10559
2•DustinEchoes•15m ago•0 comments

Show HN: SSHcode – Always-On Claude Code/OpenCode over Tailscale and Hetzner

https://github.com/sultanvaliyev/sshcode
1•sultanvaliyev•16m ago•0 comments

Microsoft appointed a quality czar. He has no direct reports and no budget

https://jpcaparas.medium.com/microsoft-appointed-a-quality-czar-he-has-no-direct-reports-and-no-b...
2•RickJWagner•17m ago•0 comments

Multi-agent coordination on Claude Code: 8 production pain points and patterns

https://gist.github.com/sigalovskinick/6cc1cef061f76b7edd198e0ebc863397
1•nikolasi•18m ago•0 comments

Washington Post CEO Will Lewis Steps Down After Stormy Tenure

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/technology/washington-post-will-lewis.html
7•jbegley•18m ago•1 comments

DevXT – Building the Future with AI That Acts

https://devxt.com
2•superpecmuscles•19m ago•4 comments

A Minimal OpenClaw Built with the OpenCode SDK

https://github.com/CefBoud/MonClaw
1•cefboud•20m ago•0 comments

The silent death of Good Code

https://amit.prasad.me/blog/rip-good-code
3•amitprasad•20m ago•0 comments

The Internal Negotiation You Have When Your Heart Rate Gets Uncomfortable

https://www.vo2maxpro.com/blog/internal-negotiation-heart-rate
1•GoodluckH•21m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Glance – Fast CSV inspection for the terminal (SIMD-accelerated)

https://github.com/AveryClapp/glance
2•AveryClapp•22m ago•0 comments

Busy for the Next Fifty to Sixty Bud

https://pestlemortar.substack.com/p/busy-for-the-next-fifty-to-sixty-had-all-my-money-in-bitcoin-...
1•mithradiumn•23m ago•0 comments

Imperative

https://pestlemortar.substack.com/p/imperative
1•mithradiumn•24m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I decomposed 87 tasks to find where AI agents structurally collapse

https://github.com/XxCotHGxX/Instruction_Entropy
2•XxCotHGxX•28m ago•1 comments

I went back to Linux and it was a mistake

https://www.theverge.com/report/875077/linux-was-a-mistake
3•timpera•29m ago•1 comments

Octrafic – open-source AI-assisted API testing from the CLI

https://github.com/Octrafic/octrafic-cli
1•mbadyl•30m ago•1 comments

US Accuses China of Secret Nuclear Testing

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/trump-has-been-clear-wanting-new-nuclear-arms-control-treaty-...
3•jandrewrogers•31m ago•2 comments

Peacock. A New Programming Language

2•hashhooshy•36m ago•1 comments

A postcard arrived: 'If you're reading this I'm dead, and I really liked you'

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2026/02/07/postcard-death-teacher-glickman/
4•bookofjoe•37m ago•1 comments

What to know about the software selloff

https://www.morningstar.com/markets/what-know-about-software-stock-selloff
2•RickJWagner•41m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Syntux – generative UI for websites, not agents

https://www.getsyntux.com/
3•Goose78•42m ago•0 comments

Microsoft appointed a quality czar. He has no direct reports and no budget

https://jpcaparas.medium.com/ab75cef97954
2•birdculture•42m ago•0 comments
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Distropack: Build once make it available on all Linux distros

https://distropack.dev
2•segfault0x23•1mo ago

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segfault0x23•1mo ago
I'm the original developer and maintainer of power-options (a GUI for managing settings related to power saving and performance on linux laptops and desktops). One of the issues I had when releasing it was the absurd difficulty of handling all package managers and all the different quirks in god knows how many different linux distros. For the most part of the program I simply built a GitHub actions workflow that used python scripts to generate PKGBUILDS and commit them with git to the AUR. Since the AUR didn't require any other manual processes it was the only one I could easily automate. The remaining users used shell scripts,

I also tried Open Build Service from OpenSuse and it was so hard to implement with so few documentation that I basically gave up halfway.

Then I decided to build distropack. Now you basically create a package, press enable on all distros, indicate which files your package has and use the specialized GitHub action to simply upload the binaries you already built in the CI and it will build for all major package manager formats.

Instead of god knows how many instructions in the readme I now just show my users this link: https://distropack.dev/Install/Project/TheAlexDev23/power-op...

it's that easy. I just wanted to share this with fellow open source maintainers. afaik it's basically OBS but way easier. one quirk though, just like in OBS your users will have a separate repository for your project only so use carefully I guess.