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Show HN: I'm 75, building an OSS Virtual Protest Protocol for digital activism

https://github.com/voice-of-japan/Virtual-Protest-Protocol/blob/main/README.md
1•sakanakana00•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built Divvy to split restaurant bills from a photo

https://divvyai.app/
1•pieterdy•3m ago•0 comments

Hot Reloading in Rust? Subsecond and Dioxus to the Rescue

https://codethoughts.io/posts/2026-02-07-rust-hot-reloading/
2•Tehnix•4m ago•1 comments

Skim – vibe review your PRs

https://github.com/Haizzz/skim
1•haizzz•5m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Open-source AI assistant for interview reasoning

https://github.com/evinjohnn/natively-cluely-ai-assistant
2•Nive11•5m ago•3 comments

Tech Edge: A Living Playbook for America's Technology Long Game

https://csis-website-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/2026-01/260120_EST_Tech_Edge_0.pdf?Version...
1•hunglee2•9m ago•0 comments

Golden Cross vs. Death Cross: Crypto Trading Guide

https://chartscout.io/golden-cross-vs-death-cross-crypto-trading-guide
1•chartscout•12m ago•0 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
2•AlexeyBrin•14m ago•0 comments

What the longevity experts don't tell you

https://machielreyneke.com/blog/longevity-lessons/
1•machielrey•16m ago•1 comments

Monzo wrongly denied refunds to fraud and scam victims

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/feb/07/monzo-natwest-hsbc-refunds-fraud-scam-fos-ombudsman
3•tablets•20m ago•0 comments

They were drawn to Korea with dreams of K-pop stardom – but then let down

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgnq9rwyqno
2•breve•23m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI-Powered Merchant Intelligence

https://nodee.co
1•jjkirsch•25m ago•0 comments

Bash parallel tasks and error handling

https://github.com/themattrix/bash-concurrent
2•pastage•25m ago•0 comments

Let's compile Quake like it's 1997

https://fabiensanglard.net/compile_like_1997/index.html
2•billiob•26m ago•0 comments

Reverse Engineering Medium.com's Editor: How Copy, Paste, and Images Work

https://app.writtte.com/read/gP0H6W5
2•birdculture•31m ago•0 comments

Go 1.22, SQLite, and Next.js: The "Boring" Back End

https://mohammedeabdelaziz.github.io/articles/go-next-pt-2
1•mohammede•37m ago•0 comments

Laibach the Whistleblowers [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6Mx2mxpaCY
1•KnuthIsGod•38m ago•1 comments

Slop News - HN front page right now as AI slop

https://slop-news.pages.dev/slop-news
1•keepamovin•43m ago•1 comments

Economists vs. Technologists on AI

https://ideasindevelopment.substack.com/p/economists-vs-technologists-on-ai
1•econlmics•45m ago•0 comments

Life at the Edge

https://asadk.com/p/edge
3•tosh•51m ago•0 comments

RISC-V Vector Primer

https://github.com/simplex-micro/riscv-vector-primer/blob/main/index.md
4•oxxoxoxooo•55m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Invoxo – Invoicing with automatic EU VAT for cross-border services

2•InvoxoEU•55m ago•0 comments

A Tale of Two Standards, POSIX and Win32 (2005)

https://www.samba.org/samba/news/articles/low_point/tale_two_stds_os2.html
3•goranmoomin•59m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Is the Downfall of SaaS Started?

3•throwaw12•1h ago•0 comments

Flirt: The Native Backend

https://blog.buenzli.dev/flirt-native-backend/
2•senekor•1h ago•0 comments

OpenAI's Latest Platform Targets Enterprise Customers

https://aibusiness.com/agentic-ai/openai-s-latest-platform-targets-enterprise-customers
1•myk-e•1h ago•0 comments

Goldman Sachs taps Anthropic's Claude to automate accounting, compliance roles

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/anthropic-goldman-sachs-ai-model-accounting.html
4•myk-e•1h ago•5 comments

Ai.com bought by Crypto.com founder for $70M in biggest-ever website name deal

https://www.ft.com/content/83488628-8dfd-4060-a7b0-71b1bb012785
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•1h ago•1 comments

Big Tech's AI Push Is Costing More Than the Moon Landing

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-spending-tech-companies-compared-02b90046
5•1vuio0pswjnm7•1h ago•0 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
4•1vuio0pswjnm7•1h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

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.