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Facebook seemingly randomly bans tons of users

https://old.reddit.com/r/facebookdisabledme/
1•dirteater_•35s ago•1 comments

Global Bird Count

https://www.birdcount.org/
1•downboots•1m ago•0 comments

What Is Ruliology?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/what-is-ruliology/
2•soheilpro•2m ago•0 comments

Jon Stewart – One of My Favorite People – What Now? With Trevor Noah Podcast [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44uC12g9ZVk
1•consumer451•5m ago•0 comments

P2P crypto exchange development company

1•sonniya•18m ago•0 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
1•jesperordrup•23m ago•0 comments

Write for Your Readers Even If They Are Agents

https://commonsware.com/blog/2026/02/06/write-for-your-readers-even-if-they-are-agents.html
1•ingve•24m ago•0 comments

Knowledge-Creating LLMs

https://tecunningham.github.io/posts/2026-01-29-knowledge-creating-llms.html
1•salkahfi•24m ago•0 comments

Maple Mono: Smooth your coding flow

https://font.subf.dev/en/
1•signa11•31m ago•0 comments

Sid Meier's System for Real-Time Music Composition and Synthesis

https://patents.google.com/patent/US5496962A/en
1•GaryBluto•39m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Slop News – HN front page now, but it's all slop

https://dosaygo-studio.github.io/hn-front-page-2035/slop-news
4•keepamovin•40m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Empusa – Visual debugger to catch and resume AI agent retry loops

https://github.com/justin55afdfdsf5ds45f4ds5f45ds4/EmpusaAI
1•justinlord•42m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Bitcoin wallet on NXP SE050 secure element, Tor-only open source

https://github.com/0xdeadbeefnetwork/sigil-web
2•sickthecat•44m ago•1 comments

White House Explores Opening Antitrust Probe on Homebuilders

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-06/white-house-explores-opening-antitrust-probe-i...
1•petethomas•45m ago•0 comments

Show HN: MindDraft – AI task app with smart actions and auto expense tracking

https://minddraft.ai
2•imthepk•50m ago•0 comments

How do you estimate AI app development costs accurately?

1•insights123•51m ago•0 comments

Going Through Snowden Documents, Part 5

https://libroot.org/posts/going-through-snowden-documents-part-5/
1•goto1•51m ago•0 comments

Show HN: MCP Server for TradeStation

https://github.com/theelderwand/tradestation-mcp
1•theelderwand•54m ago•0 comments

Canada unveils auto industry plan in latest pivot away from US

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgd2j80klmo
3•breve•55m ago•1 comments

The essential Reinhold Niebuhr: selected essays and addresses

https://archive.org/details/essentialreinhol0000nieb
1•baxtr•58m ago•0 comments

Rentahuman.ai Turns Humans into On-Demand Labor for AI Agents

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ronschmelzer/2026/02/05/when-ai-agents-start-hiring-humans-rentahuma...
1•tempodox•59m ago•0 comments

StovexGlobal – Compliance Gaps to Note

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Show HN: Afelyon – Turns Jira tickets into production-ready PRs (multi-repo)

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1•AbduNebu•1h ago•0 comments

Trump says America should move on from Epstein – it may not be that easy

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy4gj71z0m0o
7•tempodox•1h ago•4 comments

Tiny Clippy – A native Office Assistant built in Rust and egui

https://github.com/salva-imm/tiny-clippy
1•salvadorda656•1h ago•0 comments

LegalArgumentException: From Courtrooms to Clojure – Sen [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmMQbsOTX-o
1•adityaathalye•1h ago•0 comments

US moves to deport 5-year-old detained in Minnesota

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-moves-deport-5-year-old-detained-minnesota-2026-02-06/
9•petethomas•1h ago•3 comments

If you lose your passport in Austria, head for McDonald's Golden Arches

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2•thunderbong•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Mermaid Formatter – CLI and library to auto-format Mermaid diagrams

https://github.com/chenyanchen/mermaid-formatter
1•astm•1h ago•0 comments

RFCs vs. READMEs: The Evolution of Protocols

https://h3manth.com/scribe/rfcs-vs-readmes/
3•init0•1h ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

SSDs, power loss protection and fsync latency

http://smalldatum.blogspot.com/2026/01/ssds-power-loss-protection-and-fsync.html
71•ingve•1mo ago

Comments

jauntywundrkind•1mo ago
Very appropriate topic, after yesterday's High-Performance DBMSs with io_uring: When and How to use it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46517319 https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.04859
mgerdts•1mo ago
It seems pointless to issue flush commands when writing to an NVMe drive with a direct IO implementation that functions properly. The NVMe spec says:

> 6.8 Flush command

> …

> If a volatile write cache is not present or not enabled, then Flush commands shall complete successfully and have no effect.

And:

> 5.21.1.6 Volatile Write Cache

> …

> Note: If the controller is able to guarantee that data present in a write cache is written to non-volatile media on loss of power, then that write cache is considered non-volatile and this feature does not apply to that write cache.

ComputerGuru•1mo ago
IOCTLs can tell you if write caching is enabled or not. Can they reliably tell you whether the write cache is volatile, though? Many drives with PLPs still report volatile write caches, or at least did when I was testing this a few years back.
wtallis•1mo ago
If you know your application will only ever run against enterprise SSDs with power loss protection, then sending flush commands to the drive itself would indeed be pointless no-ops. But it if it's a flush command that has effects somewhere between the application layer and the NVMe drive (eg. if you're not using direct IO) or if there's any possibility of the code being run on a consumer SSD (eg. a developer's laptop) then the flush commands are probably worth including; the performance hit on enterprise drives will be very small.
jmalicki•1mo ago
What SSDs are reasonably performant without a volatile write cache? The standards you quote specify why it is necessary to issue flush!
mgerdts•4w ago
Per the definition of volatile write cache in the standard I quoted, pretty much any drive TLC drive in the hyperscalar, datacenter, or enterprise product lineup will have great write performance. They have a DRAM cache that is battery-backed, and as such is not a volatile write cache.

A specific somewhat dated example: Samsung 980 Pro (consumer client), PM9A1 (OEM client), and PM9A3 (datacenter) are very similar drives that have the same PCI ID and are all available as M.2. PM9A3 drives have power loss protection and the others don’t. It has very consistent write latency (on the order of 20 - 50 μs when not exceptionally busy) and very consistent throughput (up to 1.5 GB/s) regardless of how full it is. The same cannot be said of the client drives without PLP but with tricks like TurboWrite (aka pseudo-SLC). When more than 30% of the NAND is erased, the client drives can take writes at 5 GB/s but that rate falls off a cliff and gets wobbly when the pseudo-SLC cache fills.

jmalicki•4w ago
Thanks! Yes, as the sibling noted, if you limit this to PLP drives it makes sense, but that is also a special case. Outside of the latency hit (which is significant in some cases), FLUSH is also nearly free on those though.
daymanstep•4w ago
Did you check that the drives actually honor the flush? Half of drives tested lose FLUSH'd data on power loss.
monsecchris•4w ago
Those are not contradictory
hbogert•3w ago
my problem is still that i want to use enterprise SSDs, but 2280, alas, as the article mentions they are pretty hard to come by.