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Brute Force Colors (2022)

https://arnaud-carre.github.io/2022-12-30-amiga-ham/
1•erickhill•2m ago•0 comments

Google Translate apparently vulnerable to prompt injection

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tAh2keDNEEHMXvLvz/prompt-injection-in-google-translate-reveals-ba...
1•julkali•2m ago•0 comments

(Bsky thread) "This turns the maintainer into an unwitting vibe coder"

https://bsky.app/profile/fullmoon.id/post/3meadfaulhk2s
1•todsacerdoti•3m ago•0 comments

Software development is undergoing a Renaissance in front of our eyes

https://twitter.com/gdb/status/2019566641491963946
1•tosh•3m ago•0 comments

Can you beat ensloppification? I made a quiz for Wikipedia's Signs of AI Writing

https://tryward.app/aiquiz
1•bennydog224•4m ago•1 comments

Spec-Driven Design with Kiro: Lessons from Seddle

https://medium.com/@dustin_44710/spec-driven-design-with-kiro-lessons-from-seddle-9320ef18a61f
1•nslog•4m ago•0 comments

Agents need good developer experience too

https://modal.com/blog/agents-devex
1•birdculture•6m ago•0 comments

The Dark Factory

https://twitter.com/i/status/2020161285376082326
1•Ozzie_osman•6m ago•0 comments

Free data transfer out to internet when moving out of AWS (2024)

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/free-data-transfer-out-to-internet-when-moving-out-of-aws/
1•tosh•7m ago•0 comments

Interop 2025: A Year of Convergence

https://webkit.org/blog/17808/interop-2025-review/
1•alwillis•8m ago•0 comments

Prejudice Against Leprosy

https://text.npr.org/g-s1-108321
1•hi41•9m ago•0 comments

Slint: Cross Platform UI Library

https://slint.dev/
1•Palmik•13m ago•0 comments

AI and Education: Generative AI and the Future of Critical Thinking

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7PvscqGD24
1•nyc111•13m ago•0 comments

Maple Mono: Smooth your coding flow

https://font.subf.dev/en/
1•signa11•14m ago•0 comments

Moltbook isn't real but it can still hurt you

https://12gramsofcarbon.com/p/tech-things-moltbook-isnt-real-but
1•theahura•18m ago•0 comments

Take Back the Em Dash–and Your Voice

https://spin.atomicobject.com/take-back-em-dash/
1•ingve•18m ago•0 comments

Show HN: 289x speedup over MLP using Spectral Graphs

https://zenodo.org/login/?next=%2Fme%2Fuploads%3Fq%3D%26f%3Dshared_with_me%25253Afalse%26l%3Dlist...
1•andrespi•19m ago•0 comments

Teaching Mathematics

https://www.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~spurny/doc/articles/arnold.htm
2•samuel246•22m ago•0 comments

3D Printed Microfluidic Multiplexing [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZ2ZcOzLnGg
2•downboots•22m ago•0 comments

Abstractions Are in the Eye of the Beholder

https://software.rajivprab.com/2019/08/29/abstractions-are-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder/
2•whack•22m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Routed Attention – 75-99% savings by routing between O(N) and O(N²)

https://zenodo.org/records/18518956
1•MikeBee•22m ago•0 comments

We didn't ask for this internet – Ezra Klein show [video]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ve02F0gyfjY
1•softwaredoug•23m ago•0 comments

The Real AI Talent War Is for Plumbers and Electricians

https://www.wired.com/story/why-there-arent-enough-electricians-and-plumbers-to-build-ai-data-cen...
2•geox•26m ago•0 comments

Show HN: MimiClaw, OpenClaw(Clawdbot)on $5 Chips

https://github.com/memovai/mimiclaw
1•ssslvky1•26m ago•0 comments

I Maintain My Blog in the Age of Agents

https://www.jerpint.io/blog/2026-02-07-how-i-maintain-my-blog-in-the-age-of-agents/
3•jerpint•27m ago•0 comments

The Fall of the Nerds

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/the-fall-of-the-nerds
1•otoolep•28m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I'm 15 and built a free tool for reading ancient texts.

https://the-lexicon-project.netlify.app/
5•breadwithjam•31m ago•2 comments

How close is AI to taking my job?

https://epoch.ai/gradient-updates/how-close-is-ai-to-taking-my-job
1•cjbarber•31m ago•0 comments

You are the reason I am not reviewing this PR

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/479442
2•midzer•33m ago•1 comments

Show HN: FamilyMemories.video – Turn static old photos into 5s AI videos

https://familymemories.video
1•tareq_•35m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

A smartphone that runs Android, launches Debian, and dual-boots Windows 11

https://nexphone.com/blog/the-tale-of-nexphone-one-phone-every-computer
17•emrekosmaz•2w ago

Comments

emrekosmaz•2w ago
Hi HN — I’m Emre, founder of Nex Computer (NexDock). After ~14 years working on “phone-as-PC,” we’re announcing NexPhone: a smartphone that runs Android by default, can launch a full Debian Linux environment on demand, and can dual-boot into Windows 11.

Write-up with background + rationale: https://nexphone.com/blog/the-tale-of-nexphone-one-phone-eve...

Curious what HN thinks about the tradeoffs here: dual-boot vs virtualization, Linux as an app vs full replaceable OS, and what the “killer workflow” is for a phone-as-PC device. Would love to hear use-cases / critiques.

shams93•2w ago
Even if it couldn't do win11 it would be amazing, but also transforming into a work pc setup is ingenious. Then there are the environmental benefits of reducing the footprint of eventual e-waste.
necovek•2w ago
I'd love it to be the other way around: Linux is native, and you can start an Android environment in the userland for the few Android apps I can't avoid :)

I don't care about Windows, but it's useful if I want to deal with a Windows only app (a few from the government locally).

necovek•2w ago
But note that I am unlikely to get one today: with a drawer full of Linux phones (from Motorola A1200, Nokia N900 and N9, Palm Pre+, HP Pre 3, PinePhone, Meizu MX4 shipped with Ubuntu, and Nexus 4 running Ubuntu), I'd really be looking for something that does exactly what I want with enough performance to actually dock to my 8k TV or 4k dual screen setup.
fsflover•1w ago
Somehow your list misses Librem 5, which is more powerful than others, although not as powerful as the Nexphone will.
adrian_b•1w ago
It is hard to associate in the same sentence the word "powerful" with a quadruple Cortex-A53 CPU.

Cortex-A78 is in a totally different class of "powerful", when compared with Cortex-A53. Cortex-A53 has not been designed as a top performer among Arm CPUs, but only as a low-power core. Even at its launch, in 2012, 14 years ago, Cortex-A53 was much slower than the older big Arm cores, like Cortex-A15 from 2010. I am aware of this from direct experience, because a decade ago I have developed software on several SBCs with Cortex-A53, including Raspberry Pi, and also on an ODROID model with Cortex-A15, which ran circles around them, and unlike them it delivered a passable desktop experience.

On the other hand, at its launch in 2020, Cortex-A78 was faster than any older Arm CPU cores. It was then surpassed by the Cortex-X1 launched simultaneously with it, and then by the Apple M1, launched later that year.

Even if some enthusiasts have used old Raspberry Pi and similar SBCs with Cortex-A53 as PCs, that was really not wise as they were too slow for a comfortable use and there were faster alternatives with a similar price (after you added the cost of all required peripherals).

necovek•1w ago
It's more expensive and not sufficiently more powerful: I would also have to pay customs duties to import it into Serbia. The above are actual devices I own or have owned, it's natural I did not get all of them (including like PinePhone Pro).
necovek•2w ago
To separately answer the killer workflow: I'd love to reduce a number of devices, and another one might be an e-ink note taking screen to dock to (yes, I've got a reMarkable Paper Pro and Kindle Scribe). But other than docking to my keyboard, screen(s), external camera/mic and network, phone, laptop and eink with pen is what I care about.

I'd also want more built-in, fast storage (2tb) to keep my basic data always with me (photos, documents...).

zb3•2w ago
How does it deal with AVB? Does it have a secure element that works with Android keymint?

Does the bootloader implement fastboot? Is it unlockable? What does the partition layout look like?

I suppose the actual magic has to happen in the "abl" part and this is where it gets very interesting, but these announcements were extremely light on details..

DANmode•1w ago
1) Is your supply chain plan published anywhere?

Always seems to be the weak point making new entrants.

2) Please don’t add too many days to the patch interval of these OS, if any.

3) How will the hardware security rival the Pixel line?

Wishing you success!

mystifyingpoi•2w ago
Could anyone using a lapdock everyday share their experience? How do you use it? Does it make sense to buy a device that requires another device to function?
necovek•2w ago
Like a smartwatch? ;)

The point is that you'll have one anyway (your phone), so the other is to make it more powerful. But I can imagine some cases where it is suboptimal (you need a MFA token read off your phone for a web page login?).

nsonha•1w ago
When I select my country a different text than the default "Reserve NexPhone (Direct Shipping)" appear. And the line "This is a fully refundable reservation deposit" is no longer there.
saurik•1w ago
If I dual boot into Windows, I take it I am no longer contactable on my phone?
DANmode•1w ago
Windows devices can address cellular modems.
ed_mercer•1w ago
I’m sad that people are spending time on this when they should be building a Linux phone.
fsflover•1w ago
Linux phones already exist: Librem 5 and Pinephone.
adrian_b•1w ago
Those have a ridiculously low performance.

While this phone still does not have an Armv9-A CPU, but only a quadruple Cortex-A78, that is nonetheless like 4 to 10 times faster than the phones mentioned by you and faster than a light notebook of a decade ago.

The other Linux phones are barely competitive with a laptop of 25 years ago and they are not really usable as a personal computer today, unless you like waiting for your computer.

fsflover•1w ago
Specs do not show the whole pucture: https://puri.sm/posts/the-danger-of-focusing-on-specs/

Librem 5 is my daily driver btw.

adrian_b•1w ago
While I partially agree with what it says at your link, about specs depending on the context, I am also well aware about the actual performance of quadruple Cortex-A53 CPUs and how it compares with alternatives, because about a decade ago I have used many single-board computers with various kinds of such CPUs (including Raspberry Pi, but also other very different SoCs). I eventually abandoned them for better alternatives.

If you have modest requirements, you can be content with such a CPU, e.g. for reading and editing simple documents or browsing the Internet with scripting disabled.

The point is that there is no need to restrain yourself to cope with its limitations, because for more than a decade there have been much better alternatives.

Even when your target is a sub-$100 computer, it makes no sense to use any CPU weaker than a quadruple Cortex-A76, like in the many computer models using Rockchip CPUs or in the current Raspberry Pi. While there are much more sources of Cortex-A76 based computers, the number of those offering much faster Cortex-A78 based CPUs using Qualcomm or Mediatek SoCs, including this smartphone, are steadily increasing.

fsflover•1w ago
> The point is that there is no need to restrain yourself to cope with its limitations, because for more than a decade there have been much better alternatives.

Where are those alternatives? Which phones with a better CPU can run GNU/Linux?

JCattheATM•1w ago
What about phones from OnePlus for example, sever of which can run PostmarketOS.
fsflover•1w ago
AFAIK none of them can run GNU/Linux natively: only on top of Android.
JCattheATM•1w ago
Never heard anything like that about PostmarketOS before, and couldn't find anything confirming that's the case.
fsflover•1w ago
Good call. It seems this is just one way to run it, https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Hybris. Another way is to run mainline kernel, which is currently supported by few devices, including Librem 5, Pinephone, Fairphone 2, OnePlus. It seems only the first two run with all FLOSS drivers and full support: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices

So, for OnePlus, you may stop getting updates for proprietary drivers whenever the vendor decides so. Also, not all features are supported due to the difficulty of reverse-engineering the drivers.

JCattheATM•1w ago
Driver updates generally stablize, and new updates aren't really needed, so I don't think that's an issue.
fsflover•1w ago
Vulnerabilities are found in drivers all the time.
JCattheATM•1w ago
That's a huge exaggeration, honestly. I don't think there are any outstanding vulnerabilities in any of the OnePlus T devices that can run PMOS.
fsflover•1w ago
This is not at all what I wrote. I wrote that with proprietary drivers, you're always at the risk of being vulnerable with no recourse.
JCattheATM•1w ago
Right...and I wrote that's not really an issue as time goes on as drivers stabilize.
fsflover•1w ago
Never heard anything about "driver stabilization" before, and couldn't find anything confirming that it exists. In my understanding, the longer some piece of software is used, the higher the probability that a vulnerability can be found.

I can imagine that after a really long time, most vulnerabilities might be found, but I don't believe I will live long enough to see that for relevant drivers.

JCattheATM•1w ago
> Never heard anything about "driver stabilization" before, and couldn't find anything confirming that it exists.

I don't know that it's a known phrase, I find it odd you searched for it as I would have thought the meaning would have been obvious. Bugs are found generally within the developer mandated lifespan of the device, more bugs are found closer to release with less being found over time.

There might still be vulnerabilities, but that would be just as true for open source ones, because in both cases no one is really looking for them.

Can you find any unpatched vulnerabilities for any of the OnePlus devices that PMOS runs on? I doubt it. They may exist, but they may exist i your Librem also.

fsflover•1w ago
Stastistically, vulnerabilities should exist in both OnePlus and Librem. However, as the latter has free drivers, anyone will be able to fix them, whereas for OnePlus you have to hope that the vendor helps you.
JCattheATM•1w ago
Right, so you're just going off vague generalizations and possibilities. There's an entire army of people looking for vulnerabilities in this area, and they haven't found any. Until you can show a vulnerability for the devices I mentioned, you don't have much of a point.
fsflover•1w ago
> and they haven't found any

Why are you so sure? Not everybody shares vulnerabilities with the world. Some people keep them for themselves or sell on the black market. I doubt OnePlus offer a reasonable payment for that.

JCattheATM•1w ago
Because it's not a high target device. Valuable targets are not using outdated OnePlus devices. There might not be money to be made, but there is reputation to be earned by discovering a new vulnerability. I doubt a vulnerability in some old 6T hardware would be worth much, while disclosing it and padding a resume would be.
fsflover•1w ago
People who use non-mainstream systems and rely very little on proprietary software are automatically more interesting. They may have something to hide.
JCattheATM•1w ago
I think that's a massive case of confirmation bias and exaggeration. People that use GrapheneOS are significantly, substantially more of a target than someone using a librem out of principle.

I don't think you have much of a point at all, but I also don't see this discussion going anywhere interesting so I'll leave it at that.

fsflover•1w ago
> People that use GrapheneOS are significantly, substantially more of a target than someone using a librem out of principle.

I don't dispute that. However, if you take into account that Google (who create Pixel devices) is a part of Prism, GrapheneOS users could likely be targeted in another way.

handedness•1w ago
You've made that vague claim a number of times before, and unless I steelman it into being merely handwavy, it comes across as pure FUD. I don't even know where to begin.

But next year GrapheneOS will be releasing an OEM phone.