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Show HN: Linux installer .exe without pendrives (secure-boot compatible)

https://www.1clicklinux.org/
3•arusekk•1h ago
It is fairly simple, but useful for non-power users: a statically-linked Qt app that gracefully edits Windows Boot Manager to do a reboot-once into GRUB, which in turn launches ZorinOS live/installer from disk loopback. I needed to make a custom initramfs with dislocker in it, and to squeeze it a little (default Windows EFI partition is not so big).

Currently my biggest issue is that systemd is unable to shut down gracefully when rootfs is mounted from such a deep loop stack. The other is that installing to full disk crashes right after it successfully damages the partition table. I think I could solve both by copying the ISO contents to ramdisk before systemd takes over (initramfs needs to stay slim as I mentioned before) - maybe opportunistically if there is enough RAM (3,5G is not so unreasonable to expect).

I decided to make it paid for now (maybe not eligible for show? if so, sorry, I've been mostly a HN reader so far), but I am still considering if my project brought more good by being free of charge. It is free as in GPL3+ though, so although I can politely ask you not to exercise it too hard until I turn Bad™, you (will) have several ways to obtain it without paying anyway.

The website itself (especially payments) is also an interesting story, I can share it too some day.

What do you think?

TPM software for Intel Macs / Windows systems

https://flextpm.com/
1•thewhitekanye•3m ago•1 comments

Ravix – An AI agent that runs on your Claude Code subscription (alpha)

2•raunaksingwi•8m ago•0 comments

A text adventure, all in Markdown

https://vas-blog.pages.dev/markdown-adventure
1•s314•9m ago•0 comments

Misconceptions About Majority Rule

https://groupincome.org/2016/09/misconceptions-about-majority-rule/#user-content-fnref-5
1•gslepak•13m ago•0 comments

Webby Person of the Year: Claude

https://winners.webbyawards.com/2026/specialachievement/476/claude
1•watusername•13m ago•0 comments

Unauthorized group has gained access to Anthropic's exclusive cyber tool Mythos

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/21/unauthorized-group-has-gained-access-to-anthropics-exclusive-cy...
1•jnord•16m ago•1 comments

Submit your startup profile with Claude or ChatGPT. 60 seconds or less

https://www.startuphub.ai/agents/submit
1•compulsivebuild•18m ago•0 comments

Higher education's frozen yogurt moment

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/04/19/yale-report-shows-colleges-universities-face-r...
1•paulpauper•19m ago•0 comments

AI was ruining my college philosophy classes. So I assigned a new kind of essay

https://globeopinion.substack.com/p/ai-was-ruining-my-college-philosophy
1•paulpauper•19m ago•0 comments

A forty-year-old problem, briefly available

https://www.parahealth.ai/company/dispatch/thesis
1•dylburns•22m ago•0 comments

Ray-Ban Meta and Oakley Meta AI Glasses Officially Available in Singapore

https://cnalifestyle.channelnewsasia.com/style-beauty/ray-ban-meta-and-oakley-meta-ai-glasses-sin...
1•kelt•23m ago•0 comments

Learning Material for Idiomatic Rust

https://corrode.dev/blog/idiomatic-rust-resources/
1•lwhsiao•23m ago•0 comments

Show HN: gcx – The Official Grafana Cloud CLI

https://github.com/grafana/gcx
1•annanay•24m ago•0 comments

Lufthansa cuts 20k flights to save money, fuel

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2026/04/21/lufthansa-flight-cuts/6391776813766/
3•petethomas•27m ago•1 comments

Cursor partners with SpaceX on model training

https://cursor.com/blog/spacex-model-training
2•gzer0•30m ago•1 comments

NASA's Webb Helped Rule Out Asteroid's Chance of 2032 Lunar Impact

https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/webb/2026/03/06/how-nasas-webb-helped-rule-out-asteroids-chance-of...
1•mooreds•35m ago•0 comments

Drunk Post: Things I've Learned as a Senior Engineer

https://luminousmen.substack.com/p/drunk-post-things-ive-learned-as
4•zdw•38m ago•1 comments

Bloom filters: the niche trick behind a 16× faster API – Blog – incident.io

https://incident.io/blog/bloom-filters
5•birdculture•39m ago•0 comments

Enriching MMDB files with your own data using Go (2020)

https://blog.maxmind.com/enriching-mmdb-files-with-your-own-data-using-go/
1•mooreds•44m ago•0 comments

Developing Theory about the Development of Theory [pdf]

https://mintzberg.org/sites/default/files/article/download/developing_theory_about_the_developmen...
3•rzk•48m ago•0 comments

How Much Do GPU Clusters Cost?

https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/how-much-do-gpu-clusters-really-cost
2•stosssik•49m ago•0 comments

New Lazarus Apt Campaign: "Mach-O Man" macOS Malware Kit Hits Businesses

https://any.run/cybersecurity-blog/lazarus-macos-malware-mach-o-man/
1•lnguyen•51m ago•0 comments

Fuck you, pay me" by mike monteiro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVkLVRt6c1U
1•fuzztester•52m ago•1 comments

AI bot buying what agents can buy in 2026

https://dialtoneapp.com/2026/april/ai-bot-buying-report
2•fcpguru•53m ago•0 comments

US Criminally Charges Southern Poverty Law Center, Blanche Says

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-criminally-charges-southern-poverty-law-center-blanche-says-2026...
5•petethomas•58m ago•0 comments

Does your boss have AI brain?

https://www.milkkarten.net/p/boss-obsessed-ai-marketing
4•coloneltcb•1h ago•0 comments

Google Ads Keeps Marking My Site Compromised

3•earonesty•1h ago•0 comments

Single-minded pursuit of profit can get firms in trouble. Same thing with AI

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2026/04/single-minded-pursuit-of-profit-can-get-firms-in-t...
2•lukaspetersson•1h ago•0 comments

The reason your kids aren't getting married isn't what you think it is

https://tommyfalk567.substack.com/p/the-reason-your-kids-arent-getting
1•TommyFalk•1h ago•0 comments

The Next Era of Software Architecture Is Data-First

https://aimdb.dev/blog/data-driven-design
2•lukastyrychtr•1h ago•0 comments