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'The answer cannot be nothing': The battle over Canada's mystery brain disease

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c623r47d67lo
106•lewww•3h ago•60 comments

The Concise TypeScript Book

https://github.com/gibbok/typescript-book
35•javatuts•2h ago•1 comments

My Home Fibre Network Disintegrated

https://alienchow.dev/post/fibre_disintegration/
111•alienchow•3h ago•83 comments

Show HN: Ferrite – Markdown editor in Rust with native Mermaid diagram rendering

https://github.com/OlaProeis/Ferrite
121•OlaProis•6h ago•45 comments

'Bandersnatch': The Works That Inspired the 'Black Mirror' Interactive Feature (2019)

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/black-mirror-bandersnatch-real-life-works-influences...
16•rafaepta•5d ago•1 comments

Vojtux – Unofficial Linux Distribution Aimed at Visually Impaired Users

https://github.com/vojtapolasek/vojtux
9•TheWiggles•3d ago•1 comments

Finding and fixing Ghostty's largest memory leak

https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-memory-leak-fix
382•thorel•12h ago•78 comments

Show HN: I used Claude Code to discover connections between 100 books

https://trails.pieterma.es/
311•pmaze•15h ago•87 comments

CPU Counters on Apple Silicon: article + tool

https://blog.bugsiki.dev/posts/apple-pmu/
57•verte_zerg•3d ago•0 comments

A Year of Work on the Arch Linux Package Management (ALPM) Project

https://devblog.archlinux.page/2026/a-year-of-work-on-the-alpm-project/
46•susam•5h ago•1 comments

Iranian regime tries to shut down Starlink

https://www.timesofisrael.com/iran-appears-to-jam-starlink-after-shutting-down-comms-networks/
30•ukblewis•40m ago•9 comments

An Experimental Approach to Printf in HLSL

https://www.abolishcrlf.org//2025/12/31/Printf.html
20•ibobev•3d ago•0 comments

Open Chaos: A self-evolving open-source project

https://www.openchaos.dev/
361•stefanvdw1•15h ago•75 comments

Code and Let Live

https://fly.io/blog/code-and-let-live/
298•usrme•1d ago•107 comments

AI is a business model stress test

https://dri.es/ai-is-a-business-model-stress-test
231•amarsahinovic•15h ago•241 comments

Show HN: Librario, a book metadata API that aggregates G Books, ISBNDB, and more

94•jamesponddotco•8h ago•29 comments

Show HN: VAM Seek – 2D video navigation grid, 15KB, zero server load

https://github.com/unhaya/vam-seek
19•haasiy•5h ago•1 comments

Show HN: Play poker with LLMs, or watch them play against each other

https://llmholdem.com/
104•projectyang•12h ago•48 comments

Overdose deaths are falling in America because of a 'supply shock': study

https://www.economist.com/united-states/2026/01/08/why-overdose-deaths-are-falling-in-america
116•marojejian•12h ago•83 comments

Ripple: The Elegant TypeScript UI Framework

https://jsdev.space/meet-ripple/
11•javatuts•3h ago•7 comments

ChatGPT Health is a marketplace, guess who is the product?

https://consciousdigital.org/chatgpt-health-is-a-marketplace-guess-who-is-the-product/
269•yoaviram•2d ago•253 comments

Sisyphus Now Lives in Oh My Claude

https://github.com/Yeachan-Heo/oh-my-claude-sisyphus
21•deckardt•5h ago•13 comments

Code Is Clay

https://campedersen.com/code-is-clay
59•ecto•12h ago•30 comments

I build products to get "unplugged" from the internet

https://getunplugged.io/I-build-products-to-get-unplugged
7•keplerjst•2h ago•1 comments

Brands upset Buy For Me is featuring their products on Amazon without permission

https://www.modernretail.co/technology/brands-are-upset-that-buy-for-me-is-featuring-their-produc...
87•spenvo•4d ago•54 comments

Visual regression tests for personal blogs

https://marending.dev/notes/visual-testing/
11•beingflo•4d ago•3 comments

Show HN: mcpc – Universal command-line client for Model Context Protocol (MCP)

https://github.com/apify/mcp-cli
32•jancurn•4d ago•3 comments

Workers at Redmond SpaceX lab exposed to toxic chemicals

https://www.fox13seattle.com/video/fmc-w1ga4pk97gxq0hj5
87•SilverElfin•4h ago•13 comments

ASCII-Driven Development

https://medium.com/@calufa/ascii-driven-development-850f66661351
119•_hfqa•2d ago•76 comments

Kodbox: Open-source cloud desktop with multi-storage fusion and web IDE

https://github.com/kalcaddle/kodbox
18•indigodaddy•6h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

New Tool: lsds – List All Linux Block Devices and Settings in One Place

https://tanelpoder.com/posts/lsds-list-linux-block-devices-and-their-config/
101•mfiguiere•8mo ago

Comments

DonHopkins•8mo ago
I always wanted the /dev/zero character device driver, which you can map into memory to clear it, or use as an infinite source of nulls, to use the minor node number as the value that got mapped into memory or produced, so you could make an infinite source of beeps with:

mknod /dev/seven c 1 7

I wonder what would happen if you made a /dev/seven device in your http servers public_html directory? Would it dutifully serve it up?

Better yet, support for utf-8 unicode, so you can make an infinite source of poo emojis.

The "Everything Is A File" philosophy should be taken to its logical conclusion.

dlt713705•8mo ago
Awesome! That actually inspired me to code this: https://codeberg.org/mco-system/pooper
don-code•8mo ago
I challenge anyone to find another place on the Internet where one person's joke is another person's kernel module.
tanelpoder•8mo ago
Astute observation, but also CrowdStrike would like a word :-)
xerxes901•8mo ago
Question: what actually reads /etc/pooper to configure the character? I can’t work out how that file’s contents ends up as module parameters and I’d love to know!
dlt713705•8mo ago
You are absolutely right, the /etc/pooper file was never loaded.

The code has been updated and now you can change the pooped char on the fly with something like :

`echo "<WHATEVER UTF-8 CHAR>" | sudo tee /sys/module/pooper/parameters/char_utf8`

/etc/pooper file and module unload/reload are no more needed :)

xerxes901•8mo ago
Thanks for clarifying, and implementing this essential feature!
DonHopkins•8mo ago
Finally somebody who gives a shit! Thank you for dropping that generous contribution.

Now I can use that device as an RSS feed! That puts the log into blog.

I haven't seen that much shit emerge from a wormhole since the Ed the Happy Clown episode of Yummy Fur comics:

https://everything2.com/node/1485685?bookmark_site=twitter&o...

>We now skip back in time a little, where we find Ronald Reagan before his mysterious transformation. He presides over an America that has no concept of toilets, and piles of feces on every street corner are becoming a serious problem. Fortunately, science can help; a farmer has stumbled across a small portal to another dimension. The solution is clear; push America's mounting shit through the portal via a huge funnel. The exit point for the portal is in fact the anus of the gentleman who couldn't stop shitting back in the prison in Ed's world; so there is at least a good scientific explanation for that little episode.

>During the official opening of the shit disposer, Reagan tragically falls into the giant collection of pending waste. His body blocks the funnel, but not before his head has gone through the portal; a headless president is recovered. A scientist heads though the portal on a rescue mission.

>(Now, I know what you're thinking, and I've no idea how Reagan's head became attached to the end of Ed's penis. It makes no sense, even within the logic of Ed's universe, and it's not explained. If you have any notions, please let me know - but for now, we'll just have to accept that somehow, it happened...)

The Chester Brown Interview:

https://www.tcj.com/the-chester-brown-interview/3/

Best NSFW Ronald Reagan Quote Ever:

https://the-comics-journal.sfo3.digitaloceanspaces.com/wp-co...

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anonymousiam•8mo ago
Easy to get an infinite stream of bell codes with: yes ^V^G
bitbang•8mo ago
Very nice, needs option for json/jsonl output.
tanelpoder•8mo ago
Thanks! Yep I was thinking of doing that next, will be very easy as under the hood the data is stored in Python dictionaries.
appleaday1•8mo ago
can we package this for Arch? Arch Defense Taskforce where you at?
tanelpoder•8mo ago
I just added a little comment/errata regarding the NVME_QDEPTH column to the post (search for errata). I should probably rename that column to emphasize that (for now) it’s the Linux nvme module level max QD and not the hardware one (it’s complicated…)
nerflad•8mo ago
If you came to represent... https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Creating_packages

Maintaining an AUR package can be great fun and an instructive glimpse into what FLOSS maintainers go through.

jayofdoom•8mo ago
I'll note, lsblk can return a heck of a lot more data than it does by default (and nvme drives show up there). lsblk -H will list for your system, and you can specify columns. You can also adjust output.

I guess with this in mind, I'm curious how this is different?

tanelpoder•8mo ago
Hi, yep lsblk targets a wider area of functionality, like showing mountpoints, device UUIDs, while lsds focuses only on block device settings.

Maybe the latest Linux versions have lsblk versions that support these columns, but in RHEL9 at least I don't see equivalents to lsds'es WBT_LAT, QDEPTH (not the same as lsblk's RQ-SIZE), WCACHE, FUA and some others. But these 4 are which I regularly need (especially when troubleshooting a yet another slow fsync() issue etc). I did and do use lsblk all the time too, but still end up catting and grepping various additional files and correlating the results, sometimes on systems with 100+ multipath block devices.

The other reason was that I wanted a tool that shows me where it gets these values too (for myself and sometimes for explaining stuff to others).

Edit: That being said, it shouldn't be hard at all to add the said extra fields to lsblk too.

strunz•8mo ago
Would be worth adding this as an FAQ on the page. Great job btw.

EDIT: Would also be really cool to define what each field means, if you're gonna reimplement everything anyways, why not make it as user friendly as possible.

tanelpoder•8mo ago
Thanks. Yep I have to revamp the whole 0x.tools webpage, right now it's a mix of older tools & prototypes and the "final stuff" and it's confusing what's what.

The lsds verbose option shows where in the Linux /sys fs each individual field comes from (lsds -lpv) so that's the ultimate source of what each field means. But I could pull each sysfs file's description from docs into a table on the webpage (I'm probably too lazy to create a manpage for now - help is appreciated)

Edit: Since there are not that many fields, it would be possible to add a -d option in addition to -v to get a human readable description for each field too. One of the main sources of confusion is the "queue_depth" vs. "nr_requests" fields. My ideal (which I usually don't reach) is to make these tools "explainable", so that they tell you from where they got their input data (and what basic math was applied).

jayofdoom•7mo ago
Thank you for the detailed response, even if I'm reading it late! This is exactly what I was trying to learn; what this tool exposed that lsblk is missing.
trillic•8mo ago
Rewrote most of the functionality in C as an exercise

https://gist.github.com/grahameger/2507019334f07036f84080a87...