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GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities

https://z.ai/blog/glm-5.3
373•pella•3h ago•145 comments

Gemini 3.7 Flash

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/introducing-gemini-3-7-fl...
805•thisisauserid•15h ago•425 comments

Phones should have a 'guest lock' feature

https://curvise.net/the-phone-features-i-cant-believe-we-dont-have/
14•crisdias•32m ago•19 comments

Accelerating GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast

https://www.cerebras.ai/blog/accelerating-gpt-5-6-sol-ultrafast-with-openai
574•pr337h4m•14h ago•232 comments

Hello, me. It's been a while

https://themech.net/2026/08/hello-me-its-been-a-while/
190•somesoftdev•14h ago•93 comments

Show HN: C# Game Engine with its own scripting language and IDE

https://github.com/ArcadeMakerSources/ArcadeMaker
31•am-gm•2d ago•2 comments

Show HN: Lumabri – Run Moe Models on a P2P Swarm with Colibri

https://github.com/JustVugg/lumabri
7•vforno•7h ago•1 comments

Bluesky Protocol Services

https://atproto.com/blog/introducing-bluesky-protocol-services
159•danabramov•8h ago•29 comments

DeepSeek Harness developer preview

https://deepseek.com/harness/en/
648•bjin•19h ago•271 comments

Spaghettifying DRAM

https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/skitter-creek-bath-salts
605•matt_d•18h ago•157 comments

Mistral OCR 4.1

https://docs.mistral.ai/models/ocr-4-1
331•spelk•15h ago•132 comments

Understanding is the new bottleneck

https://www.geoffreylitt.com/2026/07/02/understanding-is-the-new-bottleneck
313•sebg•13h ago•168 comments

Ruby 4.0 Universal RCE Deserialization Gadget Chain

https://www.elttam.com/blog/ruby-4-0-universal-rce-deserialization-gadget-chain
19•pentestercrab•2h ago•2 comments

Choose Boring Technology (2015)

https://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology
332•tosh•14h ago•164 comments

Donkey.bas is 45 Years Old – 131 line of Glory

https://donkeybas.com/
229•jkrauska•14h ago•104 comments

The Library of Ashurbanipal (2025)

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/library-ashurbanipal
29•samizdis•3d ago•8 comments

What an improv stage can teach you about leading cross-cultural teams in Tokyo

https://www.tokyodev.com/articles/yes-and-what-an-improv-stage-can-teach-you-about-leading-cross-...
6•pwim•1w ago•0 comments

Nine PBS sues Iron Mountain over blocked access to archival data

https://current.org/2026/08/nine-pbs-sues-iron-mountain-over-blocked-access-to-archival-data/
303•vinayakborkar•19h ago•172 comments

Blog about things you don't understand yet

https://www.seangoedecke.com/blog-about-things-you-dont-understand-yet/
94•gfysfm•9h ago•31 comments

How Compaction Works in Pi

https://earendil.com/posts/compaction-in-pi/
158•tosh•14h ago•61 comments

NP-overrated

https://gruhn.me/blog/2026-08-13/
203•theanonymousone•12h ago•139 comments

Where did the old web go? We followed 657,607 links to find out

https://0.mk/blog/link-rot
177•tdx•14h ago•158 comments

Single log line is 49KB+ (ext4) / 110KB+ (btrfs) of systemd-journald disk writes

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/40262
208•ValdikSS•14h ago•131 comments

Eclipse: The Xiaomi 17 Ultra Confuses the Moon and the Sun

https://www.frandroid.com/marques/xiaomi/3211257_photo-de-leclipse-on-a-perce-a-jour-la-petite-tr...
7•n_plus_1_acc•1h ago•0 comments

How Organizations Use AI: Evidence from ChatGPT [pdf]

https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/how-organizations-use-chatgpt.pdf
103•malshe•13h ago•59 comments

Credibility is the barrier to entry in silicon

https://www.siliconimist.com/p/credibility-is-the-barrier-to-entry
20•johncole•3d ago•8 comments

The Legend of the Novell NE2000 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNXzQ7V1S_k
43•voxadam•4d ago•13 comments

Finite State Machines in Forth (1994)

https://www.forth.org/literature/noble.html
74•ofalkaed•5d ago•2 comments

Cave of the Crystals

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_of_the_Crystals
44•ColinWright•5d ago•2 comments

How Gödel's Proof Works (2020)

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-godels-proof-works-20200714/
102•tzury•12h ago•42 comments
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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•1y ago

Comments

DonHopkins•1y 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•1y ago
Awesome! That actually inspired me to code this: https://codeberg.org/mco-system/pooper
don-code•1y ago
I challenge anyone to find another place on the Internet where one person's joke is another person's kernel module.
tanelpoder•1y ago
Astute observation, but also CrowdStrike would like a word :-)
xerxes901•1y 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•1y 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•1y ago
Thanks for clarifying, and implementing this essential feature!
DonHopkins•1y 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•1y ago
Easy to get an infinite stream of bell codes with: yes ^V^G
bitbang•1y ago
Very nice, needs option for json/jsonl output.
tanelpoder•1y 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•1y ago
can we package this for Arch? Arch Defense Taskforce where you at?
tanelpoder•1y 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•1y 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•1y 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•1y 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•1y 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•1y 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).

trillic•1y ago
Rewrote most of the functionality in C as an exercise

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

jayofdoom•1y 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.