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Attention Media ≠ Social Networks

https://susam.net/attention-media-vs-social-networks.html
344•susam•5h ago•152 comments

Fix Your Tools

https://ochagavia.nl/blog/fix-your-tools/
75•vinhnx•2h ago•33 comments

What Is a Database Transaction?

https://planetscale.com/blog/database-transactions
146•0x54MUR41•6h ago•24 comments

Show HN: 3D Mahjong, Built in CSS

https://voxjong.com
32•rofko•2h ago•21 comments

Fresh File Explorer – VS Code extension for navigating recent work

https://github.com/FreHu/vscode-fresh-file-explorer
4•frehu•14m ago•2 comments

Xweather Live – Interactive global vector weather map

https://live.xweather.com/
62•unstyledcontent•3h ago•18 comments

We hid backdoors in ~40MB binaries and asked AI + Ghidra to find them

https://quesma.com/blog/introducing-binaryaudit/
135•jakozaur•3h ago•55 comments

Back to FreeBSD: Part 1

https://hypha.pub/back-to-freebsd-part-1
171•enz•11h ago•80 comments

Git's Magic Files

https://nesbitt.io/2026/02/05/git-magic-files.html
23•chmaynard•4h ago•8 comments

Man accidentally gains control of 7k robot vacuums

https://www.popsci.com/technology/robot-vacuum-army/
106•Brajeshwar•3h ago•58 comments

How Taalas “prints” LLM onto a chip?

https://www.anuragk.com/blog/posts/Taalas.html
332•beAroundHere•23h ago•198 comments

Gamedate – A site to revive dead multiplayer games

https://gamedate.org/
264•msuniverse2026•1d ago•38 comments

Monkey Patching in VBA

https://ecp-solutions.github.io/ASF/Language%20reference.html
23•n013•4d ago•3 comments

How far back in time can you understand English?

https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-back-in-time-understand-english
691•spzb•4d ago•353 comments

Show HN: Llama 3.1 70B on a single RTX 3090 via NVMe-to-GPU bypassing the CPU

https://github.com/xaskasdf/ntransformer
337•xaskasdf•21h ago•88 comments

How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution

https://boristane.com/blog/how-i-use-claude-code/
802•vinhnx•18h ago•513 comments

Iran students stage first large anti-government protests since deadly crackdown

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yj2kzkrj0o
226•tartoran•4h ago•275 comments

Japanese Woodblock Print Search

https://ukiyo-e.org/
170•curmudgeon22•15h ago•26 comments

I Analyzed Every Nootropic Study on PubMed

https://outspeaker.com/post/217
11•paulpauper•1h ago•5 comments

Two Bits Are Better Than One: making bloom filters 2x more accurate

https://floedb.ai/blog/two-bits-are-better-than-one-making-bloom-filters-2x-more-accurate
168•matheusalmeida•5d ago•24 comments

ReferenceFinder: Find coordinates on a piece of paper with only folds

https://mutsuntsai.github.io/reference-finder/
53•icwtyjj•3d ago•7 comments

zclaw: personal AI assistant in under 888 KB, running on an ESP32

https://github.com/tnm/zclaw
241•tosh•1d ago•129 comments

Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents

https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/2024987174077432126
374•Cyphase•1d ago•841 comments

Volatility: The volatile memory forensic extraction framework

https://github.com/volatilityfoundation/volatility3
29•transpute•5h ago•2 comments

Evidence of the bouba-kiki effect in naïve baby chicks

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adq7188
177•suddenlybananas•20h ago•55 comments

The Four-Color Theorem 1852–1976

https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/202603/noti3305/noti3305.html
44•bikenaga•1d ago•5 comments

Parse, Don't Validate and Type-Driven Design in Rust

https://www.harudagondi.space/blog/parse-dont-validate-and-type-driven-design-in-rust/
235•todsacerdoti•22h ago•66 comments

Show HN: TLA+ Workbench skill for coding agents (compat. with Vercel skills CLI)

https://github.com/younes-io/agent-skills/tree/main/skills/tlaplus-workbench
14•youio•4h ago•2 comments

How I launched 3 consoles and found true love at Babbage's store no. 9 (2013)

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/01/how-i-launched-3-consoles-and-found-true-love-at-babbages...
57•zepearl•3d ago•21 comments

Unreal numbers

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/unreal-numbers
51•surprisetalk•5d ago•19 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•9mo ago

Comments

DonHopkins•9mo 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•9mo ago
Awesome! That actually inspired me to code this: https://codeberg.org/mco-system/pooper
don-code•9mo ago
I challenge anyone to find another place on the Internet where one person's joke is another person's kernel module.
tanelpoder•9mo ago
Astute observation, but also CrowdStrike would like a word :-)
xerxes901•9mo 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•9mo 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•9mo ago
Thanks for clarifying, and implementing this essential feature!
DonHopkins•9mo 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•9mo ago
Easy to get an infinite stream of bell codes with: yes ^V^G
bitbang•9mo ago
Very nice, needs option for json/jsonl output.
tanelpoder•9mo 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•9mo ago
can we package this for Arch? Arch Defense Taskforce where you at?
tanelpoder•9mo 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•9mo 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•9mo 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•9mo 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•9mo 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•9mo 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•9mo 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•9mo ago
Rewrote most of the functionality in C as an exercise

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