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Magnifica Humanitas

https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html
792•theletterf•7h ago•344 comments

C extensions, portability, and alternative compilers

https://lemon.rip/w/6-c-extensions-compilers/
82•xngbuilds•3h ago•19 comments

Launch HN: Chert (YC P26) – Twilio for iMessage

https://www.trychert.com
25•garygao•2h ago•85 comments

Netherlands Seizes 800 Servers, Arrests 2 for Aiding Cyberattacks

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/05/netherlands-seizes-800-servers-arrests-2-for-aiding-cyberatta...
164•jruohonen•3h ago•36 comments

IBM Spins Off the First Pure-Play Quantum Chip Foundry

https://futurumgroup.com/insights/2-billion-chips-act-investment-in-quantum-bets-on-ibms-300mm-su...
96•rbanffy•8h ago•30 comments

Leave Me Behind

http://androidessence.com/leave-me-behind/
284•mooreds•5h ago•207 comments

I manage teams without a single call

https://orchidfiles.com/build-without-calls/
45•theorchid•5h ago•38 comments

RentFlow (YC S24) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/rentflow/jobs/V2yneIE-senior-ai-ml-lead
1•AMaurin•55m ago

Gnutella: A Protocol Outliving the World That Created It

https://rickcarlino.com/notes/p2p/gnutella-explanation.html
99•rickcarlino•3d ago•31 comments

Didgeridoo playing as alternative treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea (2006)

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1360393/
263•kelseyfrog•2d ago•121 comments

Microsoft pulls plug on plans for 244-acre data center in Caledonia (2025)

https://www.tmj4.com/news/racine-county/microsoft-pulls-plug-on-plans-for-244-acre-data-center-in...
106•cdrnsf•4h ago•86 comments

Show HN: Audiomass – a free, open-source multitrack audio editor for the web

https://audiomass.co/?multitrack=1
460•pantelisk•1d ago•103 comments

He Lost It at the Movies

https://www.theideasletter.org/essay/he-lost-it-at-the-movies/
14•tintinnabula•4d ago•4 comments

DeepSeek reasonix, DeepSeek native coding agent with high caching and low cost

https://esengine.github.io/DeepSeek-Reasonix/
652•Alifatisk•1d ago•266 comments

The physicists who convinced Fermilab to send Brazil's emails

https://buttondown.com/blog/brazil-fermilab-email
36•maguay•4d ago•13 comments

Uber’s COO says it’s getting harder to justify money spent on tokenmaxxing

https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-coo-andrew-macdonald-ai-token-spending-harder-justify-2026-5
105•_____k•1h ago•115 comments

The analog computer museum's online library

https://www.analogmuseum.org/english/library.html
8•nill0•2d ago•0 comments

Bytecode VMs in surprising places (2024)

https://dubroy.com/blog/bytecode-vms-in-surprising-places/
102•azhenley•3d ago•35 comments

Show HN: Geomatic – a command-driven geometry studio enabled with autodiff

https://www.tinyvolt.com/geomatic
54•nivter•9h ago•13 comments

Migrating from Go to Rust

https://corrode.dev/learn/migration-guides/go-to-rust/
398•jabits•23h ago•397 comments

AI errno(2) values

https://www.netmeister.org/blog/ai-errno.html
83•zdw•3d ago•17 comments

The Cost of Safetyism

https://stevemagness.substack.com/p/the-cost-of-safetyism
50•obscurette•3h ago•38 comments

2026 HIPAA Security Rule Update

https://medcurity.com/hipaa-security-rule-2026-update/
67•mooreds•4h ago•55 comments

White Rabbit – sub-nanosecond synchronization for large distributed systems

https://ohwr.org/projects/white-rabbit/
159•michaelsbradley•2d ago•37 comments

Notes about reading messages with the Python email packages

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/python/EmailPackagesNotes
44•ankitg12•5d ago•2 comments

I spent 50 hours drawing a line graph

https://www.dougmacdowell.com/50-hours-to-draw-some-lines.html
624•dougdude3339•4d ago•97 comments

A fundamental principle of aeronautical engineering has been overturned

https://www.wired.com/story/a-fundamental-principle-of-aeronautical-engineering-has-been-overturned/
212•littlexsparkee•22h ago•108 comments

Bug 1950764: Work Around Crash on Intel Raptor Lake CPU

https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D301917
147•luu•2d ago•50 comments

Jira Is Turing-Complete

https://seriot.ch/computation/jira.html
273•vinhnx•14h ago•126 comments

Microsoft open-sources “the earliest DOS source code discovered to date”

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/04/microsoft-open-sources-the-earliest-dos-source-code-disco...
501•DamnInteresting•1d ago•184 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•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).

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

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