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AI agent runs amok in Fedora and elsewhere

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1077035/c7e7c14fbd60fae9/
318•tanelpoder•6h ago•95 comments

Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/10/cybersecurity-researchers-arent-happy-about-the-guardrails-on-a...
365•speckx•14h ago•330 comments

πFS

https://github.com/philipl/pifs
674•helterskelter•11h ago•150 comments

Anthropic requires 30 day data retention for Fable and Mythos

https://support.claude.com/en/articles/15425996-data-retention-practices-for-mythos-class-models
348•lebovic•1d ago•163 comments

The Road to the WASM Component Model 1.0

https://bytecodealliance.org/articles/the-road-to-component-model-1-0
57•emschwartz•2d ago•25 comments

Starfish by Peter Watts (1999)

https://www.rifters.com/real/STARFISH.htm#prelude
13•zetalyrae•2d ago•3 comments

Sequoyah’s syllabary created a written language for the Cherokee

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/man-created-written-language-cherokee-did-efficiently-e...
141•grahambargeron•8h ago•91 comments

Vacuum-Form Signage

https://bethmathews.substack.com/p/the-history-behind-the-signs-lighting
53•benbreen•1d ago•9 comments

I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA

615•eries•15h ago•469 comments

CSS: Unavoidable Bad Parts

https://matklad.github.io/2026/06/04/css-unavoidable-bad-parts.html
47•surprisetalk•1d ago•11 comments

Reverse engineering the Creative Katana soundbar to control it from Linux

https://blog.nns.ee/2026/02/20/katana-v2x-re/
21•theanonymousone•3d ago•1 comments

Klondike Solitaire game for curses in 5k of C

https://nanochess.org/klondike_in_c.html
61•nanochess•2d ago•6 comments

How JPL keeps the 13-year-old Curiosity rover doing science

https://spectrum.ieee.org/curiosity-rover-jpl-mars-science
210•pseudolus•13h ago•55 comments

PgDog is funded and coming to a database near you

https://pgdog.dev/blog/our-funding-announcement
436•levkk•16h ago•212 comments

GeoLibre 1.0

https://geolibre.app/
211•jonbaer•13h ago•15 comments

L'Affaire Siloxane

https://mceglowski.substack.com/p/laffaire-siloxane
196•idlewords•2d ago•31 comments

Validation, Docs, tests, and database schemas from one source of truth

https://github.com/justhamade/triadjs
3•justhamade•1h ago•1 comments

Are insecure code completions in PyCharm a vulnerability?

https://sethmlarson.dev/are-insecure-code-completions-a-vulnerability
24•12_throw_away•5h ago•10 comments

Show HN: Extend UI – open-source UI kit for modern document apps

https://www.extend.ai/ui
192•kbyatnal•14h ago•45 comments

What is it like to be a bat? (1974) [pdf]

https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~cavitch/pdf-library/Nagel_Bat.pdf
80•shadow28•10h ago•81 comments

OpenAI mulls slashing prices as it competes with Anthropic for users

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/11/openai-mulls-slashing-prices-ahead-of-competition-from-anthropic-...
53•agentifysh•1h ago•51 comments

Who's the smartest corvid?

https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2026/06/05/Whos-the-Smartest-Corvid/
94•NaOH•1d ago•82 comments

Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM

https://www.adafruit.com/product/6125?src=raspberrypi
229•akman•10h ago•235 comments

Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight

https://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/html-first/
1071•edent•17h ago•482 comments

World Capitals Voronoi

https://www.jasondavies.com/maps/voronoi/capitals/
67•vincnetas•2d ago•33 comments

Show HN: HelixDB – A graph database built on object storage

https://github.com/HelixDB/helix-db/tree/main
109•GeorgeCurtis•14h ago•33 comments

Apache Burr: Build reliable AI agents and applications

https://burr.apache.org/
199•anhldbk•15h ago•97 comments

Deficient executive control in transformer attention

https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/5/6/pgag149/8698838
31•derbOac•7h ago•10 comments

All 9,300 Japanese train station, animated by the year it opened (1872–2026)

https://jivx.com/eki
227•momentmaker•18h ago•75 comments

Unix GC Remastered

https://mohandacherir.github.io/Qdiv7/posts/unix_new_gc/
33•mananaysiempre•7h ago•2 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).

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.