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Chat Control proposal fails again after public opposition

https://andreafortuna.org/2025/11/01/chat-control-proposal-fails-again-after-massive-public-oppos...
193•speckx•2h ago•61 comments

Updated practice for review articles and position papers in ArXiv CS category

https://blog.arxiv.org/2025/10/31/attention-authors-updated-practice-for-review-articles-and-posi...
319•dw64•4h ago•141 comments

GHC now runs in the browser

https://discourse.haskell.org/t/ghc-now-runs-in-your-browser/13169
103•kaycebasques•2h ago•20 comments

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Shitty Life

https://www.thedriftmag.com/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-my-shitty-life/
40•XzetaU8•1h ago•32 comments

SQLite concurrency and why you should care about it

https://jellyfin.org/posts/SQLite-locking/
171•HunOL•6h ago•77 comments

Austria: Pylons as sculpture for public acceptance of expanding electrification

https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/austrian-power-giants-power-line-animals
17•Geekette•4d ago•2 comments

CharlotteOS – An Experimental Modern Operating System

https://github.com/charlotte-os/Catten
99•ementally•5h ago•48 comments

OpenAI Moves to Complete Potentially the Largest Theft in Human History

https://thezvi.substack.com/p/openai-moves-to-complete-potentially
146•paulpauper•1h ago•41 comments

Visible from space, Sudan's bloodied sands expose a massacre of thousands

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/10/28/sudan-bloodied-sands-massacre-thousands/
67•wslh•1h ago•19 comments

Studies increasingly find links between air pollutants and dementia

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/health/alzheimers-dementia-air-pollution.html
72•quapster•2h ago•26 comments

Open-Source Ada: From Gateware to Application

https://blog.adacore.com/open-source-ada-from-gateware-to-application
21•Bogdanp•3h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Strange Attractors

https://blog.shashanktomar.com/posts/strange-attractors
705•shashanktomar•19h ago•71 comments

Hard Rust requirements from May onward

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2025/10/msg00285.html
240•rkta•11h ago•375 comments

I built my own CityMapper

https://asherfalcon.com/blog/posts/5
63•ashfn•5d ago•11 comments

Frank Gasking on preserving «lost» games

https://spillhistorie.no/2025/10/24/frank-gasking-on-preserving-lost-games/
58•doener•4d ago•10 comments

Data centers contribute to high prices as energy bills electrify local politics

https://www.wsj.com/economy/consumers/surging-power-costs-are-putting-the-squeeze-on-customers-f8...
43•moose_man•2h ago•22 comments

Powell – unlike the dotcom boom, AI spending isn't a bubble

https://fortune.com/2025/10/29/powell-says-ai-is-not-a-bubble-unlike-dot-com-federal-reserve-inte...
8•madaxe_again•30m ago•3 comments

Ask HN: Where to Begin with "Modern" Emacs?

32•weakfish•1h ago•32 comments

How I stopped worrying and started loving the Assembly

https://medium.com/@jonas.eschenburg/how-i-stopped-worrying-and-started-loving-the-assembly-4fd00...
155•indyjo•1w ago•28 comments

S.A.R.C.A.S.M: Slightly Annoying Rubik's Cube Automatic Solving Machine

https://github.com/vindar/SARCASM
249•chris_overseas•20h ago•54 comments

Screenwriter Eric Heisserer on Lights Out, the Rules of Horror

https://filmmakermagazine.com/99327-screenwriter-eric-heisserer-lights-out-the-rules-of-horror-an...
14•suioir•5d ago•1 comments

You can't refuse to be scanned by ICE's facial recognition app, DHS document say

https://www.404media.co/you-cant-refuse-to-be-scanned-by-ices-facial-recognition-app-dhs-document...
367•nh43215rgb•10h ago•240 comments

Myths Programmers Believe about CPU Caches (2018)

https://software.rajivprab.com/2018/04/29/myths-programmers-believe-about-cpu-caches/
123•whack•1d ago•22 comments

Leaker reveals which Pixels are vulnerable to Cellebrite phone hacking

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/10/leaker-reveals-which-pixels-are-vulnerable-to-cellebrite-...
422•akyuu•1d ago•291 comments

Futurelock: A subtle risk in async Rust

https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0609
404•bcantrill•1d ago•217 comments

Show HN: Why write code if the LLM can just do the thing? (web app experiment)

https://github.com/samrolken/nokode
62•samrolken•1h ago•48 comments

The giant basket case countries

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/the-giant-basket-case-countries
17•paulpauper•1h ago•12 comments

Addiction Markets

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/addiction-markets-abolish-corporate
368•toomuchtodo•1d ago•414 comments

The Impossible Optimization, and the Metaprogramming to Achieve It

https://verdagon.dev/blog/impossible-optimization
54•melodyogonna•4d ago•18 comments

Introducing architecture variants

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/introducing-architecture-variants-amd64v3-now-available-in-ubuntu-...
231•jnsgruk•2d ago•138 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•5mo ago

Comments

DonHopkins•5mo 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•5mo ago
Awesome! That actually inspired me to code this: https://codeberg.org/mco-system/pooper
don-code•5mo ago
I challenge anyone to find another place on the Internet where one person's joke is another person's kernel module.
tanelpoder•5mo ago
Astute observation, but also CrowdStrike would like a word :-)
xerxes901•5mo 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•5mo 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•5mo ago
Thanks for clarifying, and implementing this essential feature!
DonHopkins•5mo 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•5mo ago
Easy to get an infinite stream of bell codes with: yes ^V^G
bitbang•5mo ago
Very nice, needs option for json/jsonl output.
tanelpoder•5mo 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.
babuloseo•5mo ago
can we package this for Arch? Arch Defense Taskforce where you at?
tanelpoder•5mo 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•5mo 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•5mo 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•5mo 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•5mo 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•5mo 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•5mo 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•5mo ago
Rewrote most of the functionality in C as an exercise

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