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Humans will never again create a project like Wikipedia

https://www.economist.com/culture/2026/10/29/humans-will-never-again-create-a-project-quite-like-...
307•edward•3h ago•233 comments

Fold Epic Paper Airplanes

https://www.foldableflight.com
309•vismit2000•3h ago•60 comments

Zebkit – Chromium as an embeddable library

https://github.com/ikey4u/zebkit
35•Riiiiichard•57m ago•16 comments

What is malloc doing, anyway?

https://benmandrew.com/articles/what-is-malloc-doing-anyway
83•benmandrew•4h ago•17 comments

Fun things to do with your VM/370 CE machine – Fun with big computers

https://rbanffy.github.io/fun-with-big-computers/fun-with-vm370/
75•rbanffy•5h ago•9 comments

Next-Concept Modeling: Fast, Parallel Coarse-to-Fine Text Generation

https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.14162
146•theanonymousone•8h ago•33 comments

KetchUp – Open-source SketchUp alternative built with Rust and WebGPU

https://ketchup3d.github.io/app/
638•dcoulmbe•16h ago•190 comments

Unlocking any car from X brand in most of the world

https://shubs.io/unlocking-any-car-from-x-brand-in-most-of-the-world/
507•infosecau•15h ago•271 comments

Burying the Evidence: nine out of every 10 time capsules go missing

https://longreads.com/2026/11/05/time-capsules-ashley-stimpson/
47•ohjeez•1d ago•33 comments

I'm not convinced the AI bubble exists

https://matteoraso.github.io/im-not-convinced-the-ai-bubble-exists.html#im-not-convinced-the-ai-b...
442•matteoraso•15h ago•766 comments

He Was a Suspect in the Yogurt Shop Murders for Thirty Years. He Can't Forget

https://www.texasmonthly.com/true-crime/the-yogurt-shop-killer-who-wasnt/
29•gmays•2d ago•9 comments

How Australia played the first music on a computer

https://www.pearcey.org.au/heritage/csirac/how-australia-played-the-worlds-first-music-on-a-compu...
15•Skyfall106•3d ago•5 comments

Declarative Dragging

https://declarative-dragging.github.io/
666•smusamashah•4d ago•83 comments

Active Benchmarking

https://www.brendangregg.com/activebenchmarking.html
4•dboon•3d ago•0 comments

Outlook.com is rejecting email from domains without DMARC

https://mailroute.net/blog/outlook-rejecting-email-without-dmarc
481•xmddmx•20h ago•331 comments

Psalm 7 release: PHP security&static analysis software

https://psalm.dev/articles/psalm-7
67•danogentili•1d ago•30 comments

Chimera Vocal Synth

https://chimera-vocal-synth.vercel.app/
290•nmstoker•16h ago•50 comments

Borrowing a Microsoft-signed shim to abuse Secure Boot on corporate hardware

https://leosmith.wtf/blog/not-so-secure-boot.html
24•p4p1•6h ago•6 comments

Show HN: Flide: Make Jev-like decision models up to 9.5x faster

https://github.com/OmniJev/Flide
83•unikcc•10h ago•19 comments

Quasi-Logarithmic Kitchen Timer

https://blog.coredump.cx/p/quasi-logarithmic-kitchen-timer
75•surprisetalk•4d ago•19 comments

ChatGPT Desktop forwards your SSH agent to remote machines

117•DenGorbachev•7h ago•38 comments

Dux: Free, open-source Wayland desktop shell with file manager and theming

https://duxlabs.dev/
320•indigodaddy•20h ago•120 comments

Children of Men: The Future Is a Mirror for the Present

https://reactormag.com/children-of-men-the-future-is-a-mirror-for-the-present/
67•speckx•2h ago•54 comments

Ask HN: What are you working on? (November 2026)

252•david927•18h ago•876 comments

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair

https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/a-message-to-our-company
845•karimf•17h ago•1025 comments

The French Cake Cooked on a Spit (2018) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=havcACdx0Y0
23•NaOH•1d ago•15 comments

Ur-Nammu Founder of the Sumerian Renaissance

https://www.worldhistory.org/Ur-Nammu/
46•Bluestein•2d ago•8 comments

Writing as a thinking tool

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/11/writing-as-thinking-tool.html
436•jruohonen•1d ago•105 comments

Llama-modchip: 284B DeepSeek on 64GB RAM, no GPU

https://github.com/synchopate/llama-modchip
460•joshcsimmons•1d ago•199 comments

Goldman Sachs is pulling Claude Code from its bankers and traders

https://www.thestateofai.com/news/goldman-sachs-claude-code-traders-bankers
838•TheWiggles•21h ago•456 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.