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OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III

https://openciv3.org/
499•klaussilveira•8h ago•138 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
836•xnx•13h ago•500 comments

How we made geo joins 400× faster with H3 indexes

https://floedb.ai/blog/how-we-made-geo-joins-400-faster-with-h3-indexes
53•matheusalmeida•1d ago•10 comments

A century of hair samples proves leaded gas ban worked

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/02/a-century-of-hair-samples-proves-leaded-gas-ban-worked/
109•jnord•4d ago•18 comments

Monty: A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
162•dmpetrov•8h ago•75 comments

Show HN: Look Ma, No Linux: Shell, App Installer, Vi, Cc on ESP32-S3 / BreezyBox

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
166•isitcontent•8h ago•18 comments

Dark Alley Mathematics

https://blog.szczepan.org/blog/three-points/
59•quibono•4d ago•10 comments

Show HN: I spent 4 years building a UI design tool with only the features I use

https://vecti.com
278•vecti•10h ago•127 comments

Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS

https://github.com/microsoft/litebox
338•aktau•14h ago•163 comments

Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer?

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
222•eljojo•11h ago•139 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
332•ostacke•14h ago•89 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
420•todsacerdoti•16h ago•221 comments

Show HN: ARM64 Android Dev Kit

https://github.com/denuoweb/ARM64-ADK
11•denuoweb•1d ago•0 comments

PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Prolok

https://martypc.blogspot.com/2024/09/pc-floppy-copy-protection-vault-prolok.html
34•kmm•4d ago•2 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
359•lstoll•14h ago•246 comments

Female Asian Elephant Calf Born at the Smithsonian National Zoo

https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/female-asian-elephant-calf-born-smithsonians-national-zoo-an...
15•gmays•3h ago•2 comments

Delimited Continuations vs. Lwt for Threads

https://mirageos.org/blog/delimcc-vs-lwt
9•romes•4d ago•1 comments

Show HN: R3forth, a ColorForth-inspired language with a tiny VM

https://github.com/phreda4/r3
57•phreda4•7h ago•9 comments

Introducing the Developer Knowledge API and MCP Server

https://developers.googleblog.com/introducing-the-developer-knowledge-api-and-mcp-server/
33•gfortaine•6h ago•6 comments

How to effectively write quality code with AI

https://heidenstedt.org/posts/2026/how-to-effectively-write-quality-code-with-ai/
209•i5heu•11h ago•155 comments

I spent 5 years in DevOps – Solutions engineering gave me what I was missing

https://infisical.com/blog/devops-to-solutions-engineering
121•vmatsiiako•13h ago•49 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
159•limoce•3d ago•79 comments

Understanding Neural Network, Visually

https://visualrambling.space/neural-network/
257•surprisetalk•3d ago•33 comments

I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams

https://kirkville.com/i-now-assume-that-all-ads-on-apple-news-are-scams/
1012•cdrnsf•17h ago•422 comments

FORTH? Really!?

https://rescrv.net/w/2026/02/06/associative
51•rescrv•16h ago•17 comments

I'm going to cure my girlfriend's brain tumor

https://andrewjrod.substack.com/p/im-going-to-cure-my-girlfriends-brain
92•ray__•5h ago•43 comments

Evaluating and mitigating the growing risk of LLM-discovered 0-days

https://red.anthropic.com/2026/zero-days/
44•lebovic•1d ago•12 comments

WebView performance significantly slower than PWA

https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40817676
10•denysonique•4h ago•0 comments

How virtual textures work

https://www.shlom.dev/articles/how-virtual-textures-really-work/
35•betamark•15h ago•29 comments

Show HN: Smooth CLI – Token-efficient browser for AI agents

https://docs.smooth.sh/cli/overview
81•antves•1d ago•59 comments
Open in hackernews

CPU-X: CPU-Z for Linux

https://thetumultuousunicornofdarkness.github.io/CPU-X/
170•nateb2022•7mo ago

Comments

DrillShopper•7mo ago
It would really be nice to not have to require a daemon to make this program useful
DeepYogurt•7mo ago
Ya. The joy of cpu-z is that its a single small binary.
lmz•7mo ago
I wouldn't read too deeply into that. I'm pretty sure cpu-z bundles a driver that is unpacked and installed at runtime (search for 'cpuz sys')
dmitrygr•7mo ago

   $ man dmidecode
preisschild•7mo ago
At least in the Flatpak, it can be started by just clicking the "Start daemon" button.
nateb2022•7mo ago
c.f. https://github.com/TheTumultuousUnicornOfDarkness/CPU-X/wiki...

the daemon separates userspace from root domain, and ensures that the code running with root privileges is very small and easily auditable

__turbobrew__•7mo ago
Maybe I am dumb, but why does it have to be a daemon? Why not have the user process fork off the privileged binary to collect data and return the results through stdout?
unaindz•7mo ago
Forking a process is not free and starting one every hundred of a millisecond* seems very expensive. *I'm do not know which frequency it updates the data but it's usually 1 sec to 0.1 sec.
whalesalad•7mo ago
I use it without the daemon. I don't even know what the daemon does.
mmh0000•7mo ago
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jcelerier•7mo ago
When I type all that (if I type them correctly, I do a lot of mistakes so I need simple icons to click sometimes), it really doesn't look like CPU-Z in my terminal, I wonder what I'm doing wrong?
Brian_K_White•7mo ago
Those commands do provide the information. They never claimed it exactly matches the graphical layout.

And I don't think they are even claiming that a graphical presentation of the same info is necessarily wrong or pointless, they are simply saying, that's a lot of c++ for merely wrapping the text in some gui widgets.

It's a fair observation.

I can imagine generating say an html rendition that looks almost the same in a few k of shell. Maybe there's more to it and it wouldn't be so simple, but that is what it looks like.

jcelerier•7mo ago
> Those commands do provide the information. They never claimed it exactly matches the graphical layout.

but that's the thing, the target audience for "CPU-Z for Linux" is not people who want the information (because if you do it's of course trivial to google and find out about /proc/cpuinfo), it's people who want to use a software which is as close as possible to the original CPU-Z (so HTML layout definitely does not cut it either).

> I can imagine generating say an html rendition that looks almost the same in a few k of shell.

considering that the source code assumes that dmidecode won't be present (it embeds it) I doubt you'd reimplement the whole dmidecode in only a few k lines of shell. And that's just a small part of what CPU-X does.

petabyt•7mo ago
This tool does benchmarks and lists vulkan/opengl capabilities. It's a bit more than a glorified command line frontend.
Brian_K_White•7mo ago
There are similar commands for those. It is exactly a bit more than a front end.
izacus•7mo ago
This is absolutely "Who cares about Dropbox, just use rsync!" level of silly and lazy HN answer :D
tomhow•7mo ago
Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

kcb•7mo ago
The tool hardinfo2 works pretty well for system stats. Somewhat similar to hwinfo64 on windows.
throw123xz•7mo ago
Very nice.

On a side note, and not wanting to criticize the people that spend their time working on something like this, that UI is the main reason why I still use Windows and macOS. Light grey on a white background, dark grey on a that blue background, a black AMD logo on a dark grey background, the padding around the text inside boxes...

I feel bad saying this when it's a free tool, but it's a shame that open source projects struggle so much with UI stuff.

whalesalad•7mo ago
this is what it looks like for me, https://i.imgur.com/lo2YL57.png
wpm•7mo ago
The ncurses CLI version looks great.
amlib•7mo ago
MacOS and specially Windows has their fair share of great and useful software with questionable UI/UX, this is far from a problem affecting only Linux.

Take a look at modern KDE and specially GNOME software, they are pretty well made regarding UI/UX best practices and GNOME even has a great HIG that they follow strictly on their stuff, you can't even say that regarding Microsoft own software anymore.

bb88•7mo ago
Gnome is not bad, but GTK has been historically a pain point for development.
XorNot•7mo ago
I just people to do menu bars on desktop again.

Add the Jetbrains search anywhere function if you really just innovate.

No more Hamburger menus.

Gormo•7mo ago
> MacOS and specially Windows has their fair share of great and useful software with questionable UI/UX, this is far from a problem affecting only Linux.

In fact, Linux generally offers many more affordances for adjusting the appearance of the UI, especially in comparison to Windows and Mac. If you don't like way your system looks, you can change your UI theme settings, where corresponding options on the proprietary OSes are much more limited.

SirMaster•7mo ago
But most people don't want to have to adjust things, they just want it to be good out of the box.

My friends keep telling me android is better because it offers so much more customization, and I keep telling them I don't want to customize, I just want it to be nice by default, and to me iOS is, so that is a selling point for me.

GTP•7mo ago
These options just serve different needs. It's not that one way is right and the other is wrong, it depends on one own's preferences. I'm in the Android and Linux camp in part for the reason your friend says (but there's more), however I believe that everyone should just use what they like best. I would still suggest someone that never used a Linux distro to give it a try, but I don't go further than this.
Gormo•7mo ago
> But most people don't want to have to adjust things, they just want it to be good out of the box.

That's why software development and distribution are two different concepts in the Linux world. The core software is fully customizable, but people who want preconfigured out-of-the-box experiences can choose a distro that is largely defined by its configuration choices.

throw123xz•7mo ago
Yes, it's not a problem exclusive to Linux or open source, but it's more common on Linux than it is, say, on MacOS.
tvier•7mo ago
That's just the theme the author is running. If you use a use a standard theme, you'll get a higher contrast text color.

From their wiki: https://camo.githubusercontent.com/04c2219de0884fc8e6bf4d264...

badsectoracula•7mo ago
The UI is pretty much a copy of CPU-Z's UI. The color scheme comes from the theme and you can use any theme you like, you don't have to use what the author uses.
throw123xz•7mo ago
It looks like CPU-Z (which is fine), it's just not as polished. For example, here you have commas and letters like "y" touching the border of each "box". On CPU-Z there's a padding around the text.

The comment about the colors was based on the screenshots they have on the website, but based on your and other comments here, I can see that it's based on the theme we use use. That's why the AMD logo probably shouldn't be black with a transparent background as then it's hard to see the logo if you're using a dark theme.

Is this a huuuuge deal? Nope. But the programs are just not as polished as they could be.

badsectoracula•7mo ago
> It looks like CPU-Z (which is fine), it's just not as polished. For example, here you have commas and letters like "y" touching the border of each "box". On CPU-Z there's a padding around the text.

CPU-Z also does not have padding around the text, it just has a different font, but in the screenshot at techpowerup[0] you can see that, e.g., the "y" in "MBytes" down right is touching (clipped) by the container box and the instruction flags also touch the left side of the box.

It is just that the font in CPU-Z is much smaller than the font used in the screenshots.

[0] https://www.techpowerup.com/download/cpu-z/

neurostimulant•7mo ago
Like others said, it depends on your theme. Here is what it looks like on my old thinkpad running gnome 48 with light mode theme: https://i.imgur.com/HLZ120w.png

It's actually not bad imo.

bdhcuidbebe•7mo ago
cpu-x tries their best to look like their windows precursor, cpu-z…
throw123xz•7mo ago
And it looks like CPU-Z, which I'm fine with. It's just not as polished.

For example, here you have commas and letters like "y" touching the borders of their box. On CPU-Z there's a padding around the text. Black AMD logo with transparent background? That won't work very well with a dark background.

Small things, inconsistencies, etc, are more common (but not exclusive) with open source/linux stuff. That's what I was trying to point out.

bdhcuidbebe•6mo ago
Thats where you come in! PR welcome
hulitu•7mo ago
> that UI is the main reason why I still use Windows and macOS. Light grey on a white background, dark grey on a that blue background, a black AMD logo on a dark grey background,

Welcome to Windows.

throw123xz•7mo ago
If you compare the screenshots on CPU-Z's website and the ones here, I think you can see that while similar, CPU-Z is more "polished". That's the point I was trying to make.
aforty•7mo ago
Nice but does it really have to look like the Windows version? Can’t we imagine and have better things?
M95D•7mo ago
But this is one of the better things!
xet7•7mo ago
Similar is I-Nex, made with Gambas.

https://github.com/i-nex/I-Nex

https://gambaswiki.org/wiki/app/i-nex

https://gambaswiki.org/website/en/main.html

unixhero•7mo ago
It looks great, but on Linux I got used to cat /proc/cpuinfo