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I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it

https://ca98am79.medium.com/i-bought-friendster-for-30k-heres-what-i-m-doing-with-it-d5e8ddb3991d
487•ca98am79•6h ago•264 comments

Self-updating screenshots

https://interblah.net/self-updating-screenshots
99•bjhess•20h ago•16 comments

Three constraints before I build anything

https://jordanlord.co.uk/blog/3-constraints/
77•nervous_north•1d ago•12 comments

TurboQuant: A First-Principles Walkthrough

https://arkaung.github.io/interactive-turboquant/
14•kweezar•1h ago•1 comments

Fast16: High-precision software sabotage 5 years before Stuxnet

https://www.sentinelone.com/labs/fast16-mystery-shadowbrokers-reference-reveals-high-precision-so...
175•dd23•7h ago•46 comments

EvanFlow – A TDD driven feedback loop for Claude Code

https://github.com/evanklem/evanflow
12•evanklem2004•1h ago•4 comments

Show HN: The Unix Magic poster, annotated (updated)

https://github.com/drio/unixmagic
19•drio•1h ago•1 comments

Box to save memory in Rust

https://dystroy.org/blog/box-to-save-memory/
84•emschwartz•3d ago•19 comments

The Prompt API

https://developer.chrome.com/docs/ai/prompt-api
7•gslin•1h ago•0 comments

When the cheap one is the cool one

https://arun.is/blog/cheap-cool/
39•ddrmaxgt37•1d ago•14 comments

When Your Digital Life Vanishes

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/04/27/when-your-digital-life-vanishes
16•benbreen•4d ago•2 comments

SWE-bench Verified no longer measures frontier coding capabilities

https://openai.com/index/why-we-no-longer-evaluate-swe-bench-verified/
261•kmdupree•13h ago•148 comments

Butterflies are in decline across North America, a look at the Western Monarch

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/butterflies-are-in-dramatic-decline-across-north-am...
151•1659447091•6h ago•45 comments

The fastest Linux timestamps

https://www.hmpcabral.com/2026/04/26/the-fastest-linux-timestamps/
34•hmpc•14h ago•8 comments

Notepad++ for Mac – Independent community port

https://notepad-plus-plus-mac.org/
40•jonbaer•1h ago•15 comments

Google banks on AI edge to catch up to cloud rivals Amazon and Microsoft

https://www.ft.com/content/2429f0f0-b685-4747-b425-bf8001a2e94c
78•donsupreme•2h ago•43 comments

Lessons from building multiplayer browsers

https://www.alejandro.pe/writing/sail-muddy-lessons
17•alejandrohacks•12h ago•6 comments

Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race

https://www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/articles/crm1m7e0zwzo
285•berkeleyjunk•6h ago•207 comments

AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it

https://www.koshyjohn.com/blog/ai-should-elevate-your-thinking-not-replace-it/
312•koshyjohn•7h ago•262 comments

Magic: The Gathering took me from N2 to Japanese fluency

https://www.tokyodev.com/articles/how-magic-the-gathering-took-me-from-n2-to-japanese-fluency
99•pwim•3d ago•35 comments

Show HN: AI memory with biological decay (52% recall)

https://github.com/sachitrafa/YourMemory
69•SachitRafa•6h ago•31 comments

Quirks of Human Anatomy

https://www.sdbonline.org/sites/fly/lewheldquirk/figlegq6.htm
97•gurjeet•1d ago•61 comments

Music of the BBC Microcomputer System

https://www.acornelectron.co.uk/eug/72/a-musi.html
13•eightb•1d ago•1 comments

Running Bare-Metal Rust Alongside ESP-IDF on the ESP32-S3's Second Core

https://tingouw.com/blog/embedded/esp32/run_rust_on_app_core
38•MrBuddyCasino•2d ago•7 comments

FreeBSD Device Drivers Book

https://github.com/ebrandi/FDD-book
27•myth_drannon•4h ago•5 comments

MoQ Boy

https://moq.dev/blog/moq-boy/
43•mmcclure•6h ago•5 comments

Clay PCB Tutorial

https://feministhackerspaces.cargo.site/Clay-PCB-Tutorial
202•j0r0b0•11h ago•122 comments

An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below

https://twitter.com/lifeof_jer/status/2048103471019434248
508•jeremyccrane•10h ago•664 comments

The Visible Zorker: Zork 1

https://eblong.com/infocom/visi/zork1/
114•PLenz•10h ago•19 comments

Chernobyl wildlife forty years on

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260424-chernobyl-wildlife-forty-years-on
56•reconnecting•7h ago•4 comments
Open in hackernews

FreeBSD Device Drivers Book

https://github.com/ebrandi/FDD-book
27•myth_drannon•4h ago

Comments

inatreecrown2•1h ago
This is a huge book! I would like to know if a LLM was involved in the writing process or if this is the product of a human.
esseph•59m ago
"The English version is the original and authoritative version of the book. The Brazilian Portuguese and Spanish editions were translated using AI and have not yet undergone a full human technical review. They are published to make the material accessible to more readers, but they may contain translation mistakes, awkward wording, or technical inaccuracies introduced during translation.

If something in a translated edition seems unclear, inconsistent, or technically questionable, please refer to the English version as the source of truth. Help with reviewing and improving the translations is very welcome (see Contributing below)."

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This doesn't directly answer your question though.

inatreecrown2•26m ago
Yes I saw that too.
SilentM68•55m ago
Never seen a book written that incorporates the programming language as part of the learning material.

Awesome work!

I await the Linux version :)

yjftsjthsd-h•33m ago
Wow, that's amazing:

> Do I need to know C before starting?

> No. Chapters 4 and 5 teach C from the ground up, focusing on the parts of the language that matter for kernel work (pointers, structures, memory layout, the preprocessor, and calling conventions). If you already know C well, sidebars in those chapters tell you what to skim and what to read carefully.

> Do I need to know UNIX or FreeBSD?

> No. Chapter 2 walks you through installing FreeBSD in a VM or on bare metal, and Chapter 3 introduces the UNIX command line, filesystem, processes, permissions, and editors. By the end of Part 1 you will have a working lab and the vocabulary to use it.

If you're trying to get more contributors to your project, that seems like an excellent way to do it:) You have any interest in working on the project? Great, here's everything to get you there!