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Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI"

https://lwn.net/Articles/1091231/
354•pluc•3h ago•274 comments

SQLite as a Document Database (2020)

https://dgl.cx/2020/06/sqlite-json-support
70•lioeters•4d ago•8 comments

Tether: iMessage, SMS, etc. on Linux

https://zackbartel.com/blog/2026/08/tether/
70•zackb•5d ago•32 comments

Indirect Calling of Nested Functions on GCC Without Executable Stack

https://uecker.codeberg.page/2026-08-29.html
39•uecker•3h ago•9 comments

Show HN: Typebase – A single-folder back end you write in TypeScript

https://typebase.io
53•andrewww-dev•3d ago•10 comments

Samsung's Processing-in-Memory (PIM)

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/hot-chips-2026-samsungs-processing
201•ingve•11h ago•67 comments

Glacier Mice

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacier_mice
163•ostacke•4d ago•32 comments

Creating the Aetheryte Radio

https://haz.ee/posts/aetheryte-radio.html
36•wonger_•1d ago•7 comments

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

https://science.nasa.gov/mission/roman-space-telescope/
45•JumpCrisscross•1h ago•8 comments

GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven

https://ckardaris.com/blog/2026/08/28/keyboard-driven-guis.html
968•ckardaris•1d ago•476 comments

Sleepwalker: Passive Backdoor with Its Own Command Language

https://r136a1.dev/2026/08/24/sleepwalker-a-passive-backdoor-with-its-own-command-language/
7•defrost•4d ago•0 comments

EVE Online moves to Python 3

https://www.eveonline.com/news/view/the-move-to-python-3-begins
173•TylerJaacks•4d ago•89 comments

Boot a Virtual iPhone via Apple's Virtualization.framework

https://github.com/Lakr233/vphone-cli
349•hentrep•18h ago•94 comments

Show HN: Galaxium, an experimental WebGPU space explorer

https://galaxium.app
72•guillaumec•5d ago•20 comments

Quantifying Colour

https://ekunazanu.foo/lab/quantifying-colour/
13•vismit2000•1h ago•0 comments

GrapheneOS project: pixel 11 no longer supports hardware memory tagging (MTE)

https://bsky.app/profile/grapheneos.org/post/3mua32q4ds22e
67•400thecat•2h ago•18 comments

Htmx 4.0

https://four.htmx.org/announcements/2026-08-28-htmx-4.0.0-is-released
757•rmsaksida•1d ago•190 comments

Hunting Down a Go Runtime Bug on 32-Bit Embedded Systems

https://sigma-star.at/blog/2026/08/go-runtime-netpoll-bug/
85•birdculture•3d ago•10 comments

U.S. sanctions against the A/I Collective

https://www.inventati.org/
679•exiguus•1d ago•694 comments

StemDeck, a free, open-source and local AI stem separator

https://github.com/stemdeckapp/stemdeck
173•thclpr•16h ago•47 comments

Time complexity of operations on Python's built-in types

https://docs.python.org/3.16/library/time-complexity.html
59•theanonymousone•4d ago•12 comments

Europe's last regular standard-gauge steam passenger service

https://parowozowniawolsztyn.pl/?page_id=2141
91•GungulSurm•2d ago•24 comments

I accidentally turned LLM memory into program analysis

https://pwning.systems/posts/llm-memory-program-analysis/
244•matt_d•18h ago•67 comments

Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions

https://www.orbify.eu/demo/
574•smoser•1d ago•184 comments

TurboKV: Insanely fast Rust key-value store

https://github.com/kingroryg/turbokv
157•rgbimbochamp•15h ago•77 comments

Parsing the Infamous Japanese Postal CSV

https://www.dampfkraft.com/posuto.html
24•birdculture•1h ago•1 comments

Just the rumour of a bug is enough to find an exploit these days

https://anil.recoil.org/notes/rumour-is-the-exploit
364•avsm•1d ago•117 comments

Claude Code is going reduce limits by 25% from September 14

https://twitter.com/ClaudeDevs/status/2093742321473065266
3•myselfpraying•6m ago•0 comments

Monzo Stand-In

https://monzo.com/blog/tolerating-full-cloud-outages-with-monzo-stand-in
114•coffeefuel•5d ago•50 comments

Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX

https://openai.com/index/our-decision-on-cursor-following-its-acquisition-by-spacex/
725•meetpateltech•15h ago•443 comments
Open in hackernews

Tether: iMessage, SMS, etc. on Linux

https://zackbartel.com/blog/2026/08/tether/
70•zackb•5d ago

Comments

pzmarzly•1h ago
> Personally, I think putting an interoperability protocol implementation behind a copyleft license is a little unfortunate!

Huh, haven't thought of it. Just relicensed ancs4linux to MIT.

kees99•1h ago
Isn't this[0] the use-case that is supposedly covered by LGPL?

[0] copyleft-licensed library that could be legally linked into non-copyleft code base.

LinuxIsntVeryGo•46m ago
Copyleft licenses are freedom-negative, so MIT covers it pretty well: do what you want.
b40d-48b2-979e•19m ago
Those poor multi-trillion dollar companies that can't use copyleft projects, whatever will they do?
voakbasda•59m ago
I love HN. Read an article that raises a reasonable point about a project’s license, and that project’s author shows up to announce they were convinced and changed the license accordingly. Repo was updated 5 minutes ago.

It’s things like this that give me hope for the world.

stackghost•10m ago
Not to be Debbie Downer but software licensing has no effect on what matters to billions of people.

We are facing very real global and societal issues that people on this site are actively exacerbating, like disinformation and climate change.

If a dude changing an inconsequential text file on GitHub gives you hope for the world, then please broaden your perspective.

kaonwarb•3m ago
Making one small corner of the world a little bit better is a good thing. There's not much use in complaining that it's not as big of an impact as could hypothetically be achieved on some larger issues.
rewgs•2m ago
You are indeed being a Debbie Downer.
2Gkashmiri•1h ago
I don't know.

What's a feature not in KDE connect that the writer wanted and it didn't have?

They could always submit a pr.

Beeper exists you know....

I have a question. It's fine to build for your own self but is it okay to release something in public when the environment is a moving target and you are just a one-man team keeping it afloat?

Wouldn't it be better to go behind established FOSS products and not reinvent the wheel when you don't have to?

I understand no one can tell you how to or why to do certain things but there comes a time, when youw want to help, not build the next temple os and instead help manjaro or whatever is cool these days?

utopiah•1h ago
Glad you brought that up, I was actually going to suggest not to replace KDE Connect but rather to become interoperable with it because AFAIR (but didn't touch an iPhone for few years now) there is no iOS client for it.
cassianoleal•1h ago
I find KDE Connect severely lacking. It's great that it exists, and maybe it's really excellent with Android, but for iOS it's really not there yet.

Even features that do exist don't always work reliably. I can't send files between devices, most of the time clipboard sharing doesn't work either, and there's loads not implemented.

> What's a feature not in KDE connect that the writer wanted and it didn't have?

From TFA:

"And Tether now supports: iMessage, SMS, Notifications, Contact sync on Linux. In addition to its previous: File Transfer, Clipboard Sync, OTP handling."

> Wouldn't it be better to go behind established FOSS products and not reinvent the wheel when you don't have to?

From TFA:

"Before you ask, I know KDE Connect exists. It's great! If you're on Android you should definitely use it. The problem is that it didn't do what I wanted and it's roadmap indicated it never would."

Maybe next time read the article before commenting?

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voakbasda•1h ago
Mega-kudos to the author for chipping away at the wall around Apple’s garden.

I have had a iPhone for 15 years, and I have only ever been able to back it up with iTunes on windows (as I will never buy a Mac).

Apple’s refusal to provide interoperability borders on criminal. I wish there was a better option.

abcd_f•48m ago
Have a look at https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libimobiledevice and iOS backup projects that are based on it.
voakbasda•34m ago
Over the years, I have tried to make that solution work, but it never ever went smoothly.

Maybe it’s time to try it again, but it’s an arms race from what I remember. Apple just keeps changing things; if you’re on the latest iOS version, it was unlikely to work. Has that changed?

dadoum•22m ago
Or idevice [0] (the one I prefer), or go-ios [1], or pymobiledevice3 [2]

[0]: https://github.com/jkcoxson/idevice

[1]: https://github.com/danielpaulus/go-ios

[2]: https://github.com/doronz88/pymobiledevice3

LinuxIsntVeryGo•
SoftTalker•49m ago
Wasn't there another iMessage clone for Linux/Android a few years back and they got a C&D from Apple? Or maybe Apple just blocked their service?
aaronax•31m ago
Beeper?
SoftTalker•27m ago
Yes that sounds right.
jnovek•11m ago
There’s bluebubbles which runs a server on a Mac and syncs your messages that way.
porridgeraisin•6m ago
I use whatsapp primarily, so no tethering needed, but SMS of course for one-time passwords and the like. I didn't want to open my phone for that. So I had a coding agent write an android background app for me that listens for SMS and forwards it to a discord server, and side loaded it. So now I get a discord notif on my laptop with the OTP.
kvemkon•4m ago
Is there an easy way to share iOS clipboard to Linux direct using local WiFi without going through any cloud?
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49m ago
Personally, few years ago I wanted to use kde connect with my iPhone, and I don’t remember the distro now but it’s when I had to install kde connect later it wasn’t part of it, and after almost a whole day of googling around and trying to compile and solve whatever missing libraries or drivers, it never connected.. so yeah I welcome the fact that there are alternatives, always!
alex7o•21m ago
I would argue that if you have the same setup as the author then use it. Yes a moving target but won't you fix something you use for yourself? Also point an agent at it get it back working in a few hours of waiting :P
Gualdrapo•12m ago
One of the not cool things about KDE Connect is that its "plugins" system doesn't seem like it.

Where are more plugins for it? How you add them? Where are docs for creating them?

I haven't had a great feeling when asking its dev about stuff but hope that situation has changed. Having a proper plugin system would let people like OP extend KDEConnect and potentially benefit more people, instead of being subjected to the will of its devs and the roadmap.

48m ago
Why do you think Apple should be compelled to provide software for operating systems without a sizable audience? Why do you feel entitled to support for Linux?
cassianoleal•46m ago
They don't have to add support. All they need is APIs and documentation.
LinuxIsntVeryGo•44m ago
That's effectively the same thing.
cassianoleal•17m ago
No it's not.
voakbasda•36m ago
Because they provide a platform. Platforms are not normal products. Once a product becomes a platform, the rules should change to force interoperability. This should be true no matter the product or technology.
SadTrombone•19m ago
Nobody's asking Apple to provide anything. We just want them to stop sending cease and desists to developers who do provide said thing.
sneak•7m ago
You could stop using iMessage and iCloud.
timcobb•3m ago
Pixel is nice, in my opinion better than iOS, and more open for now