Why I Don't Need a Steam Machine

33 ingve 2025-11-16 10:22:55 UTC brainbaking.com Llama Share 34

Valve's Steam Machine is a powerful gaming console that can run PC games, but it may not be necessary for those who already have a gaming setup and a large backlog of games to play. The Machine's high price and limited features, such as no handheld mode and no physical game insertion, make it a questionable purchase.

AirPods libreated from Apple's ecosystem

772 moonleay 2025-11-16 00:12:55 UTC github.com/kavishdevar Llama Share 203

LibrePods unlocks Apple AirPods features on non-Apple devices with noise control modes, adaptive transparency, and more. It requires a rooted Android device with Xposed to work.

Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today

1592 immibis 2025-11-15 11:12:55 UTC adguard-dns.io Llama Share 390

The FBI is investigating Archive.is, a website that preserves web pages, over potential copyright or CSAM issues. A suspicious organization, Web Abuse Association Defense, pressured AdGuard DNS to block Archive.is, but its claims and evidence appear to be fabricated.

IDEmacs: A Visual Studio Code clone for Emacs

207 nogajun 2025-11-16 01:12:55 UTC codeberg.org Llama Share 64

IDEmacs provides a user-friendly Emacs experience similar to popular IDEs and editors, ideal for beginners and non-programmers. It aims to make Emacs more accessible and comfortable for new users, allowing them to discover its full potential.

Run Nix Based Environments in Kubernetes

22 kelseyhightower 2025-11-16 08:12:55 UTC flox.dev Llama Share 2

Flox enables reproducible environments across dev, CI, and prod clusters with zero drift and atomic rollbacks. It uses a declarative approach to deliver Nix-style reproducibility and eliminates image rebuilds and registry pulls.

Hyundai Paywalls Brake Pads replacement on Ioniq 5 N

83 zdw 2025-11-16 04:12:55 UTC thedrive.com Llama Share 37

A Hyundai Ioniq 5 N owner was unable to change brake pads without specialized computer equipment due to electronic parking brake controls. Hyundai requires a J2534 device and NASTF credentials for bi-directional tests, making DIY brake repairs impossible.

Things that aren't doing the thing

305 downboots 2025-11-15 19:12:55 UTC strangestloop.io Llama Share 152

You're stuck in a cycle of thinking about doing the thing, but not actually doing it. All your thoughts and actions are just distractions from taking real action.

Bypassing the Branch Predictor

18 signa11 2025-11-16 07:12:55 UTC nicula.xyz Llama Share 7

The user is trying to optimize a financial system's 'send' path by reducing branch misprediction penalties, but the branch predictor is heavily primed to predict the 'abandon' path due to its high frequency. A potential solution is to fill the system with mocked transaction data that returns true for the 'send' path, allowing the branch predictor to assume the 'send' path will be executed.

Writing a DOS Clone in 2019

24 shakna 2025-11-16 06:12:55 UTC medium.com/@andrewimm Llama Share 6

The user built a DOS-compatible OS from scratch, implementing about half of the extended DOS API, basic driver support, and a FAT-12 filesystem. The OS was written in Rust, targeting the behavior of DOS in Real Mode, with a focus on minimizing unsafe behavior and leveraging idiomatic Rust.

libwifi: an 802.11 frame parsing and generation library written in C

115 vitalnodo 2025-11-15 23:12:55 UTC libwifi.so Llama Share 9

libwifi is a library for parsing and generating WiFi frames, requiring -lwifi linker flag and installed shared library. It uses a loop to read packets, parse frames, and store data in libwifi_frame structs.

In Praise of Useless Robots

5 pseudolus 2025-11-16 09:12:55 UTC thereader.mitpress.mit.edu Prefix Share 0

The most intriguing robots aren’t built to work, but to make us imagine other worlds. A few months ago, I visited the Futurism retrospective organized to mark the 80th anniversary of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti’s death at the National Gallery in Rome. The rooms were filled with archives of an ultra-modernist machinic dream: posters, paintings, and sculptures coexisted alongside engines, ...

Boa: A standard-conforming embeddable JavaScript engine written in Rust

231 maxloh 2025-11-15 16:12:55 UTC github.com/boa-dev Llama Share 64

Boa is a Rust-based JavaScript engine with 90% ECMAScript conformance, continuously improving. It can be run with cargo run -- test.js and has various options for evaluation and debugging.

The inconceivable types of Rust: How to make self-borrows safe (2024)

88 birdculture 2025-11-16 00:12:55 UTC blog.polybdenum.com Llama Share 13

Rust's borrow checker prevents self-borrows, but this limitation can be overcome by adopting a more ambitious goal of safe async functions, which requires naming the types of local variables. To achieve this, Rust needs to add named lifetimes, inconceivable types for partial borrows and moves, and a new type for bound lifetime references, allowing for safe and zero-cost self-borrows.

When did people favor composition over inheritance?

176 ingve 2025-11-15 21:12:55 UTC sicpers.info Llama Share 125

The phrase "favor composition over inheritance" originated from the Design Patterns book by the Gang of Four, contrasting inheritance as a "white box" form of reuse with composition as a "black box" form of reuse. However, this principle has limitations and alternatives, such as the grouping approach and using procedures as first-class types.

AsciiMath

104 smartmic 2025-11-15 22:12:55 UTC asciimath.org Llama Share 31

AsciiMath is a markup language for mathematics that can be rendered using MathJax. It supports various symbols and expressions, including derivatives and variables.

Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance: the story of learned avoidance

147 nabla9 2025-11-15 19:12:55 UTC elifesciences.org Llama Share 84

Animals can learn to avoid pathogens through transgenerational epigenetic inheritance. A recent study confirmed that Caenorhabditis elegans can pass on learned avoidance of Pseudomonas aeruginosa to its F2 generation.

An exposed .git folder let us dox a phishing campaign

17 spirovskib 2025-11-16 10:12:55 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 4

A phishing email led to a GitHub repository and Telegram bot being compromised, exposing the attacker's operation. The community reported the repository and bot, leading to their removal for violating terms of service.

Blocking LLM crawlers without JavaScript

140 todsacerdoti 2025-11-16 00:12:55 UTC owl.is Llama Share 67

User blocks crawlers by serving a poisoned path in robots.txt and checking for a "validated" cookie. They redirect non-cookie requests to a validation page, setting a "validated" cookie upon success.

Show HN: Unflip – a puzzle game about XOR patterns of squares

135 bogdanoff_2 2025-11-15 21:12:55 UTC unflipgame.com Full Share 32

Select square areas of size 2x2 or larger to invert the colors of the tiles. Drag from one corner to the opposite corner of a square area of size 2x2 or more to invert the colors (black turns white and white turns black) "Par" is the minimum number of moves needed to solve a level. Use it as a hint or as an added challenge.

When UPS charged me a $684 tariff on $355 of vintage computer parts

232 goldenskye 2025-11-16 00:12:55 UTC oldvcr.blogspot.com Llama Share 199

The author had a US$355 order from an EU seller delayed by US Customs tariffs, which were initially incorrectly assessed at US$711. The issue was resolved after a lengthy appeal process, with the final tariff being US$51.30.

TCP, the workhorse of the internet

318 signa11 2025-11-15 11:12:55 UTC cefboud.com Llama Share 148

TCP is a transport layer protocol that provides reliable, orderly, and uncorrupted data transfer over the internet by handling retransmission, checksums, and flow control. It shields developers from network unreliability and ensures data integrity by maintaining a connection state, tracking sequence numbers, and using acknowledgments, checksums, and other reliability mechanisms.

Linux on the Fujitsu Lifebook U729

188 ibobev 2025-11-15 16:12:55 UTC borretti.me Llama Share 133

The user bought a refurbished Fujitsu Lifebook laptop for 250 AUD, which runs Linux flawlessly with all hardware working out of the box. They had to disable Secure Boot by installing Windows 11, updating the BIOS, and then disabling it in the BIOS settings.

Archimedes – A Python toolkit for hardware engineering

88 i_don_t_know 2025-11-15 20:12:55 UTC pinetreelabs.github.io Llama Share 12

Archimedes is a Python framework that lets developers create and analyze control systems algorithms in Python and automatically generate optimized C code for embedded systems. It provides a high-level interface for developing and deploying control systems, including tools for simulation, optimization, and hardware deployment, and is designed to be flexible and scalable.

Facebook Text Log Between Mark Zuckerberg and Kevin Systrom(Instagram Cofounder)

3 Fiveplus 2025-11-16 08:12:55 UTC dropbox.com Full Share 0

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Report: Tim Cook could step down as Apple CEO 'as soon as next year'

159 achow 2025-11-15 22:12:55 UTC 9to5mac.com Llama Share 327

Apple is stepping up its CEO succession planning with John Ternus as the likely candidate. No final decision has been made and an announcement is unlikely before Apple's next earnings report in late January.

Ubiquiti Flex Mini 2.5G Review Ubiquiti Does a Cheap 5-Port 2.5GbE Switch

34 ksec 2025-11-16 07:12:55 UTC servethehome.com Llama Share 8

Ubiquiti's Flex Mini 2.5G is a 5-port 2.5GbE switch with low power consumption and PoE-in, but its small size poses cooling challenges. It uses a custom heat spreader and Realtek RTL8372N switch chip, also found in other Ubiquiti and third-party switches.

JVM exceptions are weird: a decompiler perspective

77 birdculture 2025-11-15 19:12:55 UTC purplesyringa.moe Llama Share 4

The user discusses the challenges of decompiling Java class files, particularly with try-catch blocks, due to edge cases and complexities in the JVM design and class file format. They explain how javac handles try-finally blocks and the implications for decompilation, including the need to consider type checkers, exception handling ranges, and exemption from exception handling.

EyesOff: How I built a screen contact detection model

28 Two_hands 2025-11-16 01:12:55 UTC ym2132.github.io Llama Share 12

The user created a model to detect if someone is looking at a screen for the EyesOff application, which prevents shoulder surfing. They built their own dataset and model, overcoming challenges such as data scarcity and labelling issues, and achieved 71.25% accuracy on mid-range performance.

Writing a book with Quarto

10 terryds 2025-11-16 07:12:55 UTC blog.stephenturner.us Llama Share 2

The user is learning Quarto, a successor to RMarkdown, for publishing various formats beyond PDF and HTML. They successfully converted an old course website into a polished e-book using Quarto.

Aunt Mary's Storybook

12 mooreds 2025-11-16 04:12:55 UTC cjtinc.org Llama Share 1

Aunt Mary's Storybook helps children of incarcerated parents by recording loved ones reading stories and sending them to the children. The program operates in 14 facilities and relies on donations to continue sharing love and voices with children.