Same-day upstream Linux support for Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5

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Qualcomm Technologies posted initial support for its Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 to the Linux developer community. The patches enable advanced features like dynamic voltage and frequency scaling, display, and camera capabilities.

The Input Stack on Linux: An End-to-End Architecture Overview

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The kernel-level handling of input devices involves the input core, which provides common abstract components and a publish-subscribe system for handling input devices and their events, while user-space handling is done through libraries such as libinput and XKB. The input core is responsible for registering and unregistering input devices, forwarding events to registered handlers, and ...

Arthur Conan Doyle explored men’s mental health through Sherlock Holmes

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Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories explored male vulnerability and mental health issues, often portraying men struggling with emotional turmoil, fear, and shame. Doyle's works humanized male characters, showing that vulnerability does not equate to weakness, but rather a strength that can fuel genius.

The VanDersarl Blériot: a 1911 airplane homebuilt by teenage brothers

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The VanDersarl brothers built a Blériot XI in 1911 using a modified automobile engine and learned to fly it. After a century, the restored plane was registered as an experimental airplane and flew again in 2012.

Quake Engine Indicators

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The user discovered four indicators in Chocolate Quake netcode: TURTLE, DISC, RAM, and NET, which were likely intended for developers and map designers to diagnose performance issues. These indicators show up on screen when the framerate drops below 10fps, HDD access is slow, the engine evicts surfaces from cache, or a client hasn't received packets from the server in 300ms.

We're Losing Our Voice to LLMs

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Using LLMs to write social media posts can rob you of your unique voice, which is formed from your experiences and becomes recognizable and trustworthy. Your voice is a valuable asset that influences impressions and connections, and relying on LLMs can cause it to fade into atrophy.

Linux Kernel Explorer

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The kernel isn't a process—it's the system. It serves user processes, reacts to context, and enforces separation and control.

Penpot: The Open-Source Figma

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Penpot is an open-source design tool for collaboration between designers and developers. It offers features like design tokens, CSS Grid Layout, and real-time collaboration.

Show HN: Runprompt – run .prompt files from the command line

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The user is using the Claude model to extract information from a text. The model is extracting a person's name, age, and occupation.

Pakistan says rooftop solar output to exceed grid demand in some hubs next year

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Abuse of the nullish coalescing operator in JS/TS

← Back to all blog posts Abstract After working as a JS/TS developer for quite some years I've grown quite used to seeing || "" or ?? "" strewn around codebases as a quick fix to "remove" nullability, usually due to some value which you assume is set, but can't "prove" type-wise. I think this is a code smell, and I generally think it's not the right ...

Show HN: MkSlides – Markdown to slides with a similar workflow to MkDocs

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MkSlides is a static site generator that turns Markdown files into Reveal.js slides. It uses a YAML configuration file to customize the slideshow.

Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving

I’ve been a part of this community for fifteen years. Despite the yearly bemoaning of HN’s quality compared to its mythical past, I’ve found that it’s the one community that has remained steadfast as a source of knowledge, cattiness, and good discussion.

DIY NAS: 2026 Edition

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The user built a DIY NAS server, the DIY NAS: 2026 Edition, with a Topton N22 motherboard, JONSBO N4 case, and TrueNAS 25.10.0.1 operating system, aiming to provide a capable homelab machine with a small footprint. The build features six drive bays, an integrated low-power CPU, and a focus on power efficiency, with the user considering auctioning off the build on eBay due to rising component prices.

Ray Marching Soft Shadows in 2D (2020)

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The author explains how a graphics project uses a distance field to generate shadows, and implements a technique called ray marching to improve performance. The technique involves advancing along a ray by a distance proportional to the distance from the closest shape.

Mixpanel Security Breach

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Mixpanel detected a smishing campaign on November 8th, 2025, and took steps to contain and secure impacted user accounts. Affected customers were proactively communicated with, while unaffected customers received no action required notification.

Seagate achieves 6.9TB storage capacity per platter

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Seagate achieved 6.9TB per platter in its laboratory, making 55TB to 69TB hard drives possible. The technology is expected to be used in official products by 2030, with interim developments in 2027, 2028, and 2029.

The Concrete Pontoons of Bristol

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Show HN: SyncKit – Offline-first sync engine (Rust/WASM and TypeScript)

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SyncKit is a lightweight, offline-first sync engine that enables real-time collaboration with automatic conflict resolution. It's a complete WASM-based sync engine with a TypeScript SDK and React hooks, ideal for building collaborative apps.

Interactive λ-Reduction

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Music eases surgery and speeds recovery, study finds

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Researchers in Delhi found that playing calming music to patients under general anaesthesia reduced their need for anaesthetic drugs and improved recovery. The study suggests that music can help patients wake up more quickly and clearly.

G0-G3 corners, visualised: learn what "Apple corners" are

The owner of this website (www.printables.com) has banned the autonomous system number (ASN) your IP address is in (8075) from accessing this website.

Willis Whitfield: Creator of clean room technology still in use today (2024)

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Willis Whitfield, a physicist at Sandia, invented the laminar-flow clean room in 1961. His design, which uses filtered air to sweep particles to the floor, is still used today in various industries.

Gemini CLI Tips and Tricks for Agentic Coding

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Gemini CLI is an open-source AI assistant that brings the power of Google's Gemini model directly into your terminal, allowing you to perform various tasks such as coding, debugging, and content generation through natural language prompts. The tool supports features like custom commands, memory addition and recall, checkpointing, and external integrations with Google Docs, Sheets, and Drive, ...

Protect Public School Students from Surveillance of Off-Campus Speech

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EFF filed an amicus brief in Merrill v Marana Unified School District arguing that students' use of school-issued devices does not automatically make their speech "on campus." The brief emphasizes the need for students to have private digital spaces to speak freely without constant school surveillance and punishment.

S&box is now an open source game engine

s&box engine is now open source under MIT license, allowing users to view, modify, and use its code for their own projects. The team has made several improvements, including fixing terrain issues, implementing texture rotation, and rewriting memory allocation code.

Running Unsupported iOS on Deprecated Devices

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The user successfully ported iOS 6 to an iPod touch 3 by modifying the iBoot and DeviceTree, and creating a custom kernelcache with kexts from iOS 6. They also implemented an iBoot exploit and patched various components to make the port work on the iPod touch 3.

Coq: The World's Best Macro Assembler? (2013) [pdf]

We formalize a subset of the x86 architecture in Coq, using dependent types and notation to give it a concise and readable semantics. The model includes a concrete representation of bits, bytes, and memory, and supports conventional assembly code syntax inside Coq.

Functional Data Structures and Algorithms: a Proof Assistant Approach

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The book introduces data structures and algorithms for functional languages with a focus on proofs, covering both correctness and running time analysis. It uses inductive proofs and is machine-checked by Isabelle, with evolving content.

Voyager 1 is about to reach one light-day from Earth

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Voyager 1 is about to reach 16.1 billion miles away from Earth, taking 24 hours for a radio signal to reach it. It's the most distant human-made object, traveling at 11 miles per second since 1977 and sending data until the 2030s.