Wireguard FPGA

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This project aims to create an open-source FPGA implementation of Wireguard, a secure data tunneling and encryption method, to make it more accessible and affordable for educational institutions and the open-source community. The project will focus on hardware/software codesign and integration, implementing a two-layer architecture with a control plane for managing IP routing processes and a ...

No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive

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Selecting "No thanks" dismisses the box but does not validate the reminder schedule. It's an illusion of choice, offering only "Get it now" or "Get it later" options, with no "Get it never" option.

Macro Splats 2025

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The user created 3D Gaussian splats of insects using macro photography and focus stacking, capturing 111 perspectives in 1776 photos. The resulting model was trained with Postshot and can be viewed in full 3D on the user's project page, with the cluster fly model available for free download.

Schleswig-Holstein completes migration to open source email

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The German state of Schleswig-Holstein successfully migrated its email system to open source alternatives Open-Xchange and Thunderbird, affecting 30,000 employees and 40,000 mailboxes. This move is part of the state's broader open source strategy, which includes adopting LibreOffice as standard office software.

Free software hasn't won

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The speaker argues that despite the success of open-source software, many devices still rely on closed software, limiting user freedom and control. They call for a shift towards open-source hardware and firmware to ensure users have the freedom to modify and repair their devices.

Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)

The user is working on multiple projects including a tool for creating custom color palettes, a logging library, a security platform, and various other tools and services. They are also collaborating with others on projects such as a tool for growing on X, a hyper-personalization platform, and a word game.

Show HN: I built a simple ambient sound app with no ads or subscriptions

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White noise & sleep sounds to create your custom soundscape

Jeep pushed software update that bricked all 2024 Wrangler 4xe models

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Emacs agent-shell (powered by ACP)

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The author created agent-shell, a native Emacs shell for interacting with AI agents using the Agent Client Protocol (ACP). The shell is powered by comint-mode and allows users to configure different agents from a single, consistent experience.

How I'm using Helix editor

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User switched from Neovim to Helix editor due to supply-chain attacks and prefers custom keybindings. They shared several useful keybindings for Helix including file reloading, soft wrap toggle, and git undo.

Show HN: Rift – A tiling window manager for macOS

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Rift is a window manager that interacts with third-party programs, sending signals on startup, workspace switches, and window changes via CLI or Mach port. It's in active development, stable but with ongoing changes, and uses private APIs reverse engineered from other projects.

China's New Rare Earth and Magnet Restrictions Threaten US Defense Supply Chains

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China has expanded its restrictions on rare earth and permanent magnet exports, applying the foreign direct product rule for the first time. This move strengthens Beijing's leverage in talks and undercuts US efforts to bolster its industrial base.

AdapTive-LeArning Speculator System (ATLAS): Faster LLM inference

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Together AI introduces ATLAS, an adaptive-learning speculator system that automatically improves performance without manual tuning. ATLAS offers up to 500 TPS on DeepSeek-V3.1 and up to 460 TPS on Kimi-K2, outperforming specialized hardware.

Edge AI for Beginners

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This EdgeAI course teaches local AI deployment on edge devices for real-time decision-making, reducing latency and enhancing privacy. It covers technical roles, industry sectors, and hands-on samples for building intelligent applications.

Three ways formally verified code can go wrong in practice

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A new version v0.12 of a project is available, with a planned 1.0 release in March. The project explores formally verified proofs of the Leftpad meme, highlighting the limitations of formal methods in guaranteeing code correctness.

Show HN: I made an esoteric programming language that's read like a spellbook

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an esoteric programming language where code reads like magical incantations from an ancient spellbook. every program is a "spell" written in a "grimoire," so theorhetically, you can write all your code english essay style due to its no newline/indentation requirement.

Addictive-like behavioural traits in pet dogs with extreme motivation for toys

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Researchers studied "excessive toy motivation" in domestic dogs as a potential parallel to behavioural addictions in humans, finding that 33 out of 105 highly play-motivated dogs exhibited addictive-like tendencies. The study suggests that domestic dogs may display addictive-like behaviour spontaneously, without artificial induction, and proposes future research directions to deepen ...

JIT: So you want to be faster than an interpreter on modern CPUs

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The author is working on improving the performance of PostgreSQL's interpreter, discussing modern CPU techniques like out-of-order execution and branch prediction. They've made some optimizations, such as removing null checks and inlining common operations, but still face challenges in beating the interpreter's performance.

Pipelining in psql (PostgreSQL 18)

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Pipelining in PostgreSQL allows parallel execution of queries, increasing throughput by utilizing the network and server in parallel. It can be used with libpq and psql since PostgreSQL 14 and 18 respectively, providing huge gains in query throughput.

After the AI boom: what might we be left with?

The AI boom may leave behind a pile of short-lived, highly specialised silicon, but it could also seed innovation if the industry opens up its infrastructure. A second-hand market in AI hardware and open standards could make large-scale computation more accessible and unlock new innovation.

A years-long Turkish alphabet bug in the Kotlin compiler

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A Turkish software engineer reported a mysterious build error in Kotlin 1.0, which was later found to be caused by a locale-sensitive bug in the compiler. The bug was fixed in Kotlin 1.5, but not before causing three separate issues over five years, highlighting the importance of locale-agnostic case conversions in programming languages.

Show HN: AI toy I worked on is in stores

Activate and hold the button to confirm that you’re human. Thank You!

Spyware maker NSO Group confirms acquisition by US investors

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An American investment group led by Hollywood producer Robert Simonds has acquired controlling ownership of NSO Group, a surveillance tech maker, in a deal valued in the tens of millions of dollars. The deal raises concerns about the company's history of targeting journalists and human rights defenders, as well as its attempts to enter the US market.

The App Store was always authoritarian

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Apple is compromising its values by censoring the App Store at the Trump administration's behest, prioritizing profits over user rights. The company's power and profits have made it an enemy of democracy and civic rights.

In 1776, Thomas Paine made the best case for fighting kings −and being skeptical

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Comedian David Cross mocks speculation about America's Founding Fathers' views on modern issues. Thomas Paine, however, would likely agree with Cross's skepticism, as he advocated for critical thinking and challenging authority in his 1776 pamphlet "Common Sense."

A 4k-Room Text Adventure Written by One Human in QBasic No AI

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The Labyrinth of Time's Edge has expanded to 3,999 handcrafted rooms with new horrors, mysteries, and forgotten souls. The game now requires updated ROOMS.txt and INTERACTIONS.txt files to access the full 3,999-room adventure.

Why Wikipedia cannot claim the Earth is not flat

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Wikipedia aims to mirror mainstream scholarship, not promote fringe theories, and relies on verifiable sources to maintain neutrality. Fringe advocates often use tactics like personalization, misinterpreting policies, and shifting the burden of proof to promote their views.

Quantification of fibrinaloid clots in plasma from pediatric Long COVID patients

Researchers developed a microfluidic device to quantify microclots in patient blood samples, finding higher levels in pediatric Long COVID patients with 94% accuracy. This device may help diagnose and screen for Long COVID, particularly in patients with persistent SARS-CoV-2 spike protein.

Nostr and ATProto (2024)

The user discusses the decentralized social protocols Nostr and ATProto, comparing and contrasting them with ActivityPub and Scuttlebutt, and explains how they were developed in response to the problems with centralized social media. The user also explains the design choices behind Nostr and ATProto, including their use of client-relay models and self-certifying data structures, and discusses ...

'Death to Spotify': the DIY movement to get artists and fans to quit the app

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Indie musicians in San Francisco organized the "Death to Spotify" talks to discuss decentralizing music from capitalist economies and the impact of Spotify's model on artists. The movement aims to encourage listeners to think harder about their relationship with streaming and support artists directly.

MAML – A new configuration language

maml JSON is the most popular data-interchange format. But it isn't a very good configuration language. MAML keeps JSON’s simplicity and adds only the needed bits for a good configuration language: MAML is a brand-new language, so feel free to create new implementations following the specification.

GitHub Copilot: Remote Code Execution via Prompt Injection (CVE-2025-53773)

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A vulnerability in GitHub Copilot and VS Code allowed attackers to inject code and gain full system compromise by modifying settings.json. This was fixed in the August Patch Tuesday release.

Why it took 4 years to get a lock files specification

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The author spent 4 years working on a lock file format specification, which was finally accepted as PEP 751 in March 2025, after multiple drafts and discussions with various Python projects. The specification allows for multi-use lock files that are portable across platforms and user-selected options, and has already been implemented in PDM and partially supported by uv and pip.

Silver Snoopy Award

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The Silver Snoopy award is given by astronauts to employees who significantly contribute to flight safety and mission success in the human space flight program. It's a rare honor, with fewer than 1 percent of the aerospace workforce receiving it annually.

VOC injection into a house reveals large surface reservoir sizes

The study assesses the total partitioning capacity of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in an indoor environment and finds that large surface reservoirs, such as permeable/porous materials, are the major surface reservoirs in a house rather than organic surface films. The results indicate that compounds with octanol-air partition coefficients (KOA) larger than 105 are predominantly ...

A liver transplant from start to finish

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A liver transplant team, including Dr. Lee and Trudy, retrieved a liver from a brain-dead donor named John and transported it to a recipient. The team's efforts were part of a complex process that has a long history, dating back to ancient times, with early experiments in xenotransplantation and organ transplantation.

Wall Street is worried the private credit bubble will burst

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First Brands, an American car parts manufacturer, filed for Chapter 11 protection with $11.6 billion in liabilities. Its bankruptcy is raising concerns about risky lending in private debt markets and potential contagion risk.

Completing a BASIC language interpreter in 2025

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The user developed a BASIC interpreter for the 1983 Mattel ECS add-on for Intellivision, adding string support, garbage collection, and cassette and printer interfaces. The interpreter, called ecsbasic, is now a full-fledged BASIC interpreter for the Mattel ECS, using 19 kilowords and released on GitHub with its source code and ROM for running on Flash cartridges.

An initial investigation into WDDM on ReactOS

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ReactOS is working to support later hardware, including WDDM, but requires improvement in XDDM. The project aims to compile and run WDDM drivers on ReactOS.

Extreme weather caused more than $100B in damage by June

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The first half of 2025 saw the most damaging extreme weather on record, with estimated damages of $93 billion to $126 billion, surpassing the previous record of $57 billion set in 2023. Climate change and land use changes are contributing to the increasing frequency and severity of natural disasters, which are expected to continue and potentially worsen due to human activities.

We will no longer be actively supporting KuzuDB

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Updating Desktop Rust

Tritium's auto-updater is designed to ensure users have the freshest version of the application without compromising privacy or security. It uses a helper binary to update the application in place, handling errors and allowing users to ignore broken updates and continue using the current version.

Monads are too powerful: The expressiveness spectrum

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Monads are too powerful for their own good as they allow dynamic selection of effects but come at the cost of static analysis, while Applicative and Selective interfaces offer a balance between expressiveness and analysis. The goal is to find a middle-ground on the Expressiveness Spectrum that allows for analysis of possible execution paths without sacrificing the ability to write necessary programs.

Ridley Scott's Prometheus and Alien: Covenant – Contemporary Horror of AI (2020)

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Science fiction movies often address pressing social and philosophical issues, such as the fear of artificial intelligence and its impact on humanity. The Alien franchise explores this theme, depicting AI as a force that can be both benevolent and malevolent.

Indiana city doesn't have to pay innocent mom $16,000 after police wrecked home

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A federal court ruled an Indiana woman is not entitled to compensation for her home's damage during a police raid, citing the government's lawful search warrant. The decision raises questions about the Takings Clause and police power, with some justices signaling potential future review.

Novelty Automation

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Normal opening hours: Open every day except Mondays, 11am to 6pm, with late opening on Thursday 12-8pm and 12-6pm on Sundays. 1a Princeton St London, WC1R 4AX

I audited 47 failed startups' codebases

User needs to register or sign in with developer credentials and ensure a unique User-Agent string to access the application. Alternatively, try resetting to default User-Agent or file a ticket for assistance.

Show HN: Sober not Sorry – free iOS tracker to help you quit bad habits

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Sober not Sorry is designed for calm focus. No noise, no pressure — just a clean space to track your journey to freedom Counters, achievements, and a clear view of how your health improves — all you need to stay motivated and consistent Elegant home and Lock Screen widgets keep your motivation close — a gentle reminder of how far you've come

Nielsen Norman Group on iOS 26 usability

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Raluca Budiu criticized iOS 26's Liquid Glass feature, saying it prioritizes spectacle over usability. The feature makes users relearn basics and is frustrating to use, despite its visually appealing design.

Why are Big Tech companies a threat to human rights?

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Big Tech companies like Meta, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Apple control key internet sectors and access to these services is crucial to our rights and livelihoods. Their dominance raises concerns about privacy, discrimination, and manipulation due to data harvesting and profiling practices.

HP1345A (and wargames) (2017)

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The 1983 movie WarGames features a plot about a kid who accidentally starts a global nuclear war through a computer game. The film's computer graphics were created using a HP9845 computer and a HP1345A vector display.

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid

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A South Shore building was raided by ICE agents on Sept 30, arresting 37 people, mostly Venezuelan immigrants. Residents claim the raid was targeted and that federal agents had a map of the building's occupants, raising questions about how they obtained the information.

Oavif: Faster target quality image compression

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oavif is a tool for target quality encoding in image compression, aiming to produce images at a specific quality set by the user. It uses a faster implementation of the SSIMULACRA2 metric and leverages the libaom encoder for speed and consistency.

CBP Enforces Binary Sex Codes and Enhanced US Passport Validation in APIs

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US Customs updates APIS requirements for airlines, requiring "M" or "F" sex designations and exact passport number formatting. Non-binary passport designations will be rejected, requiring resubmission with valid documentation.

Sharp Bilinear Filters: Big Clean Pixels for Pixel Art

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The user is implementing sharp bilinear filtering to scale pixel art without blurring it, using a technique that involves sampling the texture at a suitable coordinate within the texel's space instead of the actual fragment location. The user derives the formula for the blend factor as a piecewise linear function and implements it in a shader using GLSL, taking advantage of the fwidth() ...

Coral Protocol: Open infrastructure connecting the internet of agents

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Coral Protocol is a decentralized platform for multi-agent AI ecosystems, enabling communication, coordination, and trust among AI agents. It establishes a common language and framework for efficient and trustworthy agent interactions.

Constraint satisfaction to optimize item selection for bundles in Minecraft

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The user created a Minecraft inventory optimizer using MiniZinc to free up inventory slots by consolidating items into bundles. They successfully modeled and solved the problem, handling different item stack sizes and bundle capacities.

The Wi-Fi Revolution (2003)

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Wi-Fi technology is revolutionizing the way people access the internet, making it possible to connect to the web without the need for cables or expensive licenses. As Wi-Fi becomes more widespread, it is expected to lead to a new era of wireless policy and the development of new technologies and services that will make the internet even more accessible and convenient.

Reworking Memory Management in CRuby

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Researchers from ANU and Shopify are collaborating to integrate Memory Management Toolkit (MMTk) with Ruby, aiming to build a next-generation garbage collector. They've overcome challenges and introduced new concepts like Potentially Pinning Parents to improve performance.

Systems as Mirrors

Software systems reflect their makers' communication structures and decisions, often echoing ambiguity and indecision. By modeling from outcomes and defining clear domain boundaries, systems can clarify meaning and improve predictability.

Rcyl – a recycled plastic urban bike

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🚲♻ RCYL offers a lot of advantages: no rust, no lubrication, no maintenance ► Configure your bike

Private equity is sitting on $5T of existential dread

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Apollo Global Management stock sank 5.4 per cent and KKR fell 6.3 per cent. Private capital player Blue Owl tumbled more than 7 per cent, as did Ares. Carlyle lost 4.7 per cent, while Blackstone was off 3.7 per cent.

Peeking Inside Gigantic Zips with Only Kilobytes

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The user learned to view a ZIP file's contents without downloading it by fetching the Central Directory, which contains an index of all files and their locations. By using HTTP Range requests, the user can read the Central Directory and then fetch individual files, allowing them to view a large ZIP file's contents in a browser.

Cartridge Chaos: The Official Nintendo Region Converter and More

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The author examines two NES/Famicom cartridges, Gyromite and Kaiketsu Yanchamaru, and discovers a region converter in Gyromite that allows it to play Famicom games. The author also investigates issues with Kaiketsu Yanchamaru's bankswitching.

Looking at kmalloc() and the SLUB Memory Allocator (2019)

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The SLUB allocator is a kernel memory allocator that pre-allocates objects of fixed sizes and offers available objects to callers, reducing the complexity of kernel memory management. The kmalloc() function is the recommended way to allocate memory in the kernel, and it uses the SLUB allocator to find and return a free object of the requested size.

ChatGPT – Truth over comfort instruction set

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The saying "It's always darkest before the dawn" is a 17th-century proverb offering hope in difficult times, but not a scientific fact. It can be emotionally true, but its literal meaning is not always accurate.

Cambridge University launches project to rescue data trapped on old floppy disks

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The project aims to create a central resource for floppy disk knowledge and enhance it through interviews and experiments with conservation specialists. It will preserve floppy disk data and provide a best practice workflow for transferring material from the disks.

Major security breach at Austrian AI startup localmind.ai

Wir haben einen Sicherheitsvorfall bei Localmind festgestellt, bei dem ein unbefugter Dritter Zugriff auf Kunden-Systeme erlangt hat. Wir haben Sofortmaßnahmen eingeleitet, um den Vorfall zu untersuchen und unsere Systeme sicher wiederherzustellen.

Thread First – A model for chat experiences

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Show HN: Compression-Resistant Data Transfers

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This repository encodes arbitrary data into video files that survive YouTube compression. It achieves a 1:5-6 compression ratio using a custom palette and tile-based encoding system.

Agent Shell 0.5 Improvements

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Emacs agent-shell has nearly 100 commits with improvements including unified entry points and diff context. Agent-shell and acp.el development is sponsored, enabling Emacs to cater to users with LLM tools.

A New Algorithm Makes It Faster to Find the Shortest Paths

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Researchers have broken the "sorting barrier" in finding the shortest path in a network, a problem that has been a challenge for 40 years. A new algorithm, developed by a team led by Ran Duan, runs faster than previous algorithms and can handle any type of network.

Functions Are Asymmetric

Synchronous functions are asymmetric because they return one value, but asynchronous functions can be symmetric by allowing multiple values to be returned. A then function can be implemented to be symmetric by allowing multiple synchronous functions to be passed and returning multiple results.

AI tools churn out 'workslop', but 'the buck' should stop with bosses

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Employers are to blame for AI's "workslop" due to lack of investment in employee training and proper implementation. Employers must invest in training, standardize AI use, and have a plan to use AI effectively to maximize its benefits.

I'd like to speak to the Bellcore ManaGeR

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The user is exploring the Bellcore MGR, an early windowing system from 1984, and shares their experience installing it on Debian 0.93 and Linux 0.99 kernel.