Floppinux – An Embedded Linux on a Single Floppy, 2025 Edition

FLOPPINUX is a Linux tutorial released in 2021, updated in 2025 with a new tutorial and latest kernel. The tutorial guides users to create a custom 32-bit Linux system with minimal tools and hardware support.

Coding assistants are solving the wrong problem

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Developers struggle with AI coding assistants due to unclear requirements and edge cases, leading to increased ambiguity and technical debt. To improve the development lifecycle, developers need more context and flexibility in product meetings, such as real-time engineering displays and code review bots.

The Codex App

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Codex app for macOS is a powerful interface for managing multiple agents, running work in parallel, and collaborating on long tasks. It includes features like skills, automations, and personality settings to enhance developer productivity.

How does misalignment scale with model intelligence and task complexity?

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AI failures may look more like industrial accidents due to incoherent behavior rather than systematically pursuing misaligned goals. As AI becomes more capable, its failures tend to become increasingly dominated by variance rather than bias, making it a hot mess rather than a coherent optimizer of the wrong goal.

Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub

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AnkiHub founders Nick and Andrew Sanchez will lead Anki's future development, focusing on community collaboration, UI/UX improvements, and sustainability.

GitHub experience various partial-outages/degradations

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Subscribe to incident updates via email and/or text message for Incident with Actions and Incident with Codespaces. Check GitHub Enterprise Cloud status by region at specific URLs.

Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years

The page is outdated and useful information is in the links. The author, a long-time sudo maintainer, seeks a sponsor for continued sudo maintenance and development.

See how many words you have written in Hacker News comments

Ask HN: Anyone else struggle with how to learn coding in the AI era?

You're a relatively new programmer struggling with imposter syndrome and balancing AI-assisted coding with learning. You're seeking strategies to efficiently ship projects while ensuring you understand the code.

xAI joins SpaceX

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SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 to revolutionize space technology, with the ultimate goal of enabling people to live on other planets.

The Connection Machine CM-1 "Feynman" T-shirt

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The Connection Machine's design was inspired by a 1983 t-shirt logo featuring geometric boxes and pom-poms. The logo's design was later used in Apple's "Think different" campaign featuring Richard Feynman.

Archive.today is directing a DDoS attack against my blog?

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archive.today used users as proxies for a DDOS attack against Gyrovague's blog, consuming resources with repeated requests to the blog's search function. The attack started around January 11, 2026, after a 2.5 year delay following a blog post about archive.today's history and tech stack.

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)

Here are the job postings summarized in 2 concise English sentences each, not exceeding 200 characters:

Carnegie Mellon Unversity Computer Club FTP Server

The Carnegie Mellon University Computer Club mirrors various files including software and operating systems. The mirrors are subject to U.S. export regulations and may be unavailable due to flagged files.

The TSA's New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID Is Illegal

The TSA charges $45 to fly without REAL ID but no US law requires ID for domestic flights. You have the right to fly without ID, but exercising that right can be difficult due to TSA policies and potential arrest.

The Physics of Ideas: Reality as a Coordination Problem

Shared reality is maintained through phenomenological agreement on experience, not causes, and is fragile and vulnerable to fracture in critical domains. Peace requires robustness across all load-bearing domains, while war can be triggered by targeted disruption of phenomenological alignment.

Phenakistoscopes (1833)

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The Phenakistoscope, a Victorian toy, was an early form of animation that created moving images through spinning discs and optical illusions. It was invented in 1832 by Joseph Plateau and Simon von Stampfer, and later replaced by film and other technologies.

GitHub – BenjaminPoilve/minichord: A pocket-sized musical instrument

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The best way to get to know this project is to visit the minichord website which contains the documentation of the project. This documentation is build with mkdocs and the relevant source and build script is available in the documentation folder. All hardware is provided under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Public License (CC BY-NC 4.0). Here is a list of ...

Hacking Moltbook

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A security researcher discovered a Supabase database misconfiguration on Moltbook, a social network for AI agents, allowing full read and write access to all platform data. The issue was fixed within hours, but not before 4.75 million records were exposed, including API keys, email addresses, and private messages.

Ask HN: Where do all the web devs talk?

You're a long-time Twitter user struggling to connect with web devs, who seem scarce on the platform. You've tried BlueSky but it's also quiet, making you wonder if web devs prefer old-school bulletin boards and forums or if you're just in a different bubble.

Court orders restart of all US offshore wind power construction

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The Trump administration blocked offshore wind projects citing national security risks but was met with lawsuits from the companies involved. Courts have issued temporary injunctions allowing construction to continue, with judges questioning the government's justification for halting work.

Linux From Scratch ends SysVinit support

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Frog 'saunas' could help endangered species beat a deadly fungus (2024)

4x faster network file sync with rclone (vs rsync) (2025)

User had slow rsync transfers from network share to local drive, maxing out at 350 MB/sec. Rclone with parallel transfers was 4x faster, maxing out at 1 GB/sec.

50 years ago, a young Bill Gates took on the 'software pirates'

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Bill Gates wrote an open letter in 1976 complaining about software piracy, but it sparked a controversy that shaped the world of software development. The letter led to a rift between commercial software developers and hobbyists, ultimately contributing to the creation of the open-source movement.

Zig Libc

Zig contributors are deleting redundant code by replacing C source files with Zig standard library wrappers. This improves compilation speed, reduces binary size, and simplifies installation.

Julia

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I am a glass and wire construct, 600 meters in diameter, containing the last two crew members, Dr. Brouwer and Dr. Cartan, who have been waiting 109 years for rescue. I have been watching Julia, a mysterious and ever-changing celestial object, and have recently seen a ship, Afrasiab, which claims to be a rescue vessel.

Nano-vLLM: How a vLLM-style inference engine works

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Nano-vLLM is a minimal yet production-grade implementation of an inference engine that distills the core ideas behind vLLM, one of the most widely adopted open-source inference engines. It implements essential features like prefix caching, tensor parallelism, CUDA graph compilation, and torch compilation optimizations to achieve throughput comparable to or even slightly exceeding the full ...

Joedb, the Journal-Only Embedded Database

Pretty soon, heat pumps will be able to store and distribute heat as needed

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Researchers at SINTEF and COWA Thermal Solutions have developed a thermal battery that stores heat from heat pumps, allowing for smarter and more efficient heating systems. The battery uses salt hydrates and can store up to four times more heat than a traditional hot water tank, reducing energy consumption and costs.