Why Linux never needed defragging, while Windows relied on it for decades
Floppy disks were a major reason why.
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Linux Kernel TCP Flaw With 9.8 CVSS Score Affects Ubuntu, Red Hat and Other Distributions
Ubuntu and RHEL lack fixes for a Linux TCP use-after-free that Anthropic says it exploited to run commands as root on MPTCP servers.
Windows is less frustrating after you spin up these 5 "Linux-exclusive" apps
These Linux-first apps beat the tools Windows comes with.
Linux 7.4 Merge Window Saw Nearly 20k Commits, Source Tree Approaching 42 Million Lines
Linux 7.3 started out just under 41 million lines in total in the kernel source tree. In the end the Linux v7.3 tag came in ...
Kubuntu is the Linux distro for people who never want to open a terminal
There is a Linux distro for everyone.
5 Linux distros that give you a reason to leave Windows
Distros that beat Windows at its own game.
I don't use Linux for free anymore, and you shouldn't eitherβhere's why
The support you give doesn't even have to be at the distro level, it can be towards specific aspects of the overall Linux ...
Linux JUST Got Hit With a MASSIVE Legal Threat β Hundreds of Distros Could DISAPPEAR!
Linux JUST Got Hit With a MASSIVE Legal Threat β Hundreds of Distros Could DISAPPEAR! Linux is facing a potential legal ...
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Vol. 02 β Solaris inside a Solaris
Solaris inside a Solaris Solaris 2.6 unfolds within Solaris 10, brought to life through SPARC emulation. Two generations of Solaris meet in a study of layered systems and the enduring lineage of UNIX. PROJECT CHRONOS β Digital Archive
Vol. 03 β Zone inside a Zone
Zone inside a Zone Within Solaris 10, BrandZ hosts a CentOS 3.8 Linux environment inside a Solaris zone. Separate worlds occupy a shared system, divided by boundaries yet connected by their underlying architecture. PROJECT CHRONOS β Digital Archive
Vol. 04 β The Prismatic Sun
The Prismatic Sun A glimpse of the web through another layer of computing. Firefox runs inside a Debian virtual machine, hosted by Solaris 10 β a familiar interface seen through an unfamiliar arrangement of systems. Through this refracted view, PROJECT CHRONOS considers how virtualization changes the way we encounter applications and the worlds they reveal. PROJECT CHRONOS β Digital Archive
Show HN: Hashsync β Deduplicate SSH streams against the receiver's files
On a recent trip, while stuck on spotty hotel Wi-Fi and roaming 5G, I got fed up with how much bandwidth commands like rsync and nix-copy-closure waste.rsync's delta transfer compares each file only with the file of the same name on the destination (or, with --fuzzy, a file in the same directory), so renamed, moved and copied files are sent in full.nix-copy-closure can be worse: a rebuilt package gets a new store path, so the whole package is sent again, even when most of its contents haven
Show HN: I'm killing AI slop spam with a simple Google script
As a founder, I've been getting an increasing amount of useless unsolicited outreach, all of which is clearly generated using AI. For some reason, Google's spam filter doesn't flag these emails as spam, so my phone buzzes throughout the day (especially in the morning) when one of these AI-generated messages arrives.I know there are some subscription tools I could use to filter these out, and there are some friction-creating tools I can use to keep them out of my inbox (like the on
Ask HN: Are You a Forward Deployed Engineer?
Let's ASSUME that the AI boom has, in fact, created an outsized demand for AI-literate SWE's who can understand and ship custom solutions from within client's organizations.Are you a glorified consultant? Why or why not?Does your position deployed, um, forward, give you unique visibility or access which results in you building something you could not have built as a [insert the opposite of forward deployed engineer here]?Is your value to the organization hiring you mainly service-
GEMM Tutorial and UlmBLAS
In 2014 I wrote a tutorial on how to write an efficient matrix multiplication that can achieve near peak performance. This is actually not achieved by some Strassen algorithm variant. It's achieved through a cache friendly algorithm (exploiting the cache hierarchy) and SIMD register instructions.The tutorial showed how to achieve that step by step. Beginning with a naive implementation using three loops. Then using buffers to first cache matrix blocks and then performing the matrix product
Dactyl
DactylDactyl β developed in 2018, Dactyl uses machine learning to train the Shadow Handβa robotic hand modeled after the human handβto manipulate physical objects. https://archiveapp.org/dactyl/
DynFi
DynFiDynFi Firewall β a ready-to-use firewall based on FreeBSD. The project provides tools for VPN, IDS, proxy, antivirus, and packet filtering. Support is available inβ¦ https://archiveos.org/dynfi-firewall/
Launch HN: Simantic (YC F26) β Firmware Simulation for AI Agents
Hi HN, we're Ahnaf and Seungmin from Simantic (https://simantic.com). We are building the simulation layer that lets engineers and AI agents test and validate firmware without hardware.Before Simantic, we were ex-firmware engineers at companies like Neuralink and Tesla. Weβve worked on some of the coolest projects, like the Cybertruck and Roadster, back when they were still early prototypes.We started working on firmware back when ChatGPT didnβt exist yet, but over the years, we s
Show HN: StrictLLM β For when you need human-in-the-loop
Hi,We've been working on this for the last 9 months and are nervcited to share this on HN and gather input.StrictLLM is a desktop application for Mac, Windows, and Linux that will give you the following abilities:- Human-in-the-loop with a strong focus in security and control- Permissions enforced by code rather than a prompt- Being able to talk to multiple AIs in the same conversation thread- You can pull in any personas by @Mentions.- Local and cloud models supported (OpenAI API Compatibl