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we've been on the first page of hacker news all day 😮‍💨

Blogged: The Windows File Explorer replacement, File Pilot, is awesome

https://andrewlock.net/windows-explorer-replacement-filepilot-is-awesome/

In this post I describe my experience with the Windows File Explorer replacement, File Pilot. It's blazingly fast, feature rich, and has hotkeys everywhere

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What's the deal with Rumiko Takahashi's signature hand pose? aftermath.site/whats-the-deal...

I can’t believe I didn’t even try to get my first name as a username on the Forkiverse I botched it already omg

I've tested the "Apps" feature of the new RouterOS release by @mikrotik

Good job. I can see some use cases for some people. While I still think that a router should be a router, there could be some specific situations that could be managed by this.

#RouterOS #MikroTik

途中です

お絵かき少しだけ進んだ…！​​
出来れば一月中にはあげたい…色塗りがんばろう…！​​
それでは​​​​​​

Hi, I’m José. Just moved over from Twitter.

I’m a software engineer based in the UK. At work I build distributed systems in Rust; outside work I experiment with languages and systems programming, and I read a lot (classics, sci-fi, history). My blog is linked in my profile (recently migrated from GitHub to Codeberg).

I love talking about low-level code, performance, and distributed systems, and anything book related.

Feel free to say hi, and I’m always happy to receive book recommendations.

#introduction

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The two hardest problems in Computer Science are:

1. Getting up in the morning
2. Going to bed at a reasonable time

「勇者」はライブ版が良いよお♪

YOASOBI「勇者」(The Brave) from『Clockenflap』2023.12.01@Central Harbourfront in Hong Kong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMRGsM1mPP4

After a decade at the old shop I can say with confidence that if I’d been in just the wrong meeting at just the wrong time and said “know what? React should use XUL”, a dozen or so of the smartest people I’ve ever worked with would have simultaneously stroked out on the spot.

Anyway, TIL: https://xmlui.org/

Maybe things have changed? Hope so…

In TextKit 2 – what is the correct way of drawing extra horizontal padding around a custom attribute? I inject text attachments before and after but seems like the correct way would be to do this through the fragments somehow?

Playing Factorio on a Floppy Disk Cluster

https://hackaday.com/2026/01/13/playing-factorio-on-a-floppy-disk-cluster/

Federal bill criminalizing sexual deepfakes wouldn’t cover X images: expert https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/2026/01/13/federal-bill-criminalizing-sexual-deepfakes-wouldnt-cover-x-images-expert

Berlin wird demnächst mit Kartoffeln geflutet. stay tuned.

My dream was about debugging code to align satellite dishes, and my boss not liking my idea to try and improve signal strength by trying going off-center to better target the satellite. He was afraid it'd wear out the positioning servos to make them retest their alignment periodically

UTC使ってこうぜ (Atlantic/ReykjavikはGMT表記になるんだねえ…

$ for TZ in Pacific/Honolulu UTC Atlantic/Reykjavik Asia/Tokyo; do TZ=$TZ date; done
Tue Jan 13 09:31:57 HST 2026
Tue Jan 13 19:31:57 UTC 2026
Tue Jan 13 19:31:57 GMT 2026
Wed Jan 14 04:31:57 JST 2026

LinkedIn is social media the same way that thing with cake in the conference room last Friday was a “party.”

My #ScottAdams Story

In the 1990s, I worked as an office temp. I logged a lot of hours in a lot of different offices, and I had an instant and accurate way to sense how dysfunctional and toxic a workplace was as soon as I walked in.

I took note of how many #Dilbert comics were pinned up, and where.

If I saw one or two #Dilbert comics scattered around, I knew people had their gripes and complaints about their co-workers, but it was nothing too serious.

1/9

Show HN: Self-host Reddit – 2.38B posts, works offline, yours forever

Link: https://github.com/19-84/redd-archiver
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46602324

The rapid rise and slow decline of Sam Altman

Link: https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-rapid-rise-and-slow-decline-of
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46605452

discord muzzle feature

Important news regarding our use of Twitter: Owing to the current circumstances, we have taken the decision to stop using our Twitter account. We cannot in good conscience continue to use a platform which is linked to image-based sexual harassment and violence, and AI-generated child sexual abuse material.

New blog post: GeoIP-Aware Firewalling with PF on FreeBSD

Running a mail server means constant brute-force attempts. My solution: geographic filtering. SMTP stays open for global mail delivery, but client ports (IMAP, Submission, webmail) are restricted to Central European IP ranges only.

Result: ~90% reduction in attack logs, cleaner signal-to-noise ratio, smaller attack surface.

Using MaxMind GeoLite2 + PF tables with ~273k CIDR blocks.

https://blog.hofstede.it/geoip-aware-firewalling-with-pf-on-freebsd/

#FreeBSD #InfoSec #SysAdmin #pf #DevOps

Many new people asking what Mastodon and the Fediverse actually are, and how servers connect to each other. I've tried to do a simple non-technical guide about this:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/what-is-mastodon-what-is-the-fediverse

TL:DR - The phone network lets you choose a provider and call people on other providers. Mastodon and the wider Fediverse do this for social networks.

If you prefer videos, these are useful:

"What is Mastodon?"
https://fedi.video/w/cbQE3NRw76FayQCSdb14TU

"Introducing the Fediverse"
https://videos.elenarossini.com/w/64VuNCccZNrP4u9MfgbhkN

#FediTips

Yep!

#pasta #italienfood #cooking

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2026/jan/11/how-to-make-penne-all-arrabiata-recipe-felicity-cloake

AI Generated Music Barred from Bandcamp

Link: https://old.reddit.com/r/BandCamp/comments/1qbw8ba/ai_generated_music_on_bandcamp/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46605490

弊ぼっちのRubyが4.0.1になりました。んふふ。

this new discord update is awful

Am I just messaging to the ether here or will people see this?

Learned about the forkiverse while walking my dog in Seattle wa. It’s an oddly sunny day in the otherwise dark and wet pnw.

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…After #ReneeNicoleGood was shot, the #DOJ decided to forgo a #CivilRights investigation that would establish whether the #ICE officer’s use of #DeadlyForce was justified. That decision led several career prosecutors at the department’s civil rights division in Washington to resign in protest, MS Now reported Monday.

#Trump #law #murder #ExtraJudicialKillings #Minneapolis #Minnesota #RightToProtest #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #MafiaState #Sturmabteilung
https://www.ms.now/news/doj-civil-rights-division-officials-quit-harmeet-dhillon

Holy mackerel. Joe Thompson quit.

"Three Minnesota federal prosecutors resigned over the Justice Department’s push to investigate the widow of a woman killed by an ICE agent and its reluctance to investigate the shooter, according to people with knowledge of their decision.

"Joseph H. Thompson, who was second in command at the U.S. attorney’s office and oversaw a sprawling fraud investigation that has roiled Minnesota’s political landscape, was among those who quit Tuesday, according to three people with knowledge of the decision."
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/us/prosecutors-ice-shooting-renee-good.html

#Minneapolis #ICE #UncheckedAggression

Es gibt tatsächlich Menschen, die sich beschweren, dass sie die AI-Tools nicht im CLI von Produktivsystemen einsetzen dürfen.

Was läuft bei denen falsch?
Code-Assistenten? Ok, da greifen noch viele Mechanismen. Aber Admin-Aufgaben?

AI hat auf produktiven Maschinen nichts verloren. Punkt. Keine Ausnahme. Keine Diskussion.

I see posts under the "search" from other Mastodon networks too. Are those by people currently in the Forkiverse, or are they recommended? I'm still trying to wrap my head around the Fediverse.

Excellent stance by #Bandcamp on AI.

"We reserve the right to remove any music on suspicion of being AI-generated."

Bandcamp’s Mission and Our Approach to Generative AI

https://blog.bandcamp.com/2026/01/13/keeping-bandcamp-human/

ㅋㅋㅋㅋ Grok 너도 엿이나 먹어라

Mike Tomlin will reportedly step down as Stealers head coach after 19 seasons.

#NFL

Signal leaders warn agentic AI is an insecure, unreliable surveillance risk

Link: https://coywolf.com/news/productivity/signal-president-and-vp-warn-agentic-ai-is-insecure-unreliable-and-a-surveillance-nightmare/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46605553

Es gibt tatsächlich Menschen, die sich beschweren, dass sie die AI-Tools nicht im CLI von Produktivsystemen einsetzen dürfen.

Was läuft bei denen falsch?
Code-Assistenten? Ok, da greifen noch viele Mechanismen. Aber Admin-Aufgaben?

AI hat auf produktiven Maschinen nichts verloren. Punkt. Keine Ausnahme. Keine Diskussion.

My team at Bookshop.org is hiring a junior software developer. #GetFediHired
Edit: this is a remote, US-based position.

https://bookshop.org/info/careers/associate-software-engineer

ich hatte Angst die 2x16GB DDR4 RAM, die nachm upgrade übrig blieben seien unverkäuflich und wollte sie einem bedürftigem Wesen schenken...

I love the hashtag DirectoryTraversalMemes 😂

"Corporations who make billions from FOSS should give back their fair share"
vs.
"Don't ever take money from the evil corporation, it will corrupt FOSS"

round 103828483, FIGHT!

President Trump tells the Detroit Economic Club he’s now “Venezuela’s biggest fan."

#Grok, xAI’s flagship model, reportedly burned through $7.8 billion in just nine months in 2025… yet it’s also set to become a key supplier to the #Pentagon. I’ll pretend for a moment that it’s merely a random contractor with no ties to the U.S. government, and that it’s only being chosen because it happens to be exceptionally good at removing face-covering clothing from photos of ICE agents.