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Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)
on Monday April 13, 2026 @01:34PM (#47755353)
Building Lexplain (https://lexplain.net/release-notes), an AI-powered service that explains Linux kernel commits and release notes.
Most engineers running Linux in production aren't kernel developers. Keeping up with kernel changes is hard, and unexpected kernel behavior silently impacting production systems happens more often than it should.
So I wanted a way for those engineers to scan through kernel changes quickly. Not just what lines changed, but what the code actually does, why it matters, and what it means for real systems. Something closer to what art museum docents do.
7,000+ commit analyses and release notes for the 7.0-rc series are available. Release notes for 7.0 stable are in progress.
Show HN: Lexplain – AI-powered Linux kernel change explanations
To understand what changed between kernel versions, you have to dig through the git repository yourself. Commit messages rarely tell you the real-world impact on your systems — you need to analyze the actual diffs with knowledge of kernel internals. For engineers who use Linux — directly or indirectly — but aren't kernel developers, that barrier is pretty high.I kept finding out about relevant...
Linux 7.0-Rc5 Released: Linux 7.0 "Starting to Calm Down"
Re:Show HN: Skub – a sliding puzzle browser game
on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @02:37PM (#47507192)
Oh, they were right there and I missed them. Fun game! :)
Re:Show HN: Skub – a sliding puzzle browser game
on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @02:31PM (#47507098)
On the game page, pressing the browser's back/forward buttons changes the game state instead of navigating between pages. It would be great if undo/redo had their own dedicated buttons, and the browser back/forward worked as normal page navigation (e.g. going back to the main menu).
Re:Claude-Code Automode
on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @02:15PM (#47506872)
Nice to have a safer alternative to --dangerously-skip-permissions. But unless it's a critical project, I'll probably just keep using --dangerously-skip-permissions until I get comfortable with the new approach...
Re:Project Nomad – Knowledge That Never Goes Offline
on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @01:55PM (#47506589)
Love the concept. Hopefully I'll never actually need to use it, but if that day comes, this would be incredibly helpful.