Hacker News with Generative AI: Utilities

mesg(1) and write(1) no longer provided by Debian util-linux (debian.org)
Chatting is hopefully done using more security facilities, not by overwriting each other's terminal state anymore.

Security, Linux, Debian, Utilities, Software

5 points by greyface- 2 days ago | 0 comments

getopt() but smaller (dotat.at)

Programming, Software Development, Utilities

7 points by fanf2 14 days ago | 2 comments

Useful built-in macOS command-line utilities (weiyen.net)
Sometimes when I'm bored, I like to look at the list of macOS Bash commands. Here's some commands that I found interesting:

macOS, Command Line, Bash, Utilities

837 points by yen223 15 days ago | 232 comments

wstty – Windows Stty Replacement (github.com/aymanbagabas)
wstty is a small tool that sets or reports various console related settings on Windows systems. It is meant to be a replacement for the stty coreutils command on Unix systems.

Windows, Utilities, Open Source, Programming

3 points by aymanbagabas 22 days ago | 0 comments

Data Centers Will Have to Make Minimum Power Payments in Ohio (bloomberg.com)
Big data centers in Ohio will have to pay a minimum of 85% of the energy they need to cover the costs of grid improvements under a settlement submitted Wednesday by one of the state’s largest utilities.

Energy, Data Centers, Ohio, Utilities

3 points by mfiguiere 28 days ago | 7 comments

Major Toronto Utility Company Stores Customers' Passwords in Plain Text (reddit.com)
PSA: Toronto Hydro is able to see your login password in plaintext.

Data Security, Privacy, Toronto, Utilities

109 points by oneturkmen 59 days ago | 81 comments

Rust clean-slate POSIX CLI utilities 0.2.1 release: Awk, M4, ftw and more (github.com/rustcoreutils)
Race-free file tree walker library (ftw) Major new utils: awk, m4 New utils: ps, realpath, join, time, fuser, gencat Bug fixes and cleanups Beginnings of musl target support

Rust, Open Source, Utilities, Software

80 points by jgarzik 60 days ago | 29 comments

Customers who save on electric bills could be forced to pay utility lost profits (lailluminator.com)

Utilities, Law, Energy, Finance

26 points by DocFeind 101 days ago | 45 comments

A simply utility script which allows you to analyze your Python file (github.com/mraza007)

Python, Programming, Tools, Utilities

11 points by todsacerdoti 107 days ago | 7 comments

What is Toybox? (landley.net)

Linux, Utilities, Programming

118 points by thunderbong 119 days ago | 23 comments

Utility firms go nuclear over Amazon datacenter power deal (theregister.com)