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Article URL: https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2026/07/21/south-america-is-eradicating-hunger

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Article URL: https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html

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So I've been getting into more systems programming. I would appreciate some feedback on this project. For context, I have a Legion Pro 5 16ARX8 with a 4-zone RGB keyboard. I have been running NixOS as my development OS on another SSD, and the RGBs lose all their settings when I switch over.

I found a project called https://github.com/4JX/L5P-Keyboard-RGB, and it worked. The thing is, I don't like how it opens a window to take effect. I don't want to remember my RGB control software exists at all. It should just work, and I think it should feel native. So this project takes the driver and lighting controls of that upstream project and puts all the logic inside a Rust daemon that can run at startup.

From my testing, it's about 8x lighter than the original because the daemon is now decoupled from the GUI, so it uses way fewer resources and remains invisible. I also wanted it to feel native to Linux. I use GNOME, so I made a minimal GUI with GTK4/libadwaita. More GUI's can be made, however.

So the workflow now is to set up the daemon, open the GUI, adjust what you want, and close it. Simple. No RAM bloat or window that needs to stay open.

This project is new, so please feel free to open issues.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49011496

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Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/22/tech/openai-hugging-face-ai-cybersecurity

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Article URL: https://github.com/mauscoelho/rabbitty-app/releases

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Article URL: https://unity.com/releases/unity-7

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Article URL: https://simplex.chat/blog/20260722-simplex-public-names.html

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Article URL: https://www.timeextension.com/features/the-making-of-wizardry-the-landmark-rpg-that-inspired-dragon-quest-and-final-fantasy

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Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/fishery-satellite-surveillance

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Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.18097

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Article URL: https://english.kyodonews.net/articles/-/80372

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Article URL: https://www.themarshallproject.org/2026/07/14/cuyahoga-county-jail-deaths-ohio

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49011404

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Article URL: https://www.browserbase.com/blog/code-mode-is-all-you-need

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49011388

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Article URL: https://munreader.com/

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Article URL: https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/06/respect-p-v-np-problem.html

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Article URL: https://medium.com/@shizhanszh34/what-sampling-temperature-actually-does-in-llm-rl-training-a-controlled-study-of-temperature-a1f710e32a36

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Article URL: https://www.imo-official.org/results/individual/year/2026/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49010677

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Experienced Software Engineer working in Big Tech since the past decade. I'm at a point in my life where I'm feeling pretty done with a daily 9-5 job especially because of the overwhelming demands and random priority changes that expect you work beyond scheduled hours.

I could do this in my 20s and before I had a family but I've realized that it has become increasingly hard for me lately to manage everything especially raising a family. I'd like to spend time daily with my kids and don't want to pull 40+ hour work weeks anymore.

I feel like a sustainable pace would be working 3-4 hours a day and building something. I love building things so that always excites me but I'm not so excited/challenged by the people aspect of a job where you are required to be influential across orgs especially in as a Senior engineer in BigTech.

Anyway, all of this is just context for what I've been thinking since long: to quit my BigTech job and build something of my own on the side that generates just enough income for me to sustain and help raise my family. I'm at a stage financially where I have some cushion but not enough to be fully FIRE'd so I will need some income to sustain mortgage + kids + lifestyle.

Where do I start? What ideas do I explore? If any of you did it, what was your experience like?

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