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Asahi Linux 7.1 Progress Report

Article URL: https://asahilinux.org/2026/06/progress-report-7-1/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48744518 Points: 216 # Comments: 45

Deciphering 'use client': Why Automatic Migration Tools Prioritize It

The Shift from Client-Side Rendering to Server-First Architecture If you have spent the last few years building with Vite, you are accustomed to the Single Page Application (SPA) mental model. In that world, every component is a client component. Every useEffect runs in the browser, and every useState hook manages memory directly on the user's machine. However, migrating to Next.js and the App Router changes this paradigm fundamentally. Next.js assumes every component is a Server Component by de

Claude Helped a Hacker Find a Way to Issue Tickets to Almost Every US Music Festival

A researcher found that using Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7, he could break into the website of Front Gate—used by every festival from Lollapalooza to Bonnaroo—and freely issue any ticket he chose.

Pine64 launch $50 smart speaker for Home Assistant tinkerers

I built a drop-in AI chatbot widget for React that works with any provider — here's why

The problem Every time I wanted to bolt an AI chatbot onto a React app, I hit the same wall: either I locked myself into one vendor's SDK (OpenAI's widget, Anthropic's whatever-they-ship), or I built the streaming UI, the theming, the floating launcher button, and the SSE parsing again, from scratch, for the third time this year. So I built react-agent-widget — a chat widget that doesn't care which LLM is on the other end. npm install react-agent-widget import { AgentWidget, createHttpAdapter }

Redis 8 in Practice: Building a Full-Stack Movie Library with Search, JSON, Time Series, and Real API Workloads

I have used Redis in production for years. In a previous role, our stack used Redis 6 on Azure Cache for Redis with a Spring Boot backend and Jedis. It worked, but advanced capabilities often came with extra decisions around cost, packaging, and service tier selection. Looking back, that tradeoff may also help explain some of the platform direction we are seeing now, including the move toward Azure Managed Redis and a clearer separation in positioning and capabilities. If we wanted richer search

I Built GLBKit - A Free Online Toolkit for Working with GLB Files

How a simple frustration with existing GLB tools turned into a browser-based toolkit for developers. If you've ever worked with Three.js, React Three Fiber, Babylon.js, or any other 3D web framework, you've probably spent a lot of time dealing with GLB files. Sometimes you only want to inspect a model. Sometimes you need to check triangle count. Sometimes you need a clean screenshot for documentation. And sometimes you just want to quickly open a model without installing another desktop applicat

The hardest part of a pre-release game tracker isn't the UI, it's the provenance field

I started sketching a small reference page for a game that hasn't launched yet, and the first schema I wrote was embarrassingly naive. { "character": "Example Unit", "element": "Ice", "role": "Support" } That looks fine until you ask a simple question: where did this come from? For a game that's still in beta or pre-release, "where did this come from" is not a nitpick. It's the whole problem. Most content models for a wiki-style tracker assume the data is settled. You pick a schema for a charact

Building Intelligent AI Applications with OpenAI Agents SDK Development

Artificial Intelligence is rapidly transforming software development. Businesses are no longer looking for AI tools that simply answer questions—they want intelligent systems capable of planning tasks, automating workflows, integrating with business applications, and supporting employees and customers with meaningful actions. This shift has introduced a new generation of AI-powered software built around autonomous agents. The OpenAI Agents SDK provides developers with a modern framework for crea

RepoWrapped: Spotify Wrapped for a GitHub Repo, and the API That Fought Me

Every December, Spotify hands you a little year-in-review and half your feed turns into screenshots of it. It works because the numbers were always there — you just never got to see them framed as a story about you. I wanted that for a GitHub repo. Point it at owner/repo, pick a contributor, and get a page that says: here's how many commits you landed, here's where you rank, here's the week you went feral. Then let you drop an SVG badge into your README so it lives next to the build status. That

Everest Base Camp Trek Travel Insurance Guide

Introduction to Travel Insurance for Everest Base Camp Trek, at least that's my take. I think probably more than you think, though context always matters. Think about it: Travel insurance is an essential part of preparing for the Everest Base Camp trek for what it's worth. Honestly, the journey passes through the Khumbu region and leads to Everest Base Camp, where conditions are remote and medical backing is limited more often than not. And it shows. Honestly many trekkers focus on permits, gear

Don't Put Every Ignored File in Your Project's .gitignore

It's tempting to add every unwanted file to a project's .gitignore. After all, if Git stops showing the file, the problem is solved—right? Not quite. A project's .gitignore is part of the repository. Every rule you add affects every contributor. Because of that, it should only ignore files that are irrelevant to the project, not files that are only irrelevant to you. Ask yourself one simple question: Is this file generated by the project, or is it generated by my local development environment? I