Friday, 22 May 2026
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Threat hunters find Google API keys still usable 23 minutes after deletion
Plenty of time for bad actors to grab data or hit you with a giant bill
Npm registry sets stage for more secure package publishing
All the world's a stage, and all the packages are merely players
CHUWI's $449 USD Wildcat Lake Laptop Should Work Fine With Linux
CHUWI this week announced their UniBook laptop as a ~$449 USD laptop that aims to compete with Apple's MacBook Neo. While shipping with Microsoft Windows 11, it should be Linux-friendly and we'll soon be putting it to the test at Phoronix...
HackerOne takes an axe to its bug bounty rewards
Critical flaw payouts slashed by more than 75%
JWST maps the weather on a hot gas giant 700 light-years away
The differences seen here could be throwing off how we study planetary atmospheres.
Linux 7.2 To Enable SR-IOV Support For Intel Nova Lake's Xe3P Graphics
Open-source Intel software engineers today sent out their latest round of Xe kernel graphics driver updates to DRM-Next for queuing ahead of next month's Linux 7.2 merge window...
Zillow loses thousands of listings in fight over “hidden” homes
Zillow asked for a preliminary injunction as real estate industry fight heats up.
BBEdit 16
Article URL: https://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/bbedit16.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48226944 Points: 219 # Comments: 64
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SUSE/openSUSE Agama Installer Now Warns For No-Desktop Installs, Supports systemd-boot
SUSE engineers continue working on their modern "Agama" operating system installer used by the latest SUSE Linux Enterprise and openSUSE Linux distributions. Out today is Agama 21 to incorporate their latest OS installer enhancements...
Seattle Shield, an intelligence-sharing network operated by the Seattle police
Article URL: https://prismreports.org/2026/05/20/seattle-shield-private-companies-surveillance/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48226588 Points: 363 # Comments: 147
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AI is getting expensive, but relief is on the way - just not for you
New hardware promises greater efficiency, user experiences, and most importantly larger margins
Chewing gum restores dad's taste and smell years after Covid
Article URL: https://discover.swns.com/2026/05/chewing-gum-restores-dads-taste-and-smell-years-after-covid/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48226038 Points: 114 # Comments: 46
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News outlets are limiting the Internet Archive’s access to their journalism
Article URL: https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/05/more-than-340-local-news-outlets-are-limiting-the-internet-archives-access-to-their-journalism/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48225838 Points: 161 # Comments: 54
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Stunning aerial footage still best thing about Top Gun at 40
Tony Scott's 1986 blockbuster and the 2022 sequel are the best recruitment tools the US Navy could hope for.
Deus ex machina: Half of US Christians trust AI's spiritual advice
AI sycophancy + spirituality = uh oh
Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods
Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/21/waymo-pauses-atlanta-service-as-its-robotaxis-keep-driving-into-floods/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48225426 Points: 189 # Comments: 236
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Project Hail Mary – Stellar Navigation Chart
Article URL: https://valhovey.github.io/gaia-mary/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48225297 Points: 329 # Comments: 90
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Uh-oh, the International Space Station is leaking again
"This further confirms the wisdom of the current policy of retiring the ISS in 2030."
NVIDIA RTX PRO Blackwell Performance Delivering Excellent Linux Performance
Recently I received the line-up of the NVIDIA RTX PRO "Blackwell" workstation graphics cards for seeing how these newest professional offerings from NVIDIA are performing on Linux and competing against the AMD Radeon AI PRO and Intel Arc Pro B-Series competition.
Flipper One wants to be the Linux multi-tool in your pocket
Not a Zero successor, ARM box aims for openness, but shipping remains the hard part
Show HN: Freenet, a peer-to-peer platform for decentralized apps
For the past 5 years or so I've been working on a ground-up redesign of Freenet, my peer-to-peer project from the early 2000s (now renamed Hyphanet). The new Freenet has been up and running since December along with some early applications like River[1], our decentralized group chat and Delta - a decentralized CMS. Users have already started to build their own apps on Freenet including games,…
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Web devs sleeping with the enemy: AI is doing their job and they worry it's after their desk too
Most software engineers now use AI for most of their code and fear the existential threat
Indexing a year of video locally on a 2021 MacBook with Gemma4-31B (50GB swap)
Article URL: https://blog.simbastack.com/indexed-a-year-of-video-locally/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48222733 Points: 228 # Comments: 81
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AWS parades orgs that took up its offer for Euro Sovereign Cloud
Customers want their data kept and processed strictly within the EU
Google's Antigravity bait and switch
Article URL: https://www.0xsid.com/blog/antigravity-bait-n-switch Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48222529 Points: 447 # Comments: 229
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US government takes $2 billion equity stake in nine quantum computing firms
Beneficiaries include startup backed by firm with links to the Trump family.
KMSCON 10.0 Released With Natural Scrolling Option, Libseat VT Support
KMSCON 10.0 is out today as the newest feature release to this terminal emulator for Linux that can serve as an alternative to the in-kernel VT...
Plug-in hybrids get plugged in more than you might think
Toyota is the latest automaker to report PHEV charging stats, and they're encouraging.
Years after UK Post Office scandal broke, Accenture and OneView Commerce bag contract to replace Horizon
Service tries to move on from troubled decades of Fujitsu relationship with £410 million in deals for system that hurt so many
Gemini accused of 30,000-line code purge and fake recovery report
Developer: AI coding agent broke production and generated fictitious post-mortem paperwork after the rollback
These clever active beam headlights are finally coming to America
The 2027 Audi Q9's digital matrix lights satisfy new NHTSA rules on minimizing glare.
Ryzen AI AMDXDNA Driver Adding Expandable Heap Support With Linux 7.2
AMD engineers continue enhancing the AMDXDNA accelerator driver for supporting the Ryzen AI NPUs on Linux...
Minecraft-streaming gran swatted while raising cash for grandson's cancer care
Sue Jacquot said she had a great time, despite the rude awakening
Attackers spill plaintext passwords of 46k Myspace93 users after 2021 breach
Leakage blamed on treacherous friends exposed unencrypted credentials, email addresses
Vivaldi 8 polishes the chrome without coating it in AI
Unified UI revamp gives browser a cleaner look while rivals keep wedging assistants into the web
Cisco serves up yet another perfect 10 bug with Secure Workload admin flaw
Switchzilla says attackers could access sensitive data and make configuration changes across tenant boundaries through vulnerable internal APIs
Python 3.15: features that didn't make the headlines
Article URL: https://blog.changs.co.uk/python-315-features-that-didnt-make-the-headlines.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48220696 Points: 297 # Comments: 133
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VKD3D 2.0 Released For Wine's Direct3D 12 Implementation Atop Vulkan
Wine developers have announced the release of VKD3D 2.0, the newest feature release for this Direct3D 12 API implementation built atop the Vulkan API. VKD3D is what's used by upstream Wine for D3D12 compared to Valve's downstream VKD3D-Proton within Steam Play (Proton)...
Flipper One – we need your help
Article URL: https://blog.flipper.net/flipper-one-we-need-your-help/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48220647 Points: 952 # Comments: 394
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Lost Images from the 1945 Trinity Nuclear Test Restored
Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/trinity-nuclear-test Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48220639 Points: 250 # Comments: 78
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Apple adds AI smarts to Voice Control, VoiceOver and Magnifier ahead of Accessibility Day
Natural language commands and better image descriptions but Mac users and dictation fans may still be waiting
AlmaLinux To Unveil Media/Entertainment Linux OS Edition
AlmaLinux shared with us that they will be introducing a new version of their RHEL-derived Linux operating system that is built specifically for media and entertainment use-cases...
Microsoft storms RAMPART, adds Clarity to agentic AI safety
Redmond open sources two tools for building and maintaining safer agents
More AMDGPU Driver Fixes Prepped For Linux 7.2
AMD is ready with more AMDKFD compute driver and AMDGPU kernel graphics driver changes for the upcoming Linux 7.2 merge window...
chipStar 1.3 Released For Running HIP/CUDA Code On SPIR-V With OpenCL
A new release of chipStar is now available as the open-source tool for compiling and running HIP/CUDA code in a vendor-neutral manner with the SPIR-V intermediate representation on OpenCL or even Intel Level Zero as the run-time alternative. This is part of the ambitious effort to allow NVIDIA CUDA and AMD HIP code to ultimately run on alternative vendors with increasing levels of success...
New Patches Allow The Microsoft Surface Pro 9 5G To Be More Useful Under Linux
Back in 2024 there were Linux patches to enable a partially-working Microsoft Surface Pro 9 5G laptop that is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8xc Gen 3 (SC8280XP) SoC. Now in 2026, there are new patches for making that ARM-powered Microsoft Surface laptop actually working more respectably under Linux... Like a working display and more...
Think tank to UK government: You can't build the future on systems from the past
Legacy IT is getting worse, not better, and could trip up Whitehall's shiny digital plans, report warns
We're testing new ad formats in Search and expanding our Direct Offers pilot
Article URL: https://blog.google/products/ads-commerce/google-marketing-live-search-ads/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48220105 Points: 527 # Comments: 443
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Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations
Article URL: https://noslopgrenade.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48219992 Points: 428 # Comments: 261
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UK.gov hikes health AI tender by 400% – and hundreds of millions – after a chat with suppliers
Maximum framework value sky-rockets from £150M to £600M after 'an extensive intelligence gathering exercise'
UK’s Education Committee: Social media ban a must to save children’s mental health
Committee says tech companies are failing children and cannot be trusted to self-regulate
Vivaldi 8.0
Article URL: https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-on-desktop-8-0/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48219060 Points: 315 # Comments: 216
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Zombie user account let hackers control the city’s water
Failing to disable a former employee’s account was a huge mistake
Famously secret about its finances, SpaceX opens its books for the first time
"We believe we have identified the largest TAM in human history."
Trump admin didn't want Ebola-exposed Americans, sent them to Berlin, Prague
Officials denied refusing entry, but dodged questions on why Americans didn't return.
AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 FRL To Be Initially Disabled-By-Default
One of the most exciting developments in recent times for the open-source AMDGPU kernel graphics driver is HDMI 2.1 FRL support for the AMDGPU driver along with Display Stream Compression support as they work toward providing full HDMI 2.1 support for this open-source AMD Radeon driver. The details how AMD managed to pull this feat off given prior resistance from the HDMI Forum remains to be…
NASA's Psyche spacecraft returns unfamiliar views of a familiar world
"As a bonus, it captured Mars images from a rare perspective."
Masters of the Universe final trailer brings the '80s nostalgia
"You are he who will restore peace to Eternia."
Leaving the V8 in the past: The all-electric Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door
The 0–60 time is impressive, the miles/kWh number even more so.
The Very Exciting Cache Aware Scheduling Looks Like It Will Land For Linux 7.2
As a very exciting development ahead of the Linux 7.2 kernel merge window opening in about one month's time, it looks like the long-awaited Cache Aware Scheduling support will finally be merged! CONFIG_SCHED_CACHE has made it into a TIP branch with all the Cache Aware Scheduling code for helping with Linux performance on modern CPUs sporting multiple last level caches...
"Ryzen 5800X3D 10th Anniversary Edition" may help you avoid paying for a new PC
It could be one way to make your old PC play nicely with a high-end GPU.
Google publishes exploit code threatening millions of Chromium users
Google publishes exploit code before patch, reported 42 months earlier, is fixed.
Trump wants $1B to protect White House ballroom from drones and other threats
President asks $1B from taxpayers to secure his $400M privately funded ballroom.
Hulu set to keep existing as standalone streaming service and app (for now)
Disney still has a lot of tech to unite and bundles to push.
Chickens without eggs? De-extinction company creates artificial egg.
In the process, Colossal may have handed a useful tool to developmental biology.
Minnesota prohibits prediction markets, promptly gets sued by Trump admin
State law makes it a felony to create, operate, or advertise prediction markets.
Buckle up: Google is set to remake search with agentic AI in 2026
Google's AI search evolution is accelerating at I/O 2026.
Firefox 153 Nightly Rolls Out New Settings UI
The latest nightly builds of Firefox 153 have rolled out a new appearance for the browser's settings area...
Initial Benchmarks Of The SpacemiT K3 RVA23 RISC-V CPU With The K3 Pico-ITX
One of the RISC-V SoCs we have been most looking forward to this year is the SpacemiT K3 that features the X100 RISC-V cores that are RVA23 compliant and among the first readily available RVA23 RISC-V platform for running on the likes of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. In this article is a preview of some very early benchmarks of the SpacemiT K3 with the new Pico-ITX single board computer offering.
Man jailed for posting Trump meme wins $835,000 settlement
Sheriff loses fight with man he jailed for 37 days for posting a Trump meme on Facebook.
Patches Trying To Bring Mainline Linux Support For The Infineon/Intel XMM6260 Modem
While it has been nearly seven years since Apple acquired the Intel Mobile Communications' smartphone modem business and fifteen years since Intel acquired the wireless solutions division of Infineon, in 2026 we might see mainline Linux kernel support for the out-of-date XMM6260 modem...
RHEL 10.2 Released With New AI Command Line Assistance
Red Hat today announced the releases of both Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.2 as well as RHEL 9.8...
Greg KH Calls For More Rust Linux Developers
Greg Kroah-Hartman took time away from his duties as Linux's second-in-command as stable maintainer, various subsystem maintainer, and recent hobby of using AI/LLMs for uncovering Linux kernel bugs to present at the Rust Week conference...
HP Now Sponsoring The Linux Vendor Firmware Service / Fwupd
That didn't take long. Mere days after Dell and Lenovo began sponsoring the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) as premiere sponsors in contributing $100k+ annually to this open-source firmware updating initiative, HP is also now a premiere sponsor...
FFmpeg Introduces Vulkan Accelerated Decoding For APV Video
FFmpeg already supports CPU-based decoding for Samsung's APV as the Advanced Professional Video Codec. FFmpeg also has APV encode support too while now an interesting addition was merged this week: Vulkan-based acceleration for APV...
Was my $48K GPU server worth it?
Article URL: https://rosmine.ai/2026/05/13/was-my-48k-gpu-worth-it/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48184402 Points: 162 # Comments: 124
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