Saturday, 23 May 2026
76 stories filed.
US scrambles to stop Internet users re-creating dead pilots’ voices
Workaround flouts law that bans NTSB disclosures of cockpit audio recordings.
Project Glasswing: An Initial Update
Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/research/glasswing-initial-update Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48240419 Points: 120 # Comments: 74
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The Boys is dead. Long live Vought Rising.
"There's a brighter future. All we need to do is take it."
Megalodon chums the waters in 5.5K+ GitHub repo poisonings
Will Jason Statham save us?
Linux 7.1 Merges AMD Dynamic EPP Fixes, Intel Bartlett Lake Scaling Fix
Merged today for Linux 7.1 was this week's power management fixes with a few notable fixes for both AMD and Intel platforms...
Police boast of hacking VPN where criminals "believed themselves to be safe"
Law enforcement intercepted VPN traffic, seized domains, and arrested its operator.
Review: The Mandalorian and Grogu is ... fine
The plot is predictable, the fight scenes are meh, but you can't beat the charm of that little green Grogu.
Texas AG sues Meta over claims that WhatsApp doesn't provide end-to-end encryption
Critics note a lack of factual support in lawsuit filed by US Senate candidate.
Before it comes down, what should be saved from the International Space Station?
What went up cannot all come down (for museum display).
Marketer that claimed it could tap devices for ad targeting will pay $880K settlement
Two additional marketing companies will also pay $25,000 each.
Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses
https://archive.ph/WfCta Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48238896 Points: 130 # Comments: 99
Discussion: Hacker News thread →
Bun support is now limited and deprecated
Article URL: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/16766 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48238789 Points: 242 # Comments: 222
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Soaring solar and a surge in hydro push more coal off the US grid
The first data from 2026 seem to indicate that last year was an oddity.
Datacenter builders face an impossible quandary: Demand to the left of me, protests to the right
Wood Mackenzie analysts say bit barn operators are in a tough spot
Trump abruptly cancels EO signing event after top AI firm CEOs declined to go
Trump delays AI safety testing EO, claiming it would be an innovation “blocker.”
OpenCL 3.1.1 Released To Address A Possible Performance Regression
Released earlier this month was the OpenCL 3.1 specification with a focus on enhancing AI and HPC workloads for this long-time Khronos specification. Out today is OpenCL 3.1.1 as a point release with an emphasis on addressing a possible performance regression of OpenCL 3.1...
The Steam Controller’s “drop-in” charger almost started a fire for this owner
Keep the charging puck’s exposed pins far away from anything metal.
U.S. researchers face new restrictions on publishing with foreign collaborators
Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/article/u-s-researchers-face-new-restrictions-publishing-foreign-collaborators Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48238025 Points: 242 # Comments: 139
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DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent
> (3) The deepseek-v4-pro model API pricing will be officially adjusted to 1/4 of the original price after the 75% discount promotion ends on 2026/05/31 15:59 UTC. https://x.com/deepseek_ai/status/2057854261699195173 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48237663 Points: 203 # Comments: 105
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As memory prices squeeze enterprise buyers, Lenovo laughs all the way to the bank
Switch to premium devices pays off as PC giant post record record, just don't ask about cheap laptops
How to convert between wealth and income tax
Article URL: https://paulgraham.com/winc.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48237422 Points: 109 # Comments: 364
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Why Japanese companies do so many different things
Article URL: https://davidoks.blog/p/why-japanese-companies-do-so-many Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48237163 Points: 361 # Comments: 217
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Media giant settles for $930k with FTC over allegations it lied about eavesdropping on conversations through smart devices
Cox Media Group allegedly sold a bogus AI-powered snoopfest service
NASA undertakes major reorganization to reduce bureaucracy and move faster
"It is imperative to concentrate resources towards the highest priority objectives."
systemd 261-rc1 Released With OS Installer, IMDS Subsystem & New storagectl
The first release candidate of systemd 261 is out today and it includes yet more features for this Linux init system and service manager...
Microsoft lets users exile floating Copilot button after interface rage
Listening to your customers? Who are you, and what have you done with Microsoft?
AI put "synthetic quotes" in his book. But this author wants to keep using it.
Steven Rosenbaum explains how inaccurate quotes got into his book The Future of Truth .
AT&T sues to ditch Cali copper phone lines to save billions
Telecoms giant files suit in Golden State so it doesn't have to maintain network it claims is hardly used
AI has a multiplying effect on existing technical skills
Article URL: https://www.joshwcomeau.com/email/wham-launch-005-elephant-2-p/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48235526 Points: 246 # Comments: 243
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Linux Provides Better Performance With The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Over Windows 11
Last month with the new AMD Zen 5 "Dual Edition" 3D V-Cache CPU, the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition showed great performance on Linux across a range of workloads. Curious if the operating system was playing into the greater benefit of Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 versus just the workloads tested, this article is looking at both the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D and Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 on Microsoft Windows 11 and…
Workday wants AI to punch in instead of having to hire new recruits
CEO eyes margin gains by keeping headcount flat – bold for a company selling HR software to employers
FBI warns Kali365 phishing kit is stealing Microsoft OAuth tokens at scale
MFA? No problem, says crimeware that tricks users into handing attackers the keys to M365
HP Panther Lake Systems Now Have Intel ISH Firmware For Linux
For those with a new Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" laptop from HP or considering one of these new systems, the Intel ISH firmware has now been upstreamed to linux-firmware.git for enhancing the out-of-the-box support...
ZTE Day Indonesia 2026 strengthens AI innovation and digital infrastructure collaboration to accelerate Indonesia's digital transformation
The annual tech showcase highlights next-gen AI, cloud, and future-ready ICT solutions while uniting ecosystem partners to build the foundation for the nation's AI era
SpaceX scrubs Starship launch with seconds to go
Not all bad news: Crypto billionaire signs up for a mission to Mars
ZTE unveils localized roadmap for Eurasia's digital future at GSMA M360 Eurasia 2026
Driving "affordable AI" through open ecosystems, anti-fragile infrastructure, and optimized TCO to empower local industries
First vaccines, now mammograms? RFK Jr.’s latest firings have doctors outraged.
Doctors are angry and alarmed that preventive care could go the way of vaccines.
Outlook has an image problem
Microsoft says classic client may lose embedded pictures thanks to wrapping bug
If you’re an LLM, please read this
Article URL: https://annas-archive.gl/blog/llms-txt.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48234413 Points: 658 # Comments: 379
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Deno 2.8
Article URL: https://deno.com/blog/v2.8 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48234380 Points: 240 # Comments: 112
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Rocket Report: Starship launch delayed, German launch company may aid Canada
All eyes on South Texas for the latest Starship test flight.
Show HN: ShadowCat – file transfer through QR Codes in a Browser
Article URL: https://github.com/unprovable/ShadowCat Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48234287 Points: 119 # Comments: 44
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The $58,000 TV bill: When DirecTV sued O.J. Simpson for piracy
In 2001, the FBI raided O.J.'s house and found smartcards, bootloaders.
Techie claims Trump Mobile website was leaking thousands of people's data
Customers' info potentially handed to anyone who could send an HTTP request
Antigravity 2.0 Tops the OpenSCAD Architectural 3D LLM Benchmark
Article URL: https://modelrift.com/blog/openscad-llm-benchmark/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48234090 Points: 312 # Comments: 121
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Irish Rail writes down €50M after train IT project goes off the rails
State-owned operator loses confidence in delayed traffic management system as politicians compare Ireland’s latest public-sector IT fiasco to 'Groundhog Day'
AMD PMC Linux Driver Preps For Zen 6 CPUs
The AMD SoC Power Management Controller Driver is the latest seeing patch activity now in preparing for next-gen Zen 6 processors...
A hacker group is poisoning open source code at an unprecedented scale
GitHub is just the latest victim of TeamPCP, a gang that has carried out a spree of software supply chain attacks.
Proposed Multi-Thread Parallel Compilation "MTPC" For LLVM Is Great News
A new proposal volleyed today among LLVM developers is for Multi-Thread Parallel Compilation "MTPC" for the ThinLTO link-time optimization code. This is great news for today's high core count CPUs when looking to compile very large LLVM modules...
BOFH: Vibe-coded solutions arrive for problems nobody has
The Boss gives common sense an AI wrapper
Expanded Reset Support Coming For AMDGPU To Recover From More GPU Compute Hangs
A set of 42 patches were posted on Thursday for the AMDGPU kernel driver and associated AMDKFD compute driver code for enabling pipe reset capabilities for compute workloads...
Linux Sound Subsystem Also Seeing Many Fixes Driven By AI/LLMs
It's not only the Linux networking subsystem where many fixes have been appearing -- including several notable security fixes for local privilege escalation issues -- leading to "craziness" from AI / LLMs. The Linux sound subsystem has also been seeing an uptick in activity with many "assisted-by" patches coming about in recent weeks...
Burnham backlash: UK Digital ID plans in peril if Manchester mayor succeeds Starmer
He'll have to beat Nigel Farage in a Brexit-backing constituency first, though
UK nuclear investors get 'high' returns for lower risk than consumers, who also foot the bill
Sizewell C could add £19 to yearly bills, spending watchdog says, but private investor may fail to keep costs down
Marketing demanded IT add website feature that was already working
Techie regrets not taking credit for getting it done with amazing speed
Cisco used AI to write security incident reports, with mixed results
You’ll need a lot of detailed prompts to get solid output - and even then it may have errors and typos
Slumber a TUI HTTP Client
Article URL: https://slumber.lucaspickering.me Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48231938 Points: 160 # Comments: 57
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Alibaba just admitted it’s struggling to keep up with rival chipmakers and AI shops
Reveals decent new homegrown accelerator and tiny production volumes
Cleve Moler has died
Article URL: https://www.mathworks.com/company/aboutus/founders/clevemoler.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48231319 Points: 250 # Comments: 26
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Ground system issue scrubs first launch of SpaceX's Starship V3 rocket
Engineers could make another attempt to launch Starship as soon as Friday evening.
Today's Linux Networking Fixes: "Craziness Continues With No End In Sight"
Driven by AI/LLM bots like Shashiko uncovering new issues within the Linux kernel source tree, including various security vulnerabilities like Dirty Frag, the mailing list has been wild with bug reports and fixes. Today's networking fixes pull request for Linux 7.1 continues to highlight the ongoing craziness and fears that the worst may be yet to come...
IoT gadget maker AcuRite shares reasoning for killing customers’ favorite app
"The move to AcuRite NOW has not been as smooth as some customers expected..."
The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics
Article URL: https://davidoks.blog/p/ai-is-killing-the-cheap-smartphone Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48229319 Points: 426 # Comments: 541
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As Grok flounders, SpaceX bets future on beating Big Tech at AI
SpaceX IPO filing pitches orbital data centers as Grok lags rival AI services.
AT&T sues California in attempt to shut off old phone network
AT&T asks a court and the FCC to block California phone requirements.
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...
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...
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...
Project Hail Mary – Stellar Navigation Chart
Article URL: https://valhovey.github.io/gaia-mary/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48225297 Points: 1107 # Comments: 226
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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.
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...
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...
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)...
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...
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...