Tuesday, 26 May 2026
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The bootstrapper's EU stack for under €10 per month
Article URL: https://eualternative.eu/guides/bootstrapper-free-tier-eu-stack/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48270111 Points: 130 # Comments: 44
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California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash
Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/california-moves-to-exempt-linux-from-its-upcoming-age-verification-law-after-backlash-over-forcing-operating-systems-to-collect-users-ages-amendment-proposed-by-the-same-lawmaker-who-wrote-the-original-law Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48269961 Points: 324 # Comments: 164
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Exit IP VPN servers mitigation rollout
Article URL: https://mullvad.net/en/help/exit-ip-vpn-servers-mitigation-rollout Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48269580 Points: 165 # Comments: 30
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Sway 1.12 Released With HDR Support On Vulkan Renderer, New Protocols
Sway 1.12 is out today as the newest feature release of this i3-inspired Wayland compositor powered by the wlroots library...
C extensions, portability, and alternative compilers
Article URL: https://lemon.rip/w/6-c-extensions-compilers/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48267126 Points: 115 # Comments: 37
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RADV Driver Lands Support For VK_KHR_shader_fma
Merged today for what will become Mesa 26.2 next quarter is the Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" now supporting the VK_KHR_shader_fma extension...
Netherlands Seizes 800 Servers, Arrests 2 for Aiding Cyberattacks
Article URL: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/05/netherlands-seizes-800-servers-arrests-2-for-aiding-cyberattacks/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48266906 Points: 227 # Comments: 60
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Microsoft pulls plug on plans for 244-acre data center in Caledonia (2025)
Article URL: https://www.tmj4.com/news/racine-county/microsoft-pulls-plug-on-plans-for-244-acre-data-center-in-caledonia-after-community-pushback Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48266422 Points: 153 # Comments: 133
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Google is cannibalizing the web to feed AI
Google Search used to direct users to web sites; AI Mode will keep them in Google's garden
US's big bet on quantum computing may not be entirely legal
Deal also launched the first quantum foundry company, but is there a need for it?
I spent years forcing myself to finish The Witcher 3—don't repeat my mistake
Consensus and genre labels aren't reliable predictors of what you'll enjoy.
Intel Introducing USB4STREAM Protocol For Linux - Opening Up Some Nifty Uses For USB4
An exciting Intel innovation expected to be added for the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel is introducing the new USB4STREAM protocol for USB4/Thunderbolt as a "super simple" way to "basically just transfer raw packets from one host to another". This can be useful for quickly backing up a system from one host to another, sharing of web cameras or other peripherals across systems, or other environments…
Linux To Drop ARCnet Support For Old ISA & PCMCIA Hardware
With Linux 7.1 ISDN, ham radio, and other old network code was removed in lightening the kernel source tree by around 138 thousand lines of code. Some additional Linux networking code cleaning is expected for Linux 7.2 with the ISA and PCMCIA hardware around ARCnet set to be removed...
Magnifica Humanitas
Article URL: https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48265206 Points: 1157 # Comments: 650
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Redis 8.8 Released With New Array Data Structure, More Performance Optimizations
Redis 8.8 reached GA today for the Redis open-source project providing a high performance, in-memory data store...
California's Age Verification Law May End Up Exempting Most Linux Distributions
While not as good as repealing AB 1043 outright for requiring operating system providers to ask for a user's age or birth date at device setup, open-source Linux distributions and other open-source OSes may end up seeing some reprieve before this law goes into effect at the start of 2027...
IBM Spins Off the First Pure-Play Quantum Chip Foundry
Article URL: https://futurumgroup.com/insights/2-billion-chips-act-investment-in-quantum-bets-on-ibms-300mm-superconducting-silicon/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48265056 Points: 124 # Comments: 45
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Digital sovereignty, the musical: One engineer’s bizarre crusade against hyperscalers
A French engineer has declared war on AWS, Google and Microsoft using AI-generated sea shanties, satirical poetry, and a multilingual protest campaign
Under-trained techie didn't claim overtime for mistakenly failing to phone it in
After making a medical clinic's network rather ill, she 'kept working until I somewhat knew what I was doing'
OpenBSD 7.9 arrives, a diamond in the rough proud of every sharp edge
Sixtieth release adds more cores, delayed hibernation, and basic Wi-Fi 6 without losing its ascetic streak
Anthropic to release Mythos-class models to the public
AI flaw-finder still under lock and key for now while company figures out guardrails, but extends access to more users including governments
Samsung memory workers call off strike and may score six-figure bonuses
PLUS: Huawei says it’s replaced Moore’s Law; Chinese mobile plans add token allowances; Singtel slinging Optus; And more!
Linus Torvalds to ‘start being more hardnosed’ about ‘pointless pull requests’ – some of which come from AIs
Warns large release candidates ‘are *not* conducive to long-term stability’
Google has seriously leaned into AI enshittification lately
Could the Chocolate Factory's mission to reshape the web backfire?
Linux 7.1-rc5 Released With Fixes Ramping Up From AI Coding Agents
In the road to releasing Linux 7.1 in June, out today is Linux 7.1-rc5 that continues coming on heavy with fixes...
Migrating from Go to Rust
Article URL: https://corrode.dev/learn/migration-guides/go-to-rust/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48259808 Points: 429 # Comments: 439
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GitHub Copilot & Claude Code Helped With Graphics, WiFi Linux Driver Issues This Week
For those curious about the growing use of AI and coding agents within the Linux kernel, this week there was another large batch of new patches fixed that were generated or co-authored by agents like Claude Code and GitHub Copilot...
Show HN: Audiomass – a free, open-source multitrack audio editor for the web
Article URL: https://audiomass.co/?multitrack=1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48258015 Points: 494 # Comments: 110
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FreeBSD Foundation Executive Director Tries Daily Driving FreeBSD On Laptop
With FreeBSD having worked on improving its laptop support over the past two years with some big changes and ongoing efforts for making a nice KDE desktop experience on FreeBSD, FreeBSD Foundation's Executive Director has been trying to daily drive FreeBSD on laptops...
DeepSeek reasonix, DeepSeek native coding agent with high caching and low cost
Related ongoing thread: DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48237663 - May 2026 (384 comments) Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48256953 Points: 688 # Comments: 269
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Linux To Remove ISA Speech Synthesizer Driver That Likely Hasn't Been Used In Decades
Following the process of phasing out Intel 486 CPU support and other old hardware drivers that were dropped in the Linux 7.1 kernel cycle for reducing the kernel maintenance burden, the upcoming Linux 7.2 cycle is continuing the trend of phasing out some of the old hardware support that is very obsolete, likely having no users on the latest upstream kernels, and no one formally maintaining the…
Whatever the mirror test tells us, beluga whales pass it
The white whales join the short, contested list of animals that see themselves.
KernelScript: A Programming Language For Kernel Customization & App Optimizations
Multikernel Technologies Inc has been working on a multi-kernel architecture for the Linux kernel while in addition to that they have been developing KernelScript as a domain-specific language for carrying out Linux kernel customizations and app-specific optimizations...
Boot-Time Wizard Aims To Help Reduce Linux Boot Times
While in the past decade or so Linux desktop/laptop users likely have little to complain about boot times and there hasn't been much emphasis around trying to make boot times even faster on the Linux desktop especially in an era where many systems are always-on and suspend/resume working more reliably these days, boot times are still an important factor in the embedded Linux world. Boot-Time…
HP investigating BIOS updates that leave premium laptop users in boot loop limbo
Slowdowns, crashes, BSODs reported on pricey mobile workstations
No captain, my captain: Navantia floats crewless warship
Spanish shipbuilder's 75-meter drone vessel comes with sensors, modular payloads, and no room for sailors
Rust-Based Wild Linker 0.9 Brings New Platform Coverage, Linker Plugin API
Wild Linker 0.9 was released today as the latest version of this very fast linker for Linux systems that is written in the Rust programming language...
SpaceX's Starship V3—still a work in progress—mostly successful on first flight
SpaceX has more to prove before flying Starship all the way to low-Earth orbit.
Linux Mint Making Improvements To Its File Manager, Theme & Dialogs
The Linux Mint project today published their May 2026 status report to outline recent work done to this Ubuntu/Debian-based Linux platform and much of their focus in recent weeks on enhancements to their Cinnamon desktop environment...
Intel's Latest Round Of Open-Source Projects Ended: OBS Studio Plugin, CVE Binary Tool & More
With Intel having been one of the most dominant open-source contributors for years across the software ecosystem, months after they began sunsetting various software projects no longer aligned with today's Intel, they continue formally sunsetting/archiving different open-source projects...
Two space shuttle-era spacewalkers enter Astronaut Hall of Fame
"Two astronauts whose careers embody excellence, leadership, and service."
China’s shark finning could lead to US seafood sanctions
A formal petition to the US government calls for sanctions on Chinese seafood imports.
AI eyes scanning for bugs create a worrisome Linux security trend
Dirty Frag, Copy Fail, and Fragesia show the new reality
AV2 Codec Looks Like It Will Be Officially Released Next Week
For years already AV2 has been in development as the successor to AV1 for this wonderful open-source, royalty-free video codec. While there was talk about releasing AV2 by the end of 2025, that didn't happen but now latest indicators are pointing toward its formal debut next week...
KDE Plasma 6.8 To Support System Monitor With Intel Xe, Plasma 6.7 Sees More Crash Fixes
KDE developers continue to be quite busy in preparing for next month's Plasma 6.7 stable desktop release due out in mid-June while also beginning more feature work toward Plasma 6.8...
More ASUS & HP Laptops See Platform Driver Support For Linux 7.1-rc5
This week's x86 platform driver fixes include not only a handful of bug fixes but also enabling some additional laptops within existing drivers for HP and ASUS devices...
DreamWorks' Open-Source MoonRay Renderer Now Part Of The Academy Software Foundation
Back in 2022 it was announced DreamWorks Animation was open-sourcing their MoonRay renderer that has been used in production feature films. It ended up being published as open-source in March 2023 as OpenMoonRay and since then has continued advancing with new feature releases and improvements. Now it's being contributed to the Academy Software Foundation as the newest project...
UK MPs slam digital ID rollout as a 'fiasco' after botched launch
Government's 'rushed' plans damaged public confidence before ministers had even explained how the system would work
The Virtual OS Museum opens its doors
A massive compilation of historic OSes and the emulators to run them
Didgeridoo playing as alternative treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea (2006)
Article URL: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1360393/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48243666 Points: 292 # Comments: 144
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FreeBSD 15.1-RC1 Released: Fixes With Now Seeing More AI-Discovered Security Issues
In addition to the recent influx of Linux security vulnerabilities affecting Linux, FreeBSD has also begun receiving security reports via AI/LLM-driven discovery tools. FreeBSD 15.1-RC1 is out today ahead of the planned official release in June and it brings a handful of security fixes out of this new AI-driven security research space...
Feds unwittingly leak pilots' pre-crash conversation
Release of spectrogram of cockpit recorder audio allows conversation recovery with 'emerging' decades-old tech
Four Russian satellites are now within striking distance of an ICEYE radarsat
"This capability is not common for satellites conducting typical missions."
Ebola outbreak now third largest recorded and "spreading rapidly"
Ebola outbreak risk level increased as deaths reach 177 with nearly 750 cases.
First-generation Chromecast users stressed by devices suddenly failing
Google tells Ars it fixed the first-gen Chromecast bug.
Minor edits to AI skills can make agents go rogue
Text is the new attack
A Russian speaker and jailbroken Gemini went on a hacking spree and emptied at least one MAGA victim's crypto wallets
Hey, Gemini, how much can we earn from one pump-and-dump cycle?
Trump FCC asks public to comment on whether ABC's The View is a news show
FCC seeks opinions on whether ABC show's decisions are "based on newsworthiness."
Zuck defends monitoring employees to win AI race in purported leaked audio
Limping Llama model needs a crutch made of surveillance tools
US scrambles to stop Internet users re-creating dead pilots’ voices
Workaround flouts law that bans NTSB disclosures of cockpit audio recordings.
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?
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.
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.”
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.
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
AI errno(2) values
Article URL: https://www.netmeister.org/blog/ai-errno.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48236816 Points: 107 # Comments: 18
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Bytecode VMs in surprising places (2024)
Article URL: https://dubroy.com/blog/bytecode-vms-in-surprising-places/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48236122 Points: 128 # Comments: 49
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Gnutella: A Protocol Outliving the World That Created It
Article URL: https://rickcarlino.com/notes/p2p/gnutella-explanation.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48231247 Points: 166 # Comments: 61
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