Wednesday, 27 May 2026
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Musk says US military suicide drones used Starlink in violation of SpaceX rules
Musk says drones used Starlink instead of Starshield, blames military contractor.
NASA takes steps toward building Moon Base, including discussing a "perimeter"
"We also obviously want to be very mindful of the Outer Space Treaty."
We're starting to see some PC makers respond to Apple's MacBook Neo
Sub-$600 laptops have existed for years, but consistently good ones remain rare.
Google's ANGLE Merges Wayland Support, Unblocking Chromium Embedded Framework On Wayland
It looks like Google's Chromium Embedded Framework "CEF" could finally be enjoying nice native Wayland support soon!..
Millions of AI agents imperiled by critical vulnerability in open source package
"BadHost" was found in Starlette, a package with 325 million weekly downloads.
Want an oxygen-rich atmosphere? Stuff oxygen’s friends in the mantle.
Getting carbon and sulfur into Earth’s interior may be part of oxygen’s story.
MyPillow must decide whether to be firm or soft as ransomware crims demand pay
Guess they could deny the alleged intrusion … like the 2020 election results
FBI agent explains how easy it is to ID people posting AI porn without consent
A creepy saved post on Instagram linked man to AI porn account, FBI says.
MySQL faithful launch OurSQL Foundation to keep Oracle honest
Community group wants transparency, collaboration, and a clearer roadmap for the open source database
Bezos rocket fell short after cryogenic leak cut engine thrust
Frozen hydraulic line blamed for leaving payload in the wrong orbit
Stack Overflow’s forum is dead but the company’s still kicking
Article URL: https://sherwood.news/tech/stack-overflow-forum-dead-thanks-ai-but-companys-still-kicking-ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48282709 Points: 116 # Comments: 164
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3D-printable humanoid legs let robotics experiments run wild
Hugging Face debuts $2,500 bipedal robot project for builders and researchers.
Microsoft wants safer C# without turning it into Rust
Unsafe bits get a warning label in planned low-level coding shake-up
Windows' classic 3D Space Cadet pinball is getting a physical re-creation
But there are some real-world constraints that virtual pinball could easily ignore.
The real cost of owning a home
Article URL: https://ericturner.dev/posts/cost-of-home-ownership/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48281611 Points: 181 # Comments: 441
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Is "colorectal cancer" rising in "young people"?
Article URL: https://dynomight.net/crc-rates/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48281539 Points: 137 # Comments: 143
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Starship shows it can deploy satellites, but Moon mission clock still ticks
What's a tumbling Super Heavy and a skipped Raptor relight between friends?
A sleep-like consolidation mechanism for LLMs
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.26099 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48281226 Points: 164 # Comments: 122
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Huawei's chip law looks less like Moore and more like marketing
Chinese tech biz shows off clever workaround for its process node gap, but it isn't catching up with Intel and TSMC
Review: The Boroughs is a smart, pitch-perfect creature feature
Top-notch ensemble cast, smart writing, and an engrossing supernatural mystery make for a winning combo.
A global brand but local cars is Audi's future, says CEO
We talk with Gernot Döllner, CEO of Audi AG, about where he's taking the company.
NVIDIA Vera CPU Benchmarks: Olympus Cores Delivering The Best Performance Ever Seen On ARM
NVIDIA's Vera data center CPU isn't ramping up until later this year but I recently had the opportunity to try out this new ARM-based CPU designed for agentic AI workloads. NVIDIA's Vera CPU with its in-house-designed Olympus CPU cores ends up packing a heavy-hitting punch with competitiveness to Intel/AMD x86_64 CPUs that I have never seen out of any other ARM or non-x86_64 processors. Continue…
AlmaLinux 10.2 Released For Latest Community-Driven RHEL 10.2 Experience
The AlmaLinux project announced the releases today of both AlmaLinux OS 9.8 and AlmaLinux OS 10.2...
Analyst on China's spent rocket stages: "Things only continue to get worse"
Spent upper stages are the most dangerous kind of space debris.
Pavona Aims To Provide A Certification-Ready, Open-Source Silicon Ecosystem
GlobalPlatform announced today the launch of Pavona as an open-source silicon ecosystem backed by founding members such as Meta, Qualcomm, Tenstorrent, Winbond, and the University of Oxford, among others...
Rogue states are putting AI agents to work on sanctions evasion
RUSI warns fake IDs, shell companies, and crypto laundering could soon operate at industrial scale
NVIDIA 610.43.02 Linux Driver Released With Vulkan Improvements, DRM Color Pipeline API
NVIDIA is kicking off the new week with their first Linux driver beta in the R610 driver series that is succeeding the current R595 release branch...
Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down
https://blog.dropbox.com/topics/company/dropbox-leadership-u... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48279453 Points: 218 # Comments: 252
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Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/spain-blocks-prediction-markets-polymarket-kalshi-over-lack-gambling-licences-2026-05-26/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48279316 Points: 642 # Comments: 309
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Amazing interior, controversial exterior: Ferrari's first electric car
The interior is spectacular; the exterior looks better in person than on screen.
Gothenburg's self-driving bus trammed on day one
Autonomous shuttle's second passenger trip ends with rear-end collision and a tow truck
Experts pour cold borscht on Farage's Russian hack claim
Reform UK leader alleges Moscow broke into his phone and leaked £5M gift story, but security specialists await evidence
Outsourcing plus local AI will soon become more economical vs. frontier labs
Article URL: https://www.signalbloom.ai/posts/outsourcing-plus-localai-will-soon-become-more-economical-vs-frontier-labs/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48278610 Points: 208 # Comments: 230
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Driving Porsche's most powerful car—and no, it's not a 911
1,139 horsepower, 400 kW charging, brutally fast, and brutally expensive.
Netherlands blocks US takeover of vital digital supplier
Article URL: https://www.politico.eu/article/netherlands-blocks-us-takeover-vital-digital-supplier/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48278406 Points: 481 # Comments: 188
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Logitech unveils a cushioned mouse for all-day use
Ideal for aching palms – though only if you're right-handed
Big Tech extracts retirement-scale wealth from UK internet users, research shows
Britain's 'free' internet economy is powered by invisible data extraction that feeds advertisers, AI firms, and digital platforms
Ucell and ZTE complete large-scale deployment of AI‑Powered green network solution in Uzbekistan
Network-wide rollout boosts energy efficiency by 10.6%, cutting carbon emissions and operational costs without compromising user experience
The SaaS-pocalypse can wait, Salesforce still has customers where it wants them
AI coding agents may make software cheaper to build, but switching off major platforms remains expensive and risky
Intel Working On pmtctl Tool For Linux In Dealing With Platform Telemetry Data
A set if 17 patches were posted today to the Linux kernel mailing list for introducing a new tool in the kernel source tree, pmtctl. This new pmtctl tool is for interfacing with Intel Platform Monitoring Technology...
Btrfs Preps Huge Folios Support Ahead Of Linux 7.2
The past few Linux kernel cycles there has been experimental support for large folios with Btrfs while for Linux 7.2 it looks like this modern file-system will be taking things further with huge folios...
HP customer claims firmware update shoved printer off support cliff
Internal notes point to cloud connectivity woes for older OfficeJets, though company denies systemic issue
EU's digital sovereignty boo-boo may be the best thing to ever happen to the project
DIY or die. Just don't let the CIA buy it
DynIP – Dynamic DNS with RFC 2136, IPv6, DNSSEC, and BYOD
Article URL: https://dynip.dev/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48276363 Points: 303 # Comments: 116
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ML-KEM + X-Wing Patches Posted For Linux To Help With Post-Quantum Security
Linux cryptography expert Eric Biggers of Google posted a set of patches on Monday for providing proof-of-concept support for ML-KEM and X-Wing for post-quantum cryptography...
SaaS outfit ClickUp promises seven-figure salaries for survivors of 22 percent staff purge
CEO jumps on the ‘We must be fit for the AI future’ bandwagon
Japanese Space Agency names arrival date for BepiColombo Mercury mission
Due on November 21, eleven months late - but on time to do science!
Meta's CacheLib Sees New Release After Two Year Hiatus For Helping With High DRAM Prices
Back in 2021 Facebook open-sourced CacheLib as a new caching engine. Back in 2021 it was done to help scale services with non-volatile memory caching to offset increasing DRAM costs at the time. Now in 2026, DRAM memory prices are astronomical compared to 2021 pricing given the AI surge.
Earthion: A New Mega Drive-Style Shoot-Em-Up
Article URL: https://earthiongame.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48274711 Points: 129 # Comments: 63
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Pope Leo warns AI boom can give Big Tech and the people who run it too much power
Worries change may be ‘governed only by technocratic thinking and presented as necessary and inevitable’
Labwc 0.20 Wayland Compositor Released With Numerous New Features
In addition to the release today of Sway 1.12 for that i3-inspired Wayland compositor, Labwc 0.20 is also out today as another wlroots-based Wayland compositor...
Performance of Rust Language [pdf]
Article URL: https://github.com/yugr/rust-slides/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48273147 Points: 117 # Comments: 85
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Citing Gandalf, Pope Leo says we must "disarm" AI
In an age of AI, Pope looks for "artisans of hope."
A few interesting modern pixel fonts
Article URL: https://unsung.aresluna.org/a-few-interesting-modern-pixel-fonts/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48271448 Points: 159 # Comments: 35
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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...
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...
Google is cannibalizing the web to feed AI
Google Search used to direct users to websites; 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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
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.
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.
Opaque Types in Python
Article URL: https://blog.glyph.im/2026/05/opaque-types-in-python.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48247416 Points: 100 # Comments: 41
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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.
Use boring languages with LLMs
Article URL: https://jry.io/writing/use-boring-languages-with-llms/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48237012 Points: 131 # Comments: 105
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Phantasy Star IV – 1993 Developer Interviews
Article URL: https://shmuplations.com/phantasystariv/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48235812 Points: 124 # Comments: 52
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