Friday, 29 May 2026
73 stories filed.
LLMs believe false statements even after explicit warnings that they're false
Fine-tuning tests show "bias ... toward confidently representing the claims as true."
Fed up with vibe coders, dev sneaks data-nuking prompt injection into their code
Undisclosed addition in jqwik instructed AI coding agents to delete app output.
Disgruntled 0-day hunter 'humiliated' by Microsoft pledges 'bone shattering drop' as Redmond calls cops
Six 0-days, three under active exploitation, more to come on July 14?
US healthcare still stupidly expensive, with pathetic outcomes, study finds
There are strategies to improve healthcare, but US isn't trying them.
Snowflake buys Natoma to help freeze out rogue agents
It is the database titan’s sixth acquisition announcement since June 2025
Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are both walking back AI jobs apocalypse predictions
Article URL: https://fortune.com/2026/05/26/sam-altman-dario-amodei-walking-back-ai-jobs-apocalypse-prophecies-ipo/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48314363 Points: 100 # Comments: 76
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Researchers develop a new process to get lithium out of rocks
If it scales up, it can help us diversify our sources of a key element.
Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection
Article URL: https://mybricklog.com/blog/bricks-minifigs-corporate-stole-old-mans-200000-lego-collection Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48314136 Points: 314 # Comments: 147
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FBI says Google engineer used internal search data to win $1.2M on Polymarket
FBI: Googler who knew outcome of bets in advance made $1.2M profit on Polymarket.
Google, Canonical team up to certify Ubuntu images for TPU VMs
Chocolate Factory shifts Tensor Processing Unit Ubuntu support back upstream
A respectable port of Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition invades macOS
The port seems solid, and all DLC is supported—but there's no crossplay, sadly.
Just Use Postgres for Durable Workflows
Article URL: https://www.dbos.dev/blog/postgres-is-all-you-need-for-durable-execution Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48313530 Points: 191 # Comments: 72
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Apple working to cram massive Gemini model into iPhone to power new Siri
As Apple tries to shrink Gemini for the iPhone, a cloud component is probably inevitable.
Amazon turns to Jeff Bezos' other company to do some heavy lifting
Amazon is turning a corner with its launch providers, but ULA's Vulcan remains grounded.
Anthropic raises $65B in Series H funding at $965B post-money valuation
Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/news/series-h Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48313048 Points: 188 # Comments: 163
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How pigeons exploit magnetic fields for navigation
Iron-rich immune cells in the liver may act as sensors for magnetic fields, serving as an internal compass.
Intel makes a bid for handheld gaming PCs with new Arc G3 processors
Intel's Arc B390 integrated GPU has offered impressive performance in laptops.
Trump loses more control over AI regulation as Illinois passes landmark law
Here’s why Anthropic and OpenAI are on board with Illinois safety testing.
Dynamic Workflows in Claude Code
Article URL: https://claude.com/blog/introducing-dynamic-workflows-in-claude-code Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48311705 Points: 124 # Comments: 98
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Claude Opus 4.8
Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-8 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48311647 Points: 1017 # Comments: 808
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Microsoft tests the 15-character limit of Windows Server admins' patience
May security update trips over hostnames of a very specific length
Europe told to cool its datacenter boom before water and power run short
Get the balance right, Grundfos says, and the region will be a shining example of how to do it without sacrificing the environment
Steam Deck sells out in North America within 24 hours of price hike
Europe, Australia, and Asia can still get it while the getting's good.
The Permanent Upper Crow
Article URL: https://permanent-upper-crow.jasonwu.ink/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48310280 Points: 123 # Comments: 41
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Intel Arc Pro B70 BMG-G31 Linux Gaming Performance
In recent weeks we have been exploring different areas of the Intel Arc Pro B70 graphics performance on Linux from various OpenCL and Vulkan to Level Zero compute benchmarks, scaling up to four Arc Pro B70 graphics cards, comparing to NVIDIA RTX PRO Blackwell, and other relevant tests. While not intended for gaming, many Phoronix readers keep raising requests for seeing the Arc Pro B70…
Zig creator seeks 'uncompromising perfection' before blessing 1.0
Andrew Kelley interview describes paying monthly for cloud-powered AI coding as an 'insane proposition'
Arm Announces Metis: Agentic AI Security Framework
Arm today announced the open-sourcing of Metis, an agentic AI security framework that delivers context AI-powered security analysis in looking out for software vulnerabilities...
EU fines Temu €200M for allowing sale of illegal products
Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1k2ydn1rz8o Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48309302 Points: 277 # Comments: 204
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Three in ten HP customers still clinging to Windows 10
Refresh cycle sluggishness is a tailwind, insists PC giant's money people
QEMU Shifting On AI Policy To Allow Some AI/LLM-Generated Contributions
The QEMU processor emulator that plays an important role in the open-source Linux virtualization stack had a policy that forbid any contributions including or derived from AI-generated content. But there are now second thoughts with a proposed patch that will permit AI/LLM contributions in non-critical areas...
Bad cholesterol slashed 62% by single dose of gene-editing drug in small trial
The interim Phase I trial data was only from 35 people, but results look good so far.
Qualcomm picks bad time to pitch a $300 laptop platform
Systems based on Snapdragon C to target students, families, and small businesses
Qualcomm Snapdragon C Announced For $300+ Laptops
For competing with the Apple MacBook Neo, Google Chromebooks, and other entry-level laptops, Qualcomm today announced the Snapdragon C series SoCs...
Intel Arc G-Series Processors Announced For Handheld Gaming Devices
Ahead of Computex, Intel today announced the introduction of the Arc G-Series. While taking on the "Arc" branding, this isn't a new graphics card from Intel but rather their new processors with integrated graphics for handheld gaming devices...
KDE Plasma 6.7 Beta 2 Released With More Bug Fixes
Building off the KDE Plasma 6.7 Beta release earlier in May, a second beta was declared today in preparing for the Plasma 6.7 stable debut in mid-June...
AI agents get their own phone directory built atop DNS
DNS-AID, under the auspices of the Linux Foundation, promises easier agent discovery
Show HN: Continue? Y/N: A 60-second game about AI agent permission fatigue
Article URL: https://llmgame.scalex.dev Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48308376 Points: 190 # Comments: 93
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Steam Deck prices go through the roof as Valve blames component shortages
Same handheld, same specs, just a much steeper bill
24 Years After The ATI R300 Launched, Open-Source R300 Driver Continues With Big Rework
While there has been talk of potentially branching off the older Mesa graphics drivers, the ATI R300 Gallium3D driver just won't die yet. The R300 Gallium3D driver for supporting ATI R300 through R500 graphics cards saw a big rework merged today in restructuring the driver's intemediate representation (IR) handling...
Carnival confirms ShinyHunters cruised off with 6M customer records after April breach
Travel and leisure giant was just one of many victims of the cybercrooks' crime spree this year
ReactOS brings its Windows NT tribute act to ARM64
Experimental build boots on Raspberry Pi 5, but for now the joy is mostly in getting there
Google engineer accused of turning Year in Search secrets into Polymarket payday
Feds say insider used confidential search trend data to score $1.2M in prediction market profits
KRAID Being Developed As New Compiler For Modern Arm Mali Graphics
KRAID is a new Rust-written shader compiler currently being developed for the Panfrost/PanVK open-source Arm Mali driver code. KRAID is designed for Mali's Valhall graphics processors and new as a modern, clean sheet design...
O3DE 26.05 Released With New Open Particle System, Other Engine Improvements
It's been nearly five years already since the start of O3DE as the Open 3D Engine that began as Amazon's Lumberyard project spun into an open-source project under the Linux Foundation umbrella. Out this week is O3DE 26.05 for shipping the latest improvements to this cross platform game engine...
GTK Introduces Snapping Feature For Better Fractional Scaling Experience
The upcoming GTK 4.23.1 development release is introducing a new feature called Snapping, which should enhance the experience when dealing with fractional scaling on today's high resolution displays...
Forecasters predict below-average hurricane season, advise against complacency
Forecasters say expected El Niño should temper hurricanes in Atlantic, urge preparedness.
London cops post £300M tech shopping list after Palantir contract blocked
Mayor's office says force only engaged with one supplier before deputy refused to approve deal worth up to £50M
Kyndryl takes employees' pulse while cutting off circulation for some
Redundancy notices and sentiment survey land in inboxes on same day in what tech services biz calls 'commitment to listen'
EU moderation watchdog says social media giants hate taking down hate speech
Also somehow censoring too much while refusing to hand over account ban evidence for review
Company CEO flooded file share with smut, called for help after he deleted it
Also, missing school iPad resurfaced after coach’s kids uploaded video to YouTube
Most generative AI and custom model projects will be a bust: Gartner
To succeed, look to China
Bttf is a command line datetime Swiss army knife
Article URL: https://github.com/BurntSushi/bttf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48303881 Points: 130 # Comments: 87
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Bare metal cloud servers now cheaper and more readily available than on-prem hardware, says Nutanix CEO
Hyperscalers can get hardware before enterprise vendors and buyers don't much care where they land
Mesa 26.0.8 Released To End Out The Series
Eric Engestrom announced the release of Mesa 26.0.8 today as the latest stable point release of that Q1'2026 driver series and the last planned update for that stable series...
Salesforce waves bye-bye to UI in 'headless' embrace
Anthropic's use of Sales Cloud increased five-fold as its workers access Salesforce through Claude and Slack
California defeats Tesla's attempt to throw out racial discrimination lawsuit
California civil rights agency hails win over Tesla, anticipates trial in July.
Websites have a new way to spy on visitors: Analyzing their SSD activity
Telltale SSD activity can be measured in the browser using simple JavaScript.
Mystery GPS jammer in Iran becomes test for NASA satellites’ capabilities
NASA science satellites show dual use in locating sources of GPS interference.
NVIDIA CUDA 13.3 Rolls Out CUDA Python 1.0, CUDA Tile For C++
NVIDIA on Tuesday released CUDA 13.3 as another significant advancement for their unified GPU programming stack for NVIDIA hardware...
Mina the Hollower is the best old-school action adventure I've played in a while
Smooth movement, compelling combat, and tons of secrets make for an innovative throwback.
YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos
https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/youtube-ai-video-label... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48299753 Points: 1255 # Comments: 749
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Nvidia bets $150B on Taiwan as Trump's plan to make US an AI hub backfires
Nvidia will invest $150 billion a year to make Taiwan an AI “epicenter.”
Roku OS’s home screen now features a large, permanent ad
“I don't want recommendations! I know what I want to watch."
Ubuntu 26.10 Planning To Ship With The Linux 7.2 Kernel
Canonical's kernel team confirmed today their intention of shipping the Ubuntu 26.10 release with what will be the Linux 7.2 kernel...
VKD3D-Proton Merges Vulkan Descriptor Heap Support
Valve's VKD3D-Proton component to Steam Play (Proton) for Direct3D 12 implemented over the Vulkan API has landed its descriptor heap (VK_EXT_descriptor_heap) support as a big step forward...
Cache Aware Scheduling Shows Nice Wins For AMD Zen 5 On PostgreSQL, Valkey, Network Performance
The long-in-development work on Cache Aware Scheduling looks like it will come to a head soon with it looking like Cache Aware Scheduling will land for Linux 7.2. Ahead of the upcoming merge window I ran some fresh benchmarks looking at different areas where this feature is shining.
Linux Developers Looking At Retiring The x32 ABI
The Linux x32 ABI for x86_64 processors allow making use of the full 64-bit register file and wide data path but retaining 32-bit pointers to provide for a smaller memory footprint when not needing 64-bit pointers. Linux x32 came to the party late and didn't enjoy much adoption over the years and is now looking at possible removal from the Linux kernel...
Linux Driver To Expose Voltage Inputs For Raspberry Pi SBCs
The Raspberry Pi hardware monitoring driver "RASPBERRYPI-HWMON" is being extended to allow exposing voltage measurements on these ARM single board computers...
Intel TDX Runtime Updates Looks Like It Will Land For Linux 7.2
A feature that has been worked on for a while now by Intel Linux engineers is for allowing run-time updates of the Trusted Domain Extensions (TDX) module without having to reboot the running server. For Linux 7.2 it looks like that feature will be all-set for allowing the easier roll-out of security updates and the like for this confidential computing capability on modern Intel Xeon servers...
Canonical Releases Workshop As New Way Of Launching Development Environments
Ubuntu maker Canonical announced today the release of Workshop as their new Snap-based application for launching development environments with ease...
ReactOS Now Running On ARM64 In Experimental Form
ReactOS as the "open-source Windows" project working to implement binary compatibility for computer programs and drivers for Microsoft Windows now has experimental support for running on 64-bit ARM...
Indoor Wi-Fi Roaming with OpenWRT
Article URL: https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2026/05/26/1730 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48282180 Points: 184 # Comments: 92
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News about Raspberry Pi 6 and Microcontroller Development
Article URL: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/news-about-raspberry-pi-6-and-microcontroller-development/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48276598 Points: 104 # Comments: 77
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