Monday, 01 June 2026
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Codex just found a "workaround" of not having sudo on my PC
Article URL: https://twitter.com/i/status/2060746160558543217 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48348578 Points: 168 # Comments: 68
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KDE Linux Prunes Its Insecure & Unused Software
With the end of the month comes a new KDE Linux status report from prominent KDE developer Nate Graham...
Deflock hits 100k ALPRs Mapped in USA
Article URL: https://deflock.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48347370 Points: 107 # Comments: 28
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Creatine raises brain energy levels and slows cognitive decline: study
Article URL: https://thesciverse.org/scientists-found-that-the-creatine-supplement-millions-take-for-muscle-gains-is-quietly-raising-brain-energy-levels-and-slowing-early-alzheimers-cognitive-decline-by-30/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48346947 Points: 347 # Comments: 247
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Daily pill can double survival time for deadliest cancer, trial shows
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/may/31/daily-pill-daraxonrasib-double-survival-time-pancreatic-pancreas-cancer-clinical-trial Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48346629 Points: 114 # Comments: 29
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1-Bit Bonsai Image 4B Image Generation for Local Devices
Article URL: https://prismml.com/news/bonsai-image-4b Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48346257 Points: 199 # Comments: 71
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Restartable Sequences
Article URL: https://justine.lol/rseq/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48346019 Points: 144 # Comments: 33
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Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL
Article URL: https://hacktivis.me/articles/cloudflare-turnstile-webgl-fingerprinting Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48345840 Points: 382 # Comments: 210
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Linux 7.1-rc6 To Support The ASUS ROG RAIKIRI II & Nova 2 Lite Controllers
Ahead of the Linux 7.1-rc6 test kernel due out later today, this week's batch of input subsystem fixes have been sent out that includes enabling a few newer input devices...
I put a datacenter GPU in my gaming PC
Article URL: https://blog.tymscar.com/posts/v100localllm/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48345694 Points: 225 # Comments: 148
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Linux Might Finally Disable The Microsoft RNDIS Protocol Drivers In 2026
Going back to early 2023 there were efforts to disable all the Linux drivers for Microoft's RNDIS protocol. Remote NDIS has proven to be a real security concern while superior, modern alternatives exist...
You weren't meant to have a boss (2008)
Article URL: https://paulgraham.com/boss.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48345282 Points: 100 # Comments: 113
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United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert
Article URL: https://simpleflying.com/united-airlines-767-returns-newark-bluetooth-name-alert/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48345248 Points: 179 # Comments: 276
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Backpressure is all you need
Article URL: https://www.lucasfcosta.com/blog/backpressure-is-all-you-need Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48345090 Points: 102 # Comments: 70
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Dav2d
Article URL: https://jbkempf.com/blog/2026/dav2d/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48344961 Points: 364 # Comments: 126
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Wine-Staging 11.10 Fixes 14 Year Old Bug, Also Fixes Issue Of Some Games Being Too Dark
Building off Friday's release of Wine 11.10 is now the Wine-Staging 11.10 experimental/testing flavor with nearly 300 additional patches atop that upstream code...
On its 40th anniversary, we reassess 1986's SpaceCamp
Is it a hidden gem, a cult classic, or hopelessly dumb? We vote "all of the above."
Servo 0.2 Released With Revamped Android Browser UI
For ending out the month of May is a new monthly release of Servo, the open-source, Rust-based browser engine being developed by Linux Foundation Europe stakeholders and the open-source community. There are many nice enhancements on the desktop side with Servo 0.2 while also improving the Android browser UI experience with Servo too...
Zrythm 2.0 Alpha Released For Rewriting The Digital Audio Workstation In C++ & Qt/QML
Zrythm is a wonderful open-source digital audio workstation (DAW) application. Zrythm 1.0 released back in 2024 for this software catering from beginners to audio professionals. It's been a GTK-based application for years but the developers have been porting it to Qt6/QML.
Linux 7.1-rc6 To Hide The Documentation On "clearcpuid" Feature
The clearcpuid= kernel parameter can be used to disable specific CPUID features for the kernel by specifying the targeted bit numbers of the feature(s) to disable or their flags from the /proc/cpuinfo output. The clearcpuid parameter, for example, has been useful for carrying out AVX-512 comparison benchmarks for apps that check for the presence of the AVX-512 extensions via /proc/cpuinfo. But…
AV2 v1.0 Specification Released For Next-Gen Video Coding
As expected given AOM Video Model indications last week, the AV2 v1.0 specification was officially released on Friday...
They call it stupid hot for a reason: Heat muddles animal brains
As temperatures rise, some creatures pick fights while others struggle to learn.
London's Free Roof Terraces
Article URL: https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2026/05/londons-free-roof-terraces.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48343714 Points: 245 # Comments: 129
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The Website Specification
Article URL: https://specification.website/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48343683 Points: 395 # Comments: 173
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Netflix wiz creates app to slash AI bills, then open sources it
Project Headroom could save you big money, too
Various USB Quirks Merged Ahead Of Linux 7.1-rc6
Ahead of the Linux 7.1-rc6 kernel due out on Sunday, this week's round of USB fixes have been merged with various new device quirks added as well as some patches as a result of scanning tools...
Rust Coreutils 0.9 Released With Additional Security Hardening, Zero-Copy I/O
Rust Coreutils 0.9 was tagged today as the latest major update to this GNU Coreutils implementation in the Rust programming language. Rust Coreutils 0.9 is up to a 90.4% pass rate against the GNU test suite!..
NixOS 26.05 Released With 20,442 New Packages, Stage 1 Now Based On systemd By Default
NixOS 26.05 is out today as the latest version of this Linux distribution built around the Nix package manager...
AMD Submits More Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 7.2
On Friday was the latest AMDGPU/AMDKFD pull request landing more kernel graphics/compute driver improvements in DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 7.2 merge window happening in mid-June...
Wikipedia editors plot strike and banner sabotage after Wikimedia layoffs
Foundation sparks revolt after disbanding team responsible for many community-requested fixes and moderation tools
Grifters, cynics, and true believers: The family tree of vaccine opponents
A new book looks into the long history of people who have opposed vaccines.
AMD Expands The Range Of Zen 6 CPUs Detected By The Linux Kernel
The latest open-source/Linux patch activity around AMD's next-gen Zen 6 processors is expanding the range of the CPU models detected by the Linux kernel...
G7 Agrees On Shared Language Around Open-Source AI, Open Weights AI
Ahead of the 52nd G7 Summit being held in Evian, France next month, the recently conducted G7 Digital and Technology Ministers’ Meeting came to agreement on shared language around open-source AI and on the importance of open-source in AI...
GNOME Circle Takes Stand Against AI Slop, Resources App Makes It Into GNOME Incubator
GNOME Circle as the initiative for third-party/independent software applications and libraries extending the GNOME desktop ecosystem is taking a stand against AI slop. The GNOME Circle policy has been updated to reject low-effort, vibe coded applications/libraries where the developer is not able to take responsibility for the work...
Environmentalists turn out in force to oppose Trump coal ash rollbacks
Trump admin wants to rely on states for coal ash monitoring, enforcement, allow them to bypass national standards.
Plasma 6.6, 6.7 & 6.8 See Plenty Of Bug Fixing This Week
KDE released Plasma 6.7 Beta 2 this week while the current Plasma 6.6 stable series continues seeing fixes as does Plasma 6.8 for what will be the follow-on feature release to Plasma 6.7...
Genode OS 26.05 Released, Finishes Moving From GitHub To Codeberg
Genode OS 26.05 is out this week as the latest update for this original open-source operating system framework. With Genode OS 26.05, they have taken various features of their general purpose Sculpt OS operating system and turned them into reusable framework features...
Rocket exhibit at National Space Centre pulls off unintentional NASA SLS impression
5, 4, 3, 2, 1... pfft
SteamOS 3.8.6 Beta Released With Initial Native Support For AMD HDMI VRR
Valve tonight released their beta version of SteamOS 3.8.6 that contains a number of notable enhancements, including native HDMI Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) support in initial form...
Ubuntu 26.10 Snapshot 1 Released For Testing
Canonical today released the first monthly snapshot of the Ubuntu 26.10 "Stonking Stingray" release...
Proposed new US funding rules: We can cancel any grant at any time
Peer review now optional, political staff would screen grants for forbidden topics.
AWS reportedly to tuck Elon Musk's Grok into Bedrock, despite zero enterprise demand
The energy drink of frontier models
Wine 11.10 Released With VKD3D 2.0, Improved VBScript Compatibility
Wine 11.10 marks the latest bi-weekly development release of Wine for running Windows games and applications on Linux, macOS, and other platforms...
Lone attacker published 14 malicious npm packages mimicking popular OpenSearch, Elasticsearch libraries
And then Microsoft busted them all
Okta writes its own license to kill rogue AI agents
CEO Todd McKinnon says customers including ServiceNow want an off switch
Kenyan court blocks Trump admin from dumping Ebola-exposed Americans there
The US has previously built specialized facilities just for this purpose.
ICE to keep an eye on your eyes under $25M biometric scanner deal
And you thought a face recognition app was intrusive?
Botnet of more than 17 million devices dismantled
The botnet was reportedly tied to a Russia-based residential proxy network.
Analysis of Texas measles outbreak shows just how dangerous virus is
About 1 in 5 cases were hospitalized and most of those developed complications.
No fix yet for critical RCE bug in open-source Git service Gogs - exploit module is out
Researcher reported the vuln in March. Maintainers haven't responded to his messages since
House of the Dragon S3 trailer revels in dragons, fire, and blood
"The crown is a weight that crushes. You'll do things that spell death for all involved."
Trump FCC warns all broadcasters to follow orders or be punished like ABC
ABC says early renewal for all stations is unprecedented, has no legitimate purpose.
DOJ sues states that rejected ICE requests for undercover license plates
DOJ keeps accusing ICE monitoring sites of doxing, but evidence remains scarce.
QEMU mulls relaxing AI contribution ban
Red Hat engineer reckons the balance of risk has shifted, but core code stays off limits
Startup offers free home cleaning—if it can record it all for robot training
The latest twist in paying humans to wear head cameras for robot training data.
23andMe inherits lawsuit over 'disturbing' DNA data breach
California AG claims genetics biz downplayed 2023 mega-leak while paying ransom to attacker
After years of stability, F1 reliability can no longer be taken for granted
Until recently, a driver had maybe a six in ten chance of finishing a race.
UCLA seeks pre-litigation resolution with Oracle
Discussion understood to concern delayed SaaS transformation project
Severed sea cucumber appendages don't seem to die
They seem to reorganize their tissues and then just keep living.
AI and data sovereignty in Postgres: An answer to the datacenter energy crisis
A billion AI agents walk into a power grid
Microsoft slaps new coat of paint on Copilot, buries annoying button
Look, says Redmond, usage up 27-43% based on one week of data - admits it 'may not be indicative of long-term usage trends'
One year of Roto, a compiled scripting language for Rust
Article URL: https://blog.nlnetlabs.nl/one-year-of-roto-the-compiled-scripting-language-for-rust/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48323303 Points: 111 # Comments: 26
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Rocket Report: A dark day for Blue Origin; Pentagon eyes new launch site
A new crew launched to China's Tiangong space station, and one of the astronauts will stay for a year.
Dutch cops wrest 17M devices from mystery botnet's clutches
Hosting provider pulled the plug after police traced 200 servers to the Netherlands
Here's why the failure of Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket is so catastrophic
"I hope that it makes it far enough away from the pad that it does not cause pad damage."
FCC warns US broadcasters their licenses are a privilege, not a right
TV and radio stations told to review current practices to align with public interest obligations
ChatGPT blindly trusts browser content, turning the page into a payload
You and me go ChatGPhish-ing in the dark
Russia-linked threat group put ChatGPT to work from lure to payload
Researchers say 'GREYVIBE' crew used AI tools throughout a campaign targeting Ukrainian military and government
Blue Origin's New Glenn makes a crater-sized dent in Artemis plans
Explosion wrecks rocket and pad, leaving NASA's lunar ambitions looking less than launch-ready
These researchers would be in Africa fighting ebola—but Trump cut their funding
US Infectious diseases centers launched during COVID have lost their funding under Trump.
ShinyHunters adds Charter to trophy shelf after 4.9M customer records leak
Telco giant says no sensitive data was taken, though names, addresses, phones, and emails are now out there
That an app 'Fits on a Floppy' is still a useful measure in 2026
In a world of mass-produced bot-slopware, small is more beautiful than ever
A Gentle Introduction to Lattice-Based Cryptography [pdf]
Article URL: https://cryptography101.ca/wp-content/uploads/lattice-based-cryptography.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48318624 Points: 159 # Comments: 16
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The most spectacular rocket explosion since N1 just happened in Florida
New Glenn was due to play a starring role in NASA's Artemis Program.
2027 Audi RS5 first drive: A performance PHEV with split personalities
Audi has developed an entirely new electric torque-vectoring rear differential.
LLMs believe false statements even after explicit warnings that they're false
Fine-tuning tests show "bias... toward confidently representing the claims as true."