Monday, 08 June 2026
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RIP Anthony Head: Our 10 favorite moments of Buffy's Giles
Head's true genius—and that of his character, Giles—lay in quietly filling in the gaps in every scene
How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown
Article URL: https://performance.dev/how-is-linear-so-fast-a-technical-breakdown Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48437609 Points: 149 # Comments: 82
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Building from zero after addiction, prison, and a felony
Article URL: https://gavinray97.github.io/blog/building-from-zero-after-addiction-prison-felony Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48437406 Points: 138 # Comments: 36
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Firefox Merges Support For Vulkan Video Decoding
As an exciting development for GPU-accelerated video decoding within the Mozilla Firefox web browser, initial support for Vulkan Video has landed in the web browser!..
Wayland Protocols 1.49 Released With Improved Multi-GPU Support, Windows BT.2100
Simon Ser just published Wayland Protocols 1.49 as the latest version for this primary set of Wayland protocol definitions...
Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux
Article URL: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/65697 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48434436 Points: 385 # Comments: 219
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Show HN: Lathe – Use LLMs to learn a new domain, not skip past it
Hey HN! Lathe is an experiment in using LLMs to teach me something new, instead of doing the work for me. It generates a hands-on, source-backed tutorial for any technical topic you want to learn.
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School shooting survivor sues AI gun detection firm after system failed to spot weapon
How accurate does an AI system need to be?
"Flatten The Pick" Linux Patches Progress For Better cgroup Scheduling While Linux Gaming
A month ago I wrote about Linux scheduler work to help boost gaming performance on old "potato" hardware with Intel engineer Peter Zijlstra noting that Linux cgroup scheduling has continued to be "a pain in the arse." This work continues advancing with a third iteration of these "flatten the pick" patches being posted...
Brit maritime agency heralds fresh global rules for crewless cargo ships
If you thought driverless cars were bad, imagine a 200,000 ton container ship
Mesa 26.2 Lands VK_GOOGLE_display_timing Support For Direct Display Mode
The VK_GOOGLE_display_timing extension for obtaining display timing information that can be useful for frame-pacing and eliminating micro-stuttering in games now has direct display mode support with KHR_display for the Mesa Vulkan drivers. This now merged addition immediately benefits the Intel ANV and Radeon RADV drivers as well as the PowerVR, Turnip, and V3DV drivers too...
Linux 7.1-rc7 Adding More AMD Zen 6 CPU Models
Ahead of the Linux 7.1-rc7 test kernel release due out later today, a pull request has been submitted of some "x86 fixes" for this kernel release. Most notable with this pull request is acknowledging some additional AMD Zen 6 CPU models...
Some Broadcom V3D Graphics Support On Path For Removed Over Lack Of Testing
Broadcom V3D 3.3 and V3D 4.1 graphics IP is set to be deprecated and removed from the V3D kernel graphics/display driver after the Mesa driver support was removed two years ago already. The situation in both cases amount to lack of hardware by developers for testing and with that likely no other known users of these particular Broadcom graphics in selects SoCs...
Home Office ditches legacy asylum database, keeps the spreadsheets
Years into a major IT overhaul, MPs say the department still lacks reliable view of what is happening across the asylum system
UK exam watchdog frets over smart specs turning GCSEs into Google searches
Ofqual says smart glasses, hidden earpieces, and AI tools are creating a new generation of cheating headaches
The 29th International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC) 2025 Winners
Article URL: https://www.ioccc.org/2025/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48432199 Points: 345 # Comments: 82
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Tokenomics: Quantifying Where Tokens Are Used in Agentic Software Engineering
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14470 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48430923 Points: 162 # Comments: 66
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FreeBSD 15.1 Delayed To Mid-June Due To Critical x86 Bug Fixes
FreeBSD 15.1 was supposed to be out at the start of June but a second release candidate pushed it back by a week and now a third needed release candidate has pushed out the stable release by an additional week...
Public Domain Image Archive
Article URL: https://pdimagearchive.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48430539 Points: 229 # Comments: 32
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Scientists ejected from diabetes conference for distributing journal reprints
Those ousted included ADA journal editor-in-chief Steven Kahn and former ADA president Desmond Schatz
GNOME File Previewer Finally Switches TO GTK4, Adds Dark Mode
GNOME Sushi as the file previewer component for the GNOME Files (Nautilus) file manager has now been adapted to make use of GTK4 as well as delivering other enhancements for a nicer file previewing experience on GNOME...
OpenCV 5.0 Released With Rewritten DNN Engine, Built-In LLM & VLM Support
OpenCV 5.0 released today as a major update to this widely-used, open-source computer vision (CV) library...
Some ancient microbes frozen with Ötzi the Iceman are still growing
What’s the difference between a person, an artifact, and an ecosystem?
Valve Developer Posts New AMD Anti-Lag Implementation For RADV Driver
Daniel Schürmann of Valve's Linux team has posted a new VK_AMD_anti_lag implementation for the RADV open-source Radeon Vulkan driver...
Ape: A New Vulkan Driver Written In The Zig Programming Language
Ape is a new open-source Vulkan driver written in the Zig programming language and not dependent upon any Mesa code...
KDE Plasma 6.8 Will Make Sure You Don't Miss Your Low Battery Notifications While Gaming
KDE developers continue with last minute bug fixes ahead of the Plasma 6.7 desktop release later this month as well as preparing early feature work toward Plasma 6.8 and also landing more fixes for the current Plasma 6.6 stable series...
GNU Gets Back Into Nutrition Software After 14 Year Hiatus
For those looking for open-source food nutrition software, GNU's GNUtrition has seen its first new release in 14 years...
Oxford Uni student data pwned yet again - this time via career platform breach
Totally different attack from the break-in last month. Oh so that's OK then
Today Marks 22 Years Of Phoronix For Linux Hardware Testing & Benchmarking
Today marks 22 years since I started Phoronix.com to focus on Linux hardware reviews. It's been quite a journey from the early state of Linux hardware support.....
Linux DRM Ioctl Developed By AMD Being Disabled Following Ongoing Security Issue
It's unfortunately another busy week in the Linux 7.1 kernel space with not everything slowing down so well, late in the cycle and leading to the upcoming 7.1 stable release. This week's DRM pull request of kernel graphics/accelerator drivers is again heavy on fixes and also ends up disabling an ioctl interface given ongoing security concerns from that code merged last year...
Baby botulism outbreak: FDA still doesn't know cause—or how to prevent it
In the end, the three companies involved all point the finger at each other.
Start spreading the news: Datacenters may face one-year ban in NY
The bill awaits Gov. Hochul's signature after passing the state legislature
If you don't fall for these extortionists' calls, they'll show up with USB sticks
When 'Chatty Spider' morphs into tech services cosplay spider
How a USB-connected speaker can infect a PC without ever being touched
Seller of the Sound Blaster Katana V2X doesn't consider the behavior a vulnerability.
Ubuntu 26.10 To Begin Laying Foundation For Context-Aware Desktop, Other New Features
Jean Baptiste Lallement of the Canonical Desktop Team today posted a roadmap of many development items they are hoping to tackle for Ubuntu 26.10 due out in October. Some of these desktop plans are more ambitious and will take multiple release cycles to fully realize, but it goes to show their continued investment into the Ubuntu desktop...
Small modular nuclear reactor reaches criticality in first test
The reactor, from a startup called Antares, isn't ready to generate power yet.
The saga of the International Space Station air leak took a worrying turn Friday
"We look forward to working with Roscosmos on a collaborative approach to address the leaks."
S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic
SpaceX won’t get easy access to billions of dollars from passive investors.
"We pissed off a lot of people": Giant data center plan cut 50% amid protests
Developer felt "beaten up," with "no choice" but to shrink data center.
Yet another Cisco SD-WAN 0-day under attack, and no patch in sight
Good luck, sys admins
Symbolica 2.0: Programmable Symbols for Python and Rust
Article URL: https://symbolica.io/posts/symbolica_2_0_release/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48415457 Points: 141 # Comments: 14
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CUDA-Oxide 0.2 Brings Early Improvements To Pure Rust CUDA Kernels
Last month CUDA-Oxide was introduced as an experimental Rust-to-CUDA compiler. From pure Rust programming language code, one can write CUDA GPU kernels in a "safe(ish)" manner with the CUDA-Oxide compiler emitting NVIDIA PTX output directly. Out today is the second update to CUDA-Oxide...
Review: Spider-Noir recaptures the magic of a bygone era
Nicolas Cage was born to play 1930s PI Ben Reilly/The Spider: part Bogart, part Bugs Bunny, 100% Cage-y.
Serious ISS air leak forces NASA astronauts to temporarily take shelter in Dragon capsule
Business is back to normal in the orbital station, but one of two newly discovered leaks is still unrepaired
Trump admin tries again to revive dying coal industry
Money would keep coal plants open, build the first new plants in over a decade.
The Fitbit Air is a good wearable weighed down by a chatty AI "coach"
The Air succeeds as a minimalist, reliable fitness tracker, but Google's AI Health Coach feels unnecessary.
Trump pumps federal funds into coal plants in the name of energy security
DoE wants to keep 13 coal-fired power generators going at the same time as funding nuclear research
ZTE showcases AI-driven project management innovations at the 14th IPMA Research Conference 2026
PARTNER CONTENT: Integrating AI into the iEPMS platform to achieve a 98% quality review accuracy rate and slash report generation times, leveraging experience from 240,000 global projects
China Mobile Jiangsu and ZTE unveil intelligent complaint analysis agent to reshape core network O&M
PARTNER CONTENT: Leveraging multi-modal LLMs and agent technology to automate signaling analysis and shift core network O&M from experience to knowledge-driven
Not the next R8? Audi reveals mid-engined plug-in hybrid V8 Nuvolari.
The Huracan gave us the R8s, now the Temerario lends itself to a new Audi.
Agentic AI hype races ahead as enterprises remain stuck in pilot mode
Most orgs remain trapped between flashy demos and real-world deployment, despite 75% saying adoption is racing ahead
Rocket Report: Blue Origin explosion still making headlines; Impulse raises money
NASA expects to begin stacking the SLS rocket this summer for next year's Artemis III launch.
Safety officials finally have a good idea of what a big rocket explosion can do
Overpressure from the Blue Origin blast shattered windows at a hangar about a mile away from the pad.
Microsoft allows BYOL for Amazon RDS. Repeat, Microsoft allows BYOL for Amazon RDS
SQL Server licenses can now be consumed in the rival cloud's DBaaS
ARM Linux Server Performance Up More Than 7x Geo Mean In 8 Years, As Much As 15x With NVIDIA Vera CPU
NVIDIA's Vera CPU is delivering the fastest ARM performance I have ever seen. For putting it into perspective how far the ARM server CPU hardware has come in just the last decade and for some "fun" benchmarks as part of Phoronix marking 22 years of Linux hardware reviews and benchmarking, here are some benchmarks showing the Ampere eMAG from September 2018 to the performance now with NVIDIA…
Vulkan 1.4.353 Released With Three New Extensions
After three weeks without any Vulkan API spec updates, Vulkan 1.4.353 was released today to deliver the latest documentation updates for this high performance graphics/compute API as well as introducing three new extensions...
World Food Programme breach exposes data of 600k vulnerable Gazan families
Those receiving aid in the famine-threatened, war-torn territory told support will remain
More SpacemiT K3 & K1 Support Landing In Upstream Linux 7.2
In addition to Apple M3 Device Trees for Linux 7.2, the SpacemiT RISC-V SoCs are seeing some notable Device Tree improvements with this next version of the Linux kernel...
Gigabyte packs 40 Intel Lunar Lake PCs in a pizza box
Who needs one big CPU when you could have dozens of little ones?
Raspberry Pi's profits are up. So is its DRAM bill
Forecasts earnings well ahead of expectations, even as it taps credit facilities to lock in memory supply
Win16 Memory Management
Article URL: http://www.os2museum.com/wp/win16-memory-management/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48410844 Points: 124 # Comments: 61
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Steve Jobs in Exile is a fine profile of Jobs' years at NeXT
“Why don’t we just frickin’ call Apple?”
Review: AMD's Radeon RX 9070 GRE is a disappointing way to spend $549
The superior RX 9070 also launched for $549 just over a year ago.
Capita £370M bid 40% under UK.gov estimate for Oracle HR and finance system project, court case reveals
Cost model designed to protect against low-cost bid bias, claims rival
Council in UK's City of York outs hundreds of disabled residents with a single email blunder
Blue Badge holders exposed to each other after BCC function proves too complex
UK's top crime agency hamstrung by legacy IT, watchdog warns
Regulator says NCA's aging tech drags down productivity, forces officers to juggle hardware and do manual workarounds
Brit regulator finds mobile network service on trains is far from first class
Comms watchdog says up to 83% of tests fail the 'good performance' threshold
The skeptic’s guide to humanoid robots going viral on the Internet
Robot demonstrations can distort public perceptions of robotic capabilities.
AT&T and Verizon lose Supreme Court case over fines for selling location data
FCC did not violate carriers' right to jury trial, court says in 8-1 ruling.
Speculative KV coding: losslessly compressing KV cache by up to ~4×
Article URL: https://fergusfinn.com/blog/kv-entropy-coder/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48400151 Points: 135 # Comments: 28
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