Friday, 12 June 2026
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Everyone hates frontier AI labs, says Palantir boss
'Enterprises are fed up,' says Alex Karp, because LLM makers 'want to tokenmax' instead of understanding enterprise needs
Ted Cruz and Ron Wyden try to fight censorship with bipartisan JAWBONE Act
Cruz/Wyden bill would help Americans sue federal officials over censorship.
Anthropic recruits army to sell Claude to nonprofits
Join Claude Corps, see the world, spread the gospel of AI
AcuRite admits new app falls short, delays old app’s May shutdown to fix problems
The old app "still needs to be retired," AcuRite tells us.
ShinyHunters hacked 100+ orgs by exploiting an Oracle PeopleSoft 0-day
University of Nottingham is first of many, Shiny tells The Reg
After nearly breaking, NASA's Deep Space Network "worked well" on Artemis II
"Some missions are using more than what their paperwork would say."
Google's new open-weights model brings image-generation tricks to AI text generation
Language model builds on diffusion tech to boost output performance by up to 4x, claims Chocolate Factory
F1 teams spend millions on their simulators—what makes them different?
Latency, bandwidth, and fidelity all matter when you're chasing milliseconds.
Microsoft's worst 'Nightmare' unleashes BitLocker bypass 0-day
Another day, another Windows exploit code
Mesa 26.2 Preps For AMD GFX1156 For New, Post-Strix-Halo RDNA 3.5 Graphics
Being submitted on the kernel side with the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel is initial support for the GFX 11.5.6 graphics IP block along with several other newer IP blocks such as SDMA 6.4, NBIO 7.11.5, IH 6.4, HDP 6.4, MMHUB 3.4.2, SMU 15.0.5, ATHUB 3.4.2, and VPE 2.2. Now in user-space for the Mesa RadeonSI Gallium3D and RADV Vulkan drivers is the GFX1156 (GFX 11.5.6) support being prepared too...
Did Iron Age Britons remove brains of the dead?
Archaeologists found apparent scrape marks inside a skull; long bones may have been sharpened into tools.
Hand-cranked AI box lets you get a workout while you wait for answers
We're all familiar with AI cranks by now, but what about crank-powered AIs?
Graviton 5 impresses, but please, for the love of all that's holy, stop calling them 'AI chips'
AWS better at running chip fabs than their mouths
ZTE wins three Selular Award 2026 honors for AI-powered network innovation
PARTNER CONTENT: Recognized for breakthrough achievements in FWA, Network Ecosystem, and Native AI Baseband, ZTE solidifies its role as a key driver of Indonesia’s 5G-Advanced and AI economic growth
Software Is Made Between Commits
Article URL: https://zed.dev/blog/introducing-deltadb Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48492533 Points: 167 # Comments: 107
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Git 2.55-rc0 Released With Rust Enabled By Default
Git 2.55-rc0 is out today as the first tagged test version of the forthcoming Git 2.55 distributed version control system. Most notable with Git 2.55 is that Rust support is being enabled by default...
Trump phone has HTC guts. Tremendous guts. The best guts
iFixit teardown reveals two-year-old, mid-range, Chinese Android
Solar generates more energy in US than coal for first time
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/11/solar-energy-us-coal Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48492306 Points: 358 # Comments: 174
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Waymo Premier
Article URL: https://waymo.com/blog/2026/06/waymo-premier/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48492304 Points: 121 # Comments: 305
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The RCE that AMD wouldn't fix
See also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HjWHNLRMB0 Related: The RCE that AMD won't fix - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46906947 - Feb 2026 (173 comments) Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48492215 Points: 181 # Comments: 67
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Claude Fable 5: mid-tier results on coding tasks
Article URL: https://www.endorlabs.com/learn/claude-fable-5-mythos-grade-hype Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48492210 Points: 139 # Comments: 50
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VRChat says somebody faked a breach notice with the Maine AG's office
'We have no reason to believe that our data or systems have been compromised. We are in the process of contacting the Maine Attorney General's office to have this removed.'
Cost per sample? Try cost per attempt
PARTNER CONTENT Your genomics pipeline is probably failing 30% of the time and you're paying for all of it
Apple gives Mac devs a WSL-ish thing to call their own
Persistent containers promise native tooling and strong isolation, though docs, features, and memory handling need polish
Petition to Withdraw Canada's Bill C-22
Article URL: https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Sign/e-7416 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48491830 Points: 278 # Comments: 99
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Race against re-entry: Swift's would-be saviour straps itself to a rocket
Katalyst's LINK spacecraft is go for integration, with a launch from Kwajalein expected within weeks
Benchmarking The Performance Benefits To Ubuntu 26.10 amd64v3 Packages
With Canonical engineers again experimenting with x86_64-v3 package builds for Ubuntu Linux using an "amd64v3" archive for the current Ubuntu 26.10 development, I decided to see how these latest amd64v3 packages comparing to their conventional Ubuntu 26.10 amd64 packages.
Apple version of Office 2019 becomes useless in a month
The only solution is to buy an upgrade (or switch providers)
MiMo Code is now released and open-source
Article URL: https://mimo.xiaomi.com/mimocode Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48490826 Points: 374 # Comments: 207
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Khronos Releases glTF 2.1 To Make This 3D Asset Standard Work Well For Large Scenes
It's crazy realizing that glTF 2.0 is already nine years old for this API-neutral 3D runtime and asset delivery format. The Khronos 3D Formats Working Group today extended that with the debut of glTF 2.1 as a backward-compatible revision to the specification...
"This cannot continue": Xbox leaders lay out "hard truths" behind sagging brand
Brutal self-assessment paints a picture of a Microsoft gaming division in crisis.
YSERVER: Modern X11 Server Written In Rust With The Help Of Claude Code
Open-source developer Jos Dehaes wrote in to Phoronix today in announcing a new X11 server he has been working on from scratch that has been quietly developed to this point but now ready to announce to the world... The YSERVER...
Dutch chip startup claims all-European fab flow – with help from a very American friend
Satnav parts designed and manufactured in the EU, but using GlobalFoundries to produce them
Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0
Today, I’m proud to announce Homebrew 6.0.0. The most significant changes since 5.1.0 are a new tap trust security mechanism, the new faster, smaller, default internal Homebrew JSON API, sandboxing on Linux, better defaults informed by our user survey, many brew bundle improvements, improved performance and initial support for macOS 27 (Golden Gate). Happy to discuss any questions here!
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Alaskans will be flying blind after NSF decommissions ocean monitoring network
Alaska's multibillion-dollar fishing industry and vulnerable coastal communities at risk.
Open Reproduction of DeepSeek-R1
Article URL: https://github.com/huggingface/open-r1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48489917 Points: 176 # Comments: 16
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OpenAI could go from AI pioneer to AI's BlackBerry, says Forrester
As OpenAI courts investors and chases enterprise customers, Forrester says today's AI leader could become tomorrow's cautionary tale
The first complex cells had genes from a complex mix of species
Our ancestors' genomes were built through successive waves of gene transfers.
Oracle's AI datacenter splurge gives investors the capex jitters
Q4 sales climbed 21%, but Wall Street more interested in $70B buildout bill
Met Police joins forces with Apple to choke London's stolen phone trade
Intelligence-sharing pact tracks kit that comes back online after being nicked
Lines of code got a better publicist
Article URL: https://curlewis.co.nz/posts/lines-of-code-got-a-better-publicist/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48489402 Points: 328 # Comments: 233
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OpenJPH 0.28 Up To 1.9x Faster With New AVX2 Optimizations For High-Throughput JPEG2000
OpenJPH as an open-source implementation of high-throughput JPEG2000 Part-15 (or JPH or HTJ2K) is now significantly faster for both encode and decode operations thanks to new AVX2 optimizations for Intel and AMD processors...
Several things I like about macOS 27 Golden Gate that have nothing to do with AI
AI aside, Golden Gate includes a bunch of subtle-but-helpful improvements.
Malware scare keeps schoolkids home for a second day
Great Marlow restricts network access while it investigates suspected infection
NS&I dangles £220K salary for CEO willing to straighten out £3B IT mess
Comes with a corner office, government scrutiny, and the 'full-spectrum disaster' known as Project Rainbow
Intel's Open Image Denoise 2.5 Delivers Solid Performance Improvements For GPUs
Intel's Open Image Denoise is the open-source project providing a high performance denoising library for ray-tracing and used by the likes of Blender and other renderers/creative apps for powerful denoising capabilities. Released last week was Open Image Denoise 2.5 with some very nice performance improvements for Intel GPUs...
GNOME Foundation Announces First Participants Of Fellowship Program
Back in March the GNOME Foundation announced a fellowship program. The GNOME fellowship program will help with the long-term sustainability of the GNOME desktop and looked to fund independent/community contributors over a twelve month period. Today the first recipients of the fellowship program have been announced...
Airoha AN8801R Gigabit Ethernet PHY Driver Coming To Linux 7.2
One of the new network drivers destined for the upcoming Linux 7.2 merge window is for supporting the Airoha AN8801R Gigabit Ethernet PHY...
Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones
Article URL: https://dronexl.co/2026/06/09/pokemon-go-scans-niantic-vantor-military-drone-navigation/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48487029 Points: 668 # Comments: 302
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ReactOS "Open-Source Windows" Reaches The Milestone Of Being Able To Run Half-Life
ReactOS, the open-source operating system working for binary compatibility with Microsoft Windows computer programs and drivers, has reached the milestone of being able to enjoy the classic game Half-Life running on this open-source platform...
Diabetes org apologizes for ejecting scientists over criticism of Trump
For days after the stunning incident, the ADA had doubled-down on the choice.
Man sues Florida cops over arrest spurred by "93% match" in facial recognition
Lawsuit: "Police let an error-prone AI system stand in for an investigation."
Framework Laptop 13 Pro To Begin Shipping In July
Framework Computer began informing those that pre-ordered the new Framework Laptop 13 Pro that it will begin shipping in July rather than their original June target. The setback is coming to address two issues that came up in their testing process that delayed the start of mass production...
Logitech’s foldable mouse is for people who refuse to carry a mouse with them
The Mobi Fold is an $80 Bluetooth mouse with a silicone-wrapped hinge.
Google DeepMind releases DiffusionGemma, a model that runs local AI 4x faster
Diffusion AI is most common in image generation, but it can make text outputs much faster.
Intel XPU Manager 2.0 Overhauls Windows & Linux Management For Arc Pro GPUs
Just a week after the release of Intel XPU Manager 1.3.7, Intel today released XPU Manager 2.0 as a major overhaul for this software for monitoring and management of their data center GPUs on Microsoft Windows and Linux...
Linux 7.2 To Enable ESWIN SoC Support By Default For RISC-V Kernel Builds
An important one-liner is set to come for Linux 7.2 to enable ESWIN SoC support by default for RISC-V kernel builds. This change will allow default RISC-V kernel builds in turn to boot on the likes of SiFive's HiFive Premier P550 developer board...
We managed to glean some interesting details about the Artemis III mission
"I was on the phone with Blue Origin leadership that night, all the next day, all through the weekend."
Nobody needs AI to search the Internet, court says in ruling against Google
Google AI Overview court loss in Germany could spell doom for AI search industry.
Cheap Iranian drone downed $25 million US Army helicopter—maybe by chance
The US military struck Iran again after an Iranian drone’s lucky midair strike.
OB-GYNs release their own vaccine schedule, rejecting RFK Jr.'s meddling
Thirteen other medical groups have already endorsed the independent schedule.
Valve kills its retail gift card program due to scammers
Move also cuts off a massive market of legit users who buy cards with physical cash.
AMD's Lemonade SDK For Local AI Adds NVIDIA CUDA Support
Lemonade, the local AI server solution developed by AMD that is designed to work across their CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs, is out with a new version today that also adds NVIDIA CUDA support...
The 2026 Honda Prelude review: Didn't expect such a head-turner
Honda's $42,000 hybrid coupe looks great, handles well, and gets 44 mpg.
Intel Arc Pro B70 Showing Off Some Performance Wins With Linux 7.1
After recently noticing the Intel Arc B580 performing better on Linux 7.1 for that kernel version soon to be released as stable, I was curious if there were performance gains also to be found with the new flagship Arc Pro B70 BMG-G31 workstation graphics card. Here are some benchmarks of the Intel Arc Pro B70 in relevant workloads between Linux 7.0 and the near-final Linux 7.1 kernel.
Linux Foundation's Latest AI Effort Is Around AI Asset & Data Exchange
The Linux Foundation continues working to get more involved in new AI initiatives. Today the Linux Foundation announced the OpenSharing Project with an effort to standardize AI asset and data exchange...
Fully autonomous drones have killed human soldiers for the first time
Article URL: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2529849-fully-autonomous-drones-have-killed-human-soldiers-for-the-first-time/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48476214 Points: 167 # Comments: 134
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Racist comments targeting politicians tripled since Meta relaxed its rules
Violent threats against lawmakers have also surged on Facebook.
NVIDIA Engineer Devises Patch To Significantly Reduce GCC Bootstrap Time
NVIDIA engineer Kyrylo Tkachov posted a patch for testing yesterday to significantly reduce the amount of time it takes the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) for conducting a native bootstrap. The time spent in the configure process for native GCC builds is reduced by around 43% while the overall bootstrap wall time is lowered by around 15%...
Linux's CrOS EC Driver To Support Custom Fan Curves - Useful For Framework Laptops
The cros_ec Linux kernel driver is used for supporting the ChromeOS Embedded Controller "EC" used by Chromebooks and various other laptops like Framework Laptops. With patches pending to cros_ec, support for custom fan curves is being introduced...
Emacs appearances in pop culture
Article URL: https://ianyepan.github.io/posts/emacs-in-pop-culture/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48474274 Points: 191 # Comments: 36
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KDE KWin Patches Aiming To Optimize Gaming Latency To Better Compete With Windows
Open-source developer Jakub Okoński has been working on comparing the gaming latency between Linux and Windows and in turn working to drive some improvements into KDE's KWin Wayland compositor so the latency is more competitive with the gaming experience under Microsoft Windows 11...
Linux Firmware Repository Preps For AI Coding Agents
The linux-firmware.git repository that serves as the de facto home of all the binary blobs used by the mainline Linux kernel open-source drivers has now introduced AGENTS.md documentation and other preparations for embracing AI coding agents...
macOS 27 Beta breaks the ability to boot Asahi Linux
https://social.treehouse.systems/@AsahiLinux/116719749555082... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48462070 Points: 181 # Comments: 83
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Developer gets Half-Life running at 30 FPS on a Nokia N95
https://twitter.com/dante_leoncini/status/206303501506830790... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48452001 Points: 172 # Comments: 46
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Doing nothing at work
Article URL: https://www.seangoedecke.com/doing-nothing-at-work/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48442880 Points: 306 # Comments: 108
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