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Sunday, 14 June 2026

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GameBoy Workboy

Hacker News ·

Article URL: https://tcrf.net/Workboy Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48519552 Points: 108 # Comments: 19

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GLM 5.2 Is Out

Hacker News ·

https://digg.com/tech/ii9xibgn Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48518684 Points: 194 # Comments: 79

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Intel Ending Development Of BigDL: An Open-Source AI/LLM Effort Getting Axed

Phoronix ·

Among Intel's ongoing reduction in open-source projects they maintain, their BigDL open-source project focused on running large language models across Intel XPUs from Core Ultra laptops to discrete GPUs to cloud / data center hardware all in a low-latency manner, is being ended...

Every Frame Perfect

Hacker News ·

Article URL: https://tonsky.me/blog/every-frame-perfect/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48516251 Points: 382 # Comments: 145

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Intel Thermald 2.5.12 Released... With Initial Support For ARM

Phoronix ·

Released on Friday was the newest version of Intel Thermald, the thermal daemon developed by Intel for their processors on Linux for monitoring and helping control temperatures across modern Intel-powered laptops and desktops. Catching me immediately by surprise was Intel Thermald 2.5.12 introducing support for ARM...

GCC 17 Merges Function Multi-Versioning For APX & AVX10.2

Phoronix ·

Earlier this month I wrote about Intel working on function multi-versioning support for APX and AVX10.2 with the GCC compiler. This allows developers to write optimized code paths specifically targeting Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) or Advanced Vector Extensions 10.2 capabilities of future processors while being able to otherwise fall-back to generic or other optimized code paths for…

Haiku OS Now Enables AVX-512 Support, Other Hardware Improvements

Phoronix ·

The BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system now enables Advanced Vector Extensions 512 on capable Intel/AMD CPUs. A number of other hardware driver improvements were also merged for this interesting OS during the last month...

Show HN: Paca – Lightweight Jira alternative for human-AI collaboration

Hacker News ·

I built Paca out of pure passion—a free and lightweight Jira alternative written in Go where humans and AI agents work together as equal teammates to plan sprints and assign tasks to each other. It is fully customizable with custom views, fields, and a WASM-based plugin architecture. My team uses it daily for our own development, so it will be continuously maintained and completely free forever…

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OpenZFS 2.4.3 Released With Many Bug Fixes

Phoronix ·

OpenZFS 2.4.3 is out today as the newest stable point release to this open-source ZFS file-system implementation as well as point releases for the OpenZFS 2.3 and 2.2 series too...

Wine 11.11 Released With Wayland Improvements

Phoronix ·

Alexandre Julliard just released Wine 11.11 as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software that powers Valve's Steam Play (Proton) and allows for running Windows games and applications under Linux as well as other platforms...

Red Hat Releases Second Developer Preview Of RHEL 10 For RISC-V

Phoronix ·

Last year when releasing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0, Red Hat announced a RHEL 10.0 developer preview for RISC-V. Since then that RISC-V developer preview hadn't been updated but now Red Hat has published a new developer preview snapshot based on RHEL 10.2...

Open-Source Success Achieved For Greater Transparency & Security: Running AMD openSIL + Coreboot On EPYC

Phoronix ·

Ever since AMD announced openSIL in early 2023 for open-source CPU silicon initialization to eventually replace AGESA and enhance their Coreboot support, I have been eager to try it out. The openSIL code drops to date though have just focused on select reference platforms with only aiming for production status in the Zen 6 timeframe. But thanks to 3mdeb porting openSIL and Coreboot to a Gigabyte…

New NTFS Linux Driver Being Improved For Windows Native Symbolic Links

Phoronix ·

One of the exciting additions to the Linux 7.1 kernel is the introduction of the new NTFS file-system kernel driver. While in good shape already and proving advantageous over other NTFS open-source driver options, one of the initial limitations on it is around Windows native symbolic link handling but that is now in the process of being resolved...

AVX-512 Optimization For Linux RAID Showing Up To 41% Improvement On AMD Ryzen 9 9950X

Phoronix ·

Linux cryptography subsystem expert Eric Biggers Eric Biggers of Google worked on some pretty nice Intel/AMD x86_64 optimizations over the years. Especially around AVX-512 optimizations within the Linux kernel's crypto code has been one of his many nice improvements to the kernel in recent times. Today he's out with another enticing AVX-512 optimization and this time it's for the software RAID…

Wine Wayland Driver Lands Alpha Modifier Support For Opacity Handling

Phoronix ·

The Wine Wayland driver continues to be improved upon for bettering the experience around Windows games/applications running natively on Wayland Linux desktops without having to go through X11/XWayland. The newest feature merged is alpha modifier support for opacity handling of surfaces...

Qt 6.12 Beta Released With Qt Quick 3D XR Apps Now Able To Run On 2D AR Glasses

Phoronix ·

The first beta release of the Qt 6.12 toolkit is now available for testing. Qt 6.12 is packing a number of refinements and new features compared to earlier Qt6 releases. For paying Qt commercial customers, Qt 6.12 is also going to be the latest Qt6 Long Term Support (LTS) release...

Show HN: I am building a map of people who lived in the Roman Empire

Hacker News ·

Driving home from work one day, I wanted to know how many people we knew the names of who lived during the Roman era. Searching around, I found lists of Consuls and officials, but nothing that covered ordinary people or even most people like freedmen and slaves. So I ended up building a pipeline to process the more than 500k Latin inscriptions in the Epigraphic Database Clauss-Slaby…

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