Sunday, 14 June 2026
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GameBoy Workboy
Article URL: https://tcrf.net/Workboy Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48519552 Points: 108 # Comments: 19
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Review: Disclosure Day is big on action, light on ideas
There's nothing new or surprising, but it's still an entertaining film from one of our greatest directors.
Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/amazon-ceos-talks-with-u-s-offic... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48519092 Points: 315 # Comments: 252
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AI coding at home without going broke
Article URL: https://stephen.bochinski.dev/blog/2026/06/13/ai-coding-at-home-without-going-broke/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48518969 Points: 169 # Comments: 159
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GLM 5.2 Is Out
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
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...
Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau
Article URL: https://desfontain.es/blog/banning-noise.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48517377 Points: 578 # Comments: 307
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Treating pancreatic tumours may have revealed cancer's master switch
Article URL: https://economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/06/12/treating-pancreatic-tumours-may-have-revealed-cancers-master-switch Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48517199 Points: 223 # Comments: 75
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World Cup AI predictor now lets users ask daft what-ifs
Spoiler: It doesn't end well for Team Register
The experience of rendering Arabic typography and its technical debt
Article URL: https://lr0.org/blog/p/arabic/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48516710 Points: 142 # Comments: 30
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Fedora 45 Considering A Lightened GRUB Bootloader For Confidential Compute
Among the changes being considered for the in-development Fedora 45 is a lightened version of the GRUB UEFI bootloader that would focus on being a minimal implementation suitable for confidential computing...
AI OSS tool repo goes archived over night after raising $7.3M Seed
Article URL: https://github.com/tensorzero/tensorzero Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48516504 Points: 214 # Comments: 144
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Every Frame Perfect
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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Threads of underground fungal networks are long enough to reach beyond the Solar System
Researchers have quantified the length and mass of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal networks globally.
AWS rolls the dice for faster, more efficient networking
Honey, I flattened the datacenter network
Intel Thermald 2.5.12 Released... With Initial Support For ARM
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
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
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...
RTX 5080 and RTX 3090 Setup: 80 Tok/s on Qwen 3.6 27B Q8
Article URL: https://imil.net/blog/posts/2026/rtx-5080-+-rtx-3090-setup-80+-tok-s-on-qwen-3.6-27b-q8/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48515454 Points: 154 # Comments: 53
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KDE Plasma 6.7 Sees Last Minute Fixes Ahead Of Next Week's Release
Ahead of the much anticipated Plasma 6.7 desktop release next week, KDE developers have been busy putting final touches on it, mostly in the form of bug/regression fixes...
Show HN: Paca – Lightweight Jira alternative for human-AI collaboration
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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A low-carbon computing platform from your retired phones
Article URL: https://research.google/blog/a-low-carbon-computing-platform-from-your-retired-phones/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48515336 Points: 206 # Comments: 119
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NHS patients can't opt out of Palantir's data platform – but their hospital can
Minister says trusts can go it alone on procurement as Parliament mulls February 2027 FDP contract renewal
XP-era Windows spotted haunting London's driverless railway
A blast from the past greets commuters
Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votes
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/israeli-firm-blackcore-also-suspected-meddling-nyc-scotland-votes-french-2026-06-11/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48514560 Points: 408 # Comments: 231
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Anthropic shuts down Fable, Mythos models following Trump admin directive
Commerce dept. worries that a Fable 5 "jailbreak" could be a national security threat.
Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Affected Packages
The day started out with Arch Linux's AUR user-contributed repository seeing more than 400 packages compromised with malware. Now in ending out the day they believe all affected commits have been addressed. But it ended up being more than 1,500 affected packages...
OpenZFS 2.4.3 Released With Many Bug Fixes
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...
NanoClaw now armed with JFrog for safer packages
AI agents can't be trusted, so don't give them dangerous powers
SpaceX is now a public company valued for its AI potential, so what comes next?
As of today, SpaceX is owned by investors who will want to see it make money.
Wine 11.11 Released With Wayland Improvements
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...
SK Hynix to boost memory production 3x ... you can wait another 8 years, right?
We're moving as fast as we can, says SK Group chair
Holy git! Microsoft code-sharing site suffers downtime, despite move to Azure
GitHub caught off guard by customers actually using the AI being evangelized
AMD Opens Pre-Orders For The Linux-Friendly Ryzen AI Halo Developer Platform
AMD today announced the opening of pre-orders for their Ryzen AI Halo petite PC powered by AMD Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo" and working with either Microsoft Windows or Linux...
PeopleSoft 0-day affecting hundreds of organizations steals gigabytes of data
Vulnerability in the Oracle-owned PeopleSoft software is about as critical as they come.
MX Linux 25.2 provides possible refuge from AI as well as systemd
Plus, Raspberry Pi edition finally catches up
Controversial FISA spying law expires tonight. The spying will continue.
Section 702 of FISA to expire tonight, but certification lasts until March 2027.
Here's what Jeff Bezos' new startup Prometheus will do
It isn't the only startup tackling physical AI, but it's one of the best-funded.
Have politics finally come for the National Academies of Science?
A pending report on climate attribution may be setting the stage for conflict.
Fired IT worker jailed for 21 months after sabotaging old school district
Iowan’s scheme undone after misplacing trust in former coworker
Ukraine's one-time test used fully autonomous drones to kill Russian soldiers
Full autonomy is rare, but Ukraine is installing AI modules on drones and robots.
$130 billion in data center projects blocked by protests so far this year
Winning fight against AI data centers gives people a "taste of political power."
When it comes to total water use, AI data centers are a drop in the bucket
Even moderately sized data centers can have an outsized local impact.
Linux 7.2 Features Expected: Apple M3, Initial AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 FRL, USB4STREAM, Cache Aware Scheduling
Linux 7.1 stable is expected to be released this Sunday with its many new features. Immediately following the Linux v7.1 tagging, the Linux 7.2 merge window will open and a lot of new feature material is expected to be merged over the next two weeks...
Google sues Chinese cybercrime network that used Gemini to automate scams
The fraudsters allegedly targeted hundreds of thousands of people with Gemini-coded scams sites.
RFK Jr. melts down over NYT report, admits he blacklists reporters
NYT reported Kennedy is disengaged. Kennedy's response seems to show NYT is right.
Red Hat Releases Second Developer Preview Of RHEL 10 For RISC-V
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
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…
KPMG's AI report becomes an accidental demo of AI hallucinations
GPTZero claims only 5 of the report's 45 citations matched their sources, raising questions about how the Big Four's AI study was assembled
The Best Features Of Linux 7.1: FRED, New NTFS Driver & More Performance
On Sunday it's anticipated that Linus Torvalds will released the stable Linux 7.1 kernel. This is a really terrific mid-year update to the Linux kernel! Here's what makes me excited about Linux 7.1...
The biggest race in the world? The 24 Hours of Le Mans is this weekend.
More than 350,000 spectators will watch 62 cars compete, day and night.
Ubuntu 26.10 Reaffirms Plans For Switching To Dbus-Broker
Among the many new features planned for Ubuntu 26.10 is switching the default D-Bus implementation over to using the high performance Dbus-Broker drop-in replacement...
Lawsuit: ChatGPT validated suicidal woman's distrust of crisis lines
Did chatbot abandon mental health guardrails when a vulnerable user pushed back?
Novo Nordisk reports cyberattack as UK gives Wegovy pill the nod
Clinical trial participant data stolen, but pharma giant says exposed records were pseudonymized
Amazon owns up to using 2.5bn gallons of H2O in its bit barns last year
The West's biggest online shopping mall comes clean about its datacenter water usage
Microsoft has mostly repaired flaw in Surface hardware that allowed unprotected devices to be bricked by a single packet
And it was Microsoft Copilot that unwittingly revealed the longstanding vulnerability
New NTFS Linux Driver Being Improved For Windows Native Symbolic Links
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...
Google fires sueball at alleged Chinese phishers over AI-powered fraud ops
Telegram-based 'Outsider Enterprise' accused of sending millions of scam texts and impersonating trusted brands
Cameras, sensors, and 3D body scans: All the tech helping eliminate blown calls
This World Cup, refs will use digital twins of each player to view plays from every angle.
Elon Musk is now worth more than $1,000,000,000,000
Retail investors lined up to get a handful of Musk's magic beans in SpaceX's debut
Ebola cases in DRC rise to 676 as Kenya protests erupt over US plans
Outbreak responses are still playing catch-up as US works to isolate itself.
Pokémon Go players unwittingly contributed to tech with military drone uses
The repurposing of Pokémon Go data for AI training continues to draw scrutiny.
Verizon sent man a refurbished phone with MDM, then deleted his data remotely
Failure raises questions about how Verizon prepares refurbished phones for new users.
Rocket Report: Nova moving through test campaign; SpaceX IPO launches Friday
"If I needed to fly on another vehicle, what would that look like?"
Met Police boss threatens to cut 700 frontline jobs after Palantir deal blocked
Commissioner Mark Rowley says automation savings are now 'at risk'
AVX-512 Optimization For Linux RAID Showing Up To 41% Improvement On AMD Ryzen 9 9950X
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…
Arch Linux's AUR Sees More Than 400 Packages Compromised With Malware
The Arch Linux User Repository "AUR" was hit by a large-scale malware campaign this week with more than 400 of these user-supplied packages being compromised...
Plymouth council exposes hundreds in latest local government email gaffe
Authority admits mass message to home-schooling families revealed recipients' addresses, prompting ICO report and apology
Wine Wayland Driver Lands Alpha Modifier Support For Opacity Handling
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...
UK digital ID gets brain trust to 'challenge' ministers on policy
CEO of Mumsnet among the six-member team
Qt 6.12 Beta Released With Qt Quick 3D XR Apps Now Able To Run On 2D AR Glasses
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...
BOFH: For one ambitious security type, chaos is a ladder
Mission Control sends its regards
Windows bowls a BSOD at sports fans
It's just not cricket
Show HN: I am building a map of people who lived in the Roman Empire
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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The state of building user interfaces in Rust
Article URL: https://areweguiyet.com/#ecosystem Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48479008 Points: 142 # Comments: 100
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The computer science degree isn’t dead
Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/computer-science-degree-isnt-dead Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48470152 Points: 205 # Comments: 208
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