Monday, 15 June 2026
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Show HN: Kage – Shadow any website to a single binary for offline viewing
Article URL: https://github.com/tamnd/kage Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48529990 Points: 237 # Comments: 55
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Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)
What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about? Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48528779 Points: 109 # Comments: 406
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Did a medieval flying monk spot Halley's comet, twice? It's complicated
University of Leicester historian thinks Eilmer of Malmesbury saw two different comets: in 1018 and 1066
Linux 7.1
Article URL: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wi4BF4bMhZNZ1tqs+FFV4OuZRe3ZqdWB+LxRLmRweUzQw@mail.gmail.com/T/#u Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48528729 Points: 172 # Comments: 49
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Rio de Janeiro's "homegrown" LLM appears to be a merge of an existing model
Article URL: https://github.com/nex-agi/Nex-N2/issues/4 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48528371 Points: 216 # Comments: 119
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I indexed 669 GB of my GoPro videos using my M1 Max computer and local ML models
TLDR: I had 2,207 GoPro videos, and I need to rewatch them to find interesting moments from my cycling journey. I built a project to index them locally on my M1 Max using open-source ML models, search for those moments, and send the best clips straight to my DaVinci Resolve timeline. I indexed 628 videos (668.68 GB, 15h 13m 18s of footage duration), more details in the metrics table in the last…
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Linux 7.1 Released: New NTFS Driver, Intel FRED For Panther Lake, Faster Arc Graphics
Linus Torvalds just released the stable Linux 7.1 kernel and it's coming a half-day early thanks to his travel plans...
Not everyone is using AI for everything
Article URL: https://gabrielweinberg.com/p/people-are-consuming-ai-like-they Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48527700 Points: 367 # Comments: 386
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US Army picks out Vampire to fill a gap in its layered drone defenses
L3Harris supplies system that can down incoming drones with laser-guided rockets
Caddy compatibility for zeroserve: 3x throughput and 70% lower latency
Article URL: https://su3.io/posts/zeroserve-caddy-compat Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48527145 Points: 124 # Comments: 41
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The Birth and Death of JavaScript (2014)
Article URL: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death-of-javascript Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48526661 Points: 194 # Comments: 115
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Formal methods and the future of programming
Article URL: https://blog.janestreet.com/formal-methods-at-jane-street-index/?from_theconsensus=1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48526633 Points: 134 # Comments: 46
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AI is code – and can't be prompted into being smarter
From Java tests to Shai-Hulud, bots keep proving they'll swallow anything you feed them
How to earn a billion dollars
Article URL: https://paulgraham.com/earn.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48526360 Points: 346 # Comments: 1004
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Arch Linux AUR Hit By Another Wave Of Now More Sophisticated Malware Attack
Just a day after Arch Linux developers believed they got their malware AUR incident under control with 1,500+ packages affected by malware, another round of of AUR malware is now being discovered. This latest round is more sophisticated as with code obfuscation to better conceal the intent...
Revised AVX-512 xor_gen() Implementation For Linux RAID Yielding More Performance Gains
A few days back I wrote about Google's Eric Biggers spearheading an AVX-512 implementation of xor_gen() as the Linux kernel function used for generating and validating parity blocks such as for RAID5/RAID6. That initial implementation was yielding up to 41% better performance while a new implementation has now been posted for scoring some additional victories...
pkgcli As PackageKit's Modern, Nicer Command Line Interface
Open-source developer Matthias Klumpp wrote a blog post today outlining his recent work developing pkgcli, a new and modern command-line interface (CLI) around the PackageKit package management abstraction layer...
EU sovereignty push gives tech buyers a new alphabet soup to swallow
Brussels presses on despite US fury as it looks to enforce cloud autonomy and bolster open source
Scientists pour cold water on claims phones are rewiring kids' brains
MPs told that while concerns over handsets and social media grows, evidence they're changing children's brains is limited
Free SQL→ER diagram tool, runs in the browser, nothing uploaded
Article URL: https://sqltoerdiagram.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48523992 Points: 332 # Comments: 65
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Wine-Staging 11.11 Released With 289 Patches Atop Upstream
Following Friday's exciting release of Wine 11.11 with Wayland driver improvements, Wine-Staging 11.11 is now available for this experimental/testing derivative that continues carrying nearly 300 patches atop the upstream codebase...
Honda Civics and the Evil Valet
Previously: Show HN: Honda Civic Infotainment Reverse-Engineering - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36052753 - May 2023 (43 comments) Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48523080 Points: 375 # Comments: 91
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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.
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...
World Cup AI predictor now lets users ask daft what-ifs
Spoiler: It doesn't end well for Team Register
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...
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...
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...
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
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
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.
Met Police boss threatens to cut 700 frontline jobs after Palantir deal blocked
Commissioner Mark Rowley says automation savings are now 'at risk'
Lisp's Influence on Ruby
Article URL: https://blog.tacoda.dev/lisps-influence-on-ruby-6a54f1a7740e Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48491048 Points: 195 # Comments: 37
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Firewood Splitting Simulator
Article URL: https://screen.toys/firewood/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48471638 Points: 511 # Comments: 170
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