Thursday, 18 June 2026
78 stories filed.
Sooner than expected? Useful quantum error correction promised for 2028.
Elsewhere, beyond-classical quantum hardware, plus classical computing fires back.
California says AT&T lied to FCC in attempt to shut off old phone network
FCC considers AT&T petitions to preempt state rules and discontinue phone service.
Bcachefs Tools 1.38.6 Brings Many Performance Improvements
Kent Overstreet announced the release today of Bcachefs-Tools 1.38.6 as the user-space tools built around the Bcachefs copy-on-write file-system. There are a few new features and a lot of performance work in v1.38.6 without bringing any on-disk format breakage...
Linux 7.2 Slab Changes Include More Performance Optimizations
The slab memory allocation changes for Linux 7.2 have been merged and continue to see more work around shaves and performance optimizations...
Massive breach spills credentials for thousands of sensitive networks
The affected include Oracle, Lenovo, FedEx, a NATO contractor, and Fortinet.
AMD's Lemonade AI Server Now Much More Useful With MCP Server Integration
The open-source Lemonade AI server for "100% free and private" AI usage across Windows and Linux in leveraging AMD Ryzen AI NPUs, Radeon GPUs, and x86_64 CPUs, is now much more powerful with today's v10.8 release...
Tesco moving 40,000 server workloads off VMware amid Broadcom's “abusive conduct”
Tesco claimed Broadcom hiked its VMware prices by about 175 percent in UK court filings.
If AGENTS.md smells ripe, your code won’t live up to the hype
Researchers urge developers to see that less is more when it comes to instructions
AI coding agents taught robots how to install GPUs and cut zip ties
Nvidia's self-improvement program for robots enlists teams of AI coding agents.
The Slate Truck's price may have leaked, starts at $24,950
The official launch takes place next week.
Nvidia-backed optics vendor to boost wafer output by 4x to meet AI interconnect demand
Jensen can't risk semiconductor supply chains derailing the AI hype train
"Dangerous" AI models are coming no matter what
AI models with advanced hacking capabilities will soon be the norm.
Massive password-stealing attack hits 75k Fortinet firewalls
Why are you even reading this?! Rotate your passwords!!
Uncle Sam bets $500M that Alphabet spinoff's AI can dig up new semiconductor materials
AI drug discovery is so last year, even though it hasn't accomplished much yet
Show HN: An 8-bit live gamecast for baseball
Hey HN, I built a website to watch live baseball games in an 8-bit broadcast. It takes live MLB data streams and converts them into near real-time pixel art gamecasts. Been waiting to share this for when there’s actually a good slate of games happening since the site is pretty bare otherwise.
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Experimental, Reverse-Engineered & AI Assisted Rust Driver Targets Modern DisplayLink Hardware
The original DisplayLink USB display adapters were great for working with an upstream, open-source driver while sadly the newer DisplayLink tech has been limited to an out-of-tree driver and proprietary user-space daemon. But posted today is an experimental "Vino" driver that is a clean-room, reverse-engineered driver for newer DisplayLink hardware...
Launch HN: Adam (YC W25) – Open-Source AI CAD
Hey HN! I'm Zach from Adam ( https://adam.new/ ). We're building AI agents for mechanical CAD software.
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Ten months later, the $100 Google Home Speaker is finally available for preorder
Google's new smart speaker is more about Gemini than audio quality.
Only half of US datacenter capacity planned for 2026 is actually under construction
Another fun example of AI hype and reality colliding
Towers once planned for California shuttle launches leveled for SpaceX rockets
"Space Launch Complex-6 represents six decades of American innovation."
"Truly evil" FDA rejection of gene therapy overturned after Trump official ousted
Gene therapy company UniQure had another FDA meeting after Vinay Prasad's exit.
Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users
Article URL: https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/35949-volkswagen-app?page=3 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48571526 Points: 402 # Comments: 280
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Smartphone market to shrink 15 percent this year due to memory crisis
Buyers put off by rising prices expected to turn to second-hand phones instead
AWS hypes continuous agentic DevOps, puts Kiro in your pocket
Trust is the biggest barrier to AI adoption, says AI chief, claiming that new features in Bedrock AgentCore will prevent bad outcomes
Digital sovereignty needs an operating model
PARTNER CONTENT Europe wants control over its own technology, but what does that look like?
Epic Games Announces Lore Open-Source Version Control System
Epic Games announced today they have created a new version control system that is now open-source as Lore. Given the proliferation and excellence of Git, you may be wondering why Epic Games is pursuing another VCS option... They are specifically catering Lore to games and entertainment purposes with large file sizes...
Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability
Article URL: https://lore.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48571081 Points: 826 # Comments: 456
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Intel Core Ultra X7 Panther Lake Performance On Linux 7.1
After recently noting the Intel Arc B580 Battlemage performance improving with Linux 7.1 and similarly finding performance gains for the Arc Pro B70 on Linux 7.1, several Phoronix readers have been wondering whether the newer Xe3 graphics with Panther Lake similarly benefit. Here are some CPU and iGPU benchmarks of the Core Ultra X7 358H "Panther Lake" SoC between Linux 7.0 and the recently…
Surface tension rises as Microsoft's latest kit starts at a pricey $1,499
Snapdragon X2 silicon and recycled aluminum are nice, the sticker shock less so
AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less
Article URL: https://charitydotwtf.substack.com/p/ai-demands-more-engineering-discipline Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48570948 Points: 295 # Comments: 142
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Cisco adds another SD-WAN box to max-severity bug advisory
Updated at the time? No sweat. Check those logs, though
Myna Announced As Speech-To-Text Solution For The Ubuntu Desktop
Earlier this month plans were shared publicly of Ubuntu 26.10 aiming to build a context-aware desktop with local AI features and one of the first capabilities to be integrated speech-to-text support. Now we have more details on the speech-to-text plans with Canonical announcing the Myna project...
Homebrew 6.0 released with new security mechanism, Linux sandbox and more
Homebrew was "less vulnerable 10 years ago than npm is today," project lead tells us
Want your images back? That'll be $5
Article URL: https://www.lutr.dev/want-your-images-back-sure-that-ll-be-5-dollars Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48569954 Points: 572 # Comments: 239
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Apple's WebKit performance tax leaves iOS browsers stuck in the slow lane, says Microsoft
Rival rendering engines could make pages load almost 30% faster on iPhones, Redmond claims
Why thinking out loud with someone beats thinking alone
Article URL: https://www.thesignalist.io/s/the-dialogue-dividend/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48569894 Points: 125 # Comments: 59
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Initial AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 FRL Support Successfully Merged For Linux 7.2
The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics/display and accelerator driver changes have been merged for Linux 7.2. The Linux 7.2 DRM merge is headlined by the long-awaited HDMI 2.1 Fixed Rate Link (FRL) support for the AMDGPU open-source driver as part of the larger effort of finally proceeding with a full HDMI 2.1 implementation for this AMD Radeon Linux driver...
Intel starts cooking up enhanced 18A-P silicon for would-be foundry customers
Chipzilla claims 9% speed bump without extra power draw but is compatible with designs for 18A
MicroUI – A tiny, portable, immediate-mode UI library written in ANSI C
Article URL: https://github.com/rxi/microui Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48569205 Points: 163 # Comments: 55
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Windows devs rerolled old code to save precious bytes
There really was a time when Microsoft cared about every KB
Native NACS ports, infotainment upgrade for MY27 Porsche Taycan
The bigger battery is standard and there are now simulated "E-Shifts."
UK.gov links up with LinkedIn for jobs market intel from 40M accounts
What anonymized data taught me about B2B sales... and reliance on the private sector for statistical info
Windows and Linux users: The deadline to update Secure Boot keys is near
What you need to know about the expiration of keys securing your machine's boot sequence.
Brit competition cops order Google to make search rankings less mysterious
New rules cover organic rankings, AI Overviews, and user-approved search data sharing
RFC 10008: The new HTTP Query Method
Article URL: https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc10008/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48568502 Points: 288 # Comments: 133
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Helpdesk scammers are making house calls to make their lies feel more real
15-year-old among six arrested after Dutch cops target suspected bank fraud call center
Qt Creator 20 IDE Released With AI Agent Support
The Qt Creator integrated development environment focused on Qt/C++ programming is out today with Qt Creator 20 and this new version is headlined by adding AI agent support...
GCC 17 Lands Initial Infrastructure For C++29
Merged yesterday to the GCC Git development codebase for next year's GCC 17 release is the initial infrastructure laying out support for -std=c++29 and the like for targeting the C++29 standard not anticipated for release until around 2029...
FreeBSD Updates Its Graphics Driver Port From Linux 6.12 LTS
As part of improving the experience of FreeBSD on laptops and desktops, FreeBSD developers have updated their drm-kmod port against the state of the Linux 6.12 LTS kernel...
Windows update leaves third-party Office document launches in limbo
Microsoft won the OLE vs OpenDoc wars. Now it's saying OLE dependencies don't matter
U.S. science is in chaos
Article URL: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/americas-compact-between-science-and-politics-is-broken/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48568058 Points: 521 # Comments: 583
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Linux Finally Ends AppleTalk Protocol Support
While the AppleTalk networking protocols were innovative when they first appeared for their plug-and-play capabilities, Apple itself ended their AppleTalk support back in 2009. Now 17 years later, the Linux kernel is ending AppleTalk support due to a recent surge of AI-generated patches...
System76 boss reckons he can liberate the entire PC stack... just give him another 15 years
Bootstrapped Linux box-botherer flogs new Thelio kit, talks up COSMIC, and politely declines to bolt AI onto everything
GLM-5.2 is the new leading open weights model on Artificial Analysis
Article URL: https://artificialanalysis.ai/articles/glm-5-2-is-the-new-leading-open-weights-model-on-the-artificial-analysis-intelligence-index Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48567759 Points: 714 # Comments: 361
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IO_uring, NVMe & Other Block + Device Mapper Changes Merged For Linux 7.2
Linux 7.2 continues seeing a fair amount of storage-related changes from file-systems to the block device code itself, software RAID, the wonderful IO_uring interface, and more. Here is some of the latest feature work that has been merged for Linux 7.2...
Hacker News but for independent blogs
Article URL: https://bubbles.town/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48567155 Points: 492 # Comments: 166
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Tesco is sprinting to quit VMware and Broadcom despite rapid migration risks
Supermarket giant has turned to third-party support as court sets date to hear licensing dispute
The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup
Article URL: https://claude.com/blog/the-founders-playbook Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48566832 Points: 192 # Comments: 146
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US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks
https://archive.ph/MlU1U Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48565498 Points: 239 # Comments: 249
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Mozilla Firefox Usage Of zlib-rs For Better Safety & Performance
Since the release in May of Firefox 151, Mozilla has been relying on the zlib-rs library for Gzip compression/decompression. This subtle change to use this Rust-based Zlib implementation has yielded some performance benefits and better memory safety but also some headaches when dealing with Intel CPU bugs...
Trump admin tries to block Clean Air Act lawsuit over xAI's gas turbines
NAACP lawsuit says xAI uses gas turbines without permits for Grok data center.
Year of free HPE software a “step in the correct direction” in VMware rivalry
Partner tells Ars that HPE should be giving out more free VM Essentials licenses.
Cockroaches scurry around with thousands of pieces of bacterial genomes
Transferring genes across species doesn't just happen in microbes.
Linux Enacts Guidance To Tighten Acceptance Of New File-Systems Into The Kernel
There is no shortage of different file-systems available for Linux. New file-systems continue to come about in the open-source world but ultimately many of them end up not being well maintained or having very limited users and not necessarily innovating enough to make them worthwhile over other alternatives. Given the continued increase in file-systems looking to get into the Linux kernel, such…
Among the large new rockets Amazon was counting on, only Europe has delivered
"As for Arianespace, they have definitely stepped up."
Anthropic "pauses" token-based billing for its Claude Agent SDK
Move originally planned for Monday would have heavily increased power users' costs.
KDE Plasma 6 Desktop Finally Comes To Slackware
It's been a while since there has been any Slackware news to pass along, but this week they've finally landed the KDE Plasma 6 desktop in this legendary Linux distribution...
Btrfs Now Enables Large Folios By Default, Lands Huge Folios With Linux 7.2
The Btrfs file-system feature updates have been merged for the Linux 7.2 kernel with a few noteworthy changes for this copy-on-write file-system...
US approval of Paramount/Warner Bros. deal surprised DOJ lawyers, report says
Trump admin green-lighting $111B deal "reeks of corruption," Sen. Warren says.
Pentagon boasts of using AI to write reports mandated by Congress
Pentagon also claims 1.5 million personnel are using generative AI tools.
Android 17 starts hitting Pixel phones and watches today
Pixels will get their OTA in the coming weeks, but don't expect monumental changes.
Wayland's Weston 16 Alpha Brings HDR Improvements, Vulkan Renderer Fixes
Wayland developers have prepared the release of Weston 16.0 Alpha 1 for this reference Wayland compositor with new features...
Linux 7.2 Improves Anonymous/Unnamed Pipe Performance For Shell Pipelines & More
Yet another performance optimization merged for the in-development Linux 7.2 kernel is improving the speed of anon_pipe_write, the kernel function used for writing data into anonymous/unnamed pipes such as when using shell pipelines or standard streams from applications...
Intel Compute Runtime Now Advertises Early Support For Nova Lake, Introduces Experimental "LEO"
Intel's open-source Compute Runtime stack for OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero on their graphics processors has been bringing up Nova Lake support since January. With today's release of the Intel Compute Runtime 26.22.38646.4, the Nova Lake Xe3P support has matured to the state of it being advertised now as under an "early support" status...
How we run Firecracker VMs inside EC2 and start browsers in less than 1s
Article URL: https://browser-use.com/posts/firecracker-browser-infra Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48556561 Points: 145 # Comments: 94
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Kirkland Roundabouts
Article URL: https://kirklandroundabouts.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48533098 Points: 132 # Comments: 104
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Show HN: Inkwash, a watercolor sketching app and explanation
I've made a drawing app based on my physical sketching practice, using fluid sim and some shader tricks to mimic watercolor-style ink washes. Best used on iPad or with a drawing tablet. The linked article shows how the core engine works, with plenty of little interactive demos.
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Image Compression
Article URL: https://www.makingsoftware.com/chapters/image-compression Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48522927 Points: 127 # Comments: 17
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