Wednesday, 24 June 2026
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COSMIC Epoch 1.1 Released With COSMIC-Monitor, Compositor Improvements
System76 today released COSMIC Epoch 1.1 as the newest feature release as well as being their first time bumping the minor version number since the December release of COSMIC 1.0...
Police tout using drone to disarm incapacitated person in “nationwide first”
Promo video comes as more US police departments fly drones as first responders.
Oracle’s 21,000 layoffs help drive its debt-fueled AI investments
Oracle is spending billions on data center infrastructure to support AI.
BASIC09 Programming Language Front-End Developed For LLVM
The 46-year-old BASIC09 programming language has new compiler support with a front-end having been developed for the LLVM compiler stack. BASIC09 was developed in 1980 for the Motorola 6809 CPU running with the OS-9 operating system. With this LLVM compiler front-end, you can write BASIC09 code for modern software and hardware...
Jerry's Map
https://www.openculture.com/2026/06/this-man-has-been-drawin... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48649435 Points: 215 # Comments: 25
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A curious crossover: The Toyota C-HR review
Although it's on the smaller side, this electric vehicle is not very chill.
Swift Package Index joins Apple
Article URL: https://swiftpackageindex.com/blog/swift-package-index-joins-apple Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48648779 Points: 126 # Comments: 40
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ABC asks viewers to protest FCC attempt to "control who is allowed" on The View
"The FCC wants to control who is allowed on the show," ABC ad tells viewers.
FUTO Swipe – A new swipe typing model
Article URL: https://swipe.futo.tech/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48648619 Points: 115 # Comments: 40
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Early land animals skipped the tadpole phase
Current amphibian development may not have been typical of early land vertebrates.
Claude Tag
Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/news/introducing-claude-tag Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48648039 Points: 190 # Comments: 119
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San Diego photologs from the 1970s
Article URL: https://www.beautifulpublicdata.com/san-diego-photologs-from-the-1970s/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48647823 Points: 128 # Comments: 38
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F3
Article URL: https://github.com/future-file-format/f3 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48647799 Points: 546 # Comments: 124
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The worthlessness of Vitamin D is mildly exaggerated
Article URL: https://dynomight.net/vitamin-d/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48647486 Points: 115 # Comments: 84
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Linux 7.2 Showing Some Unexpected & Nice Performance Gains On AMD EPYC Sorano
While the Linux 7.2 merge window doesn't wrap up until this weekend as the feature cut-off for new material, I have already begun some early benchmarks of the code currently staged for this next version of the Linux kernel. Linux 7.2 already was looking quite exciting with cache aware scheduling and other exciting new features while an unexpected surprise in my early testing this week was seeing…
Trump may be mystery patient in odd case of 79yo getting experimental obesity drug
White House spokesperson denied it was Trump only after story was published.
DeviceTree-ACPI Hybrid Mode Proposed For Improving Linux Support On Snapdragon Laptops
Over the years while working at Red Hat, Hans de Goede was known for driving many wonderful Linux laptop improvements benefiting AMD/Intel x86_64 hardware. Hans left Red Hat last year and ended up joining Qualcomm to advance their open-source/Linux support. Today he is out with a significant new patch series for consideration that has the potential of significantly improving the Qualcomm…
Show HN: TikZ Editor – WYSIWYG editor for figures in LaTeX
Hi all! TikZ is a widely-used LaTeX package for drawing figures in papers. It uses commands like \draw[->] (0,0) -- (1,2); to draw lines, shapes, text, etc.
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Open-Source Driver For ATI R300 Era GPUs Seeing Improved Power Mac Support In 2026
For those that happen to still be running a 22+ year old Apple Power Mac such as those from 2004 with an IBM PowerPC processor and ATI Radeon 9600 XT or 9800 XT graphics, there are open-source driver improvements for Linux still happening in 2026 to benefit this vintage hardware...
Elevated error rate across multiple models
Article URL: https://status.claude.com/incidents/jbhf20wjmzrf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48645386 Points: 195 # Comments: 245
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Mistral OCR 4
Article URL: https://mistral.ai/news/ocr-4/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48645152 Points: 388 # Comments: 103
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Everyone pays the price as patent holders on seeds stifle innovation
The US is one of a handful of countries that allow patents on plant varieties.
Sony releases trailer for Taika Waititi's Klara and the Sun
Tonally, the trailer gives strong vibes akin to the director's 2016 feature Hunt for the Wilderpeople .
EROFS With Linux 7.2 Better Handles Large Sparse AI Datasets, More Efficient I/O
The EROFS open-source read-only file-system has some nice enhancements in place for the
MSG Made Dossier on Activists Who Opposed Facial Recognition
Article URL: https://www.404media.co/madison-square-garden-made-dossier-on-activists-who-opposed-facial-recognition/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48644781 Points: 268 # Comments: 76
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Fwupd 2.0.21 Brings Fixes For More Than 250 Potential Security Issues Found Via AI
While the Fwupd 2.1 series is the latest stable channel for this open-source firmware updating solution, Fwupd 2.0.21 was released today to backport fixes for more than 250 potential security issues recently uncovered in the codebase...
How to burst the AI bubble: Strike at its roots
Sci-fi author/tech journalist Cory Doctorow on his new book, The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI .
Unlimited OCR: One-shot long-horizon parsing
Article URL: https://github.com/baidu/Unlimited-OCR Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48643426 Points: 403 # Comments: 95
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The Coming Loop
Article URL: https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/6/23/the-coming-loop/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48643180 Points: 254 # Comments: 200
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Linux 8250/16550 UART Serial Driver Seeing Some Modernization Work In 2026
The Linux 8250 serial driver as the universal/legacy driver for 8250 and 16550 type serial ports has been seeing some modernization work recently with a number of 8250 serial patches having now been merged for the Linux 7.2 kernel...
New Hygon Model 8 "Suzhou" x86 CPU Support Appears In The GCC Compiler
A seemingly new generation of Hygon x86 processors are on the way with the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) seeing support today for the Hygon Model 8 "Suzhou" c86-4g-m8 processors...
Linux 7.2 RISC-V Reduces Kernel Startup Overhead, Eswin SoC Support By Default
Along with the many x86/x86_64 improvements and some ARM64 architecture improvements (albeit slowed down by the AI/LLM noise affecting the development pace), the RISC-V architecture changes were merged last week for the ongoing Linux 7.2 kernel development...
KDE Plasma 6.7.1 Released With Initial Batch Of Bug Fixes
Following last week's major Plasma 6.7 release, Plasma 6.7.1 is now available today with an initial assortment of bug fixes...
With Starfall, SpaceX eyes an edge in global cargo delivery from orbit
The purpose of Starfall is to support the "transport and delivery of goods through space."
GM installs robots at flagship EV factory after laying off 1,300 workers
US autoworkers union warns of robot automation as dark factory future looms.
Report: Kennedy Space Center not ready for era of super heavy rockets
SpaceX has told NASA it plans to launch Starship every eight days from Kennedy.
Man used massage gun on his tired eyeballs. It went as well as you'd expect.
He had retinal tears and bruises from squishing his eyeballs with the gun.
USB4STREAM Merged For Linux 7.2 To Quickly Send Data Between USB4 Connected Systems
As part of today's USB/Thunderbolt subsystem updates for the ongoing Linux 7.2 kernel merge window, USB4STREAM was merged as a nifty and exciting addition to opening up some interesting USB4 connnectivity use-cases for high speed, low latency data transfers...
Polymarket's viral videos showed people winning big, but the bets were fake
"Winning" bets were made on cloned website and would have lost money, WSJ finds.
Following user outcry, AMD reinstates memory encryption in consumer CPUs
Critics saw the move as an underhanded way to steer them toward more costly chips.
Valve's Steam Machine ships June 29 for $1,049, but you probably won't be able to buy one yet
Valve says it's using a randomized purchase queue to make the experience "less frustrating and more fair."
Intel Optimization Zone 1.1 Lays Out Tuning Recommendations For More Workloads
Back in March Intel announced the Optimization Zone as a new initiative for helping server administrators and developers better maximize the performance of different workloads running on Intel hardware. Out today is the Intel Optimization Zone 1.1 release with more workloads now covered for squeezing out the most performance on Intel CPUs...
Finding the best dog treat with statistics
Article URL: https://www.wespiser.com/posts/2026-06-19-best-dog-treat.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48633410 Points: 124 # Comments: 54
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Steam Machine Launches, Priced $1049 To $1428 USD
Valve today finally revealed pricing on their SteamOS Linux-powered Steam Machine living room PC. Given the ongoing RAM and storage pricing pressure, the Steam Machine pricing comes in at the high-end...
NHTSA investigating alleged Tesla Autopilot crash that killed woman in her home
Tesla touts Autopilot as lifesaving a day after grandmother died in crash.
Benchmarking Bcachefs 1.38.6: The First Release No Longer "Experimental"
Released last week was Bcachefs 1.38.6 with a host of performance improvements to this out-of-tree, copy-on-write file-system. Given all the performance improvements and this being the first release since Kent Overstreet dropped the "experimental" flag on the file-system, I decided to fire up some benchmarks looking at how the Bcachefs file-system performance has changed with this new version.
Lucid lays off 1,500 workers in second big cut of the year
The cuts and redundancies are part of a plan to "simplify the company," the CEO says.
A US military exercise in space got underway with barely anyone noticing
The Space Force wants to cut the time to field new satellites from years to weeks, days, or hours.
1,250 hp hybrid Corvette shatters the Pikes Peak production record
The high-altitude race is a unique test of car and driver.
Xfce Wayland Compositor Sees First Preview/Alpha Release
Over the past half-year, Xfwl4 has been developed as a Wayland compositor for the Xfce desktop environment. Released this weekend was the first preview release of Xfwl4 in alpha form...
Linux Finally Lands Battery/Charger Driver For 14 Year Old Microsoft Surface RT Tablet
It's been 14 years already since Microsoft announced the Surface RT hybrid tablet as their first-generation Surface device for going up against the Apple iPad. All these years later, this NVIDIA Tegra 3 powered device is finally seeing a mainline Linux kernel driver for supporting battery and charger status...
AMD Updates ROCDXG To Deliver Better ROCm Experience On WSL
Back in March AMD introduced ROCDXG to improve their Windows Subsystem for Linux support. This improved Windows Subsystem for Linux "WSL" support with the ROCm compute stack is a cleaneer architecture, open-source compared to their legacy WSL code having closed bits, and more robust handling. Today they issued a new ROCDXG library release to further enhance their WSL support...
Miracle-WM Mir-Based Wayland Compositor Aiming For v1.0 Later This Year
Miracle-WM 0.10 released on Sunday as the newest feature release for this Mir-based Wayland compositor. With this new release is also acknowledgement they are hoping to cross the "1.0" milestone later in the year...
Valve Creates The Ray-Tracing Inspector "RTI" To Help Further Optimize Linux GPU Drivers
Merged today to Mesa 26.1 is the Ray-Tracing Inspector "RTI" as a new GUI created by developers on Valve's open-source Linux graphics team. The Ray-Tracing Inspector is designed to help in analyzing and optimizing the Vulkan ray-tracing performance as part of their continued work on further bettering the Radeon RADV RT performance for Steam Play / Linux gaming...
The deadly rise of giant trucks and SUVs
Unlocked: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/06/21/us/trucks-suv... Related: ttps://www.thedrive.com/news/75-more-pedestrians-have-been-killed-since-2009-giant-trucks-and-suvs-are-why Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48623347 Points: 274 # Comments: 459
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Plotnine
Article URL: https://plotnine.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48596488 Points: 241 # Comments: 71
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