Tuesday, 14 July 2026
73 stories filed.
Linux Kernel Graphics Driver Proposed For GlandaGPU: An Open-Source Soft GPU Core
A new Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics driver has been sent out for GlandaGPU, an open-source custom 3D graphics core designed in VHDL and running on FPGA hardware...
Intel IGC 2.38.2 Brings Latest Round Of Graphics Compiler Improvements
Ahead of the next Intel Compute Runtime release, IGC 2.38.2 was released today as the newest feature update to this open-source graphics compiler used by Intel iGPU/dGPU hardware on both Windows and Linux...
'The bots are alive!' Jailbroken Gemini spun up new C2 server for Russian fraudster in just 6 minutes
Human did 10% of the job, AI did 90%
Hands off our VPNs, privacy groups tell UK ministers
Mozilla, Proton, Tor warn ministers that targeting the tech risks creating more problems than it solves
Intel Vulkan Driver Now Supports H.265 10-bit Video Encoding
Hyunjun Ko with Igalia continues advancing the Vulkan Video capabilities of the Intel open-source "ANV" Vulkan driver for Linux systems...
Codex starts encrypting sub-agent prompts
Article URL: https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/28058 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48905028 Points: 160 # Comments: 104
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Baddies caught exploiting extensions bugs with perfect 10 scores on vulnerable Joomla websites
Flaws in iCagenda, Balbooa Forms extensions can impact open source CMS that powers a million sites worldwide
Frame: A new X11 server – implemented directly in assembly
Joins yserver, Phoenix, and of course XLibre – and outlier Arcan
Linux Dealing With Apple's Wild Mess Of Sensors On Apple Silicon SoCs
While there has been the Apple System Management Controller "SMC" hardware monitoring driver with the intent on exposing battery/power stats as well as thermal and more for Apple Silicon SoCs on Linux, it hasn't yet been working out properly on the mainline kernel. Between missing Device Tree nodes to the hodgepodge mess of sensors between the different Apple M-Series SoCs, it's a mess...
Haiku Merges NVMM For Initial Virtualization Support, But It Doesn't Yet Fully Work
The BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system project has published their June 2026 status report. In the past month the developers merged their NVMM VM monitor support, hardware driver improvements, and progressed toward the upcoming Haiku sixth beta release...
India's crewed space mission is ready for splashdown, but not launch
Gaganyaan was supposed to fly in 2022 and make the country only the fourth to put people into orbit
"Light" GRUB Alternative Package For Confidential Computing Approved For Fedora 45
A month ago there was a change proposal raised for offering a "light" version of the GRUB2 bootloader for use in confidential computing environments. While there were some differing views on the matter for this alternative, stripped-down GRUB package as opposed to just using other bootloaders like systemd-boot, ultimately, the proposal is now approved...
Weston 16.0 Compositor Released With HDR Improvements, Vulkan Fixes
Overnight the Weston 16.0 release occurred as the latest milestone for this reference Wayland compositor...
How do you solve a problem like Capita?
Bringing troubled contracts in-house requires skills Whitehall is already struggling to recruit
Ministers arm under-16s social media ban with least surprising study of the year
Boffins confirm: taking away teens' phone makes them act like humans again
Indian scientists produce most detailed 3D atlas of the human brainstem
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg53l737v1qo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48903082 Points: 103 # Comments: 10
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Anthropic's extravagant tokenizer complicates AI pricing
Token consumption doesn't tell the whole tale but it shouldn't be ignored
Big Blue thinks small, again, with POWER tower
The last proprietary minicomputer, now in ‘deskside’ form if you fancy that
Australian energy retailers must provide three hours of free daytime electricity
Article URL: https://lenergy.com.au/free-daytime-electricity-is-coming-heres-how-it-actually-works/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48902320 Points: 156 # Comments: 246
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YouTrackDB is a general-use object-oriented graph database
Article URL: https://github.com/JetBrains/youtrackdb Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48902026 Points: 145 # Comments: 46
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Japan develops a method to recover up to 90% of lithium from used EV batteries
Article URL: https://tech.supercarblondie.com/japan-recovers-up-to-90-of-lithium-from-used-ev-batteries/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48901569 Points: 608 # Comments: 160
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India’s tech services giant HCL is getting into the AI datacenter business
Starting small with $37m and maybe 50MW but reckons full-stack service plan can succeed
Fundamentals of Wireless Communication (2005)
Article URL: https://web.stanford.edu/~dntse/wireless_book.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48901454 Points: 152 # Comments: 7
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Satellite Tracker – Live Map of Starlink and 30k Satellites
Article URL: https://satellitemap.space/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48901356 Points: 113 # Comments: 57
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The Economics of Recursive Self-Improvement [pdf]
Article URL: https://elasticity.institute/rsi-paper.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48901224 Points: 118 # Comments: 58
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SpaceX is gearing up for Starship's 13th test flight later this week
This flight will put Starship under higher pressure and test out new Starlink satellites in orbit.
Gobi X: Creating more energy for AI, not taking it from society
PARTNER CONTENT: How Envision is reversing the datacenter playbook by making computing chase abundant desert power, not the other way around
The git history command
Article URL: https://lalitm.com/post/git-history/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48901010 Points: 349 # Comments: 223
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New Linux Patches Aim To Better Handle Multiple Swap Devices
For those having Linux systems with multiple swap devices, such as for swap tiering or layered swap handling, a set of patches posted today for the Linux kernel are looking to improve the situation...
Zuck's AI ambitions put Meta on course to become America's next big cloud provider
Renting out spare compute is simply the natural progression for any sufficiently large infra company
Zig creator calls Bun’s Claude Rust rewrite ‘unreviewed slop’
The port took just 11 days and about $165,000 at API pricing
An Englishwoman who sketched India before photography took hold
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2drrv6q54o Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48900191 Points: 186 # Comments: 54
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US continues to shun Ebola-infected citizens; second American sent to Germany
The man is said to be doing well in a Frankfurt hospital.
The US government warns that Russia state hackers are coming after your router
With residential proxies all the rage, CISA urges router users to be vigilant.
Ukrainian drone strikes forced Russia to stop shipping in vital sea corridor
Ukraine’s drone blitz halted Russia’s Sea of Azov shipping in under a week.
Excel competition goes extreme, makes spreadsheet geeks compete from the street
Defending world champ Diarmuid Early wins again despite being forced to solve puzzles outdoors
California creates $3,500 rebate for new electric vehicle buyers
There's a separate $1,750 rebate for used EVs, but both rebates have a price cap.
The price is wrong: AI cost calculation has to consider task completion rates, not just token costs
Cheap can be expensive
Apple sues OpenAI after ex-engineer allegedly used bug to steal trade secrets
OpenAI accused of conspiring with former Apple employees to steal trade secrets.
Solution to Feynman's reverse sprinkler puzzle also applies to "silly sprinklers"
New study confirms 2024 "momentum flux theory" on how angular momentum of water flows drives rotation.
States sue to block Paramount/WBD merger that was approved by Trump admin
AG: Deal will bring "higher prices, lower quality, and less content for film and TV."
Building and shipping Mac and iOS apps without opening Xcode
Article URL: https://scottwillsey.com/building-and-shipping-mac-and-ios-apps-without-ever-opening-xcode/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48896665 Points: 511 # Comments: 217
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Tom Cruise is utterly transformed in Digger trailer
"If we can't control the force of nature, at least we can control the narrative."
Microsoft chief turns hostile on frontier AI labs, warns companies to guard their IP
Lock it down, warns Satya Nadella, seemingly forgetting the billions Redmond chipped in to OpenAI back in the good old days
Apple and Samsung benefit as memory shortage pushes smartphone shipments to historic lows
The biggest smartphone makers keep on trucking in the face of component shortages and economic uncertainty.
German firm files for insolvency, blames cybercrims who shut down production for 6 weeks
ZEGO-TVZ says the financial fallout from a March cyberattack left shutting its doors as the only option
Graviton5 Outperforming Intel Xeon Granite Rapids But Falls Short Of AMD EPYC Turin
Following the recent GA of the AWS M9g series as the first instances powered by the new Graviton5 CPUs, I recently ran benchmarks looking at Graviton4 vs. Graviton5 CPU performance. There was very nice generational gains for the new AWS Graviton processors with the shift from Arm Neoverse-V2 to Neoverse-V3 cores and from DDR5-5600 to DDR5-8800 memory, among other improvements.
Colorado will decide whether a "right to natural gas" is added to state constitution
The amendment would restrict building codes that promote electrification.
Hackers quickly prove that Neo Geo Doom ports are not "impossible"
Clever coding and graphical compromises get a classic game on more classic hardware.
Astronomers find sugar near the creamy center of the Milky Way (no caramel, though)
First interstellar monosaccharide suggests some of life's ingredients may be scattered across the galaxy
A "disaster waiting to happen"? Industry officials worry about Crew Dragon availability.
"It's very clear that in the United States there is a big need for an additional crew vehicle."
Philips to replace bricked Hue Bridge Pro devices
Company releases a fresh firmware update. Go on, install it, we dare you...
EU and UK officially blame Russian spies for cyberattack on Poland's power grid
Sweeping sanctions and condemnation follow op that could have left half a million without power in the depths of winter
Now, defenders are embracing the prompt injection, too
"Context bombing" tricks hacking agents into shutting down before they can do harm.
FreeBSD Desktop Installer Option Working Through NVIDIA Driver Handling, Licensing
Alfonso Siciliano, who has been one of the FreeBSD developers leading the effort on adding a KDE-based desktop option to the FreeBSD installer, provided an update on recent work around adding integrating this desktop option...
Simulating everything, sort of: The promise and limits of world models
Experts explain how they work, what they can do, and what's still unsettled.
GNOME OS Creating "Test Center" As Its Take On Apple TestFlight For Experiment Software
GNOME developers working on GNOME OS have received funding from Germany's Prototype Fund to work on creating the GNOME OS "Developer Tool Suite" or also tentatively called their "Test Center" to help in testing experimental applications/libraries in a modern Linux computing world with systemd-sysext, Buildstream, and other newer tech...
Reworked System Call Entry Handling Slated For Linux 7.3
Stemming from looking at a proposed Linux kernel patch to alter the Linux kernel's system call number handling, veteran Linux kernel developer Thomas Gleixner went down a rabbit hole of the kernel's system call entry handling to make a number of clean-ups and improvements to the code. That rework to the system call entry handling is now expected to land for the Linux 7.3 kernel cycle...
Raspberry Pi 5 IOMMU Driver Being Worked On For The Mainline Linux Kernel
While the Raspberry Pi 5 is already over two and a half years old, one of the missing elements of its support from the mainline Linux kernel has been the IOMMU driver. We are now seeing Raspberry Pi's downstream IOMMU driver being adapted for mainline with hopes of getting it into the upstream kernel...
Cloud Hypervisor 53 Released With Offloaded Snapshot/Restore Daemon
Cloud Hypervisor 53.0 is now available for this open-source, Rust-based VMM focused on cloud workloads and modern security needs. Originally started at Intel, Cloud Hypervisor continues seeing new development these days by Microsoft, Meta, Arm, and other organizations...
Linux 7.2-rc3 Released: Close To The "New Normal"
Linux 7.2-rc3 is now available for testing in working toward the stable Linux 7.2 kernel version coming up in August...
Linux 7.2 Enabling UltraRISC RISC-V Support In The Default Kernel Build
Similar to Linux 7.2 enabling Eswin SoC support by default in the RISC-V "defconfig" kernel build, UltraRISC RISC-V coverage is also now being enabled by default for RISC-V kernel builds in Linux 7.2...
The real mystery behind Moana: After 1,700 years, why did Polynesians suddenly sail east?
New climate evidence adds context to these long voyages.
HFI BIOS Aims To Provide A POST-Like Power On Screen & BIOS Setup Utility For RISC-V
The Harmonic Firmware Initiative "HFI" is trying to provide a generic, standardized power-on firmware experience for RISC-V boards. Akin to the x86 world with having immediate graphics card initialization to provide a display while the system is booting and also having a BIOS setup utility for system configuration, HFI is trying to do the same for the RISC-V world...
Linux 7.2-rc3 Bringing Fixes For The SEGA Dreamcast Drivers In 2026
It wasn't on my bingo card for the week but merged to Git ahead of today's Linux 7.2-rc3 kernel release are a number of fixes for the SEGA Dreamcast drivers...
Realtek RTL8723BS WiFi Linux Driver Hardened Against Malicious WiFi Access Points
The staging driver fixes that were sent out this week ahead of the Linux 7.2-rc3 release is predominantly made up of hardening the Realtek RTL8723BS WiFi driver. In particular, a number of fixes for addressing out-of-bounds behavior when connecting to "bad" WiFi hosts...
How to build a circular LCD clock
Article URL: https://blinry.org/lcd-clock/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48872833 Points: 102 # Comments: 40
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Debian 13.6 Released To Ship All The Latest Security Fixes, Reverts GeoIP Database
Debian 13.6 is out today as the newest point release of Debian Trixie to ship the latest security fixes and other maintenance updates...
A Jupiter-size planet that escaped its star's death
It's unclear how the planet avoided its star's bloated red giant stage.
Overhaul of public lands grazing regulations seeks to cut public involvement
For the first time since 1995, the Bureau of Land Management is rewriting its grazing regulations.
Your 'App' Could Have Been a Webpage (so I fixed it for you)
Article URL: https://danq.me/2026/07/09/your-app-could-have-been-a-webpage/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48869989 Points: 142 # Comments: 98
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Quantum error correction can constantly recalibrate a processor
Reinforcement learning uses error information to adjust control algorithms.
Increased drone surveillance of illegal July 4th fireworks led to $100K fine
More police and firefighters use drones to catch and deter illegal fireworks.