Monday, 20 July 2026
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Connecting AI agents to outside services explodes the risk radius
Connect all the things and watch what happens
Moonshot AI suspends new subscriptions due to Kimi K3 demand
Article URL: https://twitter.com/kimi_moonshot/status/2078855608565207130 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48969291 Points: 108 # Comments: 41
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Show HN: I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32s
I might be the only SRE on Earth with his own bowling center. It's a more in-depth gig than you'd think. My family and I bought an abandoned 8-lane bowling center in the rural mid-west.
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The Last MPEG-4 Visual Patent Has Expired
If you are looking for a reason to celebrate today, the last of the MPEG-4 Part 2 patents expired today...
Minecraft: Java Edition now uses SDL3
Article URL: https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-26-3-snapshot-4 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48967256 Points: 207 # Comments: 143
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As mosquito ranges expand, better monitoring is key to preventing disease
Monitoring is expensive and labor intensive. But it helps public health officials stop outbreaks.
I joined the IndieWeb, here's what I learned
Article URL: https://en.andros.dev/blog/0b8e451e/i-joined-the-indieweb-heres-what-i-learned/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48966984 Points: 108 # Comments: 68
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FFmpeg Lands Latest AVX-512 Optimization: 1.372x Faster In Pixel Format Conversion
The latest hand-tuned code in the FFmpeg multimedia library for allowing better performance on today's modern Intel/AMD AVX-512-capable processors is showing 1.372x faster performance for RGB24 to RGBA pixel format conversions...
What I learned selling 2,500 MIDI recorders: Hardware is not so hard
Article URL: https://chipweinberger.com/articles/20260719-hardware-is-not-so-hard Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48966713 Points: 350 # Comments: 160
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Legion Y700 Gen4 Tablet Powered By Snapdragon 8 Elite Seeing Linux Patches
The Legion Y700 Gen4 is an Android tablet that debuted last year and powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset. This 8.8-inch tablet is now seeing patches for enabling Linux support outside the confines of Android and will hopefully end up in the mainline kernel...
More ASUS Motherboards To Enjoy Working Sensor Monitoring With Linux 7.3
Thanks to the work of the open-source community, more ASUS desktop motherboards for Intel Core and AMD Ryzen systems are seeing working sensor monitoring under Linux. With the upcoming Linux 7.3 cycle, several additional ASUS motherboards will now enjoy working sensor monitoring...
Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now
Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/19/claude-code-in-bun-in-rust/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48966569 Points: 313 # Comments: 417
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Qwen 3.8
https://www.qwencloud.com/pricing/token-plan Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48966120 Points: 651 # Comments: 473
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Using AI makes people less likely to admit they don't know something
Researchers found confidence increased even as accuracy fell
OpenAI reduces Codex Model Context Size from 372k to 272k
Article URL: https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/33972/files Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48965850 Points: 254 # Comments: 116
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Better and Cheaper Than IPTV
Article URL: https://github.com/stupside/castor Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48964015 Points: 302 # Comments: 96
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GNU Hurd Makes Progress On AArch64, Writing Translators In Rust
The GNU Hurd project recently issued their Q2'2026 status report to outline recently development efforts. The Hurd is still happening!..
Transcribe.cpp
Article URL: https://workshop.cjpais.com/projects/transcribe-cpp Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48963879 Points: 694 # Comments: 144
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Codex Resets
Article URL: https://codex-resets.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48963465 Points: 270 # Comments: 175
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NVK Vulkan Performance Improving With Mesa 26.2 Against NVIDIA Proprietary Driver
The performance of the Nouveau kernel driver with the Mesa NVK Vulkan driver continues to improve each feature release in its quest toward better competing with NVIDIA's official Linux graphics driver with its proprietary Vulkan driver...
Java was a three-day hotfix away from dying horribly on stage
Tim Lindholm, Java's original JVM maintainer, shares with El Reg some of the grungy build details the doc glosses over
AMD Linux Graphics Driver Preps Fix For Apple Studio Display
This week's batch of AMDGPU Display Core "DC" updates arrived heavy with 70 new patches for improving that open-source display support for Radeon graphics on the Linux desktop...
GNOME OS Safe Mode Improving The System Reliability
At GNOME's annual GUADEC conference happening this week in Spain, an update was shared on the current state of GNOME OS...
Will AI fix prior authorization—or make it worse?
The government is piloting a program that uses AI for insurance-coverage decisions.
KDE Plasma 6.8 System Monitor Making It Easier Assigning Processes To CPU Cores
Nate Graham and John Veness are out with the latest issue of This Week in Plasma to highlight all of the interesting developments taking place in the KDE Plasma desktop space...
UXL's oneDNN 3.13 Preps For Intel Nova Lake With AVX10.2, More Intel Optimizations
Following the release of AMD's ZenDNN 6.0 earlier this month, there is a new feature release of the oneDNN neural network library that used to be developed by Intel as part of oneAPI and is now under the UXL Foundation umbrella. Even so, oneDNN feature releases continue to be heavy on new Intel optimizations and future hardware support...
D7VK 2.0 Released With Some Nice Performance Improvements: Up To 2x Or More
In addition to Friday night's release of DXVK 3.0.2, debuting separately a short time later was D7VK 2.0 as the latest major feature release for this implementation of Direct3D 7 and earlier built off the Vulkan API...
NextBSD returns to dollop Apple source on FreeBSD
New maintainer revives the project with Darwin components, Gershwin, and Claude Code
DXVK 3.0.2 Released With Improved Hang Debugging, Handful Of Game Fixes
In addition to the initial build of Holo Core as AArch64 Arch Linux for the Steam Frame, another software milestone today in Valve's Linux gaming space is the release of DXVK 3.0.2 for Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 APIs implemented over the Vulkan API for running Windows games...
Google-backed satellites for wildfire detection launch as smoke chokes US, Canada
The FireSat program can spot wildfires that other satellites miss.
The Pentagon's Space Development Agency hasn't moved as fast as anyone would like
"Missiles are being launched at the joint force every single day in [Operation] Epic Fury."
Hegseth wants a "High-T" military; doctors call it a clinical minefield
"We're turning the clock back on rational healthcare."
Taco Bell iceberg lettuce identified as source of cyclosporiasis in 5 states
Don't eat Taco Bell lettuce in Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, or West Virginia.
Noctua NL-LC1-36 All-In-One Liquid Cooler
With reviewing hardware for more than 22 years, when it comes to cooling products there are few brands that can still get me intrigued like Noctua. With their recent launch of the NL-LC1 all-in-one liquid coolers, I decided to try out the Noctua NL-LC1-36 360mm AIO cooler that is working out well for cooling high-end desktop CPUs like the recently launched Ryzen 9 9950X3D2.
Mozilla speeds Firefox release schedule to biweekly
And what to expect in Firefox 153 as the next ESR release gets close
FastFlowLM Developers Join AMD To Help Push Open-Source NPU Software
On top of releasing ROCm 7.14 as the new production release of ROCm now built offTheRock, rolling out the Lemonade 11.0 local AI server, and GAIA 0.22, AMD has some more open-source news in the lead up to next week's AMD Advancing AI event...
Troubling new details emerge on diabetes ouster controversy
American Diabetes Association blocked publication of op-ed articles so the authors posted them as a preprint.
Microsoft cuts OneDrive support for older Windows 10 versions next month
22H2 has until 2028, or there's always Windows 11
Will Russia's answer to the Falcon 9 rocket ever take flight?
Grasshopper-like tests could begin in 2028.
Billing software error sends billion-dollar AWS estimates
Amazon asks users not to panic as it works to fix the bug
Fubo hikes prices by $15 after restoring some NBCU channels lost in November
Fubo subscribers still don't have Versant channels.
AI spam filters are getting suckered by old-school text salting
Turns out decades-old email tricks still work against some LLM-powered email filters
San Francisco orders Apple, Google to remove nudify apps from app stores
Official estimates Google and Apple likely made millions in nudify app fees.
Experimental Build Of Holo Core Published: Arch Linux AArch64 For Valve's Steam Frame
As part of Valve's upcoming Qualcomm-powered Steam Frame headset, Valve has been collaborating with Collabora on the Arch Linux AArch64 base for their platform. Published today are the initial sources and binaries of this "Holo Core" base of Arch Linux AArch64 to be used by the Steam Frame...
Ars is looking for a senior technology reporter, and you might be it!
Desktops, laptops, phones, CPUs, GPUs, NAS—if you know this stuff, come work for us!
Torvalds challenged the haters to fork Linux. Someone said 'hold my beer'
More a rewrite really, and of a very early version: Linux 0.11 – in Rust
Linux WMI Driver Gets Ready To Support ACPI-Based ARM64 Laptops
Linux developer Armin Wolf sent out a set of patches today for enabling AArch64 support for the ACPI Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) driver to work on AArch64 in no longer being bound to x86/x86_64. This is a step toward the long goal of being able to support modern Windows on ARM laptops via ACPI on Linux...
Microsoft gives admins Exchange Online breathing room
Retirement of PowerShell -Credential parameter pushed back to the end of 2026
Top EU court clips YouTube's intermediary defense over reviewed content
You can't claim to be a passive host after vetting a creator's channel, Google warned
Arm Core Local Accelerator Driver Posted For Linux As Agnostic Interface For Accelerators
A new open-source Linux driver announced today by Arm is the Arm Core Local Accelerator "CLA" driver as a CPU-local interface for programming attached accelerators. This is an agnostic interface for attached accelerators with the initial target focusing on an attached compute engine...
Attackers target critical FortiSandbox flaws as CISA issues patch order
Command injection vulns land on exploited list after researchers spot abuse attempts
The report oil companies are worried about: Climate attribution science
New report says our ability to tie weather damages to climate change is improving.
FCC took pricey gifts from Paramount as the company needed approval for deals
FCC chair has been gifted at least $63,000 worth of tickets by CBS or its parent company.
SpaceX Starship Flight Test 13 takes issue with the 'flight' bit
Engine replacement needed after launchpad abort
2026 Lucid Gravity Touring review: A strong act 2
Quick, comfortable, roomy, and agile for a large electric SUV.
Rocket Report: India's Vikram-1 nears debut flight; AST to become rocket company?
"We have done everything that could be done to test Vikram-1 on ground."
Europe's chip ambitions won't break dependence on US cloud and software, says Forrester
Brussels may spend billions on semiconductor fabs, but tech sovereignty remains firmly in American and Chinese hands
AMD Preps More Graphics Driver Improvements For Linux 7.3
Since earlier this month AMD has begun staging graphics driver changes for Linux 7.3 ahead of the merge window opening in late July. That's brought some interesting changes so far while there still are a few weeks to land any additional features in DRM-Next. This week another batch of AMDGPU graphics driver and AMDKFD compute driver feature code was sent out for this next kernel version...
Mozilla AI Releases Llamafile 0.10.4 With New Transcribefile Built On Transcribe.cpp
Mozilla AI developers have released a new version of Llamafile, their solution for easy-to-use LLMs as a single file that work across hardware and operating systems. With Llamafile 0.10.4 is now Transcribefile, as a new piece built off their recently announced Transcribe.cpp project...
Ransomware curdles production at Coca-Cola's Fairlife dairy biz
No use crying over spilled milk when US plants can't bottle it in the first place
OpenBLAS 0.3.34 Improves Multi-Threading, Support For A Memory-Safe C Toolchain
OpenBLAS 0.3.34 released on Thursday as this popular, open-source BLAS library providing optimized support for a variety of CPUs/architectures. OpenBLAS 0.3.34 continues working on squeezing more performance out of today's processors as well as delivering other new features...
Google fixing Android lock screen bug that lets Gemini send SMS without a PIN
A specific multi-touch gesture bypasses an authentication prompt, allowing anyone to send messages
Home Office hands £28M to immigration IT incumbents after procurement challenge
Continuity support required after £336 million replacement deal delayed by more than a year
How Gartner can help turn your AI vision into business reality
SPONSORED POST: Feeling stuck with your AI application projects? Gartner has the solution
Tech support chap told angry customer to think inside the box – and solved the problem
We're not Li-ion, user thought mobile phone batteries died every few days
NTP server that traveled back in time caused massive Aussie mobile outage
Telstra skipped a patch, didn’t record changes, had no idea it was an accident waiting to happen
SpaceX scrubs Starship launch after some of its engines didn't start
"Now offloading propellant. Next launch attempt hopefully in a few days."
Two Trump health nominees crash and burn in tense Senate hearing
Both nominees flailed in their own unique ways as senators sought answers.
HP fined 1.4 billion rupees for “cartelization” of ink cartridges, toner, PCs
Resellers threatened to ditch HP printing supplies for counterfeits.
T-Mobile bungled forced plan migration, canceling some users' free lines
T-Mobile to restore free lines lost during plan migration, but price hikes remain.
It's official: EU will force Google to share search data and open up AI on Android
Google says these changes could endanger user privacy and security.
Speech Recognition and TTS in less than 500kb
Article URL: https://github.com/moonshine-ai/moonshine/tree/main/micro Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48911793 Points: 542 # Comments: 79
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Blender 5.2 LTS
Article URL: https://www.blender.org/download/releases/5-2/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48911021 Points: 283 # Comments: 109
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Mathematicians still don't know the fastest way to multiply numbers
Article URL: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mathematicians-still-dont-know-the-fastest-way-to-multiply-numbers/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48895861 Points: 198 # Comments: 109
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