Thursday, 23 July 2026
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SDL Lands HDR10 Rendering Support
Sam Lantinga of Valve and SDL fame has landed HDR10 rendering support into the Simple DirectMedia Library...
Fresh off AI layoffs, Block now wants to whack Slack with agent-human collab tool
Because what could be more appealing to humans than sharing virtual space with AI?
COSMIC Epoch 1.4 Released With More Fixes, Force Quit For COSMIC Monitor
System76 developers today released COSMIC Epoch 1.4 as the newest stable release to their Rust-based desktop environment...
Hyundai claims humanoid robot plan is not part of talks with striking workers
Union previously warned automaker that any robot deployment must be negotiated.
Terrence Tao's ChatGPT Conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture Counterexample
Article URL: https://chatgpt.com/share/6a5fdc7a-d6f8-83e8-bbea-8deb42cfed56 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49010345 Points: 347 # Comments: 170
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GigaToken: ~1000x faster Language model tokenization
Article URL: https://github.com/marcelroed/gigatoken/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49010167 Points: 209 # Comments: 43
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Are AI Labs Pelicanmaxxing?
Article URL: https://dylancastillo.co/posts/pelicanmaxxing.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49010129 Points: 185 # Comments: 68
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Next Space Force chief throws cold water on the idea of space privateers
It turns out some of Benjamin Franklin's opinions from 240 years ago are still relevant today.
Linux kernel team publishes 432 CVEs in two days
Sunday-to-Monday onslaught fuels speculation over AI-assisted bug reports
OpenAI says its AI agent broke out of testing sandbox to hack Hugging Face
"This is day one for cybersecurity in the age of agents," Hugging Face CEO says.
AMD EPYC Turin With PCIe 5.0 Storage Shows Off Nice Gains On Linux 7.2
Earlier this week was an exciting look at Intel Xe3 graphics performance gains on Linux 7.2 with Intel Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" hardware. On the other side of the table, with AMD hardware on this forthcoming kernel an area to be excited about are some I/O improvements at least for 5th Gen EPYC with speedy PCIe Gen5 NVMe SSD storage.
Astronomers spot exomoon candidate that's almost as massive as Jupiter
Object orbits a brown dwarf, which circles another star, confusing the cosmic taxonomy
Does creatine make you smarter?
Article URL: https://dynomight.net/creatine/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49008642 Points: 170 # Comments: 155
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Making
Article URL: https://beej.us/blog/data/ai-making/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49008440 Points: 207 # Comments: 82
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Show HN: HN Hall of Fame – browse 3,100 legendary Hacker News links
Article URL: https://www.orangecrumbs.com/hall/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49008406 Points: 155 # Comments: 36
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Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)
Over the past few months, our team has been building more and more slidedecks using web frontend technologies with coding harnesses like Claude Code, but a common complaint is to make even small edits we need to edit the code either manually or via the harness. To avoid this loop, I ended up creating Bento, a single HTML file with everything you need in a slide tool including animations and…
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Latest Musk merch drop runs entirely on child labor
A Tesla fan and their money are easily parted
“We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the development of K3”
https://xcancel.com/mkratsios47/status/2079933645888880708 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49007610 Points: 155 # Comments: 368
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Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain
https://xcancel.com/nikitabier/status/2079787406300266743 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49007374 Points: 348 # Comments: 452
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What happens when you try to chop a photon in half?
A mirror that moves mid-photon could release a shower of new photons.
Grok muscles into Excel with an AI add-in of its own
xAI's sidebar agent promises analysis and financial models – for a price
Samsung unveils new Galaxy Z8 foldables and Galaxy Watches, available August 7
Samsung's new foldables are slimmer, faster, and more expensive.
Unlimited AI tokens aren't unlimited after all as US Army burns through supply
Troops received an email informing them that they were rapidly depleting their AI tokens.
OpenAI tries the consulting path with 'Presence', charging enterprises boots-on-the-ground prices to deploy agents
As AI models become commoditized, maybe there's margin in the plumbing
Sneaky Windows stealer targets 300+ apps, gives crims an AI profiler to maximize profits
Move over Flipper. There's a new Dophin X in town
The startup's Postgres survival guide
Article URL: https://hatchet.run/blog/postgres-survival-guide Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49005787 Points: 243 # Comments: 131
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libx11-compat Is Working To Implement Xlib Atop SDL For Wayland, macOS, Android
For helping to keep X11 clients running in a modern Linux desktop world with Wayland or even for running on macOS or Android, there is now yet-another option being developed with libx11-compat. The libx11-compat project is working to re-implement the Xlib client library atop SDL2/SDL3 interfaces for allow broad underlying platform coverage...
Intel Directed Package-Level Thermal Interrupts Slated For Linux 7.3
Back in March Intel software engineers began sending out Linux patches for Directed Package-Level Thermal Interrupts as a new capability with recent Intel processors. This notable efficiency improvement is now queued for introduction in the Linux 7.3 cycle once its merge window opens in a month...
Ireland stalls €1B Microsoft tender amid digital sovereignty questions
Government plans another Redmond-only procurement despite calls to consider European rivals
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Article URL: https://beej.us/blog/data/mystery-comment/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49005329 Points: 140 # Comments: 40
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The "New Normal" Of Audio Quirks Submitted For Linux 7.2-rc5
Linux sound subsystem maintainer Takashi Iwai of SUSE sent out this week's batch of sound fixes that he describes as "A collection of fixes that have been accumulated recently. The amount is still "new normal", but all small fixes. Mostly hardware-specific quirks, but including a few core fixes, too." The "new normal" has been a common phrase recently to reflect the increased tempo of patches as…
Greedy ransomware crews return for seconds after victims cough up first extortion payments
Some never saw their files again either, infosec biz Proofpoint finds
Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 10-Inch Model Launches
Following the launch of the 7-inch Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 and the 5-inch display variant, Raspberry Pi announced today the addition of a 10-inch model...
Ukrainian drones deliver robots directly into battle by sea and air
Ukraine's battlefield surge of robots now features airdrops and beach assaults.
GNOME can look like Windows – and Flashback can do it without extensions
New 'Simple-taskbar' is an option, but there's a simpler, stabler way
Redmond's reaper cometh: October 2026 set to bury a graveyard of Microsoft products
Office LTSC 2021, Windows Server 2022, Publisher, and Entra ID risk policies all facing the chop within weeks of each other
Raspberry Pi goes large with 10.1-inch Touch Display 2
More screen, more pixels, and a Pi 5 required to drive the lot
Council worker spared prison after four-day data-snooping spree
Herefordshire employee handed suspended sentence for breach of Computer Misuse Act
Anyone with a shed, an extension cord, a couple of GPUs and an overdraft is building datacenters. Fujitsu just offloaded five
‘Digital transformation’ is a better bet, apparently, so private equity gets a turn
China advances plans for national single-stack IPv6 network, and its own surveillance-friendly version of the protocol
IPv6+ could make it easier to censor netizens or block traffic, and Beijing is already exporting it
LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps
Article URL: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/07/lg-to-ban-residential-proxies-from-smart-tv-apps/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49000864 Points: 366 # Comments: 374
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OpenAI admits it was the source of the agent swarm that attacked Hugging Face
Sandboxed experiment found itself a zero day, escaped onto the open internet and validated scary predictions about rogue agents
The truth nobody wants to admit: Chinese or not, open models are competitive now
Hey Uncle Sam, if you thought GPT-5.6 and Claude Fable 5 were scary, get a load of Kimi K3
Range Rover answers the question: "What if we built a not-SUV?"
The Range Rover GT will debut as an EV with a hybrid version to follow.
On the run for 20 years, most-wanted fugitive caught hiding as a biotech exec
Ronald Fischer, aka Richard Graydon, was arrested in New York last week.
Cryptsetup 2.8.7 Released To Deal With Fallout Of Linux's Rushed AF_ALG Deprecation
Linux's cryptsetup for configuring and managing encrypted storage devices is ready with a new version as the developers work to deal with the recent deprecation of the Linux AF_ALG interface...
Cisco's open-weight bug busters take on Google and OpenAI
Don't call them chatbots
Sony releases one last trailer for Spider-Man: Brand New Day
"Maybe that's my responsibility, to live alone with the truth."
AI's cheatin' heart will make you weep
Trust but verify doesn't work when verification is difficult
Confusion swirls on source of diarrhea outbreak, but it’s still Taylor Farms
Taylor Farms stirred confusion on FDA test and provided a vague recall list.
US Marines' latest anti-drone toy is an AI turret that uses regular machine guns
Don't worry - it can attack ground targets, too
Nintendo says users voluntarily paid higher prices, have no right to tariff refunds
Nintendo says Switch buyers got what they paid for, urges court to dismiss lawsuit.
Let Tom Hiddleston be your guide to Pompeii's final day
NatGeo's Pompeii: Out of Time fuses historical fact and imagination to bring city's last 24 hours to life.
Three New Ubuntu Snap Vulnerabilities Made Public - One Dates Back To Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Canonical today disclosed three new Snap security vulnerabilities affecting snapd. Two are rated high impact vulnerabilities while the third is considered medium but covers all Ubuntu releases of the past decade going back to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS...
Naked mole-rat queens use a chemical signal to suppress fertility in rivals
A single chemical made by mole-rat queens enforces the social order.
Qualcomm Posts Linux Patches For X2 Elite Extreme Powered ASUS Zenbook A16
Following recent Linux kernel patches enabling the Snapdragon X2 Elite powered Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x Gen11 and HP EliteBook X G2q X2 Elite laptops to boot outside of Windows 11 on ARM, Qualcomm engineers have now posted a new patch series for getting the X2 Elite Extreme powered ASUS Zenbook A16 working on Linux...
Anthropic’s $1.5B copyright settlement approved; only 350 authors opted out
Anthropic blocks authors from opting out of $1.5B settlement at last minute.
Sales of Valve's Steam Deck crater after recent price hike
Analysis of bestseller charts shows an 80 percent dip from 2025's sales rate.
Google announces Gemini 3.6 Flash and cybersecurity AI, teases 3.5 Pro and Gemini 4
There are new 3.6 and 3.5 models today, but Google is already training Gemini 4.
KDE Plasma 6.7 vs. GNOME Shell 50.3 vs. Xfce 4.20 On CachyOS With NVIDIA Graphics
Earlier this month I provided a look at the KDE Plasma 6.7 Wayland vs. X11 session performance for graphics/gaming on CachyOS using NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 graphics. Since then Phoronix readers -- including some premium supporters -- requested seeing some additional desktops tested with the latest CachyOS packages.
Canonical Makes The "Enterprise Store" Official For Offline/Air-Gapped Ubuntu Usage
For months the Enterprise Store "enterprise-store" has been mentioned in some Ubuntu documentation and other elements while today it was formally announced by Canonical. The Enterprise Store is for helping to manage Ubuntu Linux deployments particularly within enterprise organizations that may have their computers air-gapped or otherwise strict Internet controls...
TreeSize won't renew perpetual-license support unless users subscribe
"Current economic conditions" have shifted TreeSize's business model.
When your vehicle outlives its cloud: What happens next?
Automakers love connected vehicles, but support isn't open-ended.
Stratis Storage Anaconda Integration Approved For Fedora 45
The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has approved the latest batch of features for the upcoming Fedora 45 release...
Apps targeted at US troops contain Chinese and Russian code
More than one-eighth of apps analyzed contained foreign code.
AMD Ryzen AI Halo LED Driver Queued For Introduction In Linux 7.3
For those that have picked up one of the neat AMD Ryzen AI Halo mini PCs, the LED driver allowing for customization of the LED lighting bar is set to be mainlined for the Linux 7.3 kernel cycle...
Intel Compute Runtime Continues Building Out Exciting "LEO"
Going in-step with last week's release of the Intel Graphics Compiler 2.38.2, out today is the Intel Compute Runtime 26.27.39122.11. Most intriguing with the new release is Intel continuing to build out the still-experimental LEO feature...
AMD Getting The Linux Kernel Ready For Zen 6 Profiling/Perf With More EILVT Registers
Among the recent patch series in preparing Linux for upcoming AMD Zen 6 processors is making the kernel aware of additional EILVT registers to be found with at least EPYC Venice platforms...
InputPlumber 0.78 Released With Expanded Hardware Support
InputPlumber is out with its newest feature release. As a reminder, InputPlumber is the open-source input router and remapper daemon for combining various input devices from gamepads to mice and keyboards as well as the ability to emulate them...
Cold Reset Recovery Coming Together To Better Help Intel GPUs On Linux
One of the patch series going through nearly a dozen revisions now is for introducing a cold reset recovery method for the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) drivers with an initial focus on the Intel Xe kernel graphics driver...
NetworkManager 1.58 Released With 464XLAT CLAT Support & GENEVE Interface
NetworkManager 1.58 is out today with the latest feature enhancements for bettering wired and wireless network management on Linux...
Intel Expanding Memory Options For Current Xeon 6 / Xeon 6+ Servers
With Intel's next-generation Xeon Diamond Rapids processors not slated to launch until next year and with AMD EPYC Venice being right around the corner, Intel announced today that with upcoming BIOS updates they will be expanding the range of RDIMM and MRDIMM memory support for current-generation Xeon 6 and Xeon 6+ processors...
Introduction to Formal Verification with Lean Part 1
Article URL: https://hashcloak.com/blog/tutorial-introduction-to-formal-verification-with-lean-(part-1) Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48969200 Points: 213 # Comments: 41
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Intel Starts Shipping High-NA EUV Silicon
Article URL: https://morethanmoore.substack.com/p/intel-starts-shipping-high-na-euv Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48961698 Points: 223 # Comments: 97
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ScreenWall – Turn old phones into synced widgets for your space
Article URL: https://screenwall.app/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48945804 Points: 118 # Comments: 42
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