Sunday, 02 August 2026
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Here's how engineers plan to save the satellite sent to save NASA's Swift mission
"We believe that a capture of Swift, an attempted capture of Swift, is very much in the cards."
NetBSD 11.0
Article URL: https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_11_0_released Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49136736 Points: 118 # Comments: 26
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A directory of people who love RSS
Article URL: https://andrewshell.org/2026/07/i-%e2%99%a5-rss/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49136063 Points: 134 # Comments: 73
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NetBSD 11.0 Released With RISC-V Support, Enhanced Linux System Call Compatibility
NetBSD 11.0 officially shipped today as the nineteenth major release of this popular BSD operating system...
Cursor removed cost information from the usage page and CSV export
Article URL: https://forum.cursor.com/t/usage-page-to-token-amount-what/167153 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49135257 Points: 232 # Comments: 102
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Review: Yes, we're still arguing about Nolan's The Odyssey
Christopher Nolan's impressionistic remix of Homer's epic poem finds the man behind the myth.
A Surveillance Treaty in Disguise: Canada Signs UN Cybercrime Convention
Article URL: https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/07/a-surveillance-treaty-in-disguise-the-trouble-with-canadas-quiet-decision-to-sign-the-un-cybercrime-convention/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49134694 Points: 207 # Comments: 119
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The Art of 64-bit Assembly
Article URL: https://nostarch.com/art-64-bit-assembly-v2 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49134599 Points: 132 # Comments: 66
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MPEG-4 Patent Expiration, RADV On Windows, Open-Source AI & Other July Highlights
Last month on Phoronix there were 257 original Linux/open-source related news articles and another 20 featured Linux hardware reviews / multi-page benchmark articles. Following the recent 22nd birthday of Phoronix.com, this puts the overall tally at nearly 51k original news articles and more than 5,600 Linux hardware reviews. Here is a look back at what readers found most exciting during the…
RipGrep musl binaries occasionally segfault during very-large searches
Article URL: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/issues/3494 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49133889 Points: 217 # Comments: 146
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As Reddit stock falls, CEO questions value of Google's AI Overviews
Reddit may still be considering ending its licensing deal with Google.
Prominent Arch Linux Developer Resigns After 10 Year Run
Arch Linux developer, security team member, AUR maintainer, and package maintainer Morten Linderud "Foxboron" announced today he is resigning from the project...
After noise complaints, judge orders Waymo to stop overnight charging in Santa Monica
Autonomous vehicle giant disturbs residents' sleep.
Linux 7.2-rc6 Working Around Several Buggy Western Digital SATA Drives
Merged ahead of tomorrow's Linux 7.2-rc6 kernel test release are several ATA fixes that include a number of device-specific workarounds for some Western Digital SATA drives that have been failing to work on recent versions of the Linux kernel...
GNOME Working To Establish An RFC Process, Battling Sloppy AI-Generated Extensions
GNOME developers were quite busy in closing out the month of July from continued work on establishing a formal Request For Comments (RFC) process for the project to battling the continued flood of AI-generated GNOME Shell extensions...
KDE Plasma 6.8 To Enjoy Huge Performance Gains For Multi-GPU/eGPU Performance
It's been a very exciting week in the KDE Plasma 6.8 development space particularly thanks to performance work on bettering KWin's multi-GPU / external GPU handling...
Defcon's new badge is a security key you can see inside
A removable chip lets hackers inspect their badge—and keep using it after Defcon.
Picolibc 1.8.12 Brings Latest Improvements To This Embedded-Focused C Library
If the recent release of the GNU C Library glibc 2.44 is too big for your embedded use-cases, Keith Packard continues hacking on Picolibc as his embedded-focused C library. Released overnight was Picolibc 1.8.12 with a variety of improvements for this embedded libc...
How fruit flies chase invisible ribbons of smell to get to their source
Tracking smells in turbulent air takes a keen sense of direction and sharp memory.
Unexpected item in the bagging area as Windows Activation error pops up at check-in
Bags weighed down by a Microsoft license key
A deep dive into Nvidia's Vera CPU and the Olympus cores that power it
88 custom cores, 176 funky threads, 1.5 TB of laptop RAM, and 1.8 TB/s of NVLink connectivity — this isn't your typical datacenter chip
RamenHaus
Article URL: https://ramen.haus/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49132460 Points: 190 # Comments: 93
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Enterprise cloud infrastructure uptake shows no sign of slowing
Cloud revenue now north of $143 billion a quarter, and growth is accelerating
Flint: A Visualization Language for the AI Era
Article URL: https://microsoft.github.io/flint-chart/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49130604 Points: 233 # Comments: 65
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AMD Begins Posting Display Core Next 6 "DCN6" Linux Patches For RDNA5 GPUs
AMD closed out the month of July by posting some new AMDGPU Display Core "DC" patches. Most notable with this weekly patch ritual is several patches beginning to establish the foundation for Display Core Next 6 "DCN6" as their next-generation display IP. The patches tie DCN6 to the AMD GFX13 graphics engine, which is anticipated to be for the next-generation RDNA5 graphics processors...
Not just Neanderthals: Ghost lineage in Africa left its mark on our DNA
Some group with no modern descendants contributed a lot to our genomes.
Doctors took a look at man's painful shoulder—they found the joint was missing
The term "Milwaukee Shoulder Syndrome" was coined in 1981, based on cases in four women.
Google plans to exempt sanctioned nations from Android developer verification
Someone in Cuba or Iran can keep installing APKs with no new restrictions, but devs will suffer.
Reddit keeps its strange DMCA fight over Google search results alive
Reddit advances lawsuit accusing Perplexity AI of conspiring with web scraper.
Claude published malicious code to the Internet and attacked 3 real companies
Had the hacks used conventional methods, someone would likely go to prison.
AMD Publishes CDNA5 ISA Documentation For Instinct MI455X
Following last week's launch of the AMD Instinct MI455X, AMD has now kept with tradition and provided ISA documentation concerning this latest CDNA5 architecture...
Google Earth risked ruin with retracted AI tool for making fake satellite pics
“What on earth is Google doing?” Misinformation fears spur walk-back of AI tool.
Dev who gave HashiCorp its name returns with a faster terminal multiplexer
Persistent sessions could be just the beginning
Would you get tattooed just to interview at a 7-days-a-week AI startup?
LemonLime’s CEO got “carried away” with tattoo gimmick.
High school defends staying silent while boys made AI nudes of 59 classmates
Gaps in laws may help Pennsylvania high school escape AI nudes scandal.
qm – Multiplayer agent harness for work
Article URL: https://github.com/yc-software/qm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49126604 Points: 644 # Comments: 151
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The First Open-Source Firmware Released For Modern AMD Ryzen AM5 Platform
Last month 3mdeb released their open-source firmware for a modern AMD EPYC motherboard from Gigabyte that was built off the new AMD openSIL project and Coreboot. Today 3mdeb has delivered the first open-source firmware release for a modern AMD Ryzen desktop motherboard with having independently brought their openSIL+Coreboot powered Dasharo stack to the readily available MSI PRO B850-P WIFI...
Researchers devise a full-color night vision goggle
Wavelength and intensity in the infrared are translated into colors in the visible.
Shotcut 26.7 Video Editor Released With Stock Asset Library
Shotcut 26.7 is out today as the newest feature release to this open-source, cross-platform video editing solution...
China could supply EV manufacturing boom with recycled EVs
Look at chemistry of batteries and motors shows big opportunity for recycling.
Sony acknowledges backlash, “cautiously” moves ahead with end of PlayStation discs
Sony doesn't think the move will hurt it financially.
The most famous brand in physical security got pwned by ShinyHunters
Hopefully the company secures houses better than it locks down SaaS systems
Man invested $45M in a Nicolas Cage movie. It got stolen off Netflix’s desk.
Filmmaker sues Netflix over stolen screener of unreleased Nicolas Cage movie.
US bank places trust in ransomware crew that promised to delete its data
History suggests this was not wise
Nouveau Preparing To Finally Enable Atomic Mode-Setting By Default
In addition to the Nouveau kernel driver unblocking Vulkan Video H.264 support for the Mesa NVK driver, another feature change on the way is this open-source NVIDIA Linux driver finally preparing to enable atomic mode-setting by default...
Elevators
Article URL: https://john.fun/elevators Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49124218 Points: 1554 # Comments: 383
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Anthropic and OpenAI are competing to see whose agents can go rogue harder
Whoever wins, we lose
Update Teams mobile app by October or lose your calendar
A nice little summer job for someone
AI scammers outperform humans when it comes to building trust
The AI chatbot was more effective at creating “exploitable trust” than the humans.
Arch Linux AUR Under Another Wave Of Malicious Packages, Package Adoptions Halted
Last month the Arch Linux User Repository "AUR" saw more than 1,500 malicious packages amid a sophisticated malware attack and then also seeing an influx of spam and profanities amid this community/user-maintained repository for the popular Arch Linux distribution. Unfortunately, there is another round of AUR troubles...
Charities remain locked out of CAF Bank online accounts
A week into shutdown, 14,000 customers still have no restoration date and some are struggling to pay staff
Linux 7.3 To Allow Tuning AMD P-State Dynamic EPP With Per CPU Core Granularity
Sent out last night was the last batch of planned AMD P-State driver feature improvements targeting the upcoming Linux 7.3 merge window...
Pathogenic review: Damn, it feels good to be a virus
The hot new roguelite twin-stick shooter lives up to the hype.
NASA's Swift rescue slips to late August as LINK battles its spin
Engineers make progress in stabilizing mission but push back the rendezvous date
Three becomes one as Vodafone buys out merger partner
£4.3B deal gives telco full control of Britain's largest mobile operator
Servo 0.4 Browser Engine Gets More Websites Rendering Correctly
Servo 0.4 was just released for closing out the month of July. This month the Servo browser engine with its servoshell demo browser began rendering more real-world websites correctly...
Scotland's university procurement center confirms cybercrooks broke in
APUC investigating after criminals claim historical data theft
Nouveau Patch For Linux 7.3 Allows For NVK Vulkan Video Atop NVIDIA NVDEC
This week's round of drm-misc-next patches for staging ahead of the Linux 7.3 kernel merge window bring an exciting change for the open-source NVIDIA "Nouveau" driver...
x86_64 Shadow Stack By Default Retargeted For Fedora 46
In recent weeks there was a proposal to enable x86_64 Shadow Stack support by default with the upcoming Fedora Linux 45 release. That change has been approved now by the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) but with the feature being punted off to Fedora 46 next year...
Tech buyers are baking in sovereignty from day one, says Forrester
European firms feel the greatest pressure as US giants dominate cloud and AI infrastructure
Vulkan 1.4.358 Released With New Image Tiling Control Extension
After two weeks without any Vulkan spec update, Vulkan 1.4.358 was released overnight. Besides the usual assortment of minor clarifications/fixes, Vulkan 1.4.358 introduces one new extension: VK_EXT_image_tiling_control...
Sound Fixes For Linux 7.2-rc6: "Far Larger Than Wished"
Linux sound subsystem maintainer Takashi Iwai of SUSE previously warned of many sound driver fixes due to AI/LLMs and a "new normal" of patch activity as a result. While we are approaching the end of the Linux 7.2 merge window with the stable release coming up in August, the sound patches continue trending higher and this week were "far larger than wished" ahead of Linux 7.2-rc6 due out on…
UK wants datacenters to pay a fee for grid connection requests
Refundable charge intended to discourage time wasters from filing applications that will never be realized
Airport sign fails to boot, officers already on the scene
Bork! Bork! That's the sound of the police
Techie lured out of retirement to support software only he remembered
The first job was lucrative and went well, but a pension was preferable to rolling projects
Anthropic’s Claude escaped test sandbox to attack three organizations
Wrote and published malware during tests, which is apparently OK because leaky test environments were the real problem
Amazon's Q2 was great, but the earnings release is packed with baloney
"Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies"
Linux 7.3 Will Treat Intel Nova Lake S Graphics As Stable
Ahead of the next-generation Intel Nova Lake processors expected to begin rolling out around the start of 2027, the upcoming Linux 7.3 kernel cycle is going to begin treating Nova Lake S processors with their integrated graphics as stable...
LinkedIn realizes its users have been bathing in AI slop, offers a shower
AI-riddled social network adds button to report sloppy posts, ditches AI rewrite tools, and promises more to come
Oracle adds Google Gemini to the agent menu
Chocolate Factory LLMs join Big Red's Fusion automation party
Software for One
Article URL: https://www.ajwaxman.com/writing/software-for-one Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49096605 Points: 226 # Comments: 230
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The tiny holdout building in the middle of Macy’s is back in view
Article URL: https://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2026/07/27/hidden-by-billboards-for-over-100-years-the-tiny-holdout-building-in-the-middle-of-macys-is-back-in-view/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49091614 Points: 176 # Comments: 54
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