Monday, 03 August 2026
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Show HN: Kakehashi – Experimental userspace to run macOS binaries on Linux ARM
Article URL: https://github.com/wie-project/kakehashi Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49145937 Points: 102 # Comments: 26
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How the words we teach English language learners changed
Article URL: https://pudding.cool/2026/07/essential-words/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49145590 Points: 159 # Comments: 88
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Linux 7.3 To Begin Laying The Groundwork For Intel Starfire
Intel recently announced Starfire as their new Panther Lake derived, space-grade SoC designed for extreme environments... like survivability in space. With the Linux 7.3, we are going to begin seeing the first Intel Starfire specific patches land in the kernel...
Twenty Years of RISC OS Open
Article URL: https://www.riscosopen.org/news/articles/2026/06/20/twenty-years-of-risc-os-open Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49143967 Points: 124 # Comments: 20
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F*: A general-purpose proof-oriented programming language
Article URL: https://fstar-lang.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49143925 Points: 115 # Comments: 44
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Meshdiff – visually compare two STL versions in the browser, client-side
Article URL: https://meshdiff.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49143479 Points: 150 # Comments: 15
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Linux 7.3 To Support The Qualcomm Adreno 704 & Adreno 722 GPUs
Sent out on Saturday were the Qualcomm MSM DRM kernel graphics/display driver updates to land for the upcoming Linux 7.3 merge window...
Ubuntu Touch Making Progress Toward Ubuntu 26.04, Vulkan & App Updates
Following last week's release of Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.0 for this community-maintained, mobile flavor of Ubuntu Linux, more details are now available on their upcoming development efforts and eventual transition to an Ubuntu 26.04 base...
Linux 7.2-rc6 Fixes Some AMD Zen 5 CPUs Being Mistakenly Identified As Zen 6
Today's batch of x86 fixes for the kernel ahead of the Linux 7.2-rc6 release later in the day addresses some AMD Zen 5 processors mistakenly being classified as Zen 6...
Artificial Intelligence: Ars Notoria and the Promise of Instant Knowledge
Article URL: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/ars-notoria/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49143001 Points: 112 # Comments: 26
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Box64 v0.4.4 Released With New Box64-Configurator App
Box64 0.4.4 released today as the newest version of this open-source user-space Linux x86_64 emulator for running binaries on 64-bit ARM, RISC-V, and LoongArch systems...
Show HN: Bor – Open-source policy management for Linux desktops
Hi HN! I've been working on Bor, an open-source system for centralized Linux desktop management. Bor consists of a lightweight Go agent and a central server.
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Meet the 'internet radical' who helped Microsoft get email and AT&T get online
Tom Evslin on Bill Gates, the birth of Exchange, and dragging Ma Bell onto the web
Karpathy’s Pelican
https://xcancel.com/karpathy/status/2083749667410727319 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49140998 Points: 232 # Comments: 179
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Show HN: I'm a 15 Year Old Wannabe Engineer, This Is a Cycloidal Gearbox I Built
Article URL: https://github.com/tom-ilan/cycloidal_gearbox Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49140396 Points: 304 # Comments: 97
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Go 1.27 Interactive Tour
Article URL: https://victoriametrics.com/blog/go-1-27/index.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49140218 Points: 334 # Comments: 167
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Steam On Linux Use Back Above 4% In July
Valve just published the Steam Survey results for July 2026 and point to a small uptick in Linux gaming use...
Diátaxis
Article URL: https://diataxis.fr/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49138188 Points: 503 # Comments: 57
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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 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...
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.
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…
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
Enterprise cloud infrastructure uptake shows no sign of slowing
Cloud revenue now north of $143 billion a quarter, and growth is accelerating
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.
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...
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
Scotland's university procurement center confirms cybercrooks broke in
APUC investigating after criminals claim historical data theft
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
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"
Holocloth
Article URL: https://holocloth.vercel.app Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49116917 Points: 150 # Comments: 26
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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
Folding Paper Globes
Article URL: https://foldingglobes.com/globes Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49093845 Points: 116 # Comments: 26
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Norway Salmon
Article URL: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-28/how-norway-s-salmon-industry-became-a-global-behemoth/106949872 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49078283 Points: 111 # Comments: 67
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