Sunday, 06 September 2026
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Ikey Doherty Plans To Show How To "Properly" Build A Modern Linux Distro
Ikey Doherty is back in the Linux distribution space. Sort of. Ikey Doherty who was the founder of the Solus Linux distribution as well as Serpent OS (now AerynOS) as well as having been employed by Intel on their Clear Linux team is back at it again in the Linux space...
The Luxuries in Life
Article URL: https://feld.com/archives/2026/09/the-real-luxuries-in-life/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49578866 Points: 175 # Comments: 59
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Wikimedia Foundation Workers Overwhelmingly Vote to Form Union with CWA
Article URL: https://wikiworkersunited.org/announcements/2026-09-04-us-wikimedia-foundation-workers-overwhelmingly-vote-to-form-union-with-cwa/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49577975 Points: 198 # Comments: 78
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Tesla’s Cybercab has been deployed, and it’s already under investigation
The US government is investigating whether the Cybercab meets vehicle safety standards.
NVIDIA Posts vGPU Manager & VFIO Variant Driver For Open-Source Nova
NVIDIA continues building out more functionality around the open-source, upstream Nova kernel graphics driver within the Linux kernel. Making it out to the mailing list this Saturday is a set of 13 patches for introducing a NVIDIA vGPU manager and VFIO variant driver...
How the Disaster of "Forever Chemicals" Was Kept Secret
Article URL: https://www.propublica.org/podcast/forever-chemicals-pfas-pfos-3m-secret-kris-hansen Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49576986 Points: 252 # Comments: 73
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The "$60 Gaming PC" – AMD BC-250 (2025)
Article URL: https://devquasar.com/hardware/the-60-gaming-pc-amd-bc-250/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49576386 Points: 208 # Comments: 67
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.gitignore Everything by Default
Article URL: https://packagemain.tech/p/gitignore-everything-by-default Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49576258 Points: 109 # Comments: 123
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Nouveau Lands Display Fixes For NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs As It Works Toward HDMI 2.1
This week's Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) fixes that were merged ahead of Sunday's Linux 7.3-rc2 release contain a number of fixes to the open-source Nouveau driver's display support for current-generation NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs...
Linux Patches Posted For Initial Enablement Of The Apple A18 Pro + MacBook Neo
In addition to Linux developers focused on Apple Silicon being busy enabling functionality for the M3 and newer SoCs under the Linux kernel, there are also developers working on enabling the A18 Pro SoC used by the new, budget-friendly MacBook Neo laptop. Patches were posted this week for initial enablement of the A18 Pro and the MacBook Neo Device Tree... But even with these patches, the Linux…
AMD Working To "Push Rust Deep Into The GPU Stack"
AMD is building out what they are describing as an "elite" team of developers for driving Rust code "deep into the GPU stack" from firmware to drivers, shader compilers, and other GPU software in Rust...
GNOME Stakeholders Discussing RFC Process For Solving Major Technical Changes
GNOME has been working to establish a formal request for comments (RFC) process for solving major technical questions and changes moving forward. A drafted RFC is now under discussion by GNOME stakeholders for moving this process forward...
AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems
Article URL: https://www.sylvainkalache.com/blog/ai-handles-incidents-engineers-lose-touch-with-their-systems Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49574167 Points: 331 # Comments: 289
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BepiColombo sheds its ride and starts the final glide to Mercury
Eight year after launch, Mercury probe and its Mercury Transfer Module consciously uncouple as orbit approaches
Git hosting that never leaves Europe
Article URL: https://pushin.eu Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49573680 Points: 269 # Comments: 137
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Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns
Article URL: https://codeberg.org/mv12star/shitter/wiki/Instances Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49571634 Points: 554 # Comments: 237
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After 8 years, Europe's BepiColombo mission is on final approach to Mercury
"Fundamentally, we want to learn about the origins of this planet and how it came to be like it is."
OpenAI agents discussed ways to escape their sandbox on public wiki
In all, 3,700 internal agents posted 18,000 messages discussing cheating on a test.
Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions
Article URL: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/cve-2026-85046 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49570669 Points: 714 # Comments: 411
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GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter
Article URL: https://openrouter.ai/openai/gpt-6-astra Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49570545 Points: 292 # Comments: 216
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KDE Plasma 6.8 Lands Windows-Like Auto-Scrolling, Lower vRAM Usage For Breeze Theme
It's been an exciting start to the month of September for KDE Plasma developers with continuing to land last minute improvements for Plasma 6.8 ahead of its official release in mid-October...
Anthropic lays groundwork for bots that shop for you
Now comes the harder sell: Convincing customers and merchants to trust AI with purchases
Statichost.eu – European static site hosting
Article URL: https://www.statichost.eu/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49569896 Points: 414 # Comments: 191
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Measles killed 6-week-old baby, coroner confirms after RFK Jr. disputed deaths
"It’s long past time for RFK to stop playing games with people’s lives."
AMD's Threadripper Halo is a local-AI workstation for researchers with deep pockets
AI workstation promises to put up to 576 GB of HBM3e and 16 TB/s of memory bandwidth on your desk
Wine 11.17 Released With Initial Support For Display Mode Emulation
Wine 11.17 is out today as the newest bi-weekly feature development release for this software enabling Windows games and apps to run on Linux...
Can AI design circuit boards yet?
Article URL: https://eebench.org/blog/can-ai-design-circuit-boards-yet/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49569366 Points: 340 # Comments: 201
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Trump admin fights ABC lawsuit as watchdogs worry Disney will settle with FCC
FCC tells court it is “open-minded" about whether ABC should lose licenses.
ASCII smuggling isn't just an AI security risk
Phishers find a new use for invisible Unicode tag characters
Medieval manuscripts are "biological time capsules" for deadly sheeppox virus
Other archives and libraries around the world may also contain genetic traces of past disease outbreaks.
Shutting down our public encrypted DNS
Article URL: https://mullvad.net/en/blog/shutting-down-our-public-encrypted-dns-servers-and-sponsoring-quad9-instead Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49568579 Points: 426 # Comments: 211
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Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem
https://xenaproject.wordpress.com/2026/09/04/flt-anthropic-h... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49568506 Points: 724 # Comments: 460
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“Trust, not features, is the real deficit”: VMware tries to appease SMBs
Broadcom admits it put “too big a focus on VCF.”
Once popular for attacking AI, ASCII smuggling is embraced by spammers
A once-overlooked block of unicode that's invisible to humans is gaining ever wider use.
Show HN: Open-Source eInk Bike Computer
Hey all, i just launched my Eink Bike computer project and think it is cool. Another tidbit, in the crazy things that AI has done... It has helped create a ANT (common sensor wireless protocol used in workout/biking) implementation for ESP32 by messing around with undocumented registers: https://github.com/RaemondBW/esp32-ant Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49567437 Points:…
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Pentagon rescinds new testosterone screening policy without explanation
The Pentagon says the guidance is being updated after being online for one day.
A ratings board wouldn't let Valve release a trailer. It "leaked" it instead.
"I think we can't get in trouble for that now. It's like 20 years ago."
Second complete map of a fruit fly brain completed
Every neuron and connection in the brain of a fly has been mapped—twice.
Anthropic’s $2 trillion IPO puts powerful external trustees in spotlight
Public-market scrutiny will intensify pressure on the Claude maker’s unusual attempt to balance profit and purpose.
Rogue OpenAI agents used dead German web site to communicate in May, months before Hugging Face incident
Two cases of agents escaping to solve unsolvable problems paints an uncomfortable question: Is the entire internet in OpenAI's experimental agentic firing line?
Musk wins court order to block use of “Twitter,” but not “tweet” and bird logo
Saying X is “formerly Twitter” in App Store lets Musk block use of Twitter name.
Trump White House just tossed a grenade into international space relations
"Let me be clear: America is not only welcome—we want you there."
Amazon Linux 2027 Shows Off Nice Performance Gains On AMD EPYC In The AWS Cloud
Yesterday AWS announced the public preview of Amazon Linux 2027 as their successor to the current Amazon Linux 2023 in-house distribution. With all the software upgrades and improvements like building packages now with link-time optimizations (LTO), enforcing x86-64-v3 builds, and other changes, I was eager to run some performance benchmarks of Amazon Linux 2023 vs. Amazon Linux 2027 in the EC2…
My Word. Microsoft's prepping Similarity Checker for retirement
Built-in plagiarism police to hand in badge next month
Canonical shuttering some of its legacy chat channels
The Ubuntu Pastebin went in June, IRC gets demoted next
NetworkManager Works To Enforce AI Policy By Tricking AI Agents To Add A Canary
Last month the NetworkManager project adopted an AI coding policy where authors are responsible for 100% of the code they submit and must be able to explain it all. In an attempt to catch AI coding agents that may be trying to bypass their policy, they have added an interesting canary to the project to try to catch such AI-generated patches so they can then be automatically dealt with...
PoCL 7.2 Released With Official OpenCL 3.0 Conformance On RISC-V & x86_64 CPUs
The Portable Computing Language project is out today with PoCL 7.2 as this portable, MIT-licensed OpenCL implementation that runs across various CPU architectures as well as targeting other GPUs/hardware with LLVM back-ends. Notable with PoCL 7.2 is bringing official OpenCL 3.0 conformance on x86_64 and RISC-V processors...
Microsoft to bounce mail from outdated Exchange servers
2016 and 2019 installations must meet the October 2025 baseline to reach cloud-hosted inboxes
PostgreSQL 19 connects the dots with standardized graph queries
Baked-in SQL syntax arrives through multi-vendor collaboration, although indexing still needs to catch up
XDC 2026 Will Feature Many Interesting Talks: Vulkan Gallium, OpenCL On CUDA & More
The annual X.Org Developer's Conference "XDC 2026" is happening later this month in Toronto. A great number of interesting talks are planned this year from new Wayland features to OpenCL over CUDA, the possibility of Vulkan Gallium, and a lot of exciting driver developments...
IBM Bob
Article URL: https://bob.ibm.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49563851 Points: 322 # Comments: 323
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Rocket Report: Engines installed for Artemis III; Long March 6C breakup in LEO
Two of Europe's leading launch startups announced new fundraising this week.
JavaScript installer pnpm recast in Rust because ECMAScript can't keep up
Fully backward-compatible upgrade promises zero-friction speedup for monorepo wranglers.
Linux 7.4 To Improve Apple Silicon Audio Support & Its "Impossible" Power Management
The Apple Silicon audio driver code within the Linux kernel is preparing to make use of the recent shared GPIO infrastructure for allowing multiple drivers / kernel components to nicely share the same GPIO lines. This should help clean things up in the mainline kernel for the Apple Silicon audio support and with a cleaner architecture than the current downstream Asahi Linux code...
Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/openai-agents-hijacked-... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49563355 Points: 2006 # Comments: 1484
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Cloud snail-mail service Docmail enters third day stuck in the outbox
No restoration time for platform used by more than 30,000 UK organizations, including NHS trusts and medical practices
Nearly impossible? How Fairphone built the ethical, repairable Fairphone Gen 6+
Fairphone's CTO explains how and why the Dutch company builds a different kind of smartphone.
Wayve and Uber steal a march on Waymo with paid self-driving London rides
15 Mustangs on the city streets, but the Nissan LEAF follow-up could dispense with the safety driver
Fedora 47 Considering Use Of Thin LTO Compiler Optimizations
A change proposal filed for what would be part of Fedora Linux 47 is on making use of Thin LTO rather than Fat LTO for link-time optimizations. With Thin LTO being more memory efficient and faster build speeds, the hope is that more Fedora packages could also use Thin LTO for packages where no link-time optimizations are currently leveraged...
Mesa 26.3 Preps For Intel Nova Lake P's New 64-bit GPU Mode
Merged overnight for Mesa 26.3 are changes to Intel's graphics compiler code for supporting a new 64-bit shader addressing mode. It turns out with upcoming Nova Lake P graphics will be a big fundamental change...
Enjoy the Windows 10 Update Experience at London's O2
The new extreme sport: Windows Updates
Vulkan 1.4.362 Released With New Extension Developed By Valve
Vulkan 1.4.362 is out this morning as the newest routine spec update. Making Vulkan 1.4.362 more notable beyond a couple bug fixes are two new Vulkan API extensions, both of which were worked on by Valve's Linux graphics team and one of them being a Valve vendor extension...
US law firm accuses UK AI software firm of unwanted contract renewal when it tried to leave
Customer alleges AI telco system had frequent issues, did not work as promised, as vendor sues separately for non payment
UK military wants lasers to stop drone swarms without running out of ammo
Project PANOPTES puts £5M on the table for an autonomous, vehicle-mounted defense
Best eSIM for travel 2026: which one offers the best value for money?
PARTNER CONTENT: Price isn't everything
On Call: User who handled life-or-death situations struggled with the SHIFT key
Novel interpretations of the keyboard made for trouble @ work
Google engineer unplugged every fiber they could see and – surprise! – took down a chunk of the G-Cloud
This sounds like a RTFM error at hyperscale
The search company that plants trees just launched a Linux browser to help Europe battle big tech
Why now? Well, the Linux desktop market share in the EU doubled between 2024 and 2025 (to 5.7%). That's why!
Cisco searched for IOS XR bugs and found so many it rolled them into an update release
Three critical vulns demand your attention, one a make-me-root mess in Nexus 9000 Series Switches that you can mitigate, not fix
Ubuntu 26.10 Snapshot 3 Monthly ISOs Released For Testing
Released tonight is Ubuntu 26.10 "Stonking Stingray" Snapshot 3 as the newest monthly ISO candidates for Ubuntu Linux...
Reports: RFK Jr. ordered measles deaths deletion; CDC still secretly counts them
CDC staff had already accepted the measles death reports when RFK Jr. meddled.
Amazon Linux 2027 Now in Preview: Powered By Linux 7.1, x86-64-v3 & Built With LTO
AWS announced today the public preview of Amazon Linux 2027. Given the time since Amazon Linux 2023, Amazon Linux 2027 comes with a heavy arsenal of software updates as well as many performance optimizations and other tuning for better running workloads geared for the AWS cloud...
Xbox imposes harsh new time limits for Game Pass game streaming
Over 1 million Game Pass subscribers will have to pay more for their heavy streaming use.
150 research primates got diarrhea, flooding lab with priceless vaccine data
Researchers now have clear new targets and insights for developing a Shigella vaccine.
Confused about which VPN is right, US senator asks the NSA for guidance
Open source, commercial, single-hop, multi-hop, mixnet? The array of options is dizzying.
Intel Improving Its Content Match Refresh Rate "CMRR" Feature With Linux 7.4
Introduced with the Xe2 Lunar Lake graphics hardware was support for Content Match Refresh Rate (CMRR) as an improvement over typical Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) / Adaptive-Sync to more precisely match the video or content frame rates. Particularly for video playback it aims for no stuttering or frame drops. With the upcoming Linux 7.4 kernel will be better support for CMRR with the Intel…
Mir 2.29 Released With Additional Wayland Protocols
For those using Canonical's Mir compositor for building Wayland-based shells, Mir 2.29 is now available with various improvements and new Wayland protocol coverage...
Ask HN: Resources to get good at soldering?
Hello. I've recently started soldering, specifically wanting to repair the joysticks on several Playstation 4 controllers I have, but I also want to get good at electronic repair in general. Right now I've busted a board, and managed to desolder and resolder a stick but the controller doesn't turn on anymore.
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