Thursday, 24 September 2026
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Mop the slop from your LinkedIn feed with a new open-source Chrome extension
Jev-powered Slop Mop demonstrates another great use case for probabilistic, non-chatty AI model
Lemonade Fixes AMD APU Model Streaming, Drops OpenMOSS ROCm As ~40x Slower Than Vulkan
The AMD-aligned Lemonade open-source project for serving as a local AI server released 2026.39.1 today as well as issuing a release candidate of 2026.40 as their next release. Besides adapting to a new versioning scheme, the Lemonade SDK updates today bring a few notable changes...
Europe's fastest supercomputer is finally getting its domestic silicon infusion
Bull, the system builder behind JUPITER, takes delivery of SiPearl's long-awaited Rhea1 CPUs
Someone's attacking a critical 0-day RCE in F5 BIG-IP APM
Good news: there's a patch. Bad news: both CISA and F5 warn that it's under active exploitation
Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats
Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-discovers-novel-enzyme-system Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49820134 Points: 200 # Comments: 193
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Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy
Article URL: https://apnews.com/article/italy-nuclear-chernobyl-4891b6b7c7791ae84db6b0bf0f7cf567 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49819221 Points: 290 # Comments: 165
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Discordians now subject to whims of new age verification technology
Discord users asked to prove they’re adults get less intrusive options
28% of job postings on company career sites have been open over 90 days
Article URL: https://unlisted.careers/ghost-jobs/report/2026-09 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49818698 Points: 147 # Comments: 221
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Robot dog ran a marathon on one charge and lived to publish the paper
Two years later, creators explain how lightweight hardware and reinforcement learning helped it go the distance
An Epyc trip to Venice: Everything we do and don't know about AMD's 256-core monster chip
16 channels of DDR5, 5 GHz clock speeds, and support for CXL 3.1 memory god boxes? What's not to like?
Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech
Article URL: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-8-text-to-speech/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49817615 Points: 184 # Comments: 94
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Fixing the Portobello Police Station Clock
Article URL: https://pointinthecloud.com/2026-04-11-211700.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49817469 Points: 304 # Comments: 68
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GPT-6 Astra has gained the ability to drive a car
Article URL: https://drivingbench.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49817404 Points: 234 # Comments: 204
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Thoughts return to forbidden RAM upgrades as Raspberry Pi OS gets fresh lick of paint
New dock and app launcher arrive while soaring memory prices revive scrutiny of a two-year-old firmware restriction
Academic publisher Elsevier hit by LAPSUS$ redirect attack
Customers got crime crew's calling card instead of access to journals
Strands Harness
Article URL: https://strandsagents.com/blog/introducing-strands-harness/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49817289 Points: 115 # Comments: 84
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Closing the observability gap for the AI-ready enterprise
SPONSORED FEATURE: Why AI-driven operations need a data-rich view of the network
Intel Developing Their DXVK-IGDEXT For Improved Linux Gaming On Arc Graphics
Intel engineers have been quietly developing dxvk-igdext as their own component for DXVK Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 atop the Vulkan API for leveraging Intel Direct3D 11 Graphics Extensions...
After multiple deaths and injuries, NHTSA is investigating comma.ai
Feds know of 5 crashes where cars using comma.ai devices hit slow or stopped vehicles.
Benchmarking Java Performance Of JDK 8 Through OpenJDK 27
With the recent release of Java/OpenJDK 27 I began some fresh benchmarks in not having looked at the OpenJDK Java performance in a few years. Carried away, I ended up re-testing all the major OpenJDK versions going back to the venerable JDK 8.
Seattle City Council votes to ban surveillance pricing in sale of groceries
Article URL: https://advocacy.consumerreports.org/press_release/seattle-city-council-votes-to-ban-surveillance-pricing-in-sale-of-groceries/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49816374 Points: 200 # Comments: 110
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The more Americans hear about datacenters, the less they like them
Pew finds growing concern over their effects on energy bills, the environment, and nearby communities
Stripe's Knowledge AI Platform
Article URL: https://stripe.dev/blog/meet-stripes-knowledge-ai-platform Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49815982 Points: 142 # Comments: 95
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America gave up its rare earth edge. China took full advantage.
Decades of cheaper imports left US dependent on China for crucial rare earth processing.
I don't want the details
Article URL: https://michaelheap.com/i-dont-want-the-details/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49815466 Points: 276 # Comments: 169
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A 1980s PDP-11 is still running Unix – and now you can watch
Yeah, you'd like that, wouldn't you?
NTFS-3G Update Brings Many Security Fixes
NTFS-3G 2026.9.18 was released this morning as the newest update to this FUSE-based open-source driver for NTFS file-system support...
Claude Code reads AGENTS.md only when telemetry is on [fixed]
Article URL: https://blog.szypowi.cz/p/claude-code-reads-agents.md-only-when-telemetry-is-on/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49814947 Points: 412 # Comments: 234
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British regulator takes a hard look at Pornhub's Apple-powered age checks
Regulator wants to know whether parent Aylo did its homework before reopening the door to UK iPhone users
Qualcomm Posts Open-Source GPU Driver Patches For Adreno 850 One Day After Announcement
Yesterday Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 as quite an interesting mobile SoC. The Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 features Adreno 850 graphics and already one-day later their engineers are out with initial Linux kernel patches for bringing up the A850 with the MSM kernel driver...
Southern Water taps fiber network to sniff out leaky pipes
Another utility sees the light in putting existing telecoms infrastructure to work
Small undersea volcanoes may unleash outsized tsunamis
Post-eruption imaging of the Hunga caldera gives new details of its collapse.
Z80 REPL (2018)
Article URL: https://abagames.github.io/z80-repl/index.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49814236 Points: 122 # Comments: 17
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A new report from Europe raises serious alarms about orbital collisions
"I think we are going to lose the ability to use certain orbits."
Swedish celebs campaign for public rudeness ... to prevent cyber scams
The campaign follows a highly profitable year for crooks targeting the over-60s
AMD Upstreams AVX10_V2_AUX Support Into LLVM Clang 24
In addition to AMD working on AVX10_V2_AUX support for the GCC compiler, this summer they also posted AVX10_V2_AUX support for the LLVM/Clang compiler. As of yesterday that enablement was merged for LLVM 24 for that important step toward AI Compute Extensions (ACE)...
Linux 7.3 Reverting Logitech Bolt Receiver HID++ After Too Many Bugs Encountered
Merged at the start of the Linux 7.3 kernel cycle was adding Logitech Bolt USB receiver support for Logitech HID++ devices to the hid-logitech-dj driver code. That has resulted in too many bug reports of early Linux 7.3 users encountering varying issues with their Logitech mice that the functionality is now being reverted until it can be better developed...
Whisky merchant Master of Malt confirms customer data spilt
Attackers had four days to drink in names, addresses, emails and phone numbers
Tokens too cheap to meter
Article URL: https://jyn.dev/tokens-too-cheap-to-meter/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49813482 Points: 176 # Comments: 151
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BT Tower's rooftop pool plan brings swimmers back down to earth
MCR's hotel proposal puts facility on a lower building, while public access to upper floors set to be restored
UK’s uncrewed experimental sub shows it can fire torpedoes
XV Excalibur hailed as first US or UK underwater drone to let one off in tests
Why security belongs in the network
SPONSORED EXPLAINER: Merging security into the network makes enterprise protection more agile
Shut up and calculate: Jev's new AI primitives for coders
Developers test what they can build with TypeSafe's fast, typed decision model
Jev in 25 Lines of Python
Article URL: https://www.nobodywho.ai/posts/jev-in-25-lines/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49812769 Points: 556 # Comments: 173
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In the age of AI, teaching networking principles remains more important than learning protocols
Kids can learn why BGP matters in a semester, but that won’t leave them ready to implement it
Transit rewards
Article URL: https://waymo.com/blog/2026/09/transit-rewards/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49811065 Points: 241 # Comments: 294
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Promotion Reminder For Ad-Free Viewing, Multi-Page Articles On A Single Page
As a friendly reminder in case you missed it from over the weekend, the Phoronix autumn "Oktoberfest" premium sale is taking place through the rest of this week for those wishing to help support the site while enjoying ad-free viewing, multi-page articles rendered on a single page, and other benefits while helping for the site to survive and continue producing daily original content...
Open-Source NVIDIA "Nouveau" Driver Sees Patches For HDMI Deep Color Support
The Nouveau Linux kernel graphics driver for open-source NVIDIA driver support has new patches posted for enabling HDMI Deep Color support...
Woman's brain worm infection confirmed after eggs grow tails in lab test
There is no single definitive test for these worms, but the tail is fairly convincing.
New Anthropic, OpenAI models make same promise: A little more for a lot less money
The frontier AI model race has entered its comparison shopping phase.
Cities across US oppose Trump FCC plan to preempt local broadband rules
Cities defend permit requirements, say ISPs aren't building networks fast enough.
Microsoft disrupts AI-assisted platform that compromised 12,000 accounts
EvilTokens provided an end-to-end platform that makes mass compromises faster and easier.
Lawsuit demands OpenAI pay for new school after ChatGPT used in shooting
British Columbia sues OpenAI, demands Tumbler Ridge shooter’s ChatGPT logs.
Linux 7.2 vs. Linux 7.3 Shows A Few Improvements With AMD Strix Halo
Last week I ran some benchmarks showing performance gains for AMD Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo" on Ubuntu 26.10. Then shortly after that testing on its daily state, which used the Linux 7.2 kernel, Canonical switched to Linux 7.3 as the Ubuntu 26.10 kernel. Here are some Linux 7.2 vs.
Adobe Premiere finally brings powerful video editing to Android, and it's free
You don't even need a Creative Cloud login to edit clips, but AI features cost extra.
Ubuntu Linux Maker Canonical Achieved $345M USD In Revenue For 2025
In 2024 Canonical generated nearly $300M USD in revenue for this company behind Ubuntu Linux and other services and software solutions. For 2025, they not only broke $300M but well exceeded it with $345M in revenue...
GPT-6 Sol and Luna
Article URL: https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-6-sol-and-luna/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49805509 Points: 1708 # Comments: 815
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Review: Resident Evil might just be the best gaming adaptation yet
Director Zach Cregger's clever reboot strikes perfect balance between horror, humor, and over-the-top gore.
Toyota orders workers to train humanoid robots but says humans won't be replaced
Toyota's push comes as automakers race to develop and deploy humanoid robots.
IT mistake erases 11 years of viewing history for hospitals’ maternity records
The English hospitals recovered patient care data only.
Claude Opus 5.5
Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/claude-opus-5-5 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49803892 Points: 1750 # Comments: 1062
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Effort begins to fill the void left by terminated US climate report
First paper added to community collection is a roadmap for research.
Shuffling the deck chairs: Xbox continues its "reset" with dramatic restructuring
Activision gets Halo , Obsidian becomes part of Bethesda, and more internal shake-ups.
Variable Refresh Rate "VRR" Target Limiter Proposed For Linux Graphics Drivers
A new proposal being discussed is introducing a Linux user-space API to be able to specify frame rate targets for Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) handling on the Linux desktop...
Protests for Germany’s car industry as job losses loom
A combination of Chinese competition and US tariffs is causing problems in Germany.
SPEC Releases SPECviewperf 15.0.1 For Linux
SPEC back in May 2025 introduced SPECViewPerf 15 as the newest major release of this industry-standard workstation graphics benchmark. Sadly, the Linux support once again fell behind with SPECViewPerf 15 only debuting on Microsoft Windows. Today though Linux has caught up with SPEC releasing a Linux-native build of SPECViewPerf 15.0.1...
Trump’s sneaky plan to gut Endangered Species Act draws from 1995 Scalia dissent
Trump adopts Scalia’s ire for feds protecting populations of endangered animals.
OpenAI GPT–6 Astra breaks Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005
Article URL: https://www.cryptocellar.org/bgac/the-mvueh-break.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49801324 Points: 715 # Comments: 431
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systemd 262 Released With AI/LLM Canary For Unreviewed Code, LUO Integration
Systemd 262 made it out today as the newest feature update to this Linux init system and service manager. As with most systemd releases, it's heavy on new features and functionality...
Dyson’s most overengineered gadget may have a waterproofing problem
Dyson admits a component issue but won't say what's failing in its $500 toothbrush.
Vibe Coded YSERVER Adds XDMCP Support For Multi-User Shared Desktops
The open-source YSERVER project as a modern X11 sever written in the Rust programming language with the help of Claude Code is out today with a new feature release. Most notable for this AI Rust X11 server is X Display Manager Control Protocol (XDMCP) support for multi-user shared desktops...
Alibaba Contributing $3M USD To Omarchy To Work On Making "Ideal" Agentic OS
The Omarchy project announced today that Alibaba Cloud will be contributing a total of three million USD to their foundation for helping development of this Linux distribution and working to make it an "ideal agentic operating system"...
Linux 7.3 Adding Logitech G502 X Lightspeed USB Support, ELECOM M-XT4DRBK
Sent out today was a new HID subsystem pull request of fixes for the week to the Linux 7.3 kernel. Besides some conventional bug fixes are also supporting some additional devices via quirks and new IDs...
NASA chief: I'm only interested in "good deals" from international partners
"There was absolutely a time where we were trying to make everyone happy."
Cache Aware Scheduling Fixes Queued For Submission To Linux 7.3, Backporting To 7.2
Later this week it looks like the latest round of Cache Aware Scheduling fixes will be merged for enhancing this kernel scheduler functionality for grouping related tasks together on CPU cores that share the same last level cache (LLC). Cache Aware Scheduling can lead to better cache locality and lower latency by avoiding the costs of potential cache bouncing -- that is when bugs don't get in…
Linux Adding New Interface For Reporting AMD SEV Status
A convenient addition that surprisingly hasn't been added to the Linux kernel until now is /sys/devices/system/cpu/sev/sev_status as a new sysfs interface for reporting the AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) status...
ZLUDA Now Implements Some NVIDIA cuFFT APIs With hipFFT
ZLUDA as the open-source project working on CUDA for non-NVIDIA GPUs like AMD Radeon graphics cards now has implemented support for some of NVIDIA's core cuFFT APIs...
What California is learning from solar panels built over irrigation canals
Article URL: https://www.kqed.org/science/2002033/heres-what-california-is-learning-from-solar-panels-built-over-irrigation-canals Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49796379 Points: 341 # Comments: 666
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Muse, Meta's extraordinarily privileged AI assistant, has a serious 0-day
A simple ClickFix attack is only one way to completely hijack the new agent.
How did AMD Ryzen get 50% faster in two years?
Article URL: https://lemire.me/blog/2026/09/18/how-did-amd-ryzen-get-50-faster-in-two-years/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49758709 Points: 466 # Comments: 190
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