Sunday, 27 September 2026
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"Toolpak" Being Devised By GNOME OS Developers, Akin To Flatpak For Tools
GNOME developer Jordan Petridis published a blog post today to introduce the world to the Toolpak plans for GNOME OS...
I'm the mom in that viral Giants clip. Let me tell you about my husband
Article URL: https://themomoftheyear.substack.com/p/im-the-mom-in-that-viral-giants-clip Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49857899 Points: 333 # Comments: 138
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Plunging test scores are a slow-moving catastrophe
https://archive.ph/n8Akh Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49857442 Points: 123 # Comments: 235
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MM Change Slated For Linux 7.4 Yields +22904539.81% In One Metric, More Modest Wins In Others
Queued this week into the slab/for-next Git branch ahead of next month's Linux 7.4 merge window is a memory management change for refilling pre-filled sheaves from the barn. In some cases this yields wild improvements to specific synthetic benchmarks...
AI Bug Fixes, Crescent Island Power Brake & Nouveau Fixes For Linux 7.3-rc5 DRM
The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem fixes for the week are heavier on the side with many fixes to these kernel graphics/display drivers ahead of Sunday's Linux 7.3-rc5 release...
Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free
Article URL: https://gultsch.de/posts/breaking-up-with-google-play/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49855315 Points: 578 # Comments: 225
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Wisp Makes It Easier To Manage Btrfs Snapshots From The GNOME Desktop
Wisp is a new GNOME Shell extension making it easier to graphically manage Btrfs file-system snapshots...
Tesla’s big electric truck faces an even bigger infrastructure challenge
The 500-mile Semi arrives as charging gaps still limit electric trucking.
AMDXDNA Linux Driver Being Enhanced For Current NPU3 Hardware
The AMDXDNA open-source Linux kernel accelerator driver is seeing a fair amount of work for better supporting current-generation NPU3 neural processing units. The AMD NPU3 is what's found in current AMD Ryzen AI 300 / Ryzen AI 300 PRO series SoCs...
How Samsung turned months of inactivity into a very attention-seeking smartphone
Your spare Android won’t come back to life in a hurry but – like neglected PCs – it really should
KDE Plasma 6.8 Continues With Last Minute Tweaks & Fixes
Even with this week's KDE Akademy conference and releasing KDE Plasma 6.8 Beta 2, KDE developers still found time to land last minute changes for Plasma 6.8 plus ongoing early work toward Plasma 6.9...
How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs
Article URL: https://discourse.haskell.org/t/how-to-keep-enjoying-programming-in-a-world-of-llms/14705 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49854875 Points: 101 # Comments: 150
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Fifteen years later, the Apple Cards origin story
Article URL: https://lexontech.org/fifteen-years-later-the-apple-cards-origin-story Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49854693 Points: 296 # Comments: 63
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Floci: Locally emulating any cloud service
Article URL: https://floci.io Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49854416 Points: 133 # Comments: 27
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Space Jam: UK debuts space squadron to protect satellites
Number III Space Effects Squadron likely to use electronic warfare rather than lobbing missiles at hostile orbiting threats
Is your Postgres migration safe or not safe?
Article URL: https://safenotsafe.dev/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49854161 Points: 111 # Comments: 38
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We're gonna need a lot more mathematicians
Article URL: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/24/were-gonna-need-a-lot-more-mathematicians/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49852717 Points: 322 # Comments: 424
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Last Call For The Autumn Special For Ad-Free Viewing & Supporting Linux Hardware Testing
Last call for the Phoronix autumn "Oktoberfest" Premium sale: it runs through end of day Sunday, 27 September (any timezone - I'm not particularly strict). If you have been meaning to support the site, this is the window...
Can Trump ever be wrong? His pick to lead FDA refused to say.
Heidi Overton faced questions focused on vaccines, birth control, and vapes.
New FUTEX Syscalls Back To Being Worked On For Helping Valve's ARM64 Gaming Ambitions
Going back to last year the Igalia open-source consulting firm has been working on enhancing the Linux kernel to help Steam Play gaming on ARM64 and ensuring the FEX emulator is operating efficiently for x86/x86_64 games running on the likes of the Steam Frame. After other kernel work in recent months, there's finally an updated round of the FUTEX get_robust_list2 and set_robust_list2 system…
What even is an OS now?
Article URL: https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/09/25/what-even-is-an-os-now/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49850305 Points: 280 # Comments: 424
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Court rules Pentagon can blacklist Anthropic for refusing to enable Claude features
"Overly constrained AI models" could cause military operations to fail, judges say.
Tesla workers balk at training Optimus humanoid robots as replacements
Despite challenges, Tesla aims for 1,000 Optimus robots per week by end of 2026.
Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face
Article URL: https://swarmtraces.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49849985 Points: 669 # Comments: 425
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Valen creator drives 'Golden Spike' to connect new languages with Rust
An experiment is afoot to sidestep C as the language of interoperability with Rust
Microsoft cells out, crams multiple values into Excel boxes
Once a single-scalar home, spreadsheet cells are being redeveloped to handle many tenants
Your uncle’s frozen Mac says it’s infected after viewing a Google ad. Now what?
Ads appearing all over the Internet are trying to scam people.
Review: The iPhone 18 Pro is Apple's coolest smartphone (but only literally)
Better thermals and battery life make this iterative update nicer to use.
Uncle Sam coughs up $1.9B for grid upgrades as datacenters hit a power wall
Better conductors and improved sensing capabilities expected to unlock at least 23 gigawatts of additional capacity
Fake Google Security Team ad says 'no script reading' in voice phishing - then prints the script
More mockery and memes from the Dark Web Roast
AI was supposed to hit new grads hard. So far, unemployment data says otherwise.
"There is no evidence of any significant, widespread displacement or reduction in hiring.”
New software dependency validation process increases speeds by 54x
Overhead reduced by as much as 99.7%
Paramount/WBD merger conditions give the public "virtually nothing," judge is told
US judge reviews deal with California, says it must not be result of collusion.
Ollaya – Ollama for open-source, Jev-style decision models
Article URL: https://ollaya.dev/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49848269 Points: 573 # Comments: 138
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Is solar's growth finally slowing in the US?
Renewables easily cover changes in US demand, which is rising by 2% in 2026.
ShinyHunters tells The Reg: We hacked the FBI to 'protect our business'
Data theft and extortion biz, that is
Google-backed energy outfit brings 33 MW of 4 GW geothermal potential online in Utah
Fervo Energy aims to have 100 MW online by New Year and half a gigawatt by 2028
Microsoft stops insisting you need a "Copilot+ PC"
Microsoft's new Surface laptops forgo Copilot+ PC branding.
Crooks use fake desktop apps to fool HR staff into giving them remote access
Nothing in the attack chain screams malicious software, except none of the impersonated HR and payroll providers actually offers a desktop app
Bitget blames North Korea for $387.5M crypto wallet raid
Familiar fingerprints point to Kim’s regime … to the surprise of nobody
GDB 18.1 Debugger Brings Better Windows Support
GDB 18.1 is out today as the newest version of the GNU Debugger that works across C/C++, Fortran, Rust, and other languages like Go, Ada, and more...
Redox OS Adds IO_uring-Like API, NUMA & Gets QEMU Working
The Redox OS open-source, Rust-based operating system has seen a lot of activity in recent weeks with many notable improvements landing...
After seven years, a spacecraft company is releasing its Otters into the wild
"There is always a tension that comes with seeing the first of anything fly."
US being left behind in EV charging speeds as China goes sub-5 min to 70%
The new LFP battery charges from 10 to 70% in 4.5 minutes at just 65˚C.
Office 2016 and 2019 holdouts blame update for license deactivation bug
But was the update at fault? Microsoft isn't saying
Which copy of that file is the real one? Dinner, off the record, in Midtown
Joe Fay chairs a Register dinner in New York on the file infrastructure nobody has got around to replacing, with nothing on the record.
Approaching A 10 Second Linux Kernel Build
The coffee window is closing. Going back many years with the time it's taken to compile the Linux kernel has been a well known opportunity for a coffee break or even eating a meal during the lengthy Linux kernel build process. Even when the Linux kernel was much smaller than it is today, with the hardware at the time it would often be a very time consuming process...
Show HN: Jev Plays Pokémon Red
Hey HN! Wanted to share a fun project I've been hacking on. Given Jev can make decisions really fast (but not fast enough to play Doom yet sadly), I wanted to try and push it to play a more complex game than Tetris.
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Raspberry Pi surfs memory crunch to record first half
A well-timed RAM stockpile helped keep boards shipping while rivals struggled for memory
With PRIMA, NASA will try to build a billion-dollar space telescope in record time
NASA's PRIMA mission will use spare parts from Webb to do major science at a lower cost.
Trump administration takes Musk’s side in fight over EU tech rules
Washington says Brussels overreached when it fined X €120 million under the DSA.
Windows update leaves some virtual desktops staring into the void
Users may need to summon Explorer manually after signing in
Uncle Sam wants in on Musk's €120M fight with Brussels
Justice Department claims the EU overreached by pursuing X's owner and wider corporate empire
Asahi fork embraces LLMs and lands Linux on the M4 Mac mini
Coding agents helped two developers build an accelerated desktop and graphics driver in weeks
Amazon sellers watch as inventory vanishes into pending-order purgatory
High-value goods remain tied up as merchants debate attack or platform glitch
BOFH: The Helldesk opens its third eye and ascends to a higher plane of troubleshooting
Putting the 'om' in computing
Trump admin using AI to deny medical care for seniors in disastrous experiment
Vendors rolling out AI have an "incentive to deny as many claims as possible."
Rocket Report: Era of cheap launch is over? Astra sets early 2027 target for return
"The customer got comfortable with a high reliability and a low price."
PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock
Article URL: https://github.com/InfinityLoop1308/PipePipe Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49842764 Points: 216 # Comments: 101
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Dyfed-Powys Police cops to cyberattack, staff data potentially nicked
Force says public data appears untouched, but investigators looking into whether crims grabbed employee information
Patches Posted For Enabling NVMe On All Apple M3 Based SoCs With Linux
While Linux 7.2 brought initial Apple M3 support and Linux 7.3 brought M3 Pro / Max / Ultra support, the mainline Linux kernel support for the M3 series hardware remains very basic and not yet ready for daily driving. But more work continues to be upstreamed and today the patches were posted for getting NVMe storage up and running across all Apple M3 hardware...
AMD Sends Out New Linux Patches Further Enhancing HDMI 2.1 Reliability
Linux 7.4 is going to be the big kernel release where the AMD graphics driver will finally expose HDMI 2.1 by default and comes with features including HDMI FreeSync, VRR, and ALLM. Ahead of that milestone there have been various other last minute tweaks and improvements to its HDMI 2.1 support. Sent out on Thursday was the latest round of AMDGPU DC patches that includes a few more patches for…
Go's Improving SIMD Support, Platform-Independent SIMD Interface
A new blog post published on Thursday covers the experimental support for SIMD with the Go programming language. This expanding Go SIMD support also includes a platform-independent API for making use of SIMD with modern processors...
Samba 4.25 Released With Experimental SMB3 Persistent Handles
Samba 4.25 is out as the newest stable release for this open-source software enabling file and print services sharing between Linux servers and Windows systems...
Plan mode is dead
Article URL: https://www.aymannadeem.com/artificial/intelligence,/developer/tools/2026/09/24/plan-mode-is-dead.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49840054 Points: 518 # Comments: 450
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Linux Kernel Developers Consider Adding AGENTS.md To Help Guide AI/LLM Agents
While the Linux kernel continues to be bombarded with patches from AI/LLM agents, to date the kernel hasn't carried an AGENTS.md Markdown file with instructions catering to AI/LLM agents. But a patch set out today would finally introduce one...
Qualcomm Posts Patches For Enabling GPU Support In Their Snapdragon X2 Mahua SoC
Yesterday Qualcomm posted open-source GPU driver patches for their Adreno 850 GPU one day after being announced with the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6. Yesterday Qualcomm also announced their Snapdragon X2 Linux support plans. Today they have posted the GPU enablement patches for what's found in the Mahua SoC for lower-tier Snapdragon X2 SoCs...
CDC opens state ordering for COVID-19 vaccines after unexplained delay
Health department previously blamed delay on "not yet finalized procurement decisions."
ReactOS Lands Significant DirectX Stack Update From Wine For Enabling More Games
The open-source ReactOS project striving to provide binary compatibility with Microsoft Windows applications/games as well as drivers took a huge step forward today with landing a significant update to its DirectX stack from code leveraged from the Wine project...
Donald Duck's uncle was partly based on Wernher von Braun
Introducing the "world-famous authority on outer space..."
F-Droid gets its biggest update in a decade with new UI and smoother app installs
F-Droid's Android app store has been rebuilt from the ground up.
New York defies Trump admin, asks court to shut down Polymarket gambling
New York sues Polymarket as Trump admin tries to override state gambling laws.
Ubuntu 26.10 Delivers Some Nice Gains For Intel Panther Lake / Framework Laptop 13 Pro
For those with a Framework Laptop 13 Pro or another Intel Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" laptop, the upcoming Ubuntu 26.10 release is delivering some nice out-of-the-box improvements over Ubuntu 26.04 LTS.
COSMIC Epoch 1.9 Brings New Image Viewer & On-Screen Keyboard
COSMIC Epoch 1.9 was released last night as the newest version of the System76-sponsored, Rust-based desktop environment. COSMIC Epoch 1.9 release notes only became available today and it's a big one with new apps and improvements to existing offerings...
Modern Object Pascal Introduction for Programmers
Article URL: https://castle-engine.io/modern_pascal Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49829202 Points: 108 # Comments: 37
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16GB iPod Nano 3G Upgrade
Article URL: https://tuckerosman.com/projects/16gb-ipod-nano Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49826087 Points: 128 # Comments: 16
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