Saturday, 10 October 2026
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PC shipments fall 20.1 percent in “sharpest decline” since Q1 2023
"The current decline may be just the beginning of a new downward cycle."
AI disqualification yields new Nikon Small World in Motion winner
New winner is Nguyen Nam Nhat of Vietnam for video of a roundworm and single-celled Dileptus.
Your artwork could be featured in the next Debian release
Debian Linux has put a call out for artist submissions for its next release: Forky.
Starlink spectrum deal boosts Musk plan to beat AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon
Nationwide 800 MHz spectrum to help Starlink provide mobile coverage indoors.
Ubuntu 26.10 To Include Desktop Images For RISC-V
Ubuntu Linux ISOs for RISC-V 64-bit to date have just been the server/CLI version without any desktop environment pre-seeded. But with next week's Ubuntu 26.10 release, there will now be Ubuntu 26.10 RISC-V desktop ISOs for both Ubuntu proper and a Xubuntu minimal ISO...
Valve's Proton 11.0-2e Released To Fix EA App Issues
CodeWeavers working with Valve today released Proton 11.0-2e as their downstream of Wine that powers Steam Play for enjoying Windows games on Linux...
Microsoft 365 subscribers set to lose up to 4TB of OneDrive storage
What Microsoft giveth, Microsoft taketh away, again and again
SpaceX to buy key spectrum that could help Starlink Mobile become major US cell carrier
Low-band frequencies can reach devices inside buildings, while 2 GHz orbiters could extend coverage beyond cell towers
Triple-A Minesweeper
Article URL: https://minesweeper.mikelacher.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50022292 Points: 141 # Comments: 43
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Germany transforms former coal mines into Europe's largest lake landscape
Article URL: https://www.euronews.com/2026/04/14/almost-like-lake-como-germany-transforms-former-coal-mines-into-europes-largest-lake-lands Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50021540 Points: 135 # Comments: 73
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Growing pains: how distributed AI training changes the network between datacenters
SPONSORED FEATURE: While linking the GPUs in a datacenter is a challenge, coordinating thousands of them to work efficiently over hundreds of kilometers presents a new set of difficulties.
Python 3.15 Released With Experimental JIT Compiler Running Faster
Python 3.15 is out today as the newest annual feature release for the Python programming language...
Oracle lets AI agents do the work, provided you stay in Big Red's world
Analysts welcome Fusion Claw's tighter controls but warn of early adoption and cloud lock-in
AMD PerfOpt Boosting Prior-Gen Ryzen APU Performance For AI
Last week I ran benchmarks of the new AMD PerfOpt feature being introduced in Linux 7.4. In those PerfOpt benchmarks on current-gen AMD Ryzen AI APUs/SoCs the AI performance improved as much as 18~23%. Several Phoronix readers expressed interest in seeing how prior-gen AMD Ryzen hardware benefited or not from PerfOpt, so here are some additional benchmarks.
Global PC shipments crater 20% as rising prices hammer demand
Buyers rushed to beat hikes earlier this year, but demand has since dried up as AI-fueled component shortages send costs soaring
Ubuntu 26.10 Sticks To Using GCC 15 By Default
From a performance and enthusiast perspective, what I personally find most disappointing and puzzling with the imminent release of Ubuntu 26.10 comes down to its default compiler version...
Microsoft barred from sponsoring foreign workers for US residency
The US says Microsoft abused immigration rules; the company disputes the claim.
Our $445M Series D
Article URL: https://oxide.computer/blog/our-445m-series-d Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50020014 Points: 445 # Comments: 182
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Cloudflare acquires Deno
Article URL: https://deno.com/blog/cloudflare Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50019911 Points: 811 # Comments: 442
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US Navy bets another $150M on fighter drone that skips the runway
Shield AI matches the funding as autonomous X-BAT heads toward flight testing later this year
Citrix gives NetScaler admins another critical reason to patch
No word on exploitation status, but a 9.5 severity score suggests time is of the essence
Faster Zswap With Patches To Batch The Writeback I/O
For those making increased use of Linux's Zswap as a compressed RAM cache for swap pages amid these times of sky high RAM prices, a new patch series was posted providing some incremental performance gains for Zswap by batching the writeback I/O...
Show HN: Let your AI agents paint big arrows, boxes and text on your screen
Article URL: https://github.com/franzenzenhofer/big-arrow-on-the-screen Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50018817 Points: 320 # Comments: 139
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Rocket Report: A rare Falcon 9 scrub; is it just about Vulcan's time to shine?
"I can say we’re weeks away from launching on Vulcan."
Anthropic asks users to stop being mean to Claude
New usage policy cracks down on cruelty to chatbot, alongside slightly more pressing matters of weapons development, surveillance, and election interference
Linux Patches Finally Make Hibernation Possible In Secure Boot / Lockdown Mode
When booting the Linux kernel using UEFI SecureBoot, the kernel is put in the lockdown mode to restrict the ability to modify the running kernel image or leaking data from kernel memory. Kernel lockdown mode can also be manually enabled by the user/administrator. Among the limitations imposed in Linux's lockdown mode is no hibernation support.
Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 to Navanethem Pillay
Article URL: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2026/press-release/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50018420 Points: 366 # Comments: 190
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Boro: NVIDIA's Open-Source Effort For AI-Assisted Linux Kernel Development
Over the past few months NVIDIA has been developing Boro as a new AI-assisted kernel development CLI written in Rust and focused on local AI for enhancing efficiency for kernel development...
Volkswagen's replacement for the ID.4 crossover is here
The new EV’s digital cockpit can mimic instrument displays from VWs of old.
OpenAI fires three safety researchers for "mishandling research information"
Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/08/fired-openai-safety-researchers-dispute-misconduct-claims-warn-of-chilling-effect/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50018350 Points: 250 # Comments: 159
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AMD Caps Off Linux 7.4 Graphics Driver Development With More HDMI 2.1 Fixes
AMD on Thursday sent out a final pull request of their feature work aiming to be submitted for the upcoming Linux 7.4 merge window. This round of "few last odds and ends" is mostly about landing some bug fixes but of which there are a few worth mentioning...
Microsoft and Anthropic play invoice tennis with startup's $17,600 Claude bill
Vegalabs says $21,168 in unused Azure credits expired as separate Marketplace charges piled up
HDR Support Coming For Qualcomm MSM Driver To Benefit Snapdragon X Laptops On Linux
For those making use of Qualcomm Snapdragon X laptops on Linux, one of the features coming to the MSM DRM kernel driver is static HDR support for DisplayPort outputs and eDP panels...
Sorry, I'm in a meeting
Article URL: https://iminafleeting.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50018088 Points: 570 # Comments: 187
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BOFH: Smells like team spirit
In which BOFH and PFY meet 1990s heroes who know how to deal with Bosses
Whose roadmap is your software estate running on?
SPONSORED POST: Vendor roadmaps set the pace of change in most enterprise software estates. Origina argues the business should.
Programming Isn't Special
Article URL: https://blog.glyph.im/2026/10/programming-isnt-special.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50017357 Points: 122 # Comments: 133
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Rejecting a promotion sent field service tech into support hell
Chap who took the job left a trail of wreckage – and invaluable case studies – in his incompetent wake
So long, Spokes: GitHub rewrites storage to restore reliability, just in time for agentic hordes
Octocats claim 35x write improvement
MXC - a sandboxed code execution system
Article URL: https://github.com/microsoft/mxc Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50016489 Points: 152 # Comments: 72
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India’s tech giants shrug off changes to USA’s skilled visa program
As Microsoft denies alleged ‘fraud and abuse’ that sparked the tweaks
Keyboard differences between Windows and Macs
Article URL: https://unsung.aresluna.org/deeper-dive-keyboard-differences-between-windows-and-macs/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50015515 Points: 285 # Comments: 238
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New AI Agent Resources Proposed For The Linux Kernel, AI Skills To Help Developers
The latest proposal for the upstream Linux kernel is introducing infrastructure for AI agent resources. Initially these agent resources would be for a skill so AI agents can automatically add a "Fixes: " tag on relevant patches for noting the first problematic Git commit automatically that a patch fixes...
Valve Lands VK_AMD_anti_lag Support For AMD RADV Driver In Mesa 26.3
There is yet another feature to get excited about for this quarter's Mesa 26.3 release. Months in the making, the Valve-contributed VK_AMD_anti_lag support for the Radeon RADV driver was merged today for benefiting AMD Linux gamers as a nice improvement over the former implementation...
Ukrainian drone attack takes out Russian datacenter
Putin this cloud region back into operation might not be possible, says Yandex
AI company moves to defend critical infrastructure and open-source projects from AI
Anthropic says for the next two years, attackers will have the advantage
US disrupts Chinese hacking tools as 7 govts warn of PRC spies stealing sensitive data worldwide
Infecting devices from 2021 until the FBI stepped in
Nvidia found $1B under the couch to help secure American scientific computing dominance
Commitment comes as GPUzilla prepares to fortify Uncle Sam's arsenal with at least seven AI-optimized supers
SpaceX calls for better coordination in orbit after near-misses with Starlink
"These led to conjunctions of tens of meters to hundreds of meters. Way too close to comfort."
Judge weighs if Trump can charge $100K for early access to Truth Social posts
Judge questioned if Trump delaying access to Truth Social posts by a second harms the press.
Trump Mobile hack and apparent lack of FCC authorization raise security alarms
After hack and data breach, senator asks why Trump Mobile lacks some FCC filings.
Feds get ready to rewrite car headlight rules
Reducing glare and allowing modern light technologies will be two goals.
There can be only one: Google Cloud casts Gemini as your enterprise AI hero
The Chocolate Factory proposes a single universal agent for work
RIP Margaret Hamilton, whose code saved the Apollo 11 Moon landing
Hamilton also coined the term "software engineering" and founded two successful software companies.
NASA taps DoE to help it build nuclear space reactors
Space agency claims steady progress on lunar reactor plans, but offers little evidence to back it up
Let's Encrypt cuts certificate lifetimes to 64 days starting February 2027
Free SSL/TLS certificate lifetimes reduce to 64 days in February.
Driver wins $76 after ALPR led to bogus traffic stop, drug searches
Mass surveillance gets stupider.
RFK Jr. unveils sweeping federal initiative to find evidence of vaccine injuries
"[T]he Trump-RFK Jr. anti-vax agenda keeps getting more corrupt and dangerous."
An experimental tour-de-force: Entanglement between glass bead and light
Getting a glass bead to act like a quantum object by entangling it with light.
Theranos.world
Article URL: https://www.theranos.world/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50009295 Points: 533 # Comments: 192
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EXT4 Deprecates Its Journaled "data=journal" Mode
The EXT4 file-system today deprecated its journaled mode of the "data=journal" mount option. Following its deprecation, this mode is planned for removal in the year 2028...
Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB
Article URL: https://cactuscompute.com/blog/whistle Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50008427 Points: 896 # Comments: 174
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COSMIC Epoch 1.10 Released With Launcher Now Using GPU Accelerated Rendering
System76 today released COSMIC Epoch 1.10 as the newest incremental update to this Rust-based desktop developed in-step with their Pop!_OS Linux distribution...
Amazon's new Alexa Tablets drop the Fire branding but are more Android than ever
Amazon killed its app store, so Google Play it is.
Ubuntu Currently Suffering From Sustained DDoS Attack
Those trying to access the Ubuntu website, ISO downloads, and similar Ubuntu resources today are finding the site inoperable amid what's now confirmed as an ongoing distributed denial of service attack...
Ubuntu 26.10 Delivers Nice I/O Performance Wins Over Ubuntu 26.04 On AMD EPYC
While Ubuntu 26.10 is not a Long-Term Support (LTS) release and thus will see limited enterprise deployments compared to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, for those not after that long-term deployment support and preferring to live more on the leading-edge, Ubuntu 26.10 is delivering some nice performance gains on current 5th Gen AMD EPYC "Turin" hardware.
Amazon builds 1,000th satellite, will launch space internet service by end of year
"If this was easy, everybody else would be doing it."
Secretive Rosaic Labs Hires Legendary Linux x86 Developer
The curiosity into secretive semiconductor startup Rosaic Labs builds. Earlier this year it was noted that Intel was providing Rosaic Labs with access to its Atom technology with RTL code. There have also been rather mysterious x86 additions not from Intel or AMD (or Zhaoxin / Hygon) that given the timing may pertain to Rosaic Labs.
Internal files add to evidence of an ExxonMobil climate deception campaign
Court filings reveal new details about Exxon's decades of internal climate deliberations.
Nova Driver Continues Progressing With Long-Term Goal For Official NVIDIA Linux Use
NVIDIA engineer John Hubbard and Red Hat's Danilo Krummrich presented at this week's LPC2026 conference in Prague on the open-source and upstream Nova driver stack that continues forming as a Rust-based open-source NVIDIA Linux kernel driver...
Patches Updated To Begin Removing The Linux x32 ABI
Linux developers are once again considering the removal of the Linux x32 ABI...
Google's Sashiko AI Has Completed 191k Patch Reviews, Cited On Nearly 500 Kernel CVEs
Sashiko that was built by Google engineers for agentic review of the Linux kernel code changes and powered by Google's AI models continues proving very valuable to kernel developers. In less than one year since they launched Sashiko for agentic AI code review, their results are quite fascinating...
Nvidia's big bet on physical AI aims for safer robotaxis, humanoid robots
Full-stack safety solution for physical AI is being used by robotics companies.
Yes, and
Article URL: https://htmx.org/essays/yes-and/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50003796 Points: 682 # Comments: 273
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Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?
Article URL: https://www.dgt.is/blog/2026-10-07-deepseek-freek-out/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50000488 Points: 1024 # Comments: 915
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Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days
https://x.com/NomadsGalaxy/status/2107284088247689290 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49995495 Points: 905 # Comments: 544
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I hired an illustrator to draw my house. Now it's my Home Assistant dashboard
Article URL: https://antonfrolov.substack.com/p/i-hired-an-illustrator-to-draw-my Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49986882 Points: 858 # Comments: 191
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Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?
DHH's "AI shed" idea got me thinking about getting a small $5–10/month VPS. I'm a Linux guy and have on many points of my life have a personal server. So I like the idea of having something always on, but I’m not sure the maintenance is worth it when most things can just run on my laptop.
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