Monday, 12 October 2026
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Prime Video unveils Blade Runner 2099 full trailer at NYCC
Also: new trailer for Godzilla Minus Zero , the sequel to Takashi Yamazaki’s kaiju epic , Godzilla Minus One
I'm sorry, but you still have to think
Article URL: https://itsallaboutthebit.com/i-am-sorry-but-you-still-have-to-think/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50043689 Points: 195 # Comments: 72
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Linux Landing Kernel Workaround For AMD TLBI Erratum #1718
AMD TLBI Erratum #1718 was worked around in CPU microcode for addressing a defect in certain Zen CPUs where the Translation Lookaside Buffer Invalidate Instruction use could lead to to stale translation entries. But for those on affected AMD CPUs and not running the updated microcode, a kernel workaround is being introduced with today's Linux 7.3-rc7 kernel and to be back-ported to prior kernel…
Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf]
Article URL: https://teorth.github.io/tao-web/slides/math-2-0-caltech-2026.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50043026 Points: 187 # Comments: 229
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The tilde in your PATH may not be your HOME
Article URL: https://disconnect3d.pl//2026/10/02/dont-put-tilde-in-your-path/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50042425 Points: 171 # Comments: 104
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Valen's Memory Safety: A New Kind of Borrow Checking
Article URL: https://verdagon.dev/blog/valen-group-borrowing Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50042362 Points: 109 # Comments: 50
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Show HN: BetterWispr – Free, open-source dictation for Mac
Article URL: https://betterwispr.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50042333 Points: 100 # Comments: 72
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Microsoft Contributes Para-Virtualized IOMMU Hyper-V Driver For Linux
Microsoft is contributing a new kernel driver for the upcoming Linux 7.4 cycle. Queued up into the IOMMU subsystem's "-next" branch is a new para-virtualized IOMMU driver for benefiting Linux guest VMs running on Microsoft's Hyper-V virtualization platform...
I paid people to try and follow my README
Article URL: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/10/i-paid-people-to-try-and-follow-my-readme/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50042219 Points: 318 # Comments: 171
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AI systems are fully capable of carrying out nightmare attacks against infrastructure and nobody's ready
Meanwhile, AI agents move robotic arms, 'make OT device operator screens lie'
Nitter: Update Oct 10th seeking funding and legal help
Article URL: https://nitter.net Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50041682 Points: 371 # Comments: 181
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Bot traffic from Yandex
Article URL: https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots/as13238?dateRange=7d Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50041619 Points: 554 # Comments: 216
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Auto Vectorizing The RISC-V Linux Kernel Shows Promising Results
The Linux kernel build for RISC-V doesn't currently make use of the CPU ISA's Vector extension. but leveraging it with compiler auto vectorization is showing the ability to provide nice performance results for enhancing RISC-V Linux performance...
IRCv3
Article URL: https://ircv3.net/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50041540 Points: 268 # Comments: 244
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Drgn 0.3 Released For This "Natural" Programmable Debugger From Meta
Drgn is the open-source project out of Meta developing a very versatile debugger with the intent being a debugger focused on programmability with it striving to "make scripting as natural as possible so that debugging feels like coding." Drgn 0.3 released this weekend with the latest round of improvements...
Corsair Novablade Pro & 8BitDo Pro 2 Controllers To Be Supported With Linux 7.3-rc7
Sent out today as part of this week's input subsystem fixes are device ID additions to the XPad driver for enabling two more gaming controllers to work nicely under Linux...
HPE's networking boss says AI will handle all trouble tickets without humans in two years
And you'll trust agents to do that for the same reason you no longer worry about automatic transmissions
Researchers work out how to control 2D semiconductor growth for future chips
Korean boffins use oxygen to stop crystals forming in the wrong places, aiming to get tech to commercial sector by 2030
3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit
Article URL: https://status.yandex.cloud/en/incidents/2136 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50040547 Points: 475 # Comments: 571
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LineageOS 24.0
Article URL: https://lineageos.org/Changelog-32/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50040276 Points: 354 # Comments: 136
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Build your own decision model
Article URL: https://nishtahir.com/build-your-own-decision-model/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50037949 Points: 436 # Comments: 98
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A city-building game in which the city would prefer you didn't
Article URL: https://housing.over.pizza/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50036864 Points: 502 # Comments: 168
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Rolling Release Distros Superior To LTS Distros In The Patch-Heavy GenAI Era?
As some interesting food for thought and weekend forum discussions, this week at the Linux Plumbers Conference in Prague, Qualcomm engineer Khem Raj questioned the relevance of Linux Long Term Support (LTS) distributions in the era of generative AI with the constantly heavy patch flow and bug reports. Khem Raj argued the benefits of rolling release distributions in the GenAI era and the benefits…
Many Laptop & Gaming Handheld Support Improvements Coming For Linux 7.4
Many x86 platform driver improvements have been queuing ahead of the upcoming Linux 7.4 merge window to offer a variety of laptop and gaming handheld device improvements with this next kernel version...
One with the world? A new look at brains transformed by psychedelics.
Participants meditated inside an MRI tube, with and without psilocybin.
KNOD Progressing For Linux In-Kernel GPU Offloading For Network Packet Processing
A while back we covered KNOD as an experimental solution for in-kernel network offloading to AMD GPUs. The open-source KNOD project allows leveraging GPUs to handle packet processing in a very performant and energy efficient manner without needing any specialized hardware. KNOD has continued and a development update was shared this week at the Linux Plumbers Conference in Prague...
Two characters open up a world of typosquatting opportunities in Chromium browsers
Attackers abusing rare Cyrillic and Latin letters to impersonate popular websites
Linux Networking Diverts 50+ Fixes To Next Kernel, Still Bombarded With AI Fueled Churn
Ahead of the Linux 7.3-rc7 kernel due for release on Sunday, this week's batch of networking fixes were submitted and merged. The vast networking subsystem of wired and wireless drivers plus the various other networking features continues to see a lot of activity due to AI-driven bug reports and patches...
KDE Plasma 6.8 Ready For Release Next Week, Sees Last Minute NVIDIA Fix
KDE Plasma 6.8 is gearing up for its official debut next week in coinciding with the 30th anniversary since the KDE project began...
EC users should be afraid of a US kill switch - not some new software
EU executive branch is building a sovereign backup with Element, not replacing Teams. Not yet anyway
Stack Overflow survey finds devs hooked on AI, but not totally sold on its judgment
Source attribution matters to 79% of respondents – handy for a company licensing its Q&A archive to model builders
Microsoft leans on open weight model from Chinese AI lab to challenge Jev
The first version of Microsoft-Decision-1 is based on Qwen3.5-9B, but the next will sport homegrown tech, Redmond reassures
The Lightbulb Computer
Article URL: https://lightbulbcomputer.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50029487 Points: 560 # Comments: 93
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The RAM shortage is bringing back DDR4
Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/games/1009140/ram-shortage-intel-amd-ddr4-comeback Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50028647 Points: 226 # Comments: 220
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SQLite 3.54 Released With Faster Performance, Drops Windows XP Support
SQLite 3.54 released today for this wildly popular embedded SQL database engine used by countless applications and other software. With SQLite 3.54, support for Microsoft Windows XP and older is finally removed...
Neanderthal wooden tools from Spain found preserved in stone
Dissolved rock precipitated around the tools, which then decayed.
Ukraine’s drones knock out AI data center belonging to "Russia’s Google"
One damaged data center has supercomputers used for training Yandex’s AI model.
A Cray-1 supercomputer replica from 30 "obsolete" Mac Minis
Stylish upcycling, with a retro flair, at Spain's Museo de Historia de la Computación.
NASA issues long-awaited call to industry for private space stations
"We’ve made it clear that NASA will never give up its presence in low Earth orbit."
What's been driving Hawaii's lava fountains?
Before the lava fountains started, the ground was expanding by half a meter a day.
AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software
Study finds coding efficiency gains get "absorbed" by human review "bottleneck."
Outrage grows as CDC reportedly poised to fund "unethical" vaccine trial
CDC allocated $1.6M for study on alleged harms of hepatitis B vaccine.
AWS AgentCore security undone by prompt requesting credentials
Tokens transmitted in metadata, weak VM isolation, and expansive permissions make hacking a lot easier
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 4 TB 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
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.
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...
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
2D Vehicles
Article URL: https://patkerr.co.uk/2d-vehicles/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49991852 Points: 597 # Comments: 113
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