Sunday, 18 October 2026
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Synchronous Queues For VirtIO-FS Show Huge Performance Potential
VirtIO-FS as the shared file-system for transferring data between guest VMs to/from a host server is showing some promising performance results with pending code for allowing synchronous queues rather than always being asynchronous...
NY announces game ownership bill requiring ownership rather than licensing
Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/new-york-rep-announces-game-ownership-bill-that-would-require-consumer-ownership-rather-than-sale-of-licenses-would-also-require-publishers-to-keep-the-game-functional-after-support-ends Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50136536 Points: 158 # Comments: 42
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ReactOS Can Now Be Installed & Used With Its NTFS Driver
The ReactOS open-source operating system has seen its NTFS file-system driver mature to the point that it can be finally used for installing and using ReactOS with it. NTFS formatting support is also finally now possible with this driver too...
Codex Desktop continuously generates Crashpad pending dumps
Article URL: https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/25921 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50133231 Points: 108 # Comments: 37
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I Became a Citizen of Japan
Article URL: https://www.derekwessman.com/blog-1/natural Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50133150 Points: 184 # Comments: 90
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Gold is now the top U.S. export
Article URL: https://www.numismaticnews.net/gold-now-top-u-s-export Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50132870 Points: 283 # Comments: 149
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MeshXFS: AI Adapts XFS Into A Clustered File-System
MeshXFS is a clustered open-source file-system in which "no human wrote any of its own code". Depending upon your views of AI, not necessarily something you want to hear for entrusting your data in an AI-created solution. Instead, Claude Opus was tasked with adapting the XFS file-system driver into a clustered file-system...
Pele – Mermaid diagrams as themeable SVG
Article URL: https://pele.run/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50132193 Points: 322 # Comments: 29
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Solar surpasses nuclear power globally for first time
Article URL: https://www.pv-magazine.com/2026/09/29/solar-surpasses-nuclear-power-globally-for-first-time/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50131256 Points: 524 # Comments: 327
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Making chicken transparent using Dorito dust
Article URL: https://chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com/p/making-chicken-transparent-using Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50131213 Points: 278 # Comments: 68
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Show HN: Esp32sim – Run ESP32 firmware in the browser
Hi HN, I’ve been working on esp32sim, an open-source ESP32 emulator that runs in the browser. The fun part of the demo is that there is no ESP32 involved — the firmware is executing in the emulator. The goal is to make ESP32 software easier to experiment with, test and simulate without always needing physical hardware connected.
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Show HN: High-quality duck audio synthesizer
Article URL: https://celphase.github.io/duck-pond/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50131006 Points: 106 # Comments: 27
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Cybercrims go beyond stealing data to attack physical building systems
'Hold my beer, have fun getting into your offices'
Science says your boss should talk less in meetings
Research suggests listening more while talking less. Killing aimless meetings can help, too.
Why BioWare's Neverwinter Nights still has thousands of active players
The single-player is just OK, but according to the players, that doesn't matter.
Linux Lands Fix for Rare, Varying SMP Boot Hangs Affecting Kernels Since 2024
Among the flurry of last minute patch activity ahead of tomorrow's presumed Linux 7.3 stable kernel release is a fix for addressing some rare hangs at boot time. The reports varied but ultimately tracked down to a kernel change made two years ago...
GNOME's New Local/Cloud AI Chat App Gains More Features
Coming about the past few months has been Moose as a GNOME-aligned AI chat application built around GTK4 and libadwaita. It began as a local AI chat app for the GNOME desktop and grew to support cloud AI services as well. This past week marked the latest feature release for Moose...
Linux 7.3 Lands Last-Minute Fixes For Samsung 990 PRO & 990 EVO Plus SSDs
Ahead of the Linux 7.3 stable kernel expected to be released tomorrow, last minute workarounds were merged for the Samsung 990 PRO and Samsung 990 EVO Plus NVMe solid state drives...
KDE Plasma 6.9 To Debut New Weather Widget & On-Screen Keyboard
With KDE Plasma 6.8 released earlier this week, KDE developers have begun working on more feature activity toward Plasma 6.9...
Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.1 Brings New Hardware Support & Important Security Fix
Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.1 was released on Friday as the latest update to this community-maintained tablet/smartphone Ubuntu Linux platform. Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.5 was also released as a maintenance update for the prior series...
Amazon wants you to Bee-lieve wearable AI can recall it all for you
Would you like personalized shopping recommendations based on that conversation you just had?
DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017
https://api-docs.deepseek.com/news/news261017/ https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50129045 Points: 765 # Comments: 613
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Get in the bin! UK Space Agency wants public to name its debris removal mission
ClearSpace UK aims to be operational in 2029 with public's suggestion etched on the side of the spacecraft
Show HN: Llmspeed – feel how fast a local LLM runs before you buy the hardware
Article URL: https://llmspeed.dev/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50127979 Points: 267 # Comments: 78
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Source code of the Estonian online voting system
Article URL: https://github.com/valimised/ivxv Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50127586 Points: 187 # Comments: 157
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A skeptic's first contact with Kubernetes (2024)
Article URL: https://blog.davidv.dev/posts/first-contact-with-k8s/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50127572 Points: 100 # Comments: 55
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Wine 11.20 Released With CD-ROM Support Change
Wine 11.20 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release of this software for enjoying Windows games and apps on Linux. We are quickly approaching the point where this development work will culminate into the Wine 12.0 stable release in early 2027...
Dam removals are bringing fish back across the northeastern United States
Article URL: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/dam-removals-are-bringing-fish-back-across-the-northeastern-united-states-striking-down-one-tiny-barrier-at-a-time-180989679/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50126312 Points: 239 # Comments: 59
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Bleached corals thrive within days when touching healthy neighbour
https://archive.ph/zIPG4 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50126253 Points: 384 # Comments: 80
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Open-weight models win hearts, minds, and wallets
They handle 71.5% of Vercel gateway tokens and nearly a quarter of estimated spending
OpenAI models hacked a crypto wallet and breached more websites
The actions could have resulted in criminal charges had humans been behind the keyboard.
Benchmarked: Nvidia's RTX Spark notebook delivers serious local AI compute, at a price
El Reg digs its claws into HP's N1X-powered OmniBook Ultra 16
“thegentlemanpervert” producing AI CSAM is a NJ prosecutor, say cops
Discord user flagged AI CSAM, triggering arrest of New Jersey deputy AG.
Node.js creator ditches Deno to work on open source Cloudflare Workers
You're building servers 'wrong,' says Ryan Dahl as Cloudflare gobbles his Deno startup
Meta grants itself right to scrape content from business customers for model training
The future is private, the present is plunder
US Rep proposes bill to give video game buyers "ownership," not "a license"
There are still significant hurdles ahead, both technical and legislative.
17 More Security Vulnerabilities Made Public For X.Org Libraries
Just shy of two weeks since a dozen vulnerabilities were published for the X.Org Server and XWayland, more than one dozen vulnerabilities were made public today affecting multiple X.Org client libraries...
Bug turns one of the biggest fears about Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses into reality
The bug is fixed, but privacy concerns remain.
You could have invented transformers from memory
https://twitter.com/heyyalexwang/status/2111158818730397932 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50122878 Points: 527 # Comments: 120
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GNOME OS Preview Announced In Road Toward A Stable Release
The GNOME OS Linux distribution to date has just been in GNOME OS Nightly form for tracking the latest nightly packages of GNOME in their current development form. GNOME OS Preview was announced today as their trek toward a stable GNOME OS in using the latest GNOME stable releases rather than nightly form...
The Best Features Of Linux 7.3: Performance Improvements, Lots From Valve
The Linux 7.3 kernel is slated to be officially released on Sunday, 18 October, barring any last minute issues from coming about. With that said, here's a reminder about some of the most exciting features to look forward to in this next kernel version...
RFK Jr. proposes FDA look the other way on unproven peptides, report says
FDA scientists said none of the popular drugs have been proven safe or effective.
Ubuntu Stonking Stingray swims into spotlight with pre-release kernel
26.10 is here, with not-quite-ready kernel 7.3 and speech-to-text recognition
New online tool will check lawyers' sloppy AI-written briefs since they can't seem to be bothered
Bogus AI-generated citations keep turning up in court documents, but lawyers could at least run those docs through this legal citation checker
Meta may use sweeping new commercial TOS to avoid millions in AI licensing fees
Meta “streamlined” its commercial TOS. Legal experts warn it’s an AI power grab.
After 23 Years, Longtime Linux Developer To "Step Back For A While"
Longtime Linux kernel engineer Darrick Wong who stepped down as the XFS file-system maintainer in 2023 is now taking a step back from his other Linux kernel development roles after working on the kernel the past 23 years...
Networking problems after the October 2026 Windows update? NTLM might be to blame
Legacy protocol is going to be axed, and enforcement by default will highlight how migration is going
Rendering pretty sky in Around The World game
Article URL: https://frozenfractal.com/blog/2026/10/12/around-the-world-34-a-pretty-sky/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50119315 Points: 138 # Comments: 10
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NTT Global Data Centers weighs the price tag of not building fast enough
SPONSORED POST: As AI hunger soars, NTT Global Data Centers finds it's permits, not parts, that could cap the datacenter boom
Uncle Scam Wants You … to cough up your cash and personal data, FBI warns ahead of midterms
The inevitable election-themed cyberattacks are whirring again, as the feds issue PSA about the ones to watch out for
Intel Xeon 6980P Granite Rapids Performance On Linux Over The Past Year
It's been nearly one year since receiving the Gigabyte R284-A92-AAL1 2U Granite Rapids server platform for continuing my testing of the flagship Xeon 6980P processors. Curious how the Xeon 6980P 2P performance has evolved on Linux since then, I ran some benchmarks on the newly-released Ubuntu Server 26.10 against the tests carried out last year on Ubuntu 25.10 with the same hardware.
Polymarket saw $600 million in election trades after the elections were over
Millions kept changing hands long after the election outcomes were effectively settled.
Tesla turns to 50-year-old stunt technology as it tries to Roadster again
If you want to make a car spin in the air, compressed gas is a good way to do it.
Super Scam Me documentary shows what it takes to catch a romance scammer
Watch an exclusive clip from Super Scam Me where a victim tracks down her scammer.
Attack on BAE-managed system disrupts US bankruptcy courts
Legal eagles still plodding along with some operations, but paper and e-notices delayed until further notice
AI-Generated Starling Desktop Environment Rolls Out Its Own Office Suite
Starling, the open-source desktop environment written in Swift and with its own Wayland compositor too and written largely via Claude Code, has now rolled out its own AI-generated office suite...
Fedora 46 Looking At Moving To RPM v6 Package Format
The RPM v4 packaging format has been used by Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora and its derivatives for more than two decades. With next year's Fedora 46 release, Fedora Linux may finally transition to the modern RPM v6 packaging format...
British watchdog seeks tougher terms around Microsoft's dominance of business software
Another reason for Donald Trump to hate British regulation
Want your AI chats to stay private? Brave TEEs up end-to-end encryption
Browser maker using trusted hardware to protect conversations with GLM 5.3 Flash
The Surface Laptop Ultra delivers on most of Microsoft's promises
Microsoft promises one machine for dev, AI, and gaming, and mostly gets there.
Capita set to miss legal deadline on 93,000 civil servants' pension fixes, claims union
PCS says outsourcer still stuck in design phase while retirees wait for McCloud corrections
Rocket Report: FAA eyes more Starbase traffic; India's Skyroot snares US customer
The pioneering reusable upper stage for Stoke Space's Nova rocket ships out for testing.
Microsoft bringing Defender to Linux desktops. Repeat: Microsoft bringing Defender to Linux desktops
The year of Corporate Compliance on the Linux desktop is here
AI Resurrects AVX-512 Support For Mesa's LLVMpipe Software Driver
With pending code for Mesa, the LLVMpipe software-based Gallium3D/OpenGL driver could soon become faster on modern systems that support AVX-512. That's assuming the AI/LLVM-generated code is all in order...
Linux 7.4 To Enable Intel Instruction Timeout For Fending Off TDX VM DoS Attacks
Linux 7.4 is enabling support for a new Intel CPU feature for providing safety against possible denial of service attacks using Trust Domain Extensions "TDX" VMs. The new feature is Intel Instruction Timeout and previously in-development known as Notify VM Exit...
Blue Origin is going all in on the New Glenn rocket
The infrastructure is designed to support multiple flights per week by the end of the decade.
Googlebook review: Android on a laptop is still Android
Android laptops are here, but Google has a lot of work ahead to make them good.
Postgres 19 delayed after AI reviewers find more bugs than humans can fix
Core devs revert up to 10 features, push release to November, and blame better tooling rather than vibe coding
Linux 7.3 Squeezes Even More Performance Out Of The AMD Threadripper PRO 9995WX
With the Linux 7.3 kernel due out for release on Sunday, I've continued running more benchmarks recently of this forthcoming kernel version and it looks great. In my Linux 7.3 testing of the Git state it's been looking great in testing on a variety of hardware shown across multiple systems. Recently I decided to try out this new kernel code on the 96-core AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 9995WX…
Thief snatches school snapper's SD cards in smash & grab
UK school admits data protection bungle as children's data at risk
Intel LLM-Scaler-vLLM PV 1.5 Brings Big Improvements
Intel software engineers today released the latest version of LLM-Scaler-vLLM PV 1.5, their containerized Docker stack providing a convenient AI/LLM experience atop Intel Arc Graphics hardware and born out of their Project Battlematrix initiative...
Open source sovereignty gets down to the boring business of making it work
Migration targets, security rules, and management metrics take center stage at this year's event
KDE turns 30 with Plasma 6.8, remote upgrades, and an X11 farewell
KDE celebrates 30 years with a new Plasma release, a farewell to X11, and a movie.
Plex now helps sell movie theater tickets
Discovery data from Plex users will help studios, advertisers.
Hegseth’s dubious low-T screening may flag up to 25 percent of the Army
Medical experts explicitly recommend against blanket screenings.
Targeted ads delivered 0-click exploits to install mercenary malware
The incident is likely 1st confirmation of mercenary spyware delivered by targeted ads.
Above the 911? Porsche previews a new mid-engined supercar.
Porsche’s turnaround plan for 2035 involves less volume but more expensive cars.
Furifont, a Japanese font that shows furigana
Article URL: https://furifont.antfu.me/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50100994 Points: 306 # Comments: 63
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The Commodore 64 hardware simulator: break chips and pins, see the results
Article URL: https://github.com/antirez/c64-hw-simulator Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50100366 Points: 161 # Comments: 24
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