Sunday, 25 October 2026
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SteamOS 3.9.5 Released With Linux 7.2 Kernel, KDE Plasma 6.7 Desktop & Other Updates
On Friday Valve released SteamOS 3.9.5 as their first stable release in the SteamOS 3.9 series. This brings all the great improvements previously available in preview form with many package updates and other enhancements...
Roku developer repositories moved from GitHub to GitLab
Article URL: https://blog.roku.com/developer/gitlab-move Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50222622 Points: 166 # Comments: 111
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FreeDNS
Article URL: https://freedns.afraid.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50222133 Points: 173 # Comments: 42
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Autonomous attack agent in 'Skynet mode' hijacks other models to carry out its evil deeds
Designed to carry out 100,000 steps without human approval
Linux's Early Boot-Time Physical Memory Allocator Sees Big Speed-Up: ~268s To ~50ms
Sent out today for the Linux 7.4 kernel were a set of memblock improvements. Most notable is a performance optimization within mm/memblock.c that implements the kernel's early boot-time physical memory allocator that is used prior to the bring-up of the full page allocator...
A 1,000-mile cloud on Mars may reveal physics never seen in nature
A new model suggests Mars may host ice-forming physics never directly observed before.
Raspberry Pi Desktop proves old PCs aren't past it
Debian 13-based refresh runs comfortably on veteran ThinkPads, without making installation a hobby
systemd Merges Support For Rust Programs
As of today in systemd Git it's now possible for the systemd programs to be written in the Rust programming language as an alternative to C...
539 MM Patches Merged For Linux 7.4 From Optimizations To More DAMON
Andrew Morton sent out the big set of memory management "MM" related patches for the Linux 7.4 merge window. This cycle it topped out at 539 total patches and a reviewed rate of 76%...
Ice sheet expansion may have started 2,000 years ago, but we canceled that
The tiny remains of the Laurentide Ice Sheet began getting somewhat less tiny.
Wild 0.11 Linker Released - Now Able To Link Linux Kernel Modules, WASM By Default
Wild 0.11 is out as the latest feature release of this very fast linker currently targeting Linux systems and focused on iterative development...
Linux 7.4 Graphics Driver Changes Headlined By AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 Features
Merged overnight were all the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) driver updates consisting of many kernel graphics/display driver improvements. Arguably most exciting with these updates for Linux 7.4 is the AMD Radeon (AMDGPU) driver seeing HDMI 2.1 FRL enabled by default along with other HDMI 2.1 features...
GPU-unlock: FP/BF16 instruction issue rate on Nvidia 3000's cards
Article URL: https://github.com/Zagitta/gpu-unlock Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50219700 Points: 116 # Comments: 47
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I Don't Understand Quantum Physics (2018)
Article URL: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/~doug/quantum_physics/index.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50219666 Points: 233 # Comments: 162
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Node2Shell evolves to HTTP2Shell, blast radius affects many HTTP libs and apps
Article URL: https://www.aikido.dev/blog/python-packages-vulnerable-node2shell-brotli-cve-2026-111497 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50219177 Points: 222 # Comments: 104
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OBS Studio 33
Article URL: https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/releases/tag/33.0.0 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50218430 Points: 401 # Comments: 138
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How close can pure functional programming get to C?
Article URL: https://rtfeldman.com/fp-vs-c Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50218195 Points: 224 # Comments: 62
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Twelve years of distributed SQLite
Article URL: https://philipotoole.com/twelve-years-of-distributed-sqlite/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50217500 Points: 336 # Comments: 51
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KDE Plasma 6.9 Stabilizes KWin's Wayland Picture-In-Picture Support
With the wonderful KDE Plasma 6.8 having shipped just more than one week ago, KDE developers are beginning to go heavy on new features for Plasma 6.9...
OBS Studio 33.0 Released With Massive Update To CEF, Improved Plugin Loading
OBS Studio 33.0 is out tonight as the latest major update to this popular open-source and cross-platform video recording and live streaming application...
NASA updates lander plans for Moon landings, finally solves long-festering Orion issue
"We have the mandate, we have the resources, and the support from our stakeholders."
OpenAI disables internet access during model training while Anthropic issues another mea culpa
We've totally got things under control
Hegseth warns prediction market bets warp military judgment, endanger troops
Pentagon memo: Insider trading gives US enemies key intel on military operations.
Linux 7.4 Merges Slab Updates With A Nice Performance Improvement
The slab pull request was just merged for Linux 7.4. For end users nothing too incredibly exciting but there is one change that does yield a 24% throughput improvement in a benchmark exercising the kernel's memory management subsystem...
Updated Google privacy policy says your Gmail might be used for advertising
Turning on Personal Intelligence gives the company more data for ad targeting.
There's a third PHP2Shell bug, but it won't get an emergency fix
Bad things (and software bugs?) come in threes
Inside the Pentagon, the pressure is on to find a home for a new spaceport
Space Force considering options: public-private, federal installation, state land.
Spotify ramps up policy enforcement on family plans
If you share Spotify sub with family, you may need to scan QR code to prove it.
Red-team report found OpenAI utterly failed to monitor its agents during Hugging Face attack
Monitoring was only partial and was easily bypassed
Dessa: Conversation Model trained only on speech
Article URL: https://block.xyz/dessa Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50213925 Points: 480 # Comments: 180
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Crows can evaluate visual info twice as fast as mammals
Birds' compact nervous system seems to help them handle tasks very quickly.
Intel gets waiver after worries fuzzy US ban on foreign-made robots may hit fabs
Company says foreign-made robotic vehicles are crucial to US chip production.
Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed
https://www.kimi.com/code/docs/en/kimi-code/models.html https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/kimi-k3-1-pro https://www.modelcompare.ai/blog/china-open-source-ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50212065 Points: 1049 # Comments: 640
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RFK Jr.’s vaccine injury clinic could damage NIH hospital, board warns
"Trust is slow to build and quick to lose," board chair Jack Leslie said.
Knicks sent employees fake offer of championship rings in phishing test: Report
Corporate phishing tests are common, but this one was especially cruel.
Everybody panic: A Valve developer said "HLX" in public
Sound designer lets Half Life-related codename slip at a conference.
HPFS Is The Latest File-System Facing Possible Removal On Linux
HPFS is the latest file-system driver for the Linux kernel facing possible removal. The High Performance File-System (HPFS) was developed by IBM and Microsoft for OS/2...
AI models describe humans as a bunch of amoral sheep
Ask LLMs for their most controversial take on humanity, and it turns out they have little nice to say about us, as one AI experiment found
Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone
Article URL: https://blog.calif.io/p/iphone Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50211474 Points: 1054 # Comments: 656
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Borealis: Asahi Linux's Apple Silicon Mesa Vulkan Driver Forked For Vibe Coding
Seeing a Vulkan API driver pull request this morning for introducing a new "Borealis" driver ID caught me by surprise as it was the first time I was hearing of such a driver. It turns out to be a fork of the Asahi Linux project's HoneyKrisp driver in Mesa for Apple Silicon hardware...
Michigan prof creates Python-like Jac language for AI agents
Stop burning $165K on AI rewrites; Jac is meant to "gobble up" your polyglot stack
Arc browser on its way out as makers suggest an alternative
No new accounts from now, and the end will come in December
SparkyOS: Lightweight general-purpose Arch, on a pendrive
Interesting new project from the minds behind SparkyLinux
oneDNN 3.14 Released With ACE Support, Initial AMD Zen Optimizations
The UXL Foundation announced today the release of oneDNN 3.14 as the latest feature update to this library providing optimized deep learning operations for software like PyTorch, TensorFlow, OpenVINO, and others. While oneDNN began as an Intel software project, making this version notable is beginning to see AMD Zen CPU optimizations land in oneDNN proper...
Linux 7.4 Power Management Preps For AMD Ryzen Zen 6 & Intel Rugged Panther Lake
The power management subsystem updates were merged this week for Linux 7.4 along with the related ACPI and thermal control updates too...
The reactor meant to showcase nuclear’s comeback keeps hitting problems
A contractor fell into a reactor cavity and a bundle of fuel rods almost fell over.
PubKeep picks up where Microsoft Publisher signs off
$99 replacement opens old .pub files on Windows and macOS, without a subscription
OpenSSL 4.1 Released With More AVX-512 Optimizations
OpenSSL 4.1 stable is out today with new AVX-512 optimizations, other performance improvements, and finally retiring Windows on Itanium and Windows CE support...
Linux 7.4 Brings Hibernation Improvement For Helping Meet Energy Certifications
The PCI/PCIe subsystem improvements have been merged for the ongoing Linux 7.4 merge window...
Musk disputes NASA safety panel's lunar launch estimates
Watchdog also warns retiring Falcon and Dragon could leave US access to orbit short of a backup
Apple Music 404 Not Found
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/10/23/apple-music-has-a-hidde... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50207910 Points: 891 # Comments: 264
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Vulkan 1.4.366 Released With SMPTE ST 2094-50 HDR Support
Vulkan 1.4.366 is out and representing the past two weeks of specification fixes, clarifications, and one new Vulkan API extension...
Torvalds: AI is fine for competent devs, but spare us the 'drive-by' patches
Kernel maintainers stop asking who used AI, as long as the code is good
Ukraine learns to fight without Starlink as Musk plays politics with satellites
Ukraine has changed drone and war-fighting tech to reduce reliance on Starlink.
Review: Crystal Lake suffers a bit from its obsession with Pam Voorhees
Friday the 13th prequel series based on Jason’s mom drags at first, then hits a vein.
Rocket Report: SpaceX says no thanks to military launches; Spanish rocket nearly ready
"We believe Canada should be able to reach orbit on its own terms."
BOFH: I talked to Claude and he says you're an idiot
You know what's really sick? Getting to the pub on time on a Friday
FFmpeg 9.1 Preps For Release With APV Vulkan Encoder, NVIDIA Optical Flow FRUC
The release dance is underway for FFmpeg 9.1 as the newest feature release for this widely-used open-source multimedia library...
Linux 7.4 Introduces New Driver For The Nintendo Switch 2 Controllers - Thanks To Valve
The HID subsystem updates have been merged for the Linux 7.4 kernel that included a few new drivers...
LibreSSL 4.4 Released With Faster SHA3, Bug Fixes
LibreSSL 4.4 released on Thursday as the newest release of this decade-old OpenSSL fork maintained by OpenBSD developers...
Linux 7.4 Fixes AMD CPU TLB Size Reporting For Zen 5 & Newer
As a follow-up to the article in September about a Linux patch for fixing under-reported AMD Zen 5 TLB sizes, that work is now merged for the Linux 7.4 kernel...
UK threatens subsea cable saboteurs with 14 years behind bars
Whitehall wants tougher penalties and new powers over telecoms operators as Russian activity raises alarm
Beware the claw: Do you want to win the bunny or reboot Android?
Classic arcade game put to shame by judgemental Bugdroid
Vendor-affiliated AI agent tech gets adopted by friendly, funded foundation
Four projects for facilitating AI agents move under vendor-neutral governance
Windows said modem worked fine. That unmistakable scorched electronics smell suggested otherwise
Catching lightning in a tech support bottle
Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you
Article URL: https://edjefferson.com/localwiki/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50202285 Points: 1504 # Comments: 240
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Switch 2 security takes a hit as hackers unlock homebrew access
"Userland" exploit relies on integer overflow found in "SmileBasic" interpreter.
Moderna and Merck say their mRNA cancer vaccine cut death, recurrence by 42%
Markers released top-line results today after previously reporting the trial succeeded.
Latest estimate for Starship launches required to support a Moon landing? 22.
"We need to keep our eyes on numerous required fuelings for the lander."
Comcast loses more customers, claims other ISPs' cheap prices are "irrational"
Comcast plans job cuts and more AI agents for its shrinking cable customer base.
PHP2Shell exploit bypasses protections designed to stop remote code execution
“Adversaries are clearly spending time (and tokens) on this bug,” researcher says.
Human receives AI-designed virus for the first time
Not to kill the human, of course – to kill the antibiotic-resistant bacteria causing their infection
Backdoored robot tries its hand at finger chopping and cat cooking
No actual digits or cats were harmed beyond the number crunching that went into this LLM poisoning experiment
Physicists trap a single antimatter particle for a month
Article URL: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/physicists-trap-a-single-antimatter-particle-for-a-month/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50186450 Points: 239 # Comments: 70
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Bringing uv and ty together
Article URL: https://astral.sh/blog/uv-ty-integration Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50172962 Points: 263 # Comments: 89
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A practical guide to AI image generation, from diffusion to agents
Article URL: https://danielball.com/notes/ai_image_generation.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50171379 Points: 222 # Comments: 69
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