Monday, 26 October 2026
73 stories filed.
Oregon Police Are Charging a Local News Outlet $2.5M for Records About One Cop
Article URL: https://theintercept.com/2026/10/01/oregon-police-misconduct-public-records-cost-fee/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50234232 Points: 127 # Comments: 21
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I refuse to accept a censored Internet. Join Me at FOSDEM 27
Article URL: https://talkweb.eu/openweb/4558/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50233929 Points: 188 # Comments: 82
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A 10-year-old CNN outperforms frontier LLMs for skin cancer diagnosis
Article URL: https://lynchlab.net/llm-skin-cancer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50233779 Points: 179 # Comments: 101
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Show HN: I put employees inside S&P 500 market-cap bubbles
I was playing around with visualising the S&P 500 by market cap and decided to add employees to each company's bubble. What surprised me was how empty some of the biggest companies looked. Nvidia is worth $5.2 trillion but employs only 42,000 people.
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New Wayland Protocol Proposed For VNC/Remote Software
Prominent Wayland developer Simon Ser sent out a merge request today for introducing the new ext-transient-output protocol. With ext-transient-output, it's intent is for helping remoting software like VNC servers in a Wayland world...
Linux 7.4 Sound Changes Merged: "The AI Flood Continues"
Linux sound subsystem maintainer Takashi Iwai of SUSE began the Linux 7.4 sound pull request by noting that "the AI flood continues" with there continuing to be a lot of new patches coming as a result of AI/LLM agents devising patches as well as uncovering new kernel bugs...
fheroes2: A recreation of Heroes of Might and Magic II game engine
Article URL: https://github.com/ihhub/fheroes2 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50230384 Points: 180 # Comments: 63
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Cheap GameSir Nova Lite Gaming Controller Supported By Linux 7.4
Following all the HID driver updates/additions in Linux 7.4, the input subsystem changes were merged this weekend for this new kernel version...
AV2 Video Codec Adoption Talked Up, SVT-AV2 Being Developed
Back in May the AV2 v1.0 specification was released for this next-generaton, royalty-free video codec. This week the Alliance For Open Media issued a press release talking up the early adoption of AV2...
Want to build a UK datacenter? Please hold while Whitehall transfers you
Minister insists responsibilities are clear as construction, telecoms, and energy fall under separate departments
Realtek rtl8723bs Driver Deleted From Staging Area In Linux 7.4
After nearly a decade in the Linux kernel's staging area and being worked on by many different kernel developer newcomers, the Realtek rtl8723bs was deleted from the staging area. This comes as Realtek rtl8723bs was added onto the more mature RTW88 driver in the Linux networking subsystem...
AMD 600 Series Chipsets Now Have Temperature Monitoring Support On Linux
With the Linux 7.4 kernel and also marked for back-porting to the v7.2 and v7.3 series is finally the ability to monitor temperature sensors on AMD 600 Series chipsets that launched alongside the Ryzen 7000 series processors...
Google's C Binder Driver Removed With Rust Binder Ready For "Few Billion Devices"
Linus Torvalds merged the "char/misc" changes for the Linux 7.4 kernel driver on Saturday. Most notable this cycle for char/misc is what's being removed: Google's C-written Binder driver has left the kernel with the Rust-based modern Binder driver ready to take for the role of being used by all future Android devices...
Reg readers land on 'Binface' as name for UK space cleanup mission
Intergalactic Space Warrior, or a bin in orbit?
Cerebras Deploys Trillion-Parameter AI Models
Article URL: https://www.cerebras.ai/blog/how-we-deploy-trillion-parameter-frontier-models-on-cerebras Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50227356 Points: 324 # Comments: 114
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Linux 7.4 Block Updates Range From Floppy Disk Driver Fixes To Apple M4 NVMe Support
The Linux 7.4 block/storage and IO_uring updates were merged today for the ongoing merge window. With the breadth of Linux hardware support, the pull request varies from fixes to Linux's floppy driver to enabling support for NVMe storage on Apple M4 devices...
We should be more ambitious with the software we build
Article URL: https://danluu.com/ambitious/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50225695 Points: 677 # Comments: 633
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Small Programs and Languages
Article URL: https://ratfactor.com/cards/pl-small Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50225674 Points: 175 # Comments: 27
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SpeedCrunch 1.1
Article URL: https://www.speedcrunch.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50224210 Points: 212 # Comments: 47
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The Goose Programming Language
https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/2113704269274636568 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50224100 Points: 536 # Comments: 331
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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...
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...
Root shell on Samsung TV
Merged threads: "Samsung running a TensorFlow lite model on 960x540 image to track you": https://twitter.com/mike64_t/status/2114150399406202896 "Samsung TVs look for microphones in your house via Bluetooth and then spy events": https://twitter.com/freddier/status/2114042326758867453 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50218633 Points: 654 # Comments: 510
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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
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.
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
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...
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
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
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
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: 1652 # Comments: 253
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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.
How Japanese Dried Bonito Is Made
Article URL: https://kottke.org/26/10/how-japanese-dried-bonito-is-made Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50193936 Points: 164 # Comments: 44
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