Linux Enacts Guidance To Tighten Acceptance Of New File-Systems Into The Kernel
There is no shortage of different file-systems available for Linux. New file-systems continue to come about in the open-source world but ultimately many of them end up not being well maintained or having very limited users and not necessarily innovating enough to make them worthwhile over other alternatives. Given the continued increase in file-systems looking to get into the Linux kernel, such as FTRFS and VMUFAT being some of the … ⌘ Read more

[$] An overlayfs update
In a shortened session in the filesystem track at the 2026 Linux Storage,\
Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit, Amir Goldstein gave an
update on the overlayfs\
union filesystem. There are some new features over the last few years
that he wanted to mention, along with looking at the status of nesting
overlayfs layers. The composefs use case
that was [discussed at th … ⌘ Read more

Report on an Unidentified Space Station
Article URL: https://sseh.uchicago.edu/doc/roauss.htm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48501012

Points: 3

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Homebrew 6.0.0 released
Version\
6.0.0 of the Homebrew
package-management system has been released. Notable changes in this
release include the introduction of tap trust to improve
supply-chain security, improvements in sandboxing on Linux, a number
of performance tweaks, and many other changes.

See the changelog
for a full list. LWN covered Ho … ⌘ Read more

Signal Alums Reveal ‘Encrypted Spaces,’ a System for Making Private Collaboration Apps
The new open-source project could serve as the basis for a future of apps with features as complex as Slack, Discord, or Google Docs—but with added protection against surveillance. ⌘ Read more

Validation, Docs, tests, and database schemas from one source of truth
Article URL: https://github.com/justhamade/triadjs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48486577

Points: 3

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This A24 Film Could Win an Oscar in 2027
Not your normal animal doc.

The post This A24 Film Could Win an Oscar in 2027 appeared first on ComingSoon.net - Movie Trailers, TV & Streaming News, and More. ⌘ Read more

The Dynamo and the Computer: The Modern Productivity Paradox (1989) [pdf]
https://gwern.net/doc/economics/automation/1989-david.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48479996

Points: 5

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Netflix’s Erling Haaland Doc Arrives With Perfect World Cup Timing
Netflix dropped its Erling Haaland football documentary just days before the 2026 World Cup kicks off. The streamer’s new two-part series chronicles Norway’s emotional return to the global stage after 26 years. Norway: The Dark Horse has arrived on Netflix ahead of FIFA World Cup Netflix has released Norway: The Dark Horse, a two-part sports […]

The post [Netflix’s Erling Haaland Doc Arrives With Perfect Wor … ⌘ Read more

Fine-tuning an LLM to write docs like it’s 1995
Article URL: https://passo.uno/fine-tuning-docs-llm/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48408442

Points: 4

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[$] Caching for extended attributes
Extended\
attributes (xattrs) provide a way to attach key/value metadata to
inodes—files, directories, and the like—in a filesystem. As with many
Linux filesystems, the FUSE filesystem
supports xattrs. In a filesystem-track session at the 2026 Linux Storage,\
Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit, FUSE maintainer Miklos
Szeredi led a discussion a … ⌘ Read more

Fedora F44 election interviews published
The Fedora Project has published
interviews with candidates running for the open seats on the Fedora\
Council, Fedora Engineering\
Steering Committee, Fedora\
Mindshare Committee, and [EPEL\
Steering Committee](https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/epel/epel-policy-steerin … ⌘ Read more

‘The Oral Tradition That Built Software May Not Survive AI’
A historian-turned-software engineer warns that “so little is ever written down” by professional programmers in a new article for Fast Company:

Perhaps there’s an early design doc, but then it turns out that everything was substantially revised before work began. Maybe there are a few wiki pages explaining known issues, some of which were solved a long … ⌘ Read more

Linux 7.1-rc6 To Hide The Documentation On “clearcpuid” Feature
The clearcpuid= kernel parameter can be used to disable specific CPUID features for the kernel by specifying the targeted bit numbers of the feature(s) to disable or their flags from the /proc/cpuinfo output. The clearcpuid parameter, for example, has been useful for carrying out AVX-512 comparison benchmarks for apps that check for the presence of the AVX-512 extensions via /proc/cpuinfo. But moving forward the documentation on clearcpuid is b … ⌘ Read more

Aha, yesterday’s newly added support for LC_TIME to render localized timestamps also broke the feed parsing with my LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 and LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 environment. :-)

Atom feeds make use of RFC 3339 timestamps. They are first converted into RFC 882 timestamp representation, which is the one that RSS feeds use. However, this conversion now results in localized RFC 882 timestamps, which cannot be parsed into Unix timestamp numbers via curl_getdate(…). I bet that it doesn’t know about the localization at all and expects English month and weekday names. Looking at its docs, I reckon that function was selected because of its myriad of supported timestamp formats: https://curl.se/libcurl/c/curl_getdate.html RFC 3339 is not included, though, hence the transformation up front.

The intermediate Item objects in the parser domain use std::string for the timestamp representation. This isn’t all that silly, because Newsboat supports all sorts of different feed formats with different timestamp formats. These RFC 883 timestamps are centrally parsed into time_t.

Speaking of time: It’s time to go to bed after this late bug hunting fun. :-)

NTSB pulls docket after AI recreates dead pilots’ voices
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/ai-users-re-create-dead-pilots-voices-from-crash-investigation-docs/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48241501

Points: 12

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NZTE’s Peter Chrisp named new DOC conservation director general
Peter Chrisp has been appointed as the new director general of conservation and chief executive of the Department of Conservation (DOC).

The announcement was made by deputy public service commissioner Heather Baggott. ⌘ Read more

[$] In search of faster this_cpu operations
The kernel’s this_cpu\
operations are meant to speed access to per-CPU variables. They are
more optimal on some CPUs than others, though. During a
memory-management-track session at the 2026 Linux Storage,\
Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit, Yang Shi proposed a
fundamental, and somewhat controversial, change to how these operations
work in order to provide better performance on … ⌘ Read more

Linux Kernel Adds Documentation For What Qualifies As A Security Bug, Responsible AI Use
Merged today for the Linux 7.1 kernel is some new documentation surrounding what qualifies as a security bug as well as around responsible use of AI for finding kernel bugs… ⌘ Read more

[$] HugeTLB preservation over live update
Recent times have seen a lot of effort put into the implementation of the kexec handover and live update orchestrator
features in the Linux kernel. But that work is not yet complete. At the
2026 Linux Storage,\
Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit, Pratyush Yadav led a
memory-management-track session on adding the ability to preserve [hugetlbfs](https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.html … ⌘ Read more

[$] Policy groups for memory management
The kernel’s control-group\
subsystem works well for resource management, Chris Li said at the
beginning of his memory-management-track session at the 2026 Linux Storage,\
Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit. Control groups work
less well for other use cases, though. He was there to present his
proposed enhancement, called “policy groups”, that would address some of
the shortcomings t … ⌘ Read more

[$] Friction in Fedora’s over AI developer desktop initiative
A push by Red Hat employees to create a Fedora “AI Developer
Desktop” with support for out-of-tree kernel drivers and AI toolkits
has been met with objections from some long-time members of the Fedora
community. After more than a month of sometimes heated discussion, the
Fedora\
Council had voted
to approve the initiative; however, a last-minut … ⌘ Read more

[$] Using dma-bufs for read and write operations
The kernel’s dma-buf\
subsystem provides a way for drivers to share memory buffers, usually
in order to support efficient device-to-device I/O. At the 2026 Linux Storage,\
Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit, Pavel Begunkov, assisted
by Kanchan Joshi, led a joint session of the storage and memory-management
tracks to explore ways to make the use of dma-bufs more efficient yet, a … ⌘ Read more

[$] A 2026 DAMON update
The kernel’s DAMON subsystem
provides user-space monitoring and management of system memory. DAMON is
developing rapidly, so an update on its progress has become a regular
feature of the annual Linux Storage,\
Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit. This tradition
continued at the 2026 gathering with an update from DAMON creator SeongJae
Park covering a long list of new capabilities — tiering, data attribute … ⌘ Read more

[$] Bug-monitoring expectations and Fedora GNOME packages
For a number of years, users submitting bugs reports against GNOME packages in Fedora have
received an auto-reply saying that the reports were not actively
monitored; users were encouraged to file bugs with GNOME upstream instead. However,
that practice seems to be in conflict with the Fedora Engineering Steering\
Committee (FESCo) [policy](https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fesco/Package_maintainer_responsibilities/#_deal_with_ … ⌘ Read more

NetHack 5.0.0 released
Version 5.0.0
of the NetHack
dungeon-exploration game, a distant relative of Rogue and
Hack, has been released. NetHack’s code is now compliant with the
C99 standard, and the release includes more than 3,100
bug fixes and changes, detailed in doc/fixes5-0-0.txt
… ⌘ Read more

Security updates for Tuesday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (openjdk-21 and webkit2gtk), Fedora (botan3, chromium, cockpit, firefox, flatpak, gum, libarchive, libcoap, mingw-python3, ngtcp2, nss, openssh, openssl, openvpn, PackageKit, python3-docs, python3.11, python3.12, python3.13, python3.14, vim, and xrdp), Oracle (firefox, gdk-pixbuf2, java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-21-openjdk, python3.12, python3.9, sudo, and tigervnc), Red Hat (tigervnc and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland), Slackware (mpg123 and proftpd), * … ⌘ Read more

Security updates for Thursday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel and osbuild-composer), Debian (cpp-httplib, firefox-esr, gimp, and packagekit), Fedora (chromium, composer, libcap, pgadmin4, pie, python3-docs, python3.14, and sudo), Mageia (gvfs), Oracle (.NET 8.0, delve, freerdp, giflib, ImageMagick, kernel, OpenEXR, and osbuild-composer), SUSE (erlang, giflib, google-guest-agent, GraphicsMagick, ignition, imagemagick, kea, kernel, kissfft, libraw, libssh, ocaml-patch, opam, openCryptoki, … ⌘ Read more

LilyPond 2.26.0 released
Version\
2.26.0 of the LilyPond
music-engraving program has been released. Major\
changes include the ability to use the Cairo library to generate
output and improvements in spacing between clefs and time
signatures. See the release notes for a full list of [miscellaneous\
improvements](https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.26/Documentation/changes/miscellan … ⌘ Read more

Rust 1.95.0 released
Version\
1.95.0 of the Rust language has been released. Changes include the
addition of a cfg_select!
macro, the capability to use if let guards to allow conditionals based on pattern\
matching, and many newly stabilized APIs. See the release\
notes … ⌘ Read more

Forgejo 15.0 released
Version\
15.0 of the Forgejo
code-collaboration platform has been released. Changes include
repository-specific access tokens, a number of improvements to Forgejo\
Actions, user-interface enhancements, and more. Forgejo 15.0 is
considered a long-term-support (LTS) release, and will be supported
through July 15, 2027. The previous LTS, version 11.0, will reach end
of life on July 16, 2026 … ⌘ Read more

Linux 7.0-rc7 Released With Improved Docs For AI Agents, WiFi Driver Performance Fix
Timed for Easter this year is the seventh weekly release candidate for the Linux 7.0 kernel. If all goes well, Linux 7.0 stable will be out next week… ⌘ Read more

Hundreds of Theatres Show Apocalyptic-Yet-Optomistic New Movie, ‘The AI Doc’
Hundreds of theatres are now showing a new documentary called The AI Doc: Or How I Became An Apocaloptimist. Variety calls it “playful and heady,“edited “with a spirit of ADHD alertness.” The New York Times suggests it “tries to cover so much that it ends up being more confusing than clarifying, but parts are fascina … ⌘ Read more

Linux 7.0-rc7 Adding More Documentation For AI Tools To Send Better Security Bug Reports
For helping with the increase of AI tools scouring the Linux kernel source tree and sending security bug reports, a pull request sent today ahead of the Linux 7.0-rc7 improves the documentation to better guide AI agents – and anyone reading the documentation – how to send better quality bug reports… ⌘ Read more

Euro-Office Wants To Replace Google Docs and Microsoft Office
Euro-Office is a new open-source project supported by several European companies that aims to offer a “truly open, transparent and sovereign solution for collaborate document editing,” using OnlyOffice as a starting point. The project is positioned around European digital independence and familiar Office-style editing, though it has already drawn pushback f … ⌘ Read more

AI Economy Is a ‘Ponzi Scheme,’ Says AI Doc Director
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Vanity Fair: Focus Features is releasing The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist in theaters on March 27. If you’re even slightly interested in what’s going on with AI, it’s required viewing: The film touches on all aspects of the technology, from how it’s currently being used to how it will be used in the near future … ⌘ Read more

@bender@twtxt.net Thanks for the tip-off, fixed!

I hope to have some time this weekend to tease apart my current setup and build a couple of example sites with it (while also writing some docs along the way). But given the rate I’ve been going, it’ll probably be another month. 😢

@rdlmda@rdlmda.me

Replies aren’t actually broken, I just… need to add myself to the follow list?! That’s quite counter-intuitive and (IIRC) not mentioned in the docs. But… It seems to be working now, which is nice (I still don’t know how webmentions and webfinger works, so can’t speak about this so far)

yarnd (what runs here at twtxt.net) actually does this automatically by default. I think it’s just an implementation detail to be honest. There’s nothing about this in the specs over at https://twtxt.dev

Replies aren’t actually broken, I just… need to add myself to the follow list?! That’s quite counter-intuitive and (IIRC) not mentioned in the docs. But… It seems to be working now, which is nice (I still don’t know how webmentions and webfinger works, so can’t speak about this so far)

@prologic@twtxt.net (While browsing through that, I noticed that https://mu-lang.dev/ itself doesn’t really mention the source code repo, does it? 🤔 Like, the quickstart guide begins with “Build the host: go build ./cmd/mu”, but where’s the git clone … command? 😅)

I’m not really sure what the goal is. 🤔 Do you want to get pull requests for the docs? Or bug reports for mu itself? 🤔

Trying an experiment. Created a Github repo for mu over at https://github.com/prologic/mu as a social experiment to see if we can maintain a tailored Github docs-only repo of a project, see if it gets any interest 🤔

Just importing data classes takes another 60 ms … This fancy new stuff is really costly.

Linux Kernel Continuity Document Added: What Happens If Torvalds’ Git Repo Goes Away?
Following discussions from the 2025 Linux Maintainer Summit, merged overnight for the Linux 6.19 kernel is documentation concerning the Linux kernel project’s continuity in the event that Linus Torvalds’ official Git repository were to disappear or otherwise be inaccessible for continuing the upstream development of the Linux kernel… ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org The thing is that’s hard to avoid if TYPE_CHECKING, but documentation tools such as pdoc don’t support that … so it’s either type hints or API docs. 🤷

I hope I can eventually find a way out of this mess …

And now the event loop is not a simple loop around curses’ getch() anymore but it can wait for events on any file descriptor. Here’s a simple test program that waits for connections on a TCP socket, accepts it, reads a line, sends back a line:

https://movq.de/v/93fa46a030/vid-1767547942.mp4

And the scrollbar indicators are working now.

I’ll probably implement timer callbacks using timerfd (even though that’s Linux-only). 🤔

Rust’s ‘Vision Doc’ Makes Recommendations to Help Keep Rust Growing
The team authoring the Rust 2025 Vision Doc interviewed Rust developers to find out what they liked about the language — and have now issued three recommendations “to help Rust continue to scale across domains and usage levels.”

— Enumerate and describe Rust’s design goals and integrate them into our processes, helping to ensure they … ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net Well, you can associate your identity to the apex domain with a bit of Webfinger wizardry, but I don’t. Mine are always attached to the sub-domains. I find it easier to migrate between instances that way without risking borking federation.

@bender@twtxt.net yeah, I’ve been reading through the documentation last night and it felt overwhelming for a minute… +1 point goes to GTS’s docs. but hey, I’ll be taking the easy route: podman-compose up -d they provide both a container image and an example compose file in a separate git repo but I’m wondering why that is not mentioned anywhere in the docs, (unless it is and I haven’t seen it yet)

@prologic@twtxt.net I am telling you that is extremely easy: https://docs.gotosocial.org/en/latest/advanced/host-account-domain/. Now, if you are putting into account your rather… unique setup, then that’s another story.

@prologic@twtxt.net The main thing that I tought of is that whomever is abusing your services must be a well known actor (by range/set of IPs) that got reported by other Crowdsec users. So to my simpleton’s understanding, your reverse-proxy/web server passes the requests by crowdsec for processing, they get banned for $N hours if the source has already been blacklisted by the community or violates any of a set of behavior base rules (and even more hours for repeat offenders); otherwise the requests/responses go as per usual. Not sure if I got things right but this might help paint a better picture of the process.