Performance Optimizations, NVIDIA Vera, Arc Pro B70 & Other Linux Highlights From Q2
As the last planned article on Phoronix of Q2, here is a look back at what excited readers the most in the second quarter. There were 872 original news articles this quarter as well as 54 Linux hardware reviews / multi-page featured benchmark articles. Here is what excited readers the most over these past three months… ⌘ Read more

GIMP v0.54 From 1996 With Motif Toolkit Now Flatpak’ed For Modern Linux Desktops
The open-source world waited long enough for the GIMP 3.0 release that finally came last year with its GTK3 port and more, but for those with time on their hands this weekend and want to relive GIMP’s past from long ago, GIMP 0.54 has been adapted for Flatpak to work on modern Linux desktops. What makes this version of GIMP from 1996 notable is that it was the last to use the Motif toolkit… ⌘ Read more

Swiss Voters Reject Proposal To Cap Population At 10 Million
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Voters in Switzerland have rejected an unprecedented far-right proposal to cap the country’s population at 10 million in a divisive referendum dubbed “the Swiss Brexit.” Some 54.79% of voters were against the proposal by the Swiss People’s party (SVP) and 45.21% were in favor. Turnout was 58.86%. A differ … ⌘ Read more

Masters of the Universe’s Box Office Makes It Very Tough to Break Even
Masters of the Universe‘s opening weekend numbers paint a tough picture for the film’s road to profitability. Its global debut and reported budget reveal a significant gap between earnings and its break-even threshold. Masters of the Universe’s box office struggles to justify its budget Masters of the Universe opened to $54.3 million globally during its […]

The post [Masters of the Universe’ … ⌘ Read more

Microsoft reports AI is more expensive than paying human employees
Article URL: https://fortune.com/2026/05/22/microsoft-ai-cost-problem-tokens-agents/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48244434

Points: 54

# Comments: 14 ⌘ Read more

The Government’s billion-dollar frigate question
Sailing from Wellington Harbour on Wednesday morning was a 5,500-tonne example of what could be a multibillion-dollar Budget item for the Government in the coming decade.

The 130m-long JS Kumano, a Japanese Mogami-class frigate built for stealth with flat steel panels and few distinguishable features other than a sensor-filled mast and 54-calibre cannon at its bow, spent four days tied up at Wellington’s wharf this week. ⌘ Read more

[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 23, 2026
Inside this week’s LWN.net Weekly Edition:

• Front: LLMs and Python bugs; scheduler regression; new Rust traits; dependency cooldowns; 7.1 merge window; Shor’s algorithm; drama at The Document Foundation.

• Briefs: Firefox zero-days; kernel code removal; reproduceible Arch; Debian election; Firefox 150; Forgejo 15.0; Git 2.54.0; KDE Gear 26.04; LillyPond 2.26.0; Rust 1.95.0; Quotes; …

• [Announcements](https:/ … ⌘ Read more

Pentagon Wants $54 Billion For Drones
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The US military’s massive $1.5 trillion budget request for the next fiscal year includes what Pentagon officials described as the largest investment in drone warfare and counter-drone technology in US history. The proposed spending on drone and autonomous warfare technologies within the FY2027 budget proposal for the US Department of Defense would … ⌘ Read more

Git 2.54.0 released
Git maintainer Junio Hamano has announced
Git 2.54.0, which includes contributions from 137 people; 66 of those
people are first-time contributors to the project. Changes include the
addition of Git history rewriting, Git’s web interface (gitweb)
“has been taught to be mobile friendly”, and much more. See the
announcement for all improvements, additions, and bug fixes. Hamano
is now taking a short break:

I will go offline for a couple of weeks starting thi … ⌘ Read more

Git 2.54 Released With New Experimental “git history” Command
Git developers continue working toward Git 3.0 while out today is Git 2.54 with a few interesting additions… ⌘ Read more

‘Project Hail Mary’: Real Space Science, Real Astrophotography
Project Hail Mary has now grossed $300.8 million globally after earning another $54.1 million this weekend from 86 markets, reports Variety, noting that after just nine days it’s now Amazon MGM’s highest-grossing film ever. And last weekend it had the best opening for a “non-franchise” movie in three years, adds the Associated Press — the best … ⌘ Read more

To whoever is operating this “xt” client, there might be a misconfiguration. My feed is often, but not always, pulled twice within a few seconds:

2026-03-14T15:31:02+01:00 "GET /twtxt.txt HTTP/1.1" 304 "xt/0.0.1"
2026-03-14T15:31:31+01:00 "GET /twtxt.txt HTTP/1.1" 304 "xt/0.0.1"

2026-03-14T15:41:19+01:00 "GET /twtxt.txt HTTP/1.1" 304 "xt/0.0.1"
2026-03-14T15:41:31+01:00 "GET /twtxt.txt HTTP/1.1" 304 "xt/0.0.1"

2026-03-14T15:51:04+01:00 "GET /twtxt.txt HTTP/1.1" 304 "xt/0.0.1"

2026-03-14T16:01:25+01:00 "GET /twtxt.txt HTTP/1.1" 304 "xt/0.0.1"
2026-03-14T16:01:27+01:00 "GET /twtxt.txt HTTP/1.1" 304 "xt/0.0.1"

2026-03-14T16:11:51+01:00 "GET /twtxt.txt HTTP/1.1" 304 "xt/0.0.1"
2026-03-14T16:11:54+01:00 "GET /twtxt.txt HTTP/1.1" 304 "xt/0.0.1"

2026-03-14T16:21:53+01:00 "GET /twtxt.txt HTTP/1.1" 304 "xt/0.0.1"

2026-03-14T16:32:19+01:00 "GET /twtxt.txt HTTP/1.1" 304 "xt/0.0.1"
2026-03-14T16:32:22+01:00 "GET /twtxt.txt HTTP/1.1" 304 "xt/0.0.1"

2026-03-14T16:52:28+01:00 "GET /twtxt.txt HTTP/1.1" 304 "xt/0.0.1"
2026-03-14T16:52:31+01:00 "GET /twtxt.txt HTTP/1.1" 304 "xt/0.0.1"

Maybe this is caused by a development and a production setup, no idea. Since this client is sending the If-Modified-Since or If-None-Match request header, I’m good with that, though. Looking forward to discover a new feed hopefully soon. :-)

Prediction Market ‘Kalshi’ Sued for Not Paying $54 Million for Bets on Khamenei’s Death
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Independent:

A popular predictions market app will not pay out the $54 million some of its users believed they were owed after correctly forecasting the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, according to a report.

Kalshi, which allows players to gamble on real- … ⌘ Read more

America’s Teenagers Say AI Cheating Has Become a Regular Feature of Student Life
Tuesday Pew Research announced their newest findings: that 54% of America’s teens use AI help with schoolwork:
One-in-five teens living in households making less than $30,000 a year say they do all or most of their schoolwork with AI chatbots’ help. A similar share of those in households making $30,000 to just under … ⌘ Read more

Hyprland 0.54 Released As A “Massive” Update To This Wayland Compositor
Hyprland 0.54 was released today as what’s described as a “a massive update with no understatement” to this Wayland compositor… ⌘ Read more

Britain Lost 14,000 Pubs, a Quarter, in 13 Years
Britain has lost more than 14,000 pubs since 2009, a decline from roughly 54,000 registered public houses and bars to under 40,000 by 2022, according to a new analysis of UK business register data by data analyst Lauren Leek. The North East, North West, Yorkshire and the Midlands lost 25 to 30% of their stock; London saw the smallest decline.

Leek trained a random forest model on … ⌘ Read more

WhatsApp Texts Are Not Contracts, Judge Rules in $2M Divorce Row
A British painter who argued that her ex-husband had signed over their $2 million north London home through WhatsApp messages has lost her High Court appeal after the judge ruled that the sender’s name appearing in a chat header does not constitute a legal signature.

Hsiao-mei Lin, 54, presented messages from her former husband Audun Mar Gudmundsso … ⌘ Read more

A precisar de banda sonora para hoje?

A ANTI-DEMOS-CRACIA (ADC) lançou um repto ousado: desafiar o convencional e conceber um álbum de Natal definido pela total liberdade criativa. O convite, estendido a projetos de todas as vertentes e sem restrições estéticas ou geográficas, teve um objetivo claro: subverter o cânone tradicional da época.

Estava assim traçado o rumo de “25.12”, o álbum de Natal da ADC.

Passados alguns meses, chegamos ao dia 24 de Dezembro e, às 12h, a ADC assinalou o lançamento celebrando a elevada qualidade artística e a expressiva adesão ao projeto.
A diversidade sonora recebida percorre géneros que vão da eletrónica robusta à experimentalista, do punk ao rock, culminando na pop de Os Curiosos — banda na qual Henrique Amoroso colabora com alunos do Centro de Reabilitação e Integração de Deficientes de Cascais (CRID).

No total, o projeto reuniu 57 participações de diversas texturas sonoras, com uma abrangência geográfica significativa: desde Portugal (54 contributos, incluindo músicos residentes no estrangeiro) até Espanha (2) e Nova Zelândia (1). Ao todo, a iniciativa envolveu mais de uma centena e meia de mentes criativas.

Ouve-se aqui:
https://anti-demos-cracia.bandcamp.com/album/2512

Thousands gather in Gaza to celebrate 54 couples finally getting married
Thousands of Palestinians turn out in Gaza’s Khan Younis to celebrate the wedding of 54 couples who had been unable to tie the knot during Israel’s bombardment of the strip. ⌘ Read more

Nvidia Beats Earnings Expectations, Even As Bubble Concerns Mount
Nvidia blew past earnings expectations with soaring revenue and profit, easing fears of an AI bubble and reinforcing its position as the engine of the global AI boom. From a report: Nvidia’s sales grew 62% year-over-year to $57 billion in the October quarter, ahead of the $54.9 billion Wall Street had projected, signaling that demand for AI chips rem … ⌘ Read more

Long-term use of melatonin supplements linked to higher risk of heart failure and death
American Heart Association,    -  News: Medical and Life Sciences

Stephan: I have used Melatonin as a sleep aid for some time, but stopped when I read this. If you have heart issues and are using melatonin, I would suggest you stop.

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Long-term use … ⌘ Read more

@zvava@twtxt.net yarnd fetches the feeds roughly every ten minutes:

grep twtxt.net www/logs/twtxt.log | cut -d ' ' -f1 | tail -n 20
2025-10-04T07:00:45+02:00
2025-10-04T07:10:26+02:00
2025-10-04T07:22:43+02:00
2025-10-04T07:30:45+02:00
2025-10-04T07:40:48+02:00
2025-10-04T07:52:59+02:00
2025-10-04T08:00:07+02:00
2025-10-04T08:13:33+02:00
2025-10-04T08:23:13+02:00
2025-10-04T08:31:22+02:00
2025-10-04T08:41:29+02:00
2025-10-04T08:53:25+02:00
2025-10-04T09:03:31+02:00
2025-10-04T09:11:42+02:00
2025-10-04T09:23:11+02:00
2025-10-04T09:29:49+02:00
2025-10-04T09:36:17+02:00
2025-10-04T09:46:33+02:00
2025-10-04T09:58:40+02:00
2025-10-04T10:06:54+02:00

I suspect that the timing was just right. Or wrong, depending on how you’re looking at it. ;-)

Pinellas County - 5 miles: 5.00 miles, 00:08:59 average pace, 00:44:54 duration
it was good to run through the park again. had to make a pitstop but the run felt pretty strong.
#running

Pinellas County - Long run: 17.05 miles, 00:10:54 average pace, 03:05:47 duration
the first 14 miles felt good, the first 10 felt great. then the humidity and yesterday’s run got me i think and the last 3 miles were killer
#running

Recovery run: 3.11 miles, 00:10:54 average pace, 00:33:53 duration

#running #treadmill

** Laser sword new years **
Through a series of improbable events on new years eve we ended up watching Darth Maul ignite his duel bladed lightsaber right at the stroke of midnight. Mind blown. Duel of the fates ringing in the new year. ⌘ Read more

Pinellas County - Long Run: 9.54 miles, 00:09:24 average pace, 01:29:36 duration
typical 5km easy then 5km comfortable-uncomfortable followed by another 5km easy. local weather and signs said it was around 48F, very low humidity (the sweat salt stains prove that bit), and just a really nice day out with a breeze. stopped the run after the planned session to get some extra walking in for a stupid garmin challenge.
#running

T-Bao Compact Device Featuring ESP32 and K210 Microcontrollers with 2MP Camera and 1.54″ Touch LCD
The LILYGO T-Bao K210 is a compact device that integrates the ESP32 and K210 microcontrollers, providing advanced capabilities such as face recognition. It features a 1.54″ capacitive touch screen with a resolution of 240×240 and a 2-megapixel camera. The device incorporates the ESP32-D0WDQ6-V3 chip, featuring a dual-core Xtensa LX6 processor runnin … ⌘ Read more

Easy run: 3.13 miles, 00:09:51 average pace, 00:30:54 duration
nice chill run. first day where my resting heart rate was back down to low 50s. no idea what was going on because i did not feel sick but maybe it was just all the stress from life and a crazy october?
#running

Pinellas County - 4 x {1km [1’30”]} 4 x {400m [1’]}: 5.52 miles, 00:09:56 average pace, 00:54:52 duration
first four intervals were good. needed more time to rest i think between the 400m intervals because the humidity was tough again. stopped after the fourth because it was so bad. fema out in full force on the trail, too.
#running

Pinellas County - Long Run: 7.03 miles, 00:09:54 average pace, 01:09:38 duration
calves were tight for the first three miles and breathing felt like i was sucking through a straw. got it done even though it was not as long as i had wanted.
#running

54. Divadelný vavrín v Kovačici
V piatok 25. októbra 2024 v Dome kultúry 3. októbra v Kovačici slávnostne otvorili Prehliadku slovenskej ochotníckej divadelnej tvorby Divadelný vavrín. Tento náš najvýznamnejší divadelný festival naposledy v Kovačici prebiehal v roku storočnice kovačického divadla – teda v roku 2014. Po desaťročí sa znovu vrátil do tejto našej banátskej osady, kde si v tomto roku pripomínajú 110. výročie od prvého divadelného predstavenia. Dejinám kovačického divadelníc … ⌘ Read more

Pinellas County - Easy: 4.54 miles, 00:09:29 average pace, 00:43:02 duration
kept it easy. was a bit drained from the day before.
#running

Pinellas County Running: 4.42 miles, 00:10:54 average pace, 00:48:13 duration
more milton checks. talked to my sister about the recent rim-to-rim-to-rim of the grand canyon she just did. kept it pretty conversational.
#running

Pinellas County Running: 3.51 miles, 00:09:22 average pace, 00:32:54 duration
ugh. i miss the low humidity of az. normal run to check out milton damage. huge trees blocking the pinellas trail.
#running

6.6.55: longterm
Version:6.6.55 (longterm)Released:2024-10-10Source:linux-6.6.55.tar.xzPGP Signature:linux-6.6.55.tar.signPatch:full ( incremental)ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.6.55 ⌘ Read more

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Dinosaur golf before it shuts for the season. ⌘ Read more

6.6.54: longterm
Version:6.6.54 (longterm)Released:2024-10-04Source:linux-6.6.54.tar.xzPGP Signature:linux-6.6.54.tar.signPatch:full ( incremental)ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.6.54 ⌘ Read more

K 110. výročiu kovačického divadla – zlaté scénické (k)roky
V utorok 10. septembra sa v Kovačici začala druhá časť Máškových dní (prvá časť bola v máji), ktorá potrvá do 21. septembra. Dnes napoludnie pre žiakov základnej školy, ako prvé v druhej časti, vystúpilo Divadlo na predmestí zo Spišskej Novej Vsi s predstavením Rysavá jalovica. Posledný víkend v októbri a v rámci osláv výročia divadla a Kovačického októbra, bude v Kovačici prebiehať aj 54. Divadelný va … ⌘ Read more

Pinellas County - Threshold: 6.02 miles, 00:09:54 average pace, 00:59:36 duration
soooo humid!
#running

Base: 8.00 miles, 00:09:54 average pace, 01:19:10 duration
really relaxed
#running #treadmill

Recovery: 3.11 miles, 00:10:55 average pace, 00:33:54 duration

#running #treadmill

Pinellas County - Long Run (part I): 11.63 miles, 00:09:54 average pace, 01:55:08 duration
did not really want to run today. but i did it anyways and it felt fin until my dumb ass decided to go over one of the clearwater bridges. took everything out of me after those hills and had a hard time getting the legs moving again.
#running

Pinellas County - 5 x 1mi [1’30”]: 7.66 miles, 00:08:52 average pace, 01:07:54 duration
during the warm-up my legs felt so heavy. the first interval was a bit rough with the legs, but each afterwards was smooth. did not actually feel too hard which is a great sign i think.
#running

Recovery: 3.11 miles, 00:10:54 average pace, 00:33:52 duration

#running #treadmill

Pinellas County - Hills: 5.15 miles, 00:08:54 average pace, 00:45:51 duration
went to the nearby overpass for some “hills”. stopped after four passes just to be mindful of my right knee a bit. the legs were still very tired from the long run surprisingly.
#running

Recovery: 3.00 miles, 00:10:54 average pace, 00:32:41 duration

#running #treadmill

Pinellas County - Long run: 16.54 miles, 00:09:54 average pace, 02:43:52 duration
broke up some of the run in to 5km on/off. got a bit light headed at around 14 miles so walked it off and hydrated. overall pretty nice run.

grandma lib passed today.
#running

Pinellas County - 10 x 2’[1’]: 6.25 miles, 00:08:43 average pace, 00:54:27 duration
the intervals went great at around eight minute pace each time. some crazies out there dorking with the first three, but after that it was a smooth rhythm.
#running

Pinellas County - Long run: 11.54 miles, 00:10:09 average pace, 01:57:14 duration
kind of sucked. should have waited another day and gave my body an actual rest because my legs were tired as fuck. did the park-to-park route which was cool. the second park was cool because it had a lot of walkways and a neat tower thing so did a bit of tourist mode there. the last leg of the run was brutal and just did not have the motivation.
#running