Intel Arc Pro B70 Showing Off Some Performance Wins With Linux 7.1
After recently noticing the Intel Arc B580 performing better on Linux 7.1 for that kernel version soon to be released as stable, I was curious if there were performance gains also to be found with the new flagship Arc Pro B70 BMG-G31 workstation graphics card. Here are some benchmarks of the Intel Arc Pro B70 in relevant workloads between Linux 7.0 and the near-final Linux 7.1 kernel. ⌘ Read more
Britain Became as Poor as Mississippi
Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/07/uk-productivity-economy-reform-party/687303/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48476751
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PgDog is funded and coming to a database near you
Article URL: https://pgdog.dev/blog/our-funding-announcement
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48476466
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All 9,300 Japanese train station, animated by the year it opened (1872–2026)
Article URL: https://jivx.com/eki
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48475100
Points: 7
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Port React Compiler to Rust
Article URL: https://github.com/react/react/pull/36173
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48473662
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PowerToys v0.100.0 发布，全新的快捷键指南 / 命令面板扩展库
PowerToys v0.100.0 在几个小时前发布，看到这个很有标志性的版本号，青小蛙以为是个大日子。@Appinn 实际上，这相当于 0.1 版本，是的。 PowerToys v0.100.0 PowerToys v0.100.0 带来了全新版的快捷方式指南、重大更新的命令面板，以及对 Pow ⌘ Read more
PowerToys v0.100.0 发布，全新的快捷键指南 / 命令面板扩展库
PowerToys v0.100.0 在几个小时前发布，看到这个很有标志性的版本号，青小蛙以为是个大日子。@Appinn 实际上，这相当于 0.1 版本，是的。 PowerToys v0.100.0 PowerToys v0.100.0 带来了全新版的快捷方式指南、重大更新的命令面板，以及对 Pow ⌘ Read more
Mercedes‑Benz starts large‑scale production of electric axial flux motor
Article URL: https://media.mercedes-benz.com/en/article/bebac2af-acdc-465a-9538-adb0bf3d8ccf
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48472877
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NZ investors worry over Iran conflict as NZ sharemarket rises slightly
Another late rise moved the New Zealand sharemarket into positive territory as Middle East tensions continued to simmer and unsettle investors.
The S&P/NZX 50 Index hit an intraday low of 13,107.72 before climbing to close at 13,253.65, up 49.56 points or 0.38%. ⌘ Read more
The Evolution of ‘More Like This’
Article URL: https://manticoresearch.com/blog/the-evolution-of-more-like-this/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48470975
Points: 4
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Rich Sutton on AI creativity and discovery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5LAFEjTlBA
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48470581
Points: 8
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Alpine Linux 3.24.0 Released
Article URL: https://alpinelinux.org/posts/Alpine-3.24.0-released.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48467570
Points: 19
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Google’s 20% ‘project’ has become AI’s 120% ‘attention’
Article URL: https://joe.dev/posts/new-20pct-time/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48466917
Points: 5
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Ultrafast machine learning on FPGAs via Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks
Article URL: https://aarushgupta.io/posts/kan-fpga/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48466277
Points: 9
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The LD_DEBUG environment variable (2012)
Article URL: https://bnikolic.co.uk/blog/linux-ld-debug.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48464330
Points: 3
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Solar Energy Saves Europeans $135M a Day
Article URL: https://cleantechnica.com/2026/06/08/solar-energy-saves-europeans-135-million-a-day/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48462156
Points: 5
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Can LLMs Beat Classical Hyperparameter Optimization Algorithms?
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.24647
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48462062
Points: 4
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Emerge Career (YC S22) Is Hiring a Founding Growth Marketer
Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/emerge-career/jobs/v0S1AEG-founding-growth-marketer
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48459968
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Mikroreaktor Mark-0: So viel Geld für ein bisschen Kernspaltung
Der neu entworfene Reaktor ist kritisch geworden, es gab eine stabile Kettenreaktion. Kommerziell Strom wird die Technik nicht liefern. Ein IMHO von Mario Petzold ( Atomkraft, Nasa)
Three stable kernels for Tuesday
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.0.12, 6.18.35, and 6.12.93 stable kernels. Each contains
important fixes throughout the tree. Users are advised to upgrade. ⌘ Read more
Making Graphics Like it’s 1993
Article URL: https://staniks.github.io/articles/catlantean-3d-blog-1/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48459294
Points: 3
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Vortex 3.0 Released As Full-Stack, Open-Source RISC-V GPU Now With 3D Pipeline
The open-source developers at Georgia Tech working on Vortex as an OpenCL-compatible RISC-V GPGPU implementation are out with their next major release for this open-source GPU design… ⌘ Read more
Eagle Computer: The rise and fall of an early PC clone
Article URL: https://dfarq.homeip.net/eagle-computer-the-rise-and-fall-of-an-early-pc-clone/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48458636
Points: 4
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Bürosoftware: Euro-Office startet mit viel Kritik in Version 1.0
Ein europäisches Firmenbündnis veröffentlicht Euro-Office 1.0. Die Macher von Libreoffice kritisieren das Open-Source-Projekt. ( Libreoffice, Opendocument)
Forever Young: how one molecule can lock plants in a youthful state.(2025)
Article URL: https://omnia.sas.upenn.edu/story/biologist-scott-poethig-plants-never-age
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48458257
Points: 4
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Microsoft’s open source tools were hacked to steal passwords of AI developers
Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/08/microsofts-open-source-tools-were-hacked-to-steal-passwords-of-ai-developers/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48457830
Points: 5
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Facebook is paying people overseas promoting Alberta separatism
Article URL: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/facebook-overseas-alberta-separtism-9.7223966
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48457181
Points: 10
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Porting the ThinkPad X61 to Coreboot
Article URL: https://blog.aheymans.xyz/post/thinkpad_x61/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48456245
Points: 7
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GoGoGrandparent (YC S16) is hiring Back end Engineers
Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/gogograndparent/jobs/2vbzAw8-backend-engineer
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48456015
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Job: Head of Stonehenge
Article URL: https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/about/our-people/careers-with-us/job-search/default-job-page/?jobRef=16449
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48455928
Points: 7
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FrontierCode
Article URL: https://cognition.ai/blog/frontier-code
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48451723
Points: 8
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Surveillance Is Not Safety: A statement on the UK’s latest threat to privacy [pdf]
Article URL: https://signal.org/blog/pdfs/2026-06-08-uk-surveillance-is-not-safety.pdf
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48450646
Points: 4
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Why are cells small?
Article URL: https://burrito.bio/essays/what-limits-a-cells-size
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48450065
Points: 5
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Full Reverse Engineering of the TI-84 Plus Operating System
Article URL: https://siraben.github.io/ti84p-re/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48448493
Points: 6
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Linux 7.1 Helping Intel Arc Battlemage Graphics Achieve Better Performance
Recent testing of the Intel Arc B580 Battlemage desktop graphics card has shown that the upcoming Linux 7.1 kernel release is delivering superior graphics performance over the current stable Linux 7.0 kernel. ⌘ Read more
Italy’s Bending Spoons, Owner of AOL and Vimeo, Files for Nasdaq IPO
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/italys-bending-spoons-files-us-ipo-2026-06-08/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48446310
Points: 12
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rsync 3.4.4 released with regression fixes
Andrew Tridgell has announced
the release of rsync 3.4.4 with
fixes for the regressions introduced in the 3.4.3 release. He also
notes there will be an rsync 3.5.0 soon, with many more security
updates:
As part of the 3.5.0 release update I have created a
rsync-security@lists.samba.org mailing list for anyone who is willing
to do testing of the 3.5.0 release. T … ⌘ Read more
Zig by Example
Article URL: https://github.com/boringcollege/zig-by-example
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48444871
Points: 12
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Spanish traders set the standard forGnuCash database design
Article URL: https://handson.money/blog/2026-06-06-horse-arse-and-design/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48444784
Points: 5
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Nvidia partners with LG robotics to build humanoid robots in South Korea
Article URL: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-and-lg-group-ai-factory/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48444451
Points: 7
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The Cypherpunk Library
Article URL: https://www.cypherpunkbooks.com
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48442725
Points: 4
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NZ sharemarket down 0.9% following strong overseas sell-offs
The New Zealand sharemarket, down nearly 1%, followed strong overseas sell-offs, with AI-linked stocks cooling, but it did gain support from Ebos Group and a2 Milk.
The S&P/NZX 50 Index fell sharply at the opening following the plunge on Wall Street over the weekend (NZ time) and closed at 13,038.24, down 123.73 points or 0.94%. ⌘ Read more
Wow, if it’s this easy in 1998, I bet it’ll be even easier in 2026
Article URL: https://retro.social/@ifixcoinops/116711332505710610
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48441519
Points: 9
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1k Data Breaches Later, the Disclosure Lag Is Worse
Article URL: https://www.troyhunt.com/1000-data-breaches-later-the-disclosure-lag-is-worse-than-ever/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48440952
Points: 5
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Algorithmic Monocultures in Hiring
Article URL: https://algorithmichiring.github.io/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48440549
Points: 7
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Teenage Engineering: Introducing APC-2
Article URL: https://teenage.engineering/products/apc-2
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48440383
Points: 13
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The Smallest Brain You Can Build: A Perceptron in Python
Article URL: https://ranpara.net/posts/perceptron-explained-from-scratch/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48440064
Points: 4
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Palestinian baby shot dead by Israeli troops
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/06/palestinian-baby-shot-dead-israeli-troops-occupied-west-bank
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48439124
Points: 17
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The architecture of the internet creates risks for democracy
Article URL: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aei2409
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48438212
Points: 5
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Why isn’t the U.S. better at soccer?
Article URL: https://www.natesilver.net/p/why-isnt-the-us-better-at-soccer
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48437848
Points: 9
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