SpaceX not the behemoth everyone thought
Article URL: https://www.axios.com/2026/05/21/spacex-ipo-musk-ai
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48231815
Points: 6
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It is time to build a new internet
Article URL: https://mrmarket.bearblog.dev/it-is-time-to-build-a-new-internet/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48231226
Points: 4
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Vivaldi 8.0 Arrives With ‘Most Significant Design Overhaul’ In Browser’s History
Vivaldi 8.0 is being pitched as the browser’s “most significant design overhaul” yet, featuring a new unified, edge-to-edge interface, six preset layouts, and deeper customization across tabs, toolbars, panels, and themes. The company is also taking a swipe at rivals chasing questionable AI features. Neowin reports: Af … ⌘ Read more
Serving Netflix Video Traffic at 400Gb/S and Beyond (2022) [pdf]
Article URL: https://nabstreamingsummit.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/2022-Streaming-Summit-Netflix.pdf
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48227068
Points: 3
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Chewing gum restores dad’s taste and smell years after Covid
Article URL: https://discover.swns.com/2026/05/chewing-gum-restores-dads-taste-and-smell-years-after-covid/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48226038
Points: 8
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Michael Keating has died at the age of 79 (1947–2026)
Article URL: https://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/michael-keating-1947-2026
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48223303
Points: 5
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Indexing a year of video locally on a 2021 MacBook with Gemma4-31B (50GB swap)
Article URL: https://blog.simbastack.com/indexed-a-year-of-video-locally/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48222733
Points: 3
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KMSCON 10.0 Released With Natural Scrolling Option, Libseat VT Support
KMSCON 10.0 is out today as the newest feature release to this terminal emulator for Linux that can serve as an alternative to the in-kernel VT… ⌘ Read more
Security updates for Thursday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel, kernel-rt, and libsndfile), Debian (bind9, evince, firefox-esr, openjpeg2, pdns, and rsync), Fedora (erlang-cowlib, evince, expat, firefox, kernel, mingw-expat, mysql8.0, mysql8.4, nss, opencryptoki, pgadmin4, proftpd, python-django5, python-django6, python-dotenv, rsync, rust-nu, rustup, and strongswan), Oracle (nginx, nginx:1.24, ruby, ruby:3.3, and squid), Slackware (bind and rsync), SUSE (buildah, distribution, distributi … ⌘ Read more
Gemini randomly dumped its system prompt
Article URL: https://gist.github.com/mkaramuk/44a44d83178e632ec0dd1f02186d822c
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48221976
Points: 13
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Cekura (YC F24) Is Hiring
Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/cekura-ai/jobs/AiWwUxI-forward-deployed-engineer-us
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48221230
Points: 0
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Python 3.15: features that didn’t make the headlines
Article URL: https://blog.changs.co.uk/python-315-features-that-didnt-make-the-headlines.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48220696
Points: 4
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VKD3D 2.0 Released For Wine’s Direct3D 12 Implementation Atop Vulkan
Wine developers have announced the release of VKD3D 2.0, the newest feature release for this Direct3D 12 API implementation built atop the Vulkan API. VKD3D is what’s used by upstream Wine for D3D12 compared to Valve’s downstream VKD3D-Proton within Steam Play (Proton)… ⌘ Read more
NZ sharemarket rallies, up almost 1%
The New Zealand sharemarket rallied nearly 1% after the large block of Contact Energy shares was quickly snapped up, and US President Donald Trump indicated he was in the final stages of a peace deal with Iran.
Following another rebound on Wall Street, the S&P/NZX 50 Index climbed to 12,878.07, a gain of 117.04 points or 0.92%. ⌘ Read more
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 21, 2026
Inside this week’s LWN.net Weekly Edition:
Front: OpenSUSE site age restrictions; Lots of LSFMM+BPF coverage; The tenth OpenPGP email summit.
Briefs: Firefox 151.0; pgBackRest funding; RIP Peter G. Neumann; Quotes; …
Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more. ⌘ Read more
Dairy prices edge up at season finale
Dairy prices have edged out a small gain as the New Zealand season comes to an end.
The average price at the last Global Dairy Trade auction of the 2025/26 dairy season, held overnight, lifted 0.6% to US$4,198 (NZ$7,193) per metric tonne (MT). ⌘ Read more
Firefox 151.0 released
Version\
151.0 of the Firefox browser has been released. Significant changes
include the ability to clear and restart a private-browsing session, better
fingerprinting protection, control over the apparent location when using the
Firefox VPN, and more. ⌘ Read more
Microsoft Surprises With Its First Server Linux Distribution: Azure Linux 4.0
Microsoft is turning Azure Linux into a general-purpose, Fedora-based cloud distribution available to all Azure customers, while also productizing Flatcar as Azure Container Linux for immutable container hosts. “When Microsoft joined the Linux Foundation, there was this big conspiracy theory that somehow the Linux Foundat … ⌘ Read more
acme9k v9001.0.0: edit text as a treat | https://nilfm.cc/acme9k.html
Linux 6.6 LTS To Linux 7.1 Bechmarks: Performance Up 13% On AMD Threadripper Over Three Years
The Linux 7.1 kernel performance has been looking quite good on the various Intel/AMD systems I have tested over the past three weeks. Linux 7.1 does bring some solid improvements over Linux 7.0 prior in different workloads and haven’t encountered any worrisome regressions compared to the current Linux 7.0 stable kernel. For those wondering the longer-term picture, here are benchmarks of Linux 7.1 Git compared to recent Linux … ⌘ Read more
老牌开源桌面启动器 Wox v2.1.0 发布，不只是快速启动，还能截图、翻译、调用AI…
老牌开源桌面启动器 Wox v2.1.0 发布，支持 Windows、macOS 与 Linux，没有使用Electron，新增了系统状态查询、截图功能（带标注）、新的文件预览、AI 命令等功能。@Appinn 来自发现频道，开发者自荐：https://meta.appinn.net/t/topic ⌘ Read more
Gentrack earnings drop on project delays in Utilities business
Gentrack on Monday reported lower first-half earnings due to delays in revenue from new projects and announced the purchase of Prospero Energy, trading as Factor.
Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortisation, excluding acquisition costs of $0.6 million, was $7.9m in the six months to March 31 compared to $13m in the prior period. ⌘ Read more
Some weekend stable kernel updates
The 7.0.9,
6.18.32,
6.12.90, and
6.6.140 stable kernels have been released.
Each contains yet another set of important fixes. ⌘ Read more
Us Math/Reading Scores Continue 13-Year Decline. Researchers Blame Reduced Testing and Social Media
Test scores “are lower than they were a decade ago in school districts across the U.S.,” reports Times magazine, citing new data released Wednesday by Stanford researchers. “Reading scores were down roughly 0.6 grades in 2025 compared to 2015, and math scores were down about 0.4 … ⌘ Read more
AMD ROCm 7.13 Released With Instinct MI350P Support, More Ryzen AI APUs
ROCm 7.13 was released today as the newest ROCm Core SDK Preview in working toward what will presumably be called ROCm 8.0 later in the year… ⌘ Read more
Wine 11.9 Released With Wayland Pointer Warp, Initial Support For System Threads
Wine 11.9 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release and nearing the half-way point of the development cycle toward Wine 12.0… ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.0.8 Released & LTS Kernels Updated For ssh-keysign-pwn
Following yesterday’s disclosure of the ssh-keysign-pwn vulnerability that allows unprivileged users to read root-owned files, a slew of new stable kernel releases are out today to address this latest Linux security issue… ⌘ Read more
Seven new stable kernels with patches for CVE-2026-46333
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the 7.0.8, 6.18.31, 6.12.89, 6.6.139, 6.1.173, 5.15.207, and 5.10.256 stable kernels. These kernels
contain a patch for [CVE-2026-46333](https://lwn.net/ml/all/2026051554-CVE-2026-46333-662a … ⌘ Read more
Three stable kernels for Thursday
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.0.7, 6.18.30, and 6.12.88 stable kernels. These kernels do
not include a patch for the Fragnesia local-privilege-escalation exploit that came to light on
May 13, but do include many other important fixes throughout the
tree. Users ar … ⌘ Read more
ROCm 7.0.0 vs. ROCm 7.2.3 Performance On The AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700
With the new System76 Thelio Major workstation review unit having arrived equipped with an AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 graphics card, I took the opportunity of having the extra RDNA4 workstation GPU to satisfy a curiosity over whether there has been any meaningful performance gains from ROCm 7.0.0 released last year to now with the latest ROCm 7.2.3 stable release. Here are those benchmarks results if you are curious about the impact of just updating the use … ⌘ Read more
Erbeben der Stärke 5,0 erschüttert Iran ⌘ Read more
Everything 1.5a 官方中文语言包终于来了
Everything 1.5.0.1409a 已经发布，自带了完整的官方中文语言包，所有菜单已翻译，选项界面也全部完成翻译，很难看到中英文夹杂的界面了。@Appinn 继2026年2月份Everything 1.5 Alpha 进入全面稳定期（1405），作为长期测试版的 Everything 1. ⌘ Read more
Older AMD GPUs Score Another Open-Source Driver Win From Valve: DRM Format Modifiers
Timur Kristóf of Valve’s Linux open-source graphics driver team isn’t done driving new improvements to aging AMD GCN 1.0/1.1 era graphics cards on Linux. Beyond enhancing display support for older APUs, transitioning GCN 1.0/1 GPUs from the legacy Radeon driver to modern AMDGPU driver, and a host of other fixes and optimizations for these old GPUs going back to the Radeon HD 7000 series, he has another notable addition that w … ⌘ Read more
NetBSD 11.0-RC4 Comes As Hopefully The Last Release Candidate
In addition to FreeBSD 15.1 releasing in the coming weeks, NetBSD 11.0 is also just around the corner as another prominent and major BSD update. NetBSD 11.0-RC4 is now available for last minute testing with this hoping to be the final release candidate… ⌘ Read more
Scrcpy 4.0 发布：远程控制安卓手机，让 Android 应用开始有“桌面化”体验
Scrcpy 是一款开源免费的电脑控制安卓工具，支持 Windows、macOS、Linux，Scrcpy v4.0 今日更新，新增弹性显示功能（Flex Display），让 Android 应用的界面会跟着窗口大小自动调整。@Appinn 大概就是，当你在电脑上拉宽 Scrc ⌘ Read more
OpenZFS 2.4.2 Released With Linux 7.0 Kernel Support, Many Bug Fixes
For those making use of OpenZFS on Linux or FreeBSD, OpenZFS 2.4.2 is out today as the newest stable release of this ZFS file-system implementation… ⌘ Read more
FreeBSD 15.2 Will Aim For The Nice KDE Desktop Installation Experience
FreeBSD 15.0 had aimed to provide a KDE desktop install option from its text-based OS installer to make for a more compelling FreeBSD out-of-the-box desktop experience. That was then delayed to FreeBSD 15.1 but that didn’t end up materializing. Now the KDE desktop install option is diverted to FreeBSD 15.2… ⌘ Read more
DXVK-NVAPI 0.9.2 Further Improves NVIDIA Integration For Steam Play Linux Gaming
DXVK-NVAPI 0.9.2 is now available for this implementation of NVIDIA’s NVAPI/NVOFAPI interfaces atop DXVK and VKD3D-Proton that is used in turn by Valve’s Steam Play (Proton) for enhanced NVIDIA Linux gaming support… ⌘ Read more
Two stable kernels with Dirty Frag fixes
Greg Kroah-Hartman has released the 7.0.6 and 6.18.29 stable kernels with Hyunwoo
Kim’s patch
for the second vulnerability ( CVE-2026-43500)
reported with Dirty Frag
an … ⌘ Read more
Security updates for Monday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (corosync, freeipmi, kernel, and kernel-rt), Debian (corosync, firefox-esr, kernel, lcms2, libpng1.6, linux-6.1, php8.2, php8.4, postorius, pyjwt, and tor), Fedora (dotnet10.0, exim, gnutls, kernel, nextcloud, nodejs22, php, proftpd, prosody, python-pulp-glue, python-requests, rclone, and SDL3_image), Mageia (firefox, nss, rootcerts, openvpn, thunderbird, and vim), Oracle (corosync, freeipmi, gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free, gstreamer1-plugins … ⌘ Read more
F2FS Preparing FSERROR Reporting Support
Introduced in Linux 7.0 was FSERROR as generic I/O error reporting infrastructure. Linux to that point had no standardized mechanism for reporting metadata corruption or file I/O errors to user-space with each file-system doing its own thing. The Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) is now the latest Linux file-system preparing for FSERROR usage… ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.0.6 Released To Finish Mitigating the Dirty Frag Vulnerability
Linux 7.0.6 is out as stable this morning to finish mitigating the Dirty Frag vulnerability that was made public last week… ⌘ Read more
Kernel prepatch 7.1-rc3
Linus has released 7.1-rc3 for testing.
“I think this answers the ‘is 7.1 continuing the larger size pattern
that we saw with 7.0?’ question, and the answer is yes: that wasn’t a fluke
brought on by a .0 release - it simply seems to be the new normal.” ⌘ Read more
FreshRSS 1.29.0 ⌘ Read more
Microsoft Releases Azure Linux 3.0.20260506 With Many Security Fixes
Microsoft released Azure Linux 3.0.20260506 on Saturday in order to ship the latest security fixes affecting a wide variety of open-source software projects… ⌘ Read more
Nocturne Is The Latest Music Player For GNOME To Hit v1.0
While since GNOME 48 Decibels is the new audio player of the GNOME desktop, there is no shortage of other GNOME/GTK-aligned music players. Last month was the big Amerbol music player update and there are Lollypop and others. The latest GNOME-aligned music player now hitting the 1.0 milestone is Nocturne… ⌘ Read more
Hyprland 0.55 Released With Lua-Based Configuration, User-Defined Layouts
Hyprland 0.55 is out today as a big feature update for this Wayland-based compositor… ⌘ Read more
NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver 0.0.17 Fixes Support For GB10 Powered Systems
The open-source, community-developed NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver that provides a Video Acceleration API (VA-API) implementation built atop NVIDIA’s NVDEC video decode interface is out with a new release. This is the open-source project that’s motivated by getting accelerated video decoding to work within Mozilla Firefox and other apps when running with NVIDIA’s packaged Linux driver… ⌘ Read more
NVIDIA Releases CUDA-Oxide 0.1 For Experimental Rust-To-CUDA Compiler
A new NVIDIA Labs project is greatly improving the capabilities of using the Rust programming language for developing CUDA kernels for NVIDIA GPUs… ⌘ Read more
OpenZL 0.2 Released For Meta’s Content-Aware Compression Software
Last October engineers at Meta announced OpenZL as a format-aware compression framework. OpenZL aims to be speedy yet capable of delivering high compression ratios depending upon what is being compressed. OpenZL is viewed as their next leap in data compression beyond their wonderful work on Zstandard (Zstd). This week there’s finally a new OpenZL software release available… ⌘ Read more