@movq@www.uninformativ.de Great to be asked for feedback! I just noticed that the first wcwidth version was derived from Markus Kuhn’s C code. I came across him in my ISO 8601 and RFC 3339 endeavors the other day. https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html What a surprise. :-)

BSA Lashes Out At Mandatory Open-Source Licensing
Longtime Slashdot reader Elektroschock writes: The American Business Software Alliance (BSA) does not consider mandatory open-source licensing to be an appropriate indicator of sovereignty. This is among the “pointed messages” they sent to the French government consultation (closed) today. “What protects Europe is the ability to govern, audit, and mitigate risk, not where a c … ⌘ Read more

Show HN: Formally verified polygon intersection – Opus 4.8 oneshots, prev failed
To my knowledge, this is the first formally verified implementation of an intersection algorithm for polygons.

The experience of working with AI agents on this project changed a lot with recent model releases, as I describe in the readme. Opus 4.8 is able to provide algorithm implementation with formal proof in one shot, whereas previous models required me to provide proof strategies in multiple steps.

Trust in the correctness c … ⌘ Read more

Popular Starz TV Show Gets New Spin-off Series, Returning Cast Revealed
A popular Starz TV show is getting a new spin-off series. A number of stars of the original show will be reprising their roles for the upcoming project. What Popular Starz TV show is getting a new spin-off series? It’s now been announced that Starz has greenlit eight episodes of Power: Legacy, which serves as […]

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Supreme Court Sides With Trump Administration On Federal Regulation of Telecom Companies
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: The Supreme Court sided with the Trump administration Thursday in upholding the power of federal regulators to enforce data privacy laws on telecommunications companies. The 8-1 decision (PDF) preserved one of the Federal Communications C … ⌘ Read more

Security updates for Thursday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (.NET 10.0, compat-openssl10, compat-openssl11, delve, expat, httpd:2.4, libexif, mod_http2, openssl, ruby4.0, samba, thunderbird, unbound, and vim), Debian (ceph and sudo), Fedora (libsoup3, pie, roundcubemail, and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland), Mageia (lxc), Oracle (expat, gnutls, kernel, php:8.2, thunderbird, and uek-kernel), Slackware (httpd, net, proftpd, tigervnc, and xorg), SUSE (apache-sshd, apptainer, atril, bind, busybox, c … ⌘ Read more

Crown Engine 0.63 Restores Its OpenGL Renderer For Legacy Hardware Support
While not as well known as the likes of the Godot or O3DE open-source game engines, Crown Engine continues advancing as an open-source, C++-based game engine… ⌘ Read more

How Leonardo DiCaprio Almost Skipped Titanic for Boogie Nights
Hollywood veteran John C. Reilly recently opened up about his attempt to persuade Leonardo DiCaprio to choose Boogie Nights over Titanic. Reilly said he told DiCaprio that he should not miss the opportunity to work with Paul Thomas Anderson. DiCaprio ultimately chose Titanic, which went on to become one of the most celebrated films of […]

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MacBook Neo is So Popular That Apple Reportedly Doubled Production
According to supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, Apple has reportedly doubled 2026 MacBook Neo production from 5 million to 10 million units after stronger-than-expected demand for its $599 budget laptop. MacRumors reports: On an earnings call in late April, Apple’s CEO Tim Cook said that customer response to the MacBook Neo was “off the c … ⌘ Read more

Milla Jovovich’s $312M R-Rated Movie Is Coming to Hulu Soon
An R-rated action-horror movie starring Milla Jovovich is heading to Hulu soon. Based on a popular video game series, the IP became a box office success during its theatrical release. Resident Evil: The Final Chapter streams on Hulu in June Resident Evil: The Final Chapter and its Spanish dub will start streaming on Hulu on […]

The post [Milla Jovovich’s $312M R-Rated Movie Is Coming to Hulu Soon](https://www.c … ⌘ Read more

不知道手里的 Type-C 数据线是什么线？用 WhatCable 一查便知[macOS]
你的抽屉里塞满了看起来一模一样的 Type-C 数据线，有的充电速度飞快，有的却慢得像蜗牛爬。有的可以接 8K 显示器，有的只能 1080。有的传输数据飞快…接口上的标识根本说明不了什么，每一条 Type-C 数据线都不一样。@Appinn WhatCable 是一款可以帮助你识别 Ty ⌘ Read more

QuiznessDesk, Wednesday, June 03
New Zealander Taika Waititi has only directed one film that he did not write. It was a Marvel Cinematic Universe film. What’s the film?
The Ural Mountains form a natural border between which two continents?
The Barbary lion went extinct in the wild around how many years ago? 80, 120, or 200?
What “C” peak in Queenstown, New Zealand, is a skiing mountain, whose name is the same as a crown that is commonly worn by lesser royalties, such as those with peerage?
In … ⌘ Read more

[$] Representing the true signatures of kernel functions
Optimizing compilers can, under some circumstances, infer when a parameter to a
function is not needed, and remove it. This is all well and good until the
kernel’s tracing or BPF subsystems need information on how to call the function
or where its arguments are stored.
Alan Maguire and Yonghong Song spoke at the 2026
Linux\
Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit about their work on
recording information regarding c … ⌘ Read more

Climat: «On ne peut pas mobiliser les démocraties sur ce qui va se passer dans 50 ans»
Une canicule n’est pas un accident météorologique, c’est le signe du basculement dans une nouvelle réalité climatique. Ce nouvel état de la condition humaine résulte aussi d’une crise existentielle de la démocratie, alertent Stefan C. Aykut et Amy Dahan dans un livre courageux et foisonnant. ⌘ Read more

‘Backrooms’ Stuns with $81M Debut
Article URL: https://variety.com/2026/film/box-office/backrooms-box-office-record-opening-weekend-obsession-jumps-star-wars-crumbles-1236763355/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48348864

Points: 13

# C … ⌘ Read more

‘Virtual OS Museum’ Lets You Try 570 Extinct Operating Systems
You can try 570 extinct operating systems at a new “virtual museum,” according to a new article by ZDNet. Their reporter downloaded the ancient OS NeXTStep, and was “shocked” by how easy it was to run it, “and by the sheer number of operating systems to choose from.”

Essentially, what you do is download a zipped file, unzip it, change into the newly c … ⌘ Read more

Zig Bans AI Code Contributions Because They’re ‘Invariably Garbage’
The Zig programming language wants to be a modern alternative to C (including better memory safety features). It’s maintained by as an open-source project by a 501©(3) nonprofit and a network of contributors.

But Business Insider notes that Zig bans the submission of AI-assisted code:

On the JetBrains podcast, Zig President Andrew Kel … ⌘ Read more

Zrythm 2.0 Alpha Released For Rewriting The Digital Audio Workstation In C++ & Qt/QML
Zrythm is a wonderful open-source digital audio workstation (DAW) application. Zrythm 1.0 released back in 2024 for this software catering from beginners to audio professionals. It’s been a GTK-based application for years but the developers have been porting it to Qt6/QML. Released this weekend is the first Zrythm 2.0 alpha release that moves from GTK to Qt/QML… ⌘ Read more

Oh, nice. In my endeavors of time in C++, I came across cal 9 1752. https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/brief-history-mktime

Oh boy, it was bloody humid this morning. Just around 20°C when we left, but climbing rapidly. The flow of air when walking was okay, but as soon as we stopped, streams of sweat were pouring down on us. Luckily, it was cloudy, but the lack of wind was bad. Now, the sun is out, 29°C will be reached in an hour and I’m glad that the house is still cool. It will be a different story in a few weeks or months. Not looking forward to that at ll.

On the bright side, we saw the first tadpoles of the year and an also first, but sadly dead slow worm that probably some bird dropped on a bench next to the fountain. The fly was stuck to its feast and also cactus. The municipality fixed the railing nicely and we came across a giant patch of great looking fire bugs on the summit.

All in all, a successful stroll through the woods but for the humid heat.

https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2026-05-30/

Saignements de nez, endormissements, maux de tête: des lycéens passent leur bac pro par 35 °C
Des enseignants ont signalé plusieurs incidents lors des épreuves des 28 et 29 mai. Ils et elles pointent des conditions d’examen «injustes», malgré les alertes répétées des syndicats, et un plan canicule «pas à la hauteur». ⌘ 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. :-)

Financements libyens: «Pour Nicolas Sarkozy, c’est de la faute de tout le monde, jamais de la sienne»
Fabrice Arfi a révélé, avec Karl Laske, l’affaire des financements libyens de Nicolas Sarkozy dans «Mediapart», en 2011. Alors que le procès en appel de l’ancien président vient de se terminer, il tire les enseignements de ces semaines d’audiences. ⌘ Read more

We’re currently at about 28-30°C, but the relative humidity is at a crazy low level of 20%. 😳 This actually feels pretty nice. If it only were always like that …

Qualcomm Snapdragon C Announced For $300+ Laptops
For competing with the Apple MacBook Neo, Google Chromebooks, and other entry-level laptops, Qualcomm today announced the Snapdragon C series SoCs… ⌘ Read more

Budget 2026: A $7b capital spend on roads, rail, warships, and hospitals
The 2026 Budget will put a $6.8 billion capital package towards a Waikato expressway extension and road resilience, “fully-funded” rail freight network upgrades, a hospital tower in Whangārei, naval warship improvements, and more than 200 classrooms.

The capital package, arguably the centrepiece of a Budget that was light on operating spending, was buoyed not only by an increased c … ⌘ Read more

Rust Will Save Linux From AI, Says Greg Kroah-Hartman
Linux stable kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman says Rust can help Linux deal with a flood of AI-discovered security bugs (namely Dirty Frag, Copy Fail, and Fragnesia) by preventing common C mistakes around memory, locking, error handling, and untrusted data at build time rather than during human review. It’s “not a silver bullet” and does not mean rewriting the whol … ⌘ Read more

NVIDIA CUDA 13.3 Rolls Out CUDA Python 1.0, CUDA Tile For C++
NVIDIA on Tuesday released CUDA 13.3 as another significant advancement for their unified GPU programming stack for NVIDIA hardware… ⌘ Read more

Canicule à l’école: «Arroser les enfants et leur rappeler de boire, c’est bien, mais ça ne règle pas le problème»
La France a connu mardi sa plus chaude journée jamais enregistrée un mois de mai. Dans de nombreuses écoles, élèves et enseignants doivent supporter des températures extrêmes. Et dénoncent le manque de préparation et de moyens pour faire face à la chaleur. ⌘ Read more

Arias: Human proof for FOSS contributions
Rodrigo Arias Mallo, maintainer of the Dillo web browser, has written a
blog post
with a proposal on one way to ensure that a contribution is written by
a human and not AI; he suggests asking new contributors to record
their programming session using asciinema.

In the same way that LLMs generate patches, they can also generate
the asciinema recordings themselves. Then, the contributors c … ⌘ Read more

Les étudiants étrangers contre les frais différenciés: «C’est une façon de nous dire: “Rentrez chez vous!”»
Dès la rentrée, la grande majorité des étudiants non européens vont devoir s’acquitter de 3 000 euros par an pour une licence, et de 4 000 euros pour un master. La plupart d’entre eux pourraient aussi se voir privés d’aide au logement. Un coup de grâce pour les budgets les plus serrés. ⌘ Read more

«La dignité, c’est ce qui nous tient»
Un livre collectif intitulé «Les révoltes de la dignité. Résister dans les mondes arabes et méditerranéens» déplace la focale politique sur une notion sous-estimée pour saisir les moteurs des résistances à l’humiliation et les aspirations à une vie bonne. Entretien avec les directrices de l’ouvrage. ⌘ Read more

Boot-Time Wizard Aims To Help Reduce Linux Boot Times
While in the past decade or so Linux desktop/laptop users likely have little to complain about boot times and there hasn’t been much emphasis around trying to make boot times even faster on the Linux desktop especially in an era where many systems are always-on and suspend/resume working more reliably these days, boot times are still an important factor in the embedded Linux world. Boot-Time Wizard is one of the new efforts aiming to help embedded Linux makers c … ⌘ Read more

OpenBSD 7.9 released
The OpenBSD 7.9 release is
out, right on schedule. There is the usual long list of new features,
including improved architecture support, CPU scheduling on heterogeneous
systems, the ability to hibernate a suspended system after a configurable
delay, socket splicing, a
__pledge_open()
system call giving special access to the C library, and much more. See the
announcement and [the full\
changelog]( … ⌘ Read more

Dans un salon de coiffure itinérant, entre Hérault et Aveyron: «Ici, c’est la France de la deuxième vitesse!»
Un salon de coiffure mobile conduit par un couple d’Aveyronnais sillonne les villages reculés de la région. Une fois par semaine, le camion se pose au Caylar, dans l’Hérault, où la clientèle devise sur les prix du carburant, le dégoût de la politique et le fort sentiment d’exclusion. ⌘ Read more

Intuit To Lay Off Over 3,000 Employees To Refocus On AI
Intuit is reportedly cutting about 3,000 jobs, or 17% of its workforce, as it restructures around AI and simplifies its corporate organization. TechCrunch reports: The layoffs come during a bad year for the tech workforce. The tech industry has already cut more than 100,000 jobs this year, per Statista, and is on track to outpace both 2024 and 2025 if the layoff trend c … ⌘ Read more

Affaire Ibrahim Maalouf: être relaxé, est-ce être innocenté?
Le célèbre trompettiste a été définitivement relaxé en 2020 dans une affaire d’agression sexuelle. L’avocat de la jeune femme qui se disait victime peut-il cependant affirmer que le musicien «n’a pas été innocenté par la justice»? C’est la question à laquelle devait répondre l’ordre des avocats mercredi 20 mai. ⌘ Read more

Moins de chômeurs, plus de précaires: la Banque de France salue la politique de Macron
Une étude attribue la baisse structurelle du chômage depuis dix ans aux réformes d’Emmanuel Macron. Mais c’est surtout l’affaiblissement du pouvoir de négociation des travailleurs et la baisse des droits au chômage qui en sont responsables. Rien de réjouissant. ⌘ Read more

Flavie Flament témoigne dans l’affaire Bruel: «16 ans, c’est l’âge des premiers émois, pas celui d’un viol dans un appartement parisien»
Alors que Patrick Bruel a réagi lui-même pour la première fois, démentant avoir violé ou drogué Flavie Flament, la célèbre animatrice prend la parole dans un entretien vidéo avec «Mediapart». Celle qui a porté plainte pour viol contre le chanteur dit vouloir «donner de l’écho» aux « … ⌘ Read more

La France annule ses vacances mais le gouvernement est totalement détendu
Paradoxalement, c’est quand les Français prennent des vacances qu’on sait que le pays tourne bien, et c’est lorsqu’ils les annulent qu’on sait que ça tourne au vinaigre. Et, actuellement, c’est exactement ce qui est en train de se produire. Le récent sondage ELABE/BFMTV éclaire bien la situation : 6 Français sur 10 ont déjà modifié ou […] ⌘ Read more

Déchets nucléaires: à Bure, beaucoup de questions toujours sans réponse
C’est la dernière étape réglementaire avant une probable autorisation de l’enfouissement à 500 mètres sous terre: le 18 mai s’ouvre l’enquête publique sur le futur centre de stockage des rebuts radioactifs. Un projet qui ressemble à la solution inachevée d’un problème sans fin. ⌘ Read more

«Si ces jeunes sont notre avenir, alors c’est la fin d’Israël»
Des milliers de jeunes suprémacistes juifs ont défilé dans la vieille ville de Jérusalem jeudi 14 mai pour commémorer l’annexion de la partie palestinienne en 1967. Une parade raciste et violente qu’ont tenté de contenir des militants pacifistes. ⌘ Read more

Call Zig or C from Go without CGO for extra performance
1 points posted by pj ⌘ Read more

«La corruption, c’est ça»: l’accusation poursuit sa démonstration au procès Sarkozy-Kadhafi
Après l’association de malfaiteurs lundi, l’avocat général Damien Brunet a réclamé, mardi, la condamnation de Nicolas Sarkozy pour corruption, recel de détournement de fonds publics et financement illégal de campagne, stigmatisant la «perdition républicaine» de l’ex-chef de l’État. ⌘ Read more

Apple Now Requires Verification For Education Store
Apple now requires Education Store shoppers in the U.S. and several other countries to verify their student, educator, parent, or homeschool-teacher status through UNiDAYS, ending the previous honor-system approach. 9to5Mac reports: Starting today, Apple requires shoppers in the United States to complete verification when making a purchase via the Education Store. This c … ⌘ Read more

GM Secretly Sold California Drivers’ Data, Agrees to Pay $12.75M In Privacy Settlement
“General Motors sold the data of California drivers without their knowledge or consent,” says California’s attorney general, “and despite numerous statements reassuring drivers that it would not do so.”

In 2024, The New York Times “reported that automakers including GM were sharing information about their c … ⌘ Read more

Pentagon Begins Releasing New Files On UFOs
The Pentagon has begun releasing new UFO/UAP files through a newly launched public website, starting with 162 documents from agencies including the FBI, State Department, NASA, and others. Officials say more files will be released on a rolling basis. The Associated Press reports: The Pentagon has begun releasing new files on UFOs, saying members of the public can draw their own c … ⌘ Read more

Qt Creator 20 Beta Expands AI Integration
The Qt Group released the Qt Creator 20 Beta today for this Qt/C++ focused integrated development environment (IDE). In building off the trends of recent releases of Qt Creator and development tools at large, AI integration continues to be a big area of focus… ⌘ Read more

L’immigration de remplacement n’est pas une théorie : c’est un budget
Pourquoi, en l’espace de quelques années, les villes européennes et américaines se sont retrouvées submergées de réfugiés, toutes à peu près au même moment et comme par un heureux hasard de calendrier ? Pourquoi des métropoles aussi différentes que Malmö, Bruxelles, Minneapolis et Lampedusa ont connu simultanément le même phénomène, avec les mêmes ONG, les mêmes […] ⌘ Read more

Agog to be the 2,644th backer 😎 on BackerKit Crowdfunding for Old-School Essentials Demonic Grimoire! https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/exalted-funeral/old-school-essentials-demonic-grimoire