Linux 7.2 Proceeding To Deprecate AF_ALG Due To “Massive Attack Surface”, Drops Offloading
The Linux kernel’s AF_ALG interface for user-space applications to directly access the Linux kernel’s built-in cryptographic engine is proceeding with a quick deprecation cycle due to a “massive attack surface” with increased vulnerabilities coming to light due to AI/LLM-based tooling… ⌘ 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
Show HN: The Tired Engineer
Article URL: https://www.thetiredengineer.com/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48344930
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Servo 0.2 Released With Revamped Android Browser UI
For ending out the month of May is a new monthly release of Servo, the open-source, Rust-based browser engine being developed by Linux Foundation Europe stakeholders and the open-source community. There are many nice enhancements on the desktop side with Servo 0.2 while also improving the Android browser UI experience with Servo too… ⌘ Read more
Telli (YC F24) is hiring in engineering, design, and GTM [Berlin, on-site]
Article URL: https://hi.telli.com/join-us
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48343635
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Fed Up With Vibe Coders, Dev Sneaks Data-Nuking Prompt Injection Into Testing App
It all started when the German developer behind an open-source app for Java testing “added hidden instructions to sabotage projects performed by AI coding agents,” reports Ars Technica:
The instructions were added to jqwik, a test engine for JUnit 5… The salient change in the update was a line that read: … ⌘ Read more
MCP Is Dead
Article URL: https://www.quandri.io/engineering-blog/mcp-is-dead
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48330436
Points: 15
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Linux 7.2 To Bring Graphics Driver Fix For Old Integrated Graphics On Intel Sandy Bridge
For those still making use of Intel Sandy Bridge processors from 15 years ago, the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel is bringing a fix for an engine reset issue when using the old integrated graphics with Sandy Bridge… ⌘ Read more
DOJ Charges Google Employee With $1.2 Million Polymarket Bet On Search Term
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: Federal prosecutors charged a Google employee with fraud on Wednesday, alleging that he made $1.2 million off of bets using insider information on Polymarket. Prosecutors claim that Michele Spagnuolo, a staff information security engineer at Google, used confidential information to … ⌘ Read more
IBM’s “Project Lightwell”
IBM has sent out a\
press release touting a claimed $5 billion investment into an
operation called Project Lightwell:
Project Lightwell will establish a trusted enterprise clearinghouse
combined with a global force of engineers to identify and fix
vulnerabilities at scale. The clearinghouse will serve as a
security coordination layer, using advanced AI capabilities to
val … ⌘ Read more
RamAIn (YC W26) Is Hiring
Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/ramain/jobs/hqvmyKN-founding-gtm-engineer
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48303599
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Pelica (YC P25) Is Hiring
Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/pelica/jobs/MDeC49o-machine-learning-engineer
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48301851
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Google Security Engineer Arrested in Million-Dollar Polymarket Trading Scheme
According to federal prosecutors, Michele Spagnuolo made more than $1 million on the prediction market platform using confidential information about Google Search traffic. ⌘ Read more
A Fundamental Principle of Aeronautical Engineering Has Been Overturned
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Aerodynamic drag is a major “barrier” in high-speed airplanes, automobiles, and bullet trains. This is because a design with less aerodynamic drag allows the aircraft to move at higher speeds with less energy. When an aircraft or car body moves at high speed, a thin layer of air cal … ⌘ Read more
Sage Care (YC S24) Is Hiring Software Engineers
Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/sagecare/jobs/xtloH8r-senior-software-engineer
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48282478
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Meta’s CacheLib Sees New Release After Two Year Hiatus For Helping With High DRAM Prices
Back in 2021 Facebook open-sourced CacheLib as a new caching engine. Back in 2021 it was done to help scale services with non-volatile memory caching to offset increasing DRAM costs at the time. Now in 2026, DRAM memory prices are astronomical compared to 2021 pricing given the AI surge. And, surprisingly, Meta is out with a new CacheLib release after being absent the past two years… ⌘ Read more
TP-7 Field Recorder
Article URL: https://teenage.engineering/products/tp-7
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48273531
Points: 4
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Japan’s New Hypersonic Engine Could Make 2-Hour Flights to the US a Reality
Article URL: https://www.bgr.com/2178211/japan-hypersonic-engine-ramjet-2-hour-flights-to-us/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48270812
Points: 9
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Weave (YC W25) is hiring ML, AI, product, & design engineers
Article URL: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/workweave
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48269937
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AI ‘capability leap’: 80% of software developers now using it
Late last year, AWS senior engineer Mike Nooney noticed a flurry of activity on social media that indicated something exciting had happened in his field: AI had taken what we described as a “capability leap”.
“So, I thought, let’s get in and have a look at Claude Code and some of the other tools,” he recounted to an audience at last week’s Techweek26 summit. ⌘ Read more
Flick (YC F25) Is Hiring Front End Engineer to Build Figma for AI Filmmaking
Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/flick/jobs/Tdu6FH6-senior-frontend-engineer
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48258995
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A Fundamental Principle of Aeronautical Engineering Has Been Overturned
It’s long been accepted that the smoother the surface, the lower the aerodynamic drag. That turns out not always to be the case. ⌘ Read more
Tesla’s Electric Cybercab is Certified as the Most Efficient EV Ever
Tesla’s upcoming Cybercab “has been certified at 165 Wh/mi,” reports Electrek — which makes it “the most efficient electric vehicle ever produced — by a wide margin.”
The next most efficient EV on the market, the Lucid Air Pure, consumes 28% more energy per mile. Tesla VP of Vehicle Engineering Lars Moravy confirmed the figure, which repre … ⌘ Read more
Reverse engineering circuitry in a Spacelab computer from 1980
Article URL: https://www.righto.com/2026/05/reverse-engineering-spacelab-computer.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48248954
Points: 9
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Launch HN: Superset (YC P26) – IDE for the agents era
Hey HN, we’re Avi, Kiet, and Satya. We’re building Superset ( https://github.com/superset-sh/superset), an open-source agentic IDE for running coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode etc in parallel.
Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWDHn7gUwfg
Try it: https://superset.sh/
We’re three engineers who’ve built and maintained large codebases, and we k … ⌘ Read more
Circle Medical (YC S15) Is Hiring a Mobile Engineer
Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/circle-medical/jobs/onMKAG9-mobile-engineer-android
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48234688
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Linux 7.2 To Enable SR-IOV Support For Intel Nova Lake’s Xe3P Graphics
Open-source Intel software engineers today sent out their latest round of Xe kernel graphics driver updates to DRM-Next for queuing ahead of next month’s Linux 7.2 merge window… ⌘ Read more
SUSE/openSUSE Agama Installer Now Warns For No-Desktop Installs, Supports systemd-boot
SUSE engineers continue working on their modern “Agama” operating system installer used by the latest SUSE Linux Enterprise and openSUSE Linux distributions. Out today is Agama 21 to incorporate their latest OS installer enhancements… ⌘ Read more
Launch HN: Runtime (YC P26) – Sandboxed coding agents for everyone on a team
Hey HN, We’re Gus and Carlos from Runtime ( https://runtm.com). We’re building infra that lets your whole team (including non-engineers) ship with Claude Code, Codex, and other agents without engineering having to handhold every session.
After Mentum (YC S21) was acquired, I personally shipped 4 full-stack products in 3 months using coding agents. When I tried to roll the same workflow out to the rest of the team, it fell apart: Most PRs were unme … ⌘ Read more
Ryzen AI AMDXDNA Driver Adding Expandable Heap Support With Linux 7.2
AMD engineers continue enhancing the AMDXDNA accelerator driver for supporting the Ryzen AI NPUs on Linux… ⌘ Read more
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
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AMD’s Lemonade SDK For AI Promotes macOS To GA Status, ROCm 7.13 Integrated
The Lemonade SDK for “refreshingly fast local AI” that is largely developed by AMD engineers as an open-source project continues advancing quite rapidly for serving optimized LLMs on GPUs and NPUs… ⌘ Read more
Ubuntu Concept ISOs Published For CIX P1 AI CPU
Similar to Canonical engineers having published “Ubuntu Concept” ISOs for Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite laptops to provide the very latest hardware-specific support that hasn’t yet worked its way to the mainline Linux kernel and other packages, Canonical has begun providing Ubuntu Concept ISOs for the CIX P1 as an “AI” focused platform… ⌘ Read more
Fedora’s AI Developer Desktop Initiative Blocked by Community Backlash
The blog It’s FOSS has an update on the Fedora AI Developer Desktop Initiative, a proposed platform for AI/machine learning workloads on Fedora. It’s now been blocked “after two Fedora Council members retracted their earlier approval votes.”
The initiative was proposed by Red Hat engineer Gordon Messmer, aiming to deliver an Atomic D … ⌘ Read more
An Engineer’s Post Protesting Laptop Surveillance Is Going Viral Inside Meta
Meta employees in the US and UK are organizing against corporate software that tracks workers’ keystrokes and mouse activity. ⌘ Read more
AMD Preps More AIE4 NPU Hardware Enablement For AMDXDNA Driver In Linux 7.2
Since March we have been seeing patches from AMD software engineers beginning to enable their next-generation “AIE4” NPU platform under Linux. We still don’t know for sure when this AIE4 NPU will premiere for sure in new Ryzen AI products, but the Linux enablement continues coming along nicely for the AMDXDNA accelerator driver… ⌘ Read more
Intel’s Cache Aware Scheduling Inches Closer To Being Merged For Linux
I have been writing about the Cache Aware Scheduling work led by Intel engineers on the Linux kernel for more than a year. I’ve also tested out Cache Aware Scheduling on both Intel and AMD CPUs with the patched Linux kernel to great success. And thus very happy to see the Cache Aware Scheduling patches inching closer to the mainline Linux kernel… ⌘ Read more
Linux Driver Posted For Intel Silicon Security Engine Interface “ISSEI”
Since Intel Meteor Lake has been the Intel Silicon Security Engine to serve as a silicon root-of-trust for secure firmware loading, boot measurements, and similar functionality. This Intel Silicon Security Engine has been built on with Lunar Lake and Panther Lake as well as set to take on more importance with future Intel hardware platforms. We are now seeing a Linux driver come for this silicon RoT with the Intel Silicon Security Engine Inte … ⌘ Read more
IBM s390 Is The Latest Architecture Seeing Rust Linux Kernel Support
An IBM engineer posted the first set of patches enabling the Rust programming language support for the Linux kernel to be built on the s390 architecture… ⌘ Read more
ARCTIC Fan Controller Driver Expected To Land In Linux 7.2
A new driver expected to land in the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel is the ARCTIC Fan Controller driver to allow fan speed monitoring and PWM controls for this upcoming ARCTIC product. Making this new driver all the more exciting is that it was worked on by ARCTIC directly compared to the typical workflow for such desktop/consumer hardware peripherals often being left up to the reverse-engineering, open-source community… ⌘ Read more
Linux Scheduler Work Helping Boost Gaming Performance On Old “Potato” Hardware
Prominent Linux kernel engineer Peter Zijlstra of Intel has been working on a set of scheduler patches to help with enhancing the behavior and delivering better results, especially for aging hardware he described as a “potato” – an Intel Sandy Bridge desktop CPU with AMD Radeon RX 580 Polaris graphics. Benchmark results are promising from this work for gaming on old hardware while other workloads may ultimately stand to benefit too… ⌘ Read more
In today’s episode of “everything goes to shit because we want it to”: https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-act-2/
The supply of deep technical problems is multiplying, and the engineers who can solve them will be among the scarcest and most valuable talent in the market.
And yet:
We’re reevaluating our operational footprint, and are planning to reduce the number of countries by up to 30% where we have small teams.
Anthropic Says ‘Evil’ Portrayals of AI Were Responsible For Claude’s Blackmail Attempts
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Fictional portrayals of artificial intelligence can have a real effect on AI models, according to Anthropic. Last year, the company said that during pre-release tests involving a fictional company, Claude Opus 4 would often try to blackmail engineers to avo … ⌘ Read more
Honda Patents a Fake Clutch for Electric Motorcycles
An anonymous reader shared this report from Electrek:
A newly revealed Honda patent shows the company developing a simulated electronic clutch system for electric motorcycles, complete with torque-boost launches and even haptic feedback designed to mimic the feel of a combustion engine…. Instead of using a traditional mechanical clutch, the system uses electronics to … ⌘ Read more
Plant Seeds Do Something Incredible When the Sound of Rain Strikes
“Plant seeds can sense the vibrations generated by falling raindrops,” reports ScienceAlert, “and respond by waking from their state of dormancy to welcome the water, new research shows…. to germinate in ‘anticipation’ of the coming deluge.”
The finding, discovered by MIT mechanical engineers Nicholas Makris and Cadine Navarro, offers th … ⌘ Read more
First Segment of the Fehmarnbelt Tunnel Is In Place
Longtime Slashdot reader Qbertino writes: The Fehrmarnbelt tunnel is a European construction megaproject building a tunnel between Denmark and Germany, crossing the Fehmarnbelt in the Baltic sea. The first segment of the tunnel has now successfully been placed in its designated spot. This is a yet-unseen, next-level engineering feat achieved by the Danish Sund & Baelt con … ⌘ 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
AMD’s Local, Open-Source AI Can Now Easily Interact With Your Gmail
AMD software engineers continue rapidly advancing their open-source software efforts around local AI/LLM use on consumer-class Radeon and Ryzen hardware. AMD GAIA 0.17.6 was released on Thursday with more improvements for local AI processing on Windows, Linux, and even macOS. For those trusting enough in local LLM pipelines to do the right thing, there is even integration now for AMD GAIA to interface with your Gmail account… ⌘ Read more
Richard Dawkins ‘Convinced’ AI Is Conscious
Mirnotoriety shares a report from The Telegraph: Richard Dawkins has said chatbots should be considered conscious (source paywalled; alternative source) after spending two days interacting with the Claude AI engine. The evolutionary biologist said he had the “overwhelming feeling” of talking to a human during conversations with Claude, and said it was hard not to treat the program as “a genuine … ⌘ Read more
An update on KDE’s Union style engine
Arjen Hiemstra has published
an article on the status of the Union project: a
single system to support all of KDE’s technologies used for styling
applications.
The work on Union’s Breeze implementation has progressed to the
point where it is very hard to distinguish whether or not you are
running the Union version. We have also tested with a bunch of
applications and … ⌘ Read more