Bees Can Use Tools To Solve Problems, Study Finds
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Bumblebees can use tools to solve a problem, according to experiments that demonstrate their remarkably advanced cognitive abilities. The bees were given an adapted version of an experiment that, 100 years ago, first demonstrated chimpanzees could work out how to retrieve an out-of-reach banana by stacking boxes. Since … ⌘ 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

Julia Hoare leads NZ’s highest-paid directors amid rising board pressures
Some of New Zealand’s highest-paid company directors are collecting more than $700,000 a year across multiple board roles, highlighting both the concentration of governance experience within the NZX50 and the growing demands placed on a relatively small pool of directors.

A BusinessDe … ⌘ Read more

AMD’s GAIA Finally Has A Nice Multi-Device Experience For AI
AMD’s GAIA open-source project geared for building AI agents that run locally on your PC is out with a significant new feature release for Windows and Linux systems… ⌘ Read more

Journey to JPEG XL: open-source experiments shaped the future of image coding
Article URL: https://opensource.googleblog.com/2026/06/journey-to-jpeg-xl-how-open-source-experiments-shaped-the-future-of-image-coding.html

Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48390688](https://news.ycombinator.com/ite … ⌘ Read more

COSMIC Now Implements Wayland Pointer Constraints For Better Gaming Experience
COSMIC Epoch 1.0.15 was released today and while it doesn’t yet contain the new “Frosted Glass” option for the desktop UI, COSMIC Epoch 1.0.15 does contain some other notable enhancements… ⌘ Read more

Microsoft Announces Coreutils For Windows: Derived From Rust Coreutils
As another interesting takeaway from this week’s Microsoft Build 2026 conference beyond their open-source Intelligent Terminal project is Coreutils for Windows. Microsoft is maintaining a fork of Rust Coreutils for Windows to ease the developer experience across Windows / WSL / macOS / Linux… ⌘ Read more

Please don’t spam people looking for employment. It’s just cruel
Earlier I posted in a “Who wants to be hired?” thread, looking for a place where I could apply my experience in hospitality, food tech and automation.

A couple hours later I received an email:

“Hi Ilia,

I saw your comment on the June Who’s Hiring thread. I build production-ready TypeScript and Python systems that integrate LLMs into real workflows, with particular focus on RAG, agent orchestration, and clear blah-blah-blah”

Come on.
I am a forced immigra … ⌘ Read more

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

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Of course, @movq@www.uninformativ.de! Most of my points are also included in your list.

First of all, programming is what I really do enjoy the most. So, it doesn’t make any sense at all to not do this anymore. “But you could use your now free time to do something much cooler and more valuable!”, others might reply. Fuck no, I don’t want to waste my time with other shit that doesn’t fulfill me, why on earth would I want to do that?

All this hallucination reduces quality badly. In my experience, it’s also happening much more rapidly than I expected. Even though developers are still supposed to own and understand whatever has been generated under their name and even be responsible for that, the sad reality is that teammates often blindly trust the AI output. “But I asked the AI and it told me that $this was impossible”, “I’ve no idea either, but the AI just generated it” are responses I get more often. What really makes my angry is when I point out a flaw and suggest an alternative and this is the reaction. It happened several times that just trying it out and seeing it clearly work to proof my point only took me half a minute, but people still did something handwavy else instead.

The learning effect is drastically reduced. The more time I spend on a topic, the better the odds that whatever I learned actually makes it over into long-term memory. It’s like if a collegue just says “do it like that” or “this solves your problem”, but neither explains the why or how. Somehow, people are still convinced that it’s a completely different story when you replace the human counterpart with a computer program in this equation.

Skills are unlearned. It’s like with automation in general, just much worse. You end up in a state where you’ve no clue how anything works under the hood or how to actually find out important information that are needed to solve your problem. You’re screwed when a process breaks out of the blue. Even though it can become also rather terrible, with classical automation you’re typically still be able to decipher how exactly the thing was supposed to do something.

The energy consumption is sooo high, I absolutely do not want to be a part in burning down our planet. I’m sure I find (and probably have long found without knowing) other ways to contribute to worsen our climate crisis.

The scraper part is already covered in detail in your list. :-)

I’m convinced that license and copyright violations are only played down or even refused entirely because companies want to make big money quickly. With the work of others of course. Their double standards are obvious, they still try to actively keep their own stuff secret and out of any training sets. At most for internal use only. Virtually noone in charge is interested in good long-term solutions. Short-term for the win, when disaster eventually strikes, the causers are long gone, the responsibilities in other hands.

Vendor lock-in is something that lots of folks are only realizing very slowly. It’s completely crazy to me. This drug dealer routine should be well-known by now. It’s fucking everywhere. Yet, people are always surprised when they found themselves caught in it.

Adding new AI stuff only increases complexity. But complexity is the enemy that everybody should fear and reduce as much as possible. Of course, this is not limited to AI at all. And everywhere I look around, people in charge looooove to make things way more complicated than they ever need to be. Yet, simplicity is the real art and much harder to achieve.

I don’t understand why we have to go back full force to the ambiguity of natural languages. This alone should be more than enough to realize what a stupid idea all that is. Linked to that is that the “instruction set” is interpreted differently with newer model versions. I mean, is has to be. Why else would somebody want to upgrade in the first place than to get more Powerful™ Features™?

Some people argue that with AI the democratization is empowered. However, in my view, the exact opposite is the case. Models are getting so large that you can basically not run them locally or even train them. So, you have to rely on whatever the vendor offers you and runs for you. In the end, this only gives the owners more power, the multi billionaires. Not exactly what I understand by democratization.

Finally, technology assessments are missing completely. Or they are faked such that mostly only the (questionable) benefits are listed. But all the negative impact is just ignored.

Let’s keep some popcorn around for when this all explodes. :-)

Budget 2026 in five charts
For the best experience, visit BusinessDesk for the interactive version of this article.

This year’s budget was fiscally prudent and some of it quite surprising. Here are five charts that tell the story. ⌘ Read more

GTK Introduces Snapping Feature For Better Fractional Scaling Experience
The upcoming GTK 4.23.1 development release is introducing a new feature called Snapping, which should enhance the experience when dealing with fractional scaling on today’s high resolution displays… ⌘ Read more

James Bond’s battle with AI is his most human story yet
As Amazon tries to decide a cinematic future for a broken icon, a new video game provides the best 007 experience in decades. ⌘ Read more

ReactOS Now Running On ARM64 In Experimental Form
ReactOS as the “open-source Windows” project working to implement binary compatibility for computer programs and drivers for Microsoft Windows now has experimental support for running on 64-bit ARM… ⌘ Read more

AlmaLinux 10.2 Released For Latest Community-Driven RHEL 10.2 Experience
The AlmaLinux project announced the releases today of both AlmaLinux OS 9.8 and AlmaLinux OS 10.2… ⌘ Read more

Fehlgeleitete KI-Ministerin vor Gericht
Seit September hat Albanien die weltweit erste KI-Ministerin. „Diella“, albanisch für Sonne, werde dafür sorgen, dass in dem EU-Kandidatenland künftig „öffentliche Ausschreibungen zu 100 Prozent frei von Korruption sind“, versprach Langzeitpremier Edi Rama. Doch das Experiment scheint nach hinten losgegangen zu sein, gegen die Betreiber hinter dem Chatbot laufen Ermittlungen wegen organisierter Kriminalität. Mehrere Klagen sind anhängig, ob „Diellas“ Dasein als Regierungsmitglied überhaupt verfas … ⌘ Read more

The birth of KiwiSaver: A point-of-sales experience
“Now, I will tell you my question. Have you thought about a risk profile?”

Julia slowly turned her head on the crunchy, over-bleached hospital pillow to face the interrogator. ⌘ Read more

FreeBSD Foundation Executive Director Tries Daily Driving FreeBSD On Laptop
Phoronix reports on a presentation about trying FreeBSD on modern Framework laptop from last week’s Open Source Summit hosted by the Linux Foundation:

With FreeBSD having worked on improving its laptop support over the past two years with some big changes and ongoing efforts for making a nice KDE desktop experience on FreeBS … ⌘ Read more

FreeBSD Foundation Executive Director Tries Daily Driving FreeBSD On Laptop
With FreeBSD having worked on improving its laptop support over the past two years with some big changes and ongoing efforts for making a nice KDE desktop experience on FreeBSD, FreeBSD Foundation’s Executive Director has been trying to daily drive FreeBSD on laptops… ⌘ Read more

The Best Browser Extensions to Get More Out of YouTube
You can significantly improve the YouTube experience with these browser add-ons. ⌘ Read more

Experience: We found a baby on the subway – now he’s our 26-year-old son
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/may/22/experience-found-baby-subway-now-26-year-old-son

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48245571

Points: 7

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‘Margo’s Got Money Troubles’ Won TV’s OnlyFans Wars
Unlike Euphoria, the Apple TV show wants to humanize the experience of sex workers rather than catastrophize the extremes of the profession. ⌘ Read more

Tackling the future workforce challenge
Some of the biggest challenges posed by the rapid development and deployment of artificial intelligence have to be tackled in areas related to workforce management.

“Nowadays, we are experiencing the greatest change in work since the Industrial Revolution,” Deloitte’s talent and experience leader, Alexandra (Sasha) Kozlova, said at a Techweek26 panel in Wellington on Wednesday morning. ⌘ Read more

@tftp@tilde.town you say that like it is a bad thing. It is not! 😅 Once you have learned your way around, all works together quite lovely. Of course, experimenting with new clients is fun too!

Stearns and Foster Promo Codes: $300 Off in May
Discover the best Stearns and Foster promo codes, discounts, and deals to elevate your sleep experience with premium comfort and quality. ⌘ Read more

Longtime Leading AMD Linux GPU Driver Developer Now Working For Valve
It seems that Valve isn’t done expanding their open-source Linux graphics driver team and securing top talent for enhancing the Linux GPU drivers for a better gaming experience. One of the foremost leading Mesa developers has left AMD to join Valve… ⌘ Read more

Greg Brockman Officially Takes Control of OpenAI’s Products in Latest Shakeup
OpenAI is once again reorganizing its executive ranks as part of its effort to unify ChatGPT and Codex into one core product experience. ⌘ Read more

Plasma Big Screen Working Out Quite Well With Plasma 6.7 Beta
With today’s KDE Plasma 6.7 beta release there has been a surprising amount of interest in the new revival of Plasma Big Screen as the TV-sized UI for Plasma. I’ve been trying it out today and it has worked out rather well, a very smooth experience, and in good shape for making its debut in next month’s Plasma 6.7 release… ⌘ Read more

@bender@twtxt.net Apologies, I’m still working through some layout issues with TwtStrm and frequently miss mentions…

Magic: the Gathering does not use a Game Master (although professional referees are often used in sanctioned events). While the game has alot of thematic crossover with with D&D (or fantasy games in general), the system is much more of an abstract, card-dueling system involving things like “the stack” and insanely specific rules on card timing and interactions.

Like, we joke about “I’m sending my army of (goblins / elves / angels / whatever) at you,” but that’s about as far into the “role-playing” element most magic games get in my experience (and most of the “official” competitive games I’ve played at my FLGS were even more abstract and less thematic, although it’s been years since I played in one of those).

DHS Plans Experiment Running ‘Reconnaissance’ Drones Along the US-Canada Border
Autonomous drones and ground vehicles will stream “battlefield intelligence” over 5G along the US-Canada border in a bilateral DHS experiment this fall. ⌘ Read more

Overworked AI Agents Turn Marxist, Researchers Find
In a recent experiment, mistreated AI agents started grumbling about inequality and calling for collective bargaining rights. ⌘ 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

How Handheld Translators Work and Why They’re Handy for Travel
Your cell phone can handle basic language translation, but bespoke tools can offer a much more immersive experience. ⌘ Read more

NASA Keeps Track As Mexico City Sinks Into the Ground
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: Walking into Mexico City’s sprawling central Zocalo is a dizzying experience. At one end of the plaza, the capital’s cathedral, with its soaring spires, slumps in one direction. An attached church, known as the Metropolitan Sanctuary, tilts in the other. The nearby National Palace also seems off-kilter. The tee … ⌘ Read more

Tesla’s Latest Recall? Wheels May Fall Off Cybertrucks
In what is the 11th Cybertruck recall, certain models of Elon Musk’s embattled pickup could experience a sudden, unexpected wheel separation, thanks to the wrong grease and loose nuts. ⌘ Read more

KDE Plasma 6.7 To Provide A Much Better Experience For CPU-Based Rendering
KDE developer Xaver Hugl has whipped up another nice improvement for the upcoming Plasma 6.7 desktop release. Due to QtWidgets still relying on CPU-based rendering and finding the performance subpar with Wayland shared memory “wl_shm” usage, Xaver has leveraged UDMABUF for avoiding excess buffer copies to provide a much more fluid experience when dealing with CPU-based rendering / shared memory usage on KDE under Wayland… ⌘ Read more

Sam Altman’s Management Style Comes Under the Microscope At OpenAI Trial
Sam Altman’s management style came under scrutiny on the seventh day of Elon Musk’s high-stakes OpenAI trial, as former OpenAI figures Mira Murati, Shivon Zilis, and Helen Toner took the stand to testify about their experiences working with him. Their testimony resurfaced many of the criticisms that first emerged during Altman’s brie … ⌘ Read more

Murena /e/OS Tablet Review: Privacy for a Price
Murena’s /e/OS tablet offers an iPadOS- and Google-free, privacy-friendly tablet experience, but you’ll have to pay for it. ⌘ Read more

Meta Quest Promo Codes: $50 Off | May 2026
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@prologic@twtxt.net Oh, lol, it’s literally called that: https://www.queensland.com/au/en/places-to-see/experiences/nature-and-wildlife/everything-to-know-about-natural-bridge 😂

KDE Linux Now Using KMSCON For A Better VT Console Experience
KDE Linux continues making progress as the in-house Linux distribution to best showcase the latest KDE Plasma desktop innovations… ⌘ Read more

Microsoft’s Xbox Mode Is Now Available For All Windows 11 PCs
Microsoft is rolling out Xbox mode to all Windows 11 PCs, bringing a full-screen Xbox PC app interface similar to Steam’s Big Picture Mode. “Some players in select markets will be able to download the Xbox mode experience today, with availability expanding to more players in those markets over the next several weeks,” says the Xbox team. The Verge repo … ⌘ Read more

Humanoid Robots Start Sorting Luggage In Tokyo Airport Test Amid Labor Shortage
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Humanoid robots are getting a new gig as baggage handlers and cargo loaders at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport – part of a Japan Airlines experiment to address a human labor shortage as airport visitor numbers have surged in recent years. The demonstration, set to la … ⌘ Read more

Fedora 44 Released For Living On The Leading-Edge Of Linux Innovations
Fedora 44 is officially released for providing the very latest Linux innovations with GNOME 50 being the default desktop of Fedora Workstation 44, an improved KDE experience with Plasma 6.6 complete with the Plasma Log-in Manager, and other up-to-date software packages… ⌘ Read more

Is AI Cannibalizing Human Intelligence? A Neuroscientist’s Way to Stop It
The AI industry is largely failing to ask a key design question, argues theoretical neuroscientist/cognitive scientist Vivienne Ming. Are their AI products building human capacity or consuming it?

In the Wall Street Journal Ming shares her experiment about which group performed best at predicting real-world events (compared to fo … ⌘ Read more

Windows 11 更新终于改了：可永久暂停更新
Windows 11 更新终于没那么烦人了，现在你可以自己决定什么时候更新，甚至一直不更新。 青小蛙此前遇到过好几次这种情况：某一个更新，无论点多少次“立即更新”，它都不会动，就卡在那里，完全没办法处理。 微软发博客说《您的 Windows 更新体验刚刚升级》，至少解决了 4 件事：更新能跳过、能永 ⌘ Read more

Ubuntu Server 26.04 LTS Will Now Automatically Install HWE/OEM Kernel Packages
Ubuntu LTS releases on the desktop have automatically installed OEM vendor kernels where needed and hardware enablement “HWE” kernels in later point releases by default. This provides a better out-of-the-box experience for Ubuntu desktop users and one less chore post-install if desiring a newer/better kernel. With Ubuntu Server 26.04 LTS, the server installer is finally doing the same… ⌘ Read more

FreeBSD Working On Intel FRED Support, Laptop Improvements Continue
FreeBSD is out today with their Q1-2026 status report to outline the many different development initiatives their open-source developers have participated in over the past quarter. There is a lot of hardware enablement efforts ongoing as well as continuing to make a more compelling desktop experience and also improving GUI and management options for FreeBSD systems… ⌘ Read more

KMSCON Continues Improving For VT Terminal Emulator In User-Space
KMSCON 9.3.4 is out today for this virtual terminal (VT) emulator in user-space that runs atop the Linux DRM/KMS APIs for those wanting to enjoy a CONFIG_VT=n Linux kernel experience… ⌘ Read more