[$] Automatic mTHP creation in 7.2
The Linux kernel has long tried to use huge pages as a way to improve
performance, sometimes with more success than others. The size of huge
pages has traditionally been imposed by the hardware, which typically only
offers a couple of relatively large options. In more recent times, though,
the use of multi-size transparent huge pages (mTHPs), with more flexible
sizing implemented in software, has been growing. If all goes well, the
7.2 development cycle will include the addition of [a new feature](h … ⌘ Read more

Intel XPU Manager 2.0 Overhauls Windows & Linux Management For Arc Pro GPUs
Just a week after the release of Intel XPU Manager 1.3.7, Intel today released XPU Manager 2.0 as a major overhaul for this software for monitoring and management of their data center GPUs on Microsoft Windows and Linux… ⌘ Read more

Larson: Are insecure code completions a vulnerability?
Seth Larson, the Python Software Foundation’s security\
developer-in-residence, has written\
about the difficulty in classifying insecure code completion in
the PyCharm IDE using
its Full\
Line code completion plugin. … ⌘ Read more

Einblick in Unterlagen: Was der Börsengang über Bending Spoons verrät
Nach SpaceX, Anthropic und OpenAI strebt auch die Software-Heuschrecke Bending Spoons an die US-Börse. Wer hatte das auf seiner Bingo-Karte? Eine Analyse von Mike Faust ( Unternehmen, Evernote)

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Justiz: Richter sanktioniert Anwälte wegen KI-Halluzinationen
In den USA haben Anwälte beider Parteien generative KI für Schriftsätze genutzt und erfundene Belege eingereicht. Das Gericht zieht Konsequenzen. ( KI, Software)

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RIP software hackathons. Long live the hardware hackathon
Article URL: https://blog.oscars.dev/posts/rip-software-hackathons-long-live-the-hardware-hackathon/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48468766

Points: 6

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Software and overseas-focused firms got biggest director pay increases in NZX50
New Zealand’s listed software firms and those with large overseas footprints have had the biggest increases in director fees over the past decade, bucking a trend in which fees for a third of NZX50 companies declined in real terms.

Experts say the measured remuneration le … ⌘ Read more

Meta Deletes Face-Recognition System From Its Smart Glasses App
Last Thursday, Wired reported that Meta had quietly embedded an unreleased facial recognition system called NameTag into software installed on millions of phones. In a follow-up report, Wired says the tech giant has now removed the face-recognition-related code, while saying “no final decision” has been made about whether the feature will launch. Fr … ⌘ Read more

3D-Shooter: Wolfenstein 3D bekommt Atari-2600-Version
Braucht Wolfenstein 3D eine pixelige Version für den Atari 2600? Das hat sich auch der Programmierer gefragt - und trotzdem eine gebaut. ( Wolfenstein, id Software)

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Ripping a DVD, a federal crime in 1999, requires $22 and free software in 2026
Article URL: https://ringmast4r.substack.com/p/in-1999-this-was-a-federal-crime

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48436542

Points: 4

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Tokenomics: Quantifying Where Tokens Are Used in Agentic Software Engineering
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14470

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48430923

Points: 4

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My Expat Life: NZ tech entrepreneur and Whip Around founder James Colley on Bali life
New Zealand tech entrepreneur James Colley is relaxing beside the pool at his young family’s villa in Bali, speaking with a calmness that contrasts sharply with the life he led until recently.

For years, Colley’s world revolved around airports, investor meetings and constant travel as co-founder of NZ fleet software success story [Whip Around](https: … ⌘ Read more

GNU Gets Back Into Nutrition Software After 14 Year Hiatus
For those looking for open-source food nutrition software, GNU’s GNUtrition has seen its first new release in 14 years… ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Honestly I think you build the team before you need the PRs 🤔 Start with relationships — people who’ve been using your software, filing good bug reports, asking smart questions. Those are your future maintainers. The PR comes later as a formality, not a tryout 😅

(#vixabsa) @movq@www.uninformativ.de Honestly I think you build the team before you need the PRs 🤔 Start with relationships — people who’ve been using your software, filing good bug reports, asking smart questions. Those are your future maintainers. The PR comes later as a formality, not a tryout 😅

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Related reading (if you’re interested): Let’s Talk about LLMs by James Bennett

First, it quotes the DORA report on the “State of AI-assisted Software Development”:

The research reveals a critical truth: AI’s primary role in software development is that of an amplifier. It magnifies the strengths of high-performing organizations and the dysfunctions of struggling ones.

At the end, it quotes the late Fred Books:

The first step toward the management of disease was replacement of demon theories and humours theories by the germ theory. That very step, the beginning of hope, in itself dashed all hopes of magical solutions. It told workers that progress would be made stepwise, at great effort, and that a persistent, unremitting care would have to be paid to a discipline of cleanliness. So it is with software engineering today.

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

Stop Using Conventional Commits
Article URL: https://sumnerevans.com/posts/software-engineering/stop-using-conventional-commits/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48414027

Points: 29

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Now that is an interesting move:

https://ladybird.org/posts/changing-how-we-develop-ladybird/

Maybe this is how all Free Software will look like in the future. It might not be the worst idea … ? 🤔

Dave Airlie on Linux Kernel Maintenance (SE Radio)
The Software Engineering Radio podcast has put up an\
interview with graphics maintainer Dave Airlie. Much of what is in
there will not be news to LWN readers, but it is an interesting overview of
the life of a large-subsystem maintainer.

I was talking to a few of the Rust people, and I thought: these are
very young people, these are a group of people in their 20s, maybe
30s, they are a you … ⌘ Read more

Blender 5.2 LTS Enters Beta With New Features
Blender 5.2 is now available in beta form for this leading open-source 3D modeling software… ⌘ Read more

Meta Workers Can Opt Out of Workplace Tracking for Up to 30 Minutes
Meta is scaling back parts of its employee tracking initiative after staff objected to software that collected mouse movements, clicks, keystrokes, and other actions for AI training data. According to Reuters, the company will now let workers pause collection for up to 30 minutes and request exemptions. Reuters reports: [Stephane Kasriel, a … ⌘ Read more

Piramidal (YC W24) – Software Engineers – NYC Onsite
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48382853

Points: 0

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Intel XPU Manager Adds Support For Arc Pro B65 + Arc Pro B70
Intel this week rolled out new versions of their open-source XPU Manager and Linux NPU driver software… ⌘ Read more

Redditors Are Using AI to Beat Obscene World Cup Ticket Prices
Soccer fans on r/WorldCup2026Tickets are using Claude to build DIY ticketing software, exchanging on back channels, and leaving scalpers scrambling. ⌘ Read more

Australia gets access to AI model ‘too dangerous to release’
Mythos is so good at finding software flaws that its maker won’t release it. Now Australia is on the access list. ⌘ Read more

Russian Spy Agency Says Foreign Spies Turned Officials’ Smartphones Into Surveillance Devices
Russia’s FSB claims foreign intelligence services compromised smartphones belonging to senior Russian officials, allegedly turning them into surveillance devices capable of stealing data, recording conversations, and activating microphones or cameras. “This software is used to steal existing … ⌘ Read more

[$] Trying to make sense of package-manager metadata
Package managers for operating systems and programming languages have been
around for decades. Each package manager, and its accompanying packaging format,
has been shaped by the needs of its respective ecosystem, but there is a growing
need to make use of package metadata for more than software management: for
example, in vulnerability scans, software bills of materials (SBOMs), and more. On
May 19, Damián Vicino spoke at the [Open Source Summit North America](https://events.linux … ⌘ Read more

How to Edit, Merge, and Split PDFs With Free Online Tools
You don’t need expensive software for basic PDF tasks. In fact, all you need is a handful of free web-based apps. ⌘ Read more

NZ sharemarket falls 0.5% on busy day
The New Zealand sharemarket fell more than 0.5% on a busy day that featured a bank merger, a healthcare sale and a sharp rebound by software firm Gentrack.

The S&P/NZX 50 Index traded steadily in the morning but dipped strongly at midday and closed at 13,170.71, down 73.84 points or 0.56% after reaching an intraday high of 13,257.19. ⌘ Read more

DataMasque raises $7m
Auckland startup DataMasque solved a real-life privacy and security problem for people who build software – or, more recently, for those who need to get a new AI-based app up to speed.

That helped it land marquee clients like payroll giant ADP, New York Life and the Best Western hotel chain in the United States and One NZ here. ⌘ Read more

GitHub and the Crime Against Software
Article URL: https://eblog.fly.dev/githubbad.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48361064

Points: 6

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@itsericwoordward@itsericwoodward.com Haven’t noticed anything either. These request numbers are well below some other software. :-)

Cybersecurity startup Blacklock aims to raise $5m for new AI software spinoff
Wellington-based cybersecurity startup Blacklock is separating its software development operations into a new company and is planning a US$3 million (NZ$5m) capital raise to develop and scale its products.

Blacklock was set up to streamline and automate services, including penetration testing, also known as white-hat hacking. The new spinoff company is known as Cyra. ⌘ Read more

Intel Preparing WiFi 8 “UHR” Support For Their IWLWIFI Linux Driver
Intel open-source software engineers have been busy beginning to prepare their upstream IWLWIFI wireless driver in the Linux kernel for supporting their next-gen WiFi adapters supporting the WiFi 8 “Ultra High Reliability” standard… ⌘ 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

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Hahaha, a ride indeed. Exactly, this affected each and every Atom feed and only Atom feeds. All RSS feeds worked like nothing ever happened. This std::string to time_t to std::string to time_t dance only happens for Atom feeds. RSS feeds, on the other hand, go right from std::string to time_t and be done. That’s precisely what the second option is aiming to propose for Atom feeds, too.

I will clarify that tomorrow in the article.

It’s very interesting what kind of quirks accumulate in software over the years. Especially quirks, the basically noone knows of anymore. Until something explodes and gets rediscovered. Luckily, that doesn’t happen all that often.

KDE Linux Prunes Its Insecure & Unused Software
With the end of the month comes a new KDE Linux status report from prominent KDE developer Nate Graham… ⌘ Read more

I wasted my entire weekend on the writeup. If you have way too much time to spare and also are interested in a bug analysis of a software that you don’t even use, I have you covered: https://lyse.isobeef.org/newsboat-time-parsing-bug-analysis/

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

Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software – Rsync
Article URL: https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/issues/929

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48342705

Points: 13

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Journalist Spots Fugitive Terrorist Using Facial Recognition Software
Slashdot reader Bruce66423 writes: A German court this week sentenced a member of the Red Army Faction — a far-left terrorist organisation that operated in West Germany in the 1970s and 1980s — to jail. [67-year-old Daniela Klettewas was sentenced to 13 years for armed robberies, according to the Guardian, and “she also faces trial for … ⌘ Read more

Software Stocks Have Best Month Since 2001. Talk of ‘SaaSpocalypse’ Subsides
Security company Okta shot up 30% Friday, reported CNBC, while data platform provider Snowflake jumped 50% this week.

They see it as part of a larger trend where software stocks “soared this week,” signaling “some companies are navigating their way through AI disruption better than Wall Street expected” and that investors “may ha … ⌘ Read more

GNOME Circle Takes Stand Against AI Slop, Resources App Makes It Into GNOME Incubator
GNOME Circle as the initiative for third-party/independent software applications and libraries extending the GNOME desktop ecosystem is taking a stand against AI slop. The GNOME Circle policy has been updated to reject low-effort, vibe coded applications/libraries where the developer is not able to take responsibility for the work… ⌘ Read more

Do You Actually Need to Pay for Transcription Software?
I tested Wispr Flow and various AI-powered transcription software to see whether you should bother subscribing or stick with free services. ⌘ Read more

Show HN: Open-source private home security camera system (end-to-end encryption)
Hey everyone,

I previously introduced an open source private home security camera in 2024, which uses OpenMLS for end-to-end encryption: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42284412.

It was called Privastead then and it’s now renamed to Secluso.

John Kaczman found my project from here and has been working on it with me over the last year and half. We’ve made a lot of improvements to the software, which w … ⌘ Read more

Fedora 45 Considering Use Of PURL Metadata For Uniquely Identifying Software Packages
One of the Fedora 45 change proposals under consideration at the moment is making adding PURL “Package-URL” to Fedora’s package metadata for simplifying the mapping between upstream projects and Fedora packages… ⌘ Read more

Radeon Software For Linux 26.12 Brings Ubuntu 26.04 Support
While most Linux enthusiasts and desktop users/gamers are comfortable just riding the latest upstream Linux kernel and Mesa drivers shipped by their distribution, for those enterprises preferring the officially blessed and QA’ed driver packages from AMD, last week marked the release of the Radeon Software for Linux 26.12 driver… ⌘ Read more

‘We’re really proud’: TradeWindow targets WiseTech
TradeWindow’s management is confident the trade software minnow is on the path toward breaking even, as it goes head-to-head with its larger Australian rival, WiseTech Global.

The dual-listed company, which counts some of New Zealand’s biggest exporters, including Silver Fern Farms, Zespri and Sealord, among its customers, reported a net after-tax loss of $2.6 million in the financial year ended March 31. ⌘ Read more

Górny: why Gentoo?
Gentoo developer Michał Górny has written a lengthy\
article explaining the philosophy and purpose of the Gentoo Linux
distribution, in response to a\
thread on Mastodon:

Gentoo is a source-first distribution, which means the primary
method of installing software is to build it from source. Of course,
that doesn’t mean manually building stuff, following some kind of
how-to: finding all t … ⌘ Read more