[$] Reviewing kernel patches with LLMs
In a plenary session at
the
2026 Linux Storage,\
Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit, the state of patch
review using large language models (LLMs) was discussed. It is a topic that has been swirling around in the
kernel community for much of the year. The plenary, which was led by Roman
Gushchin, Chris Mason, Josef Bacik, and Sasha Levin, resulted in a quite bit
of discussion, so much that a second fil … ⌘ Read more

QuiznessDesk, Tuesday, May 26
Which of the following elements has the atomic number 2? Carbon, Lithium or Helium?
What type of animal is a mandrill?
What do edentulous mammals not have?
In which year did the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbour?
Which king was killed by an arrow to the eye?
In which country does the story “The Pied Piper of Hamelin” take place?
What colour spots does a common ladybird have?
Who directed the 1974 film Blazing Saddles?
In what sport is the “Fosbury flop” technique used?
Whi … ⌘ Read more

Jony Ive’s Ferrari
Article URL: https://www.ferrari.com/en-EN/auto/ferrari-luce

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48271629

Points: 3

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Oil prices drop on prospect of Iran deal, but investors aren’t celebrating yet
By Caitlin McCane

The prospect of a possible peace deal with Iran sent oil prices falling and stock gauges around the world climbing on Monday. ⌘ Read more

Yoti age checks share facial photos and device fingerprints with third parties
Article URL: https://techxplore.com/news/2026-05-online-age-pointless-privacy.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48271327

Points: 3

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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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The bootstrapper’s EU stack for under €10 per month
Article URL: https://eualternative.eu/guides/bootstrapper-free-tier-eu-stack/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48270111

Points: 8

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California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash
Article URL: [https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/california-moves-to-exempt-linux-from-its-upcoming-age-verification-law-after-backlash-over-forcing-operating-systems-to-collect-users-ages-amendment-proposed-by-the-same-lawmaker-who-wr … ⌘ Read more

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

Points: 0

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The Coming Layoffs and the Revenge of the Measurers
Article URL: https://www.hackyexperiments.com/blog/the-revenge-of-the-measurers

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48269457

Points: 15

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Gas transition scheme leaves hard calls in the detail
The Government has found a way to intervene in the gas crunch without reviving the grant-based model it spent years criticising.

But whether the new loan-guarantee scheme actually helps firms transition away from gas will depend heavily on its final design. ⌘ Read more

Commerce Commission’s gas pipe ruling to test who pays for system’s decline
The Commerce Commission’s final decision on gas pipeline regulation this week will test how far it is prepared to go in letting network owners recover costs earlier as gas demand weakens and the future of the network becomes more uncertain.

On Wednesday, the regulator will set the default price-quality path for gas pipeline businesses from Oct 1, 2026 (DPP4). The decision cover … ⌘ Read more

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

Results are in: BusinessDesk subscribers are a good-looking bunch
When we rolled out our subscriber survey, I thought it would take a few weeks to reach 500 respondents.

It took barely two days. ⌘ Read more

Ferrari-driving failed firm owner owes $4m, faces probe
An Auckland businessman who goes by multiple aliases is under investigation for director conduct, as customers report paying for goods they never received from a company that owes $4 million to creditors.

BusinessDesk can reveal the Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment (MBIE) has two open investigations into Laurence Robert Pope, who also uses the alias, Max Bailey. ⌘ Read more

How Turners chair Grant Baker turned a cold shoulder into a takeover
When Grant Baker couldn’t get the chief executive of Turners Auctions to take his calls, he didn’t keep trying.

He decided to buy the company instead. ⌘ 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

Comprehensive Response to Bambu’s AGPLv3 Violations (Software Freedom Conservancy)
The Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC)
published a news\
item on May 18 about its response to violations of the AGPLv3 by Bambu
Lab in its 3D printers. The company has not provided the source code to
its modifications to a 3D “slicer” program that was released under the
AGPLv3 and it has also threatened Paweł Jarczak who created … ⌘ Read more

Ubers COO says its getting harder to justify the money spent on AI tokenmaxxing
Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-coo-andrew-macdonald-ai-token-spending-harder-justify-2026-5

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48268871

Points: 7

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[$] Tier-aware memory-controller limits
Joshua Hahn began his session in the memory-management track of the 2026 Linux Storage,\
Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit by saying that the memory
controller for control groups is intended to provide resource allocation,
accounting, and protection from interference by other tasks. But
it was not really designed for tiered-memory systems; he is looking for a
way to improve that situation. ⌘ Read more

Security updates for Monday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (atril, evince, gnutls28, haproxy, haveged, jq, kernel, krb5, libgcrypt20, nodejs, and thunderbird), Fedora (aw-server-rust, awatcher, bind, bind-dyndb-ldap, chromium, composer, docker-buildkit, docker-buildx, dotnet10.0, dotnet8.0, dotnet9.0, evince, firefox, httpd, kernel, nodejs-aw-webui, nss, perl-Apache-Session-Browseable, pie, python-pulp-glue, python-requests, and python3.15), Slackware (kernel), SUSE (apptainer, chromium, cockpit, dnsmasq, … ⌘ Read more

Hive (YC S14) is hiring sr back-end developers (CA/US remote OK)
Article URL: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/hive.co/538c47f9-d008-49b7-b0d4-583d9294a481

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48267324

Points: 0

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[$] Dirk and Linus discuss AI and kernel development
Linus Torvalds does not enjoy giving talks, but he does consent to
the occasional on-stage conversation with Dirk Hohndel at Linux
Foundation events. The pair held the 30th of their fire-less fireside
chats during a keynote session on May 20, at the 2026 Open\
Source Summit North America. Topics included 3D printing, guitar
pedals, the recent 7.1-rc4 release of the kernel, and Torvalds’s
complicated relationshi … ⌘ Read more

Netherlands Seizes 800 Servers, Arrests 2 for Aiding Cyberattacks
Article URL: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/05/netherlands-seizes-800-servers-arrests-2-for-aiding-cyberattacks/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48266906

Points: 4

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2026 HIPAA Security Rule Update
Article URL: https://medcurity.com/hipaa-security-rule-2026-update/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48266895

Points: 10

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Pope Leo XIV says AI must serve humanity, not the powerful few
Article URL: https://religionnews.com/2026/05/25/in-his-first-encyclical-pope-leo-xiv-says-ai-must-serve-humanity-not-the-powerful-few/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48266485

Points: 4

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GPT Guesses Between 1 and 100
Article URL: https://github.com/exmergo/research-chatgpt-guesses-between-1-and-100

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48265745

Points: 12

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Magnifica Humanitas (Encyclical Letter)
Article URL: https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48265206

Points: 41

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NZ sharemarket trades flat, down 0.1%
The New Zealand sharemarket was a little hesitant as it entered a pivotal week for company earnings releases and economic moves.

The S&P/NZX 50 Index reached an intraday high of 13,101.27 but then fell late, closing at 12,970.80, down 21.03 points, or 0.16%. ⌘ Read more

Why Do We Sleep Under Blankets, Even on the Hottest Nights? (2017)
Article URL: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/blankets-summer-hot

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48263711

Points: 19

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Eroad faces ‘distraction’ as largest shareholder tries to overhaul board
Eroad’s chair says a reset towards the New Zealand and Australian market is being distracted by a shareholder’s board takeover effort.

Alongside publishing full-year results on Monday that showed flat revenue and a $161.1 million loss, the fleet technology company said its largest single shareholder, Ampfield Management, was seeking to overhaul its board. ⌘ Read more

The Eternal Sloptember
Article URL: https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2026/05/24/the-eternal-sloptember.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48263238

Points: 41

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Government backs $1.2b loan scheme to shift firms off gas
The Government will guarantee up to $1.2 billion of bank lending to help businesses reduce their reliance on natural gas, as it looks to preserve dwindling domestic supply for users with fewer alternatives.

Finance Minister Nicola Willis, Energy Minister Simeon Brown and Associate Energy Minister Shane Jones said the [Gas Transition Loan Guarantee Scheme](https://businessdesk.co.nz/article/budget-2026/gas-users-b … ⌘ Read more

AI ‘Crashes the Party’ at This Year’s Cannes Film Festival - Including Multi-Year Meta Partnership
AI “crashed the party” at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, writes The Hollywood Reporter. The festival exposed “the fault lines reshaping cinema,” their article argues, including how “AI is here — and the industry has stopped pretending otherwise.”

A humanoid robot spotted … ⌘ Read more

Pacific Edge is back from the brink and needs to prove it can execute
Medical technology company Pacific Edge’s annual revenue has nearly halved as it looks towards an expected US-led turnaround in its fortunes.

The company has resumed billing Medicare in the US after being frozen out of the system last year. ⌘ Read more

Kernel prepatch 7.1-rc5
The 7.1-rc5 kernel prepatch is out for
testing. Quoth Linus:

I’m not entirely happy about it - most of this is totally trivial
stuff to random drivers, which obviously makes it all less scary,
but at the same time I’m really not convinced the churn is worth it
at rc5 time. These things are “fixes”, sure, but at the same time a
lot of them are simply so irrelevant that I think they’d be better
off in a linux-next tree and get merged during the merge window. … ⌘ Read more

Defence homing in on Norwegian made missiles for frigates
The Defence Force is homing in on a Norwegian-made missile as the Government considers offensive strike capability for the navy’s two frigates.

Increasing the Defence Force’s “lethality” across land, sea, and air through the acquisition of “enhanced strike”, or missiles, is a key component of the Governm … ⌘ Read more

San Francisco immigration court shuts down after purge of judges
Article URL: https://apnews.com/article/san-francisco-immigration-court-closed-asylum-8a0946a7cd4bcc9bd925d075cabef44a

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48261543

Points: 14

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Trump says he is in no rush for an Iran deal that is far from finished
By Summer Said, Anat Peled and Alexander Ward

President Trump said Sunday he was in no hurry to complete an end-of-war agreement with Iran after spending weeks insisting Tehran had to quickly make nuclear concessions or face renewed attacks. ⌘ Read more

QuiznessDesk, Monday, May 25
What is the only country that Denmark borders?
What type of animal is a sidewinder?
Chemically pure gold contains how many carats?
Which Charles Dickens novel featured the character of Tiny Tim?
What is the longest river in France?
Which Lion King character did Jeremy Irons provide the voice for?
Who had a hit in 1982 with Maneater?
In mythology, which of the following did Pegasus have that a normal horse wouldn`t? Wings, a crown, or three eyes?
In a deck of cards, wh … ⌘ Read more`

Big Barrel to acquire six Glengarry stores
Big Barrel Group is acquiring six Glengarry Wine retail locations across Wellington and Auckland.

The two liquor retailers have agreed to a transition arrangement under which Big Barrel will acquire six Glengarry retail locations – Thorndon and Kelburn in Wellington, and Bassett Road, Parnell, Khyber Pass and Victoria Park in Auckland. ⌘ Read more

The political polarization of health outcomes in the USA
Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-026-02474-9

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48260331

Points: 10

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Claude Is Not Your Architect. Stop Letting It Pretend
Article URL: https://www.hollandtech.net/claude-is-not-your-architect/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48259784

Points: 12

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$100 CPU Shootout: Comparing the Ryzen 5 5500, Core i3-14100F, & Core i3-12100F
Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/100-budget-cpu-shootout-ddr4

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48259608

Points: 3

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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

Points: 0

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They’re first-home buyers, but not as we’ve known them
Christchurch couple Charlotte and Hamish would have struggled to get into their first house without financial assistance and moral support from their parents.

Charlotte, a 26-year-old librarian, and Hamish, a physio, settled on their five-bedroom Avonside home in February, but not before a building report revealed substandard DIY earthquake repairs on the property. ⌘ Read more

Gas users’ Budget hopes collide with subsidy politics
Budget 2026 will be revealed on Thursday, with much of the energy sector hoping for help, though many are likely to be disappointed.

Solar supporters, biomass proponents and other energy players have all been looking for financial assistance or more favourable policy settings. ⌘ Read more

Public service squeeze: Fat to trim or muscle to cut
Can we really shave 8,000 from the core government sector, taking it from in excess of 63,000 to around 55,000?

The sentiment is fine, but one suspects this will be a bit like the commitment for New Zealand to invest US$20 billion (NZ$34b) in India over the coming 15 years; an aspirational target. ⌘ Read more

Will Budget 2026 solve the case of the missing courthouse PPP?
Could the case of the missing courthouse public-private partnership be solved on Budget day?

The building of Waitākere and Rotorua courthouses through public-private partnership (PPP) was one of the headline projects on offer for infrastructure builders at a splashy Investment Summit held by the Government in March 2025. ⌘ Read more

Zespri nears year-round kiwifruit supply goal within two to three years
Zespri is two or three years away from “bridging the gap” in supply between its New Zealand and Northern Hemisphere fruit.

In the north it is grown largely in Europe as well as Japan and South Korea, and the kiwifruit marketer sold 32.3 million trays of Northern Hemisphere fr … ⌘ Read more