Cloudflare Flagship
Article URL: https://developers.cloudflare.com/flagship/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48287468

Points: 9

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The Best Movies to Stream This Month (May 2026)
Bugonia, Good Boy, and Send Help are among the films deserving of your eyeballs this month. ⌘ Read more

Chemistry behind the Garden Grove chemical tank
Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/methyl-methacrylate-tank

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48284712

Points: 9

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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

Ryman reset right for market conditions, CEO says
Retirement village and aged care provider Ryman’s reset of its model means it now has the flexibility to grow as property market conditions allow, but not the obligation, chief executive Naomi James says.

The operator of 47 villages, offering 9,959 retirement units and 4,686 aged care beds, decided two years ago to scale back development to focus on returns from existing assets, she said. ⌘ Read more

Does Anybody Actually Like React?
Article URL: https://jsx.lol

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48274077

Points: 21

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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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SpaceX Launches 29 Starlink Satellites on Memorial Day
“The expansion of SpaceX’s Starlink network of internet relay satellites continued Monday with a Memorial Day launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station,” reports Spaceflight Now.

The mission added another 29 Starlink satellites to more than 10,000 already in low Earth orbit:

This was SpaceX’s 60th orbital flight of the year, consisting of 59 Falcon 9 rocket … ⌘ Read more

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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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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Rust-Based Wild Linker 0.9 Brings New Platform Coverage, Linker Plugin API
Wild Linker 0.9 was released today as the latest version of this very fast linker for Linux systems that is written in the Rust programming language… ⌘ 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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Microsoft Drops Claude Code After Budget Overrun
Article URL: https://aiweekly.co/alerts/microsoft-drops-claude-code-after-budget-overrun

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48238896

Points: 38

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On the Money: Grant Baker’s book launch, Ray Smith, Nikhil Ravishankar, a great AI speech, and more
On the Money (OTM) is our column of general frippery we observed within the worlds of business and government this week.

It was not the easiest week to be a departmental chief executive. Minister for the Public Service Nicola Willis signalled 9,000 public-sector jobs might go, and several agencies might be folded into on … ⌘ Read more

Linux Provides Better Performance With The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Over Windows 11
Last month with the new AMD Zen 5 “Dual Edition” 3D V-Cache CPU, the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition showed great performance on Linux across a range of workloads. Curious if the operating system was playing into the greater benefit of Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 versus just the workloads tested, this article is looking at both the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D and Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 on Microsoft Windows 11 and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Linux across a range of … ⌘ 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

New Patches Allow The Microsoft Surface Pro 9 5G To Be More Useful Under Linux
Back in 2024 there were Linux patches to enable a partially-working Microsoft Surface Pro 9 5G laptop that is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8xc Gen 3 (SC8280XP) SoC. Now in 2026, there are new patches for making that ARM-powered Microsoft Surface laptop actually working more respectably under Linux… Like a working display and more… ⌘ Read more

RHEL 10.2 Released With New AI Command Line Assistance
Red Hat has released RHEL 10.2 and 9.8 with new AI-assisted command-line tools. The releases also add updated developer toolchains such as Go 1.26, LLVM 21, Rust 1.92, Python 3.14, and PHP 8.4. Phoronix reports: Red Hat Enterprise Linux has introduced the goose command for power users. Goose is an optional CLI AI assistance with model context protocol (MCP) integrati … ⌘ Read more

RHEL 10.2 Released With New AI Command Line Assistance
Red Hat today announced the releases of both Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.2 as well as RHEL 9.8… ⌘ Read more

Valkey 9.1 Delivers More Performance & Enhanced Security
Valkey 9.1 released on Tuesday as the latest version of this popular fork of the Redis in-memory, key-value database… ⌘ Read more

Serko outlook lifts as AI travel tools offset Middle East war war
Serko’s chief executive says the corporate travel company is weathering the travel disruptions caused by the US and Israeli war with Iran surprisingly well, recording a “very strong” final quarter despite the global volatility.

Serko on Wednesday reported a 34% increase in total income to $120.9 million in the 12 months ended March 31, 2026, compared with $90.5m a year earlier. ⌘ Read more

Ample Meats losses deepen as 2024 accounts finally filed
The Chinese-owned Taranaki meat processor that blamed its accountants for delayed financial statements deepened its loss in 2024 as revenue dropped, according to newly filed accounts.

Ample Group posted a loss of just over $1.9 million in the 12 months to the end of September 2024, compared with … ⌘ Read more

OpenBSD 7.9 Released With Support For Up To 255 x86_64 CPU Cores, WiFi 6
Theo de Raadt announced the release today of OpenBSD 7.9 as the latest feature update to this unique BSD platform… ⌘ Read more

[OC] people seem to be surprised that i’m tall, im 5’9! which makes my tits even more impressive! ⌘ Read more

Some weekend stable kernel updates
The 7.0.9,
6.18.32,
6.12.90, and
6.6.140 stable kernels have been released.
Each contains yet another set of important fixes. ⌘ Read more

Amazon Stops Supporting Pre-2013 Kindles Today. Some Owners Turn to Jailbreaking
Today Amazon ends support for first- and second-generation versions of Kindles and Kindle Fire tablets, along with the Kindle Touch, the 9.7-inch Kindle DX, and other devices released in 2012 or earlier.

Owners can continue reading ebooks that they’ve already downloaded, and they can also still sideload books using … ⌘ Read more

Kioxia and Dell Cram Nearly 10PB Into a Single 2U Server
BrianFagioli writes: Kioxia and Dell Technologies say they have built a 2U server configuration capable of scaling to 9.8PB of flash storage, which is the sort of density that would have sounded impossible just a few years ago. The setup combines a Dell PowerEdge R7725xd Server with 40 Kioxia LC9 Series 245.76TB NVMe SSDs and AMD EPYC processors. According t … ⌘ Read more

Wine 11.9 Released With Wayland Pointer Warp, Initial Support For System Threads
Wine 11.9 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release and nearing the half-way point of the development cycle toward Wine 12.0… ⌘ Read more

Honda Retreats To Hybrids After Failed EV Bet Triggers Record $9 Billion Loss
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Electrek: Honda is waving the white flag. The Japanese automaker previewed two new hybrids set to launch by 2028 after taking an over $9 billion hit over its failed EV bet, leading to its biggest loss in company history. Honda admitted it was “unable to deliver products that offer … ⌘ Read more

Security updates for Friday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (ffmpeg, gsasl, nodejs, postgresql-15, postgresql-17, python3.9, and thunderbird), Fedora (expat, firefox, freerdp, GitPython, kernel, php, rust-podman-sequoia, rust-rpm-sequoia, rust-sequoia-chameleon-gnupg, rust-sequoia-git, rust-sequoia-keystore-server, rust-sequoia-octopus-librnp, rust-sequoia-openpgp, rust-sequoia-sop, rust-sequoia-sq, and rust-sequoia-sqv), Mageia (awstats, libreoffice, perl-HTTP-Tiny, and tomcat), Oracle (corosync, freerdp, … ⌘ Read more

Coreboot + AMD openSIL Powered Firmware Published For The Gigabyte MZ33-AR1
3mdeb announced on Thursday their release of Dasharo v0.9 for the Gigabyte MZ33-AR1 EPYC server motherboard. This is the first time seeing AMD openSIL and Coreboot available for a readily-available AMD EPYC server motherboard!.. ⌘ Read more

A Conspiracy Theory About QR Codes Has Led to Chaos Ahead of Georgia’s Midterms
The state of Georgia banned the use of QR codes for elections, based in part on the assertions of a man who’s boosted false claims about Israel and 9/11. Now no one knows how ballots will be counted. ⌘ Read more

I just wanted to look up 9V block battery prices online and these automatically generated descriptions are getting dumber by the minute:

Datum der Erzeugung: Verfallsdatum minus 7 Jahre

(Date of manufacturing: expiration date minus 7 years)

Or look at this one:

Die leistungsstarke 9 V-Block E Batterie, auch 6LR61 genannt, eignet sich besonders gut für Taschenlampen, Radio oder Kinderspielzeug, die einen gleichbleibenden Strombedarf haben. Ihre max. Spannung beträgt 1,5 V.

(The high performance 9 V block E battery, also known as 6LR61, is particularly suitable for torches, radio or child’s toys, which have a steady power demand. Its max. voltage is 1.5 V.)

The battery is best suited for… devices where it fits. No shit, Sherlock! Has anyboy ever come across 9V block torches? O_o I haven’t.

DXVK-NVAPI 0.9.2 Further Improves NVIDIA Integration For Steam Play Linux Gaming
DXVK-NVAPI 0.9.2 is now available for this implementation of NVIDIA’s NVAPI/NVOFAPI interfaces atop DXVK and VKD3D-Proton that is used in turn by Valve’s Steam Play (Proton) for enhanced NVIDIA Linux gaming support… ⌘ Read more

Manifestation néofasciste à Paris: qu’est-ce que le C9M?
Lundi 11 mai à partir de 18 heures, posez vos questions à Alexandre Berteau sur le défilé du Comité du 9-Mai, interdit à Paris, qui revient chaque année au cœur des discussions politiques. ⌘ Read more

Zeeman, le discounter qui prospère quand ses salariés galèrent
À l’appel de la CFTC et de FO, les salariés de cette chaîne néerlandaise qui comptant près de 350 magasins en France sont en grève le 9 mai. Ils reprochent à l’entreprise de faire peser sa croissance sur ses salariés très polyvalents, en sous-effectif permanent et payés à peine plus que le smic. ⌘ Read more

Vladimir Poutine célèbre son jour de la Victoire en mauvaise posture
La parade du 9-Mai, traditionnelle démonstration de puissance militaire russe, a été réduite cette année au strict minimum, indépendamment d’un cessez-le-feu de trois jours annoncé hier par Trump. Une absence de faste à l’image de la situation éprouvée par le chef d’État russe: englué militairement, inquiet pour sa sécurité et déconnecté des préoccupations de ses citoyens. ⌘ Read more

La manifestation néofasciste du 9 mai et sa contre-manifestation restent interdites 
Le tribunal administratif de Paris a validé, vendredi 8 mai, l’interdiction préfectorale visant la manifestation annuelle du C9M, mais aussi la contre-manifestation antifasciste. La tenue d’un «Village antifasciste» est en revanche autorisée. ⌘ Read more

Linux Erroneously Thinks Intel Bartlett Lake CPUs Run At 7GHz
With Intel’s recently-launched Bartlett Lake P-core-only processors intended for the embedded market, there is a rather surprising oversight under Linux: the Intel P-State driver reporting a 7.0+ GHz clock speed. While many would yearn for a 7GHz CPU, the Core 9 273PE where this issue was discovered in reality can only boost up to 5.7GHz for its maximum turbo frequency… ⌘ Read more

D7VK 1.9 Brings Some Hefty Performance Improvements
D7VK continues advancing for this Vulkan-based implementation of Direct3D 7 that also supports D3D 6 / 5 / 3 APIs too for vintage games ultimately rendered using the modern Vulkan API… ⌘ Read more

Security updates for Tuesday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel, kernel-rt, libcap, LibRaw, openssh, thunderbird, and tigervnc), Debian (libarchive and lxd), Fedora (chromium, insight, nodejs20, rust-sequoia-git, and uriparser), Mageia (kernel, kmod-virtualbox), Oracle (kernel, libcap, thunderbird, and uek-kernel), Red Hat (.NET 10.0, .NET 8.0, .NET 9.0, fence-agents, sudo, and systemd), Slackware (httpd), SUSE (freerdp, hauler, helm, himmelblau, kernel, libspectre, thunderbird, tri … ⌘ Read more

9 Best Portable Power Stations (2026): Power Capacity, Portability, Camping, and More
Whether you’re going off-grid or safeguarding against blackouts, these beefy, WIRED-tested batteries can keep the lights on. ⌘ Read more

Synology Photos 服务器端更新，新增收藏夹功能
Synology Photos 的服务器端在上个月底为 DSM 7.2  更新了 1.9.0-10924 版本，而移动客户端的最近一次更新是2026年3月份。这对群晖的存量用户来说，意味着还可以放心的将照片保存在 Synology Photos 中，暂时不用迁移，不用折腾。 Synology Pho ⌘ Read more

AI Agent Designed To Speed Up Company’s Coding Wipes Entire Database In 9 Seconds
joshuark shares a report from Live Science: An AI coding agent designed to help a small software company streamline its tasks instead blew a hole through its business in just nine seconds. PocketOS founder Jer Crane, said that the AI coding agent Cursor –powered by Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 model – delet … ⌘ Read more

Linux 7.0 Release, Age Verification Laws, Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 & Other April Happenings
A lot happened in the Linux and open-source world during the month of April. Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and Fedora 44 shipped, a lot of news around age attestation/verification laws, the Linux 7.0 kernel was released, Linux 7.1 is bringing many exciting changes as well as removing of old hardware drivers, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition CPU was released, we began testing the Intel Arc Pro B70 “BMG-G31”, and much more software and hardware co … ⌘ Read more

Security updates for Thursday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (buildah, firefox, gdk-pixbuf2, giflib, grafana, java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-21-openjdk, LibRaw, OpenEXR, PackageKit, pcs, python3.11, python3.12, python3.9, sudo, tigervnc, vim, xorg-x11-server, xorg-x11-server-Xwayland, yggdrasil, and yggdrasil-worker-package-manager), Debian (calibre, firefox-esr, and openjdk-17), Fedora (asterisk, binaryen, buildah, dokuwiki, lemonldap-ng, libexif, libgcrypt, miniupnpd, openvpn, podman, python3.9, rust-rpm-sequo … ⌘ Read more

Security updates for Tuesday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (openjdk-21 and webkit2gtk), Fedora (botan3, chromium, cockpit, firefox, flatpak, gum, libarchive, libcoap, mingw-python3, ngtcp2, nss, openssh, openssl, openvpn, PackageKit, python3-docs, python3.11, python3.12, python3.13, python3.14, vim, and xrdp), Oracle (firefox, gdk-pixbuf2, java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-21-openjdk, python3.12, python3.9, sudo, and tigervnc), Red Hat (tigervnc and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland), Slackware (mpg123 and proftpd), * … ⌘ Read more

PowerToys v0.99.0 发布，距离 v0.100 更近了
微软的 PowerToys v0.99.0 今日发布，新增两个实用工具：不用点标题栏就能拖动窗口，另一个是直接在托盘里调显示器亮度、对比度。另外继续修复命令面板等功能，整体更稳定，为 v0.100发布做最后准备。@Appinn 是的，只有 v0.100，没有 v1.0。 PowerToys v0.9 ⌘ Read more

Red Hat’s Stratis Storage 3.9 Released With Online Encryption/Decryption/Reencryption
It’s crazy to realize it has been ten years already since Red Hat abandoned their Btrfs plans for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and dropped it, which was a technology preview feature since RHEL6. In its place Red Hat engineers began developing Stratis for next-gen Linux storage with ZFS/Btrfs-like features but instead building atop XFS, LUKS, Device Mapper, and Clevis. After a while since the last major release, Stratis Storage 3 … ⌘ Read more

[$] The rest of the 7.1 merge window
By the time Linus Torvalds released 7.1-rc1
and closed the 7.1 merge window, 12,996 non-merge changesets had been
pulled into the mainline repository; just over 9,000 of those arrived after
the first-half summary was written. These
changes were more driver-oriented than those seen earlier, but still also
included many new features across the kernel as a whole. ⌘ Read more