For this week’s (slightly late) #caturday, I’d like to introduce our 4th and final feline resident, the old boy we call Bugsy. He’s been with us for 8 years, and we think he’s 13-14 years old (but he’s not saying).
He used to sound a bit like a cartoon gangster (hence the name), but as the years have passed, he started to sound more like late-stage William Hickey (Uncle Lewis from Christmas Vacation).
He’s our sweet little old man, and he is loved.
Do Women’s Mate Preferences Change Across the Ovulatory Cycle? A Meta-Analysis [pdf]
Article URL: https://www.martiehaselton.com/_files/ugd/3ae410_aeb76edab75f457aae0c14c4c68d93c0.pdf
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48423541
Points: 8
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Le rachat de SFR par ses concurrents dans sa dernière ligne droite
Le groupe de télécom, très lourdement endetté, a prolongé jusqu’à dimanche les discussions avec Bouygues, Free et Orange. L’issue ne devrait pas changer: l’opérateur disparaîtra, contre 20,35 milliards d’euros. Patrick Drahi peut se réjouir, ses 8 000 salariés beaucoup moins. ⌘ Read more
ARM Linux Server Performance Up More Than 7x Geo Mean In 8 Years, As Much As 15x With NVIDIA Vera CPU
NVIDIA’s Vera CPU is delivering the fastest ARM performance I have ever seen. For putting it into perspective how far the ARM server CPU hardware has come in just the last decade and for some “fun” benchmarks as part of Phoronix marking 22 years of Linux hardware reviews and benchmarking, here are some benchmarks showing the Ampere eMAG from September 2018 to the performance now with NVIDIA Vera. Not even factori … ⌘ 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
Supreme Court Sides With Trump Administration On Federal Regulation of Telecom Companies
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: The Supreme Court sided with the Trump administration Thursday in upholding the power of federal regulators to enforce data privacy laws on telecommunications companies. The 8-1 decision (PDF) preserved one of the Federal Communications C … ⌘ Read more
Security updates for Thursday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (.NET 10.0, compat-openssl10, compat-openssl11, delve, expat, httpd:2.4, libexif, mod_http2, openssl, ruby4.0, samba, thunderbird, unbound, and vim), Debian (ceph and sudo), Fedora (libsoup3, pie, roundcubemail, and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland), Mageia (lxc), Oracle (expat, gnutls, kernel, php:8.2, thunderbird, and uek-kernel), Slackware (httpd, net, proftpd, tigervnc, and xorg), SUSE (apache-sshd, apptainer, atril, bind, busybox, c … ⌘ Read more
Ousted Love Island USA Star Apologizes After N-Word Backlash
Vasana Montgomery, one of the contestants for Love Island USA Season 8, spoke out after being expelled from the show ahead of its premiere. She was removed after videos of her surfaced, where she could be seen using the n-word. Montgomery issued a public apology after the scandal. Vasana Montgomery issues an apology Vasana Montgomery […]
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[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for June 4, 2026
Inside this week’s LWN.net Weekly Edition:
Front: MeshCore; x32 ABI; Open-source security; Package-manager metadata; More LSFMM+BPF coverage; Loadable crypto module.
Briefs: Lightwell; jqwik protestware; RedHat package compromise; DistroWatch; Fedora election; Rust 1.96.0; rsync; Vim Classic 8.3; Quotes; …
Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patch … ⌘ Read more
Stop-starting infrastructure investment estimated to cost $11.8b over 25 years
The stop-starting of infrastructure investment in recent decades could have cost New Zealand more than $11.8 billion, a new report estimates.
Amid concern that high fuel costs may prompt the deferring or cancelling of projects, sector groups Civil Contractors NZ, Infrastructure NZ, and Water NZ have commissioned an economic analysis of the “true cost” of stopping … ⌘ Read more
Rootshell: A new E2EE email service hosted in Iceland
Article URL: https://rootshell.is
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48388253
Points: 8
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AMD EPYC 8635P “Sorano” Benchmarks: Significant Upgrade Opportunity For EPYC 8004 Servers
After announcing the AMD EPYC 8005 “Sorano” series back in February, AMD recently began shipping these Zen 5 successors to the EPYC 8004 “Siena” line-up. With the EPYC 8005 product stack ranging from 8 to 84 cores and being drop-in upgrades for EPYC 8004 servers after a BIOS update, these are quite some interesting processors for those after a single socket, performant server. Up today are benchmarks of the EPYC 8635P as the flagshi … ⌘ Read more
Claude Opus 4.8 Max responding to an empty message
Article URL: https://xcancel.com/davidad/status/2061858258046898518
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48383564
Points: 8
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Capstone – multi-platform, multi-architecture disassembly framework
Article URL: https://www.capstone-engine.org/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48378925
Points: 8
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CT scans of BYD car parts
Article URL: https://www.lumafield.com/scan-of-the-month/byd
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48375824
Points: 8
# Comments: 1 ⌘ Read more
KDE Plasma 6.8 Still Planning To End X11 Support, 95% Of Plasma 6.6 Users Are On Wayland
KDE developers are sticking to their plans for Plasma 6.8 going Wayland-exclusive in dropping X11 support. Meanwhile it turns out 95% of current Plasma 6.6 users are running already on Wayland… ⌘ Read more
Vim Classic 8.3 released
Version\
8.3 of Vim Classic has been
released. This is the first release of the Vim fork since the project
was announced
in March.
This release is based on Vim 8.2.0148, with a number of bug fixes
and patches conservatively backported from future versions of Vim
upstream. We elected to clean up this version of Vim, prepare it for a
release, and imagine an alternate history wh … ⌘ Read more
Security updates for Tuesday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (php:8.2 and php:8.3), Debian (gst-plugins-good1.0, symfony, and yelp), Fedora (dovecot, freeipa, hplip, libpng, perl-Catalyst-Plugin-Authentication, postfix, samba, unbound, and vim), Mageia (assimp, libcaca, sdl2_sound, and tar), Slackware (kernel), SUSE (alloy, apache-commons-lang3, apache-commons-text,, apache2, bubblewrap, busybox, chromium, cups, docker-stable, ffmpeg-8, google-osconfig-agent, gsasl, ignition, java-26-openjdk, k … ⌘ Read more
A July Official Cash Rate increase looks to be a done deal
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand’s central forecast is predicated on a July rate hike.
The Official Cash Rate (OCR) is currently 2.25%, and forecasts indicate it will average 2.51% over the September quarter, which is only possible with a 25-basis-point increase on July 8. ⌘ Read more
[OC] she’s a 8 but shes always topless at home, what is she? ⌘ Read more
Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC
Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/news/confidential-draft-s1-sec
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48358646
Points: 8
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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
Re: [PATCH] OOM_pardon, a.k.a. don’t kill my xlock
Article URL: https://lwn.net/Articles/104185/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48347961
Points: 8
# Comments: 1 ⌘ Read more
Sergey Brin told Google staff that working 60 hours a week is the ‘sweet spot’
Article URL: https://fortune.com/article/sergey-brin-60-hour-work-week-ai-rto/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48347531
Points: 8
# Comments: 2 ⌘ Read more
The Speed of Prototyping in the Age of AI
Article URL: https://darylcecile.net/notes/speed-of-prototyping-age-of-ai
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48347153
Points: 8
# Comments: 0 ⌘ Read more
United Airlines 767 Returns to Newark After Bluetooth Name Sparks Alert
Article URL: https://simpleflying.com/united-airlines-767-returns-newark-bluetooth-name-alert/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48345248
Points: 8
# Comments: 0 ⌘ Read more
Ahoy, DECmate II the little PDP-8 that could
Article URL: http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2026/05/ahoy-decmate-ii-little-pdp-8-that-could.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48343078
Points: 3
# Comments: 0 ⌘ Read more
‘Here to stay’: The numbers behind the NFL’s major Australian gamble
With 8.8 million local fans and a confidential cheque from Victorian taxpayers, American football is taking on the AFL and NRL. ⌘ Read more
Leo’s first encyclical attacks technological messianism
Article URL: https://www.economist.com/europe/2026/05/28/leos-first-encyclical-attacks-technological-messianism
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48334710
Points: 8
# Comments: 1 ⌘ Read more
SteamOS 3.8.6 Beta Released With Initial Native Support For AMD HDMI VRR
Valve tonight released their beta version of SteamOS 3.8.6 that contains a number of notable enhancements, including native HDMI Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) support in initial form… ⌘ Read more
Security updates for Friday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (.NET 8.0, .NET 9.0, cockpit, firefox, flatpak, httpd, kernel, and kernel-rt), Debian (kernel, kitty, lemonldap-ng, nagios4, python-flask-httpauth, and roundcube), Fedora (CImg, gmic, haveged, jpegxl, kernel, libpng, mapserver, mingw-qt6-qtsvg, openbao, perl-Sereal, perl-Sereal-Decoder, perl-Sereal-Encoder, and podofo), Mageia (bind, graphicsmagick, microcode, nginx, packages, perl-Catalyst-Plugin-Authentication, perl-HTTP-Daemon, perl-IO-Compr … ⌘ Read more
Zot now supports Claude Opus 4.8
Article URL: https://www.zot.sh
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48319524
Points: 12
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Tāiko Critical Minerals posts $8.7m full year loss ahead of planned 2028 mining start
Tāiko Critical Minerals reported a net loss of $8.7 million as it continues work on a planned West Coast mining project north of Greymouth.
The company, which was listed on the New Zealand Exchange (NZX) in March this year, released its preliminary unaudited results for March 31, 2026, on May 29. ⌘ Read more
Anthropic Releases Opus 4.8 With New ‘Dynamic Workflow’ Tool
Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.8 with stronger performance and better handling of uncertain or flawed data, including a greater tendency to flag issues rather than make unsupported claims. The update also introduces a “Dynamic Workflows” research preview for coordinating complex tasks across many subagents. TechCrunch reports: Opus 4.8 comes with the expec … ⌘ Read more
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<updated> of the feed, too. But for some reason, some articles were suddenly marked as new.
Aha, yesterday’s newly added support for LC_TIME to render localized timestamps also broke the feed parsing with my LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 and LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 environment. :-)
Atom feeds make use of RFC 3339 timestamps. They are first converted into RFC 882 timestamp representation, which is the one that RSS feeds use. However, this conversion now results in localized RFC 882 timestamps, which cannot be parsed into Unix timestamp numbers via curl_getdate(…). I bet that it doesn’t know about the localization at all and expects English month and weekday names. Looking at its docs, I reckon that function was selected because of its myriad of supported timestamp formats: https://curl.se/libcurl/c/curl_getdate.html RFC 3339 is not included, though, hence the transformation up front.
The intermediate Item objects in the parser domain use std::string for the timestamp representation. This isn’t all that silly, because Newsboat supports all sorts of different feed formats with different timestamp formats. These RFC 883 timestamps are centrally parsed into time_t.
Speaking of time: It’s time to go to bed after this late bug hunting fun. :-)
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de I really like your style of writing, btw. It’s much calmer and less aggressive then mine. :-) When I turned my bullet points into paragraphs, I got a bit mad in the process.
Sure, feel free to include anything you want. Regarding citing, this is where twtxt falls short in my opinion. Especially with feed rotation, classic links die quickly. Message hashes only help so much. Nobody outside the twtxt universe knows how to deal with them. So, not perfect for inclusion on a web page. Linking to a thread or message on some yarnd instance might be the more user-friendly option. But the disadvantage is that it’s “just” a mirror, not the primary or original source. In all reality, this could be considered splitting hairs, though.
I should have probably written a proper article. That would have given me time to review the result more carefully, too. ;-) Perhaps that’s something for the future. But honestly, I’m not sure if I really want to waste my time and energy on that subject. So many other fun or useless things come to mind right away that I could do instead. 8-)
So, yeah, do whatever feels best to you. I don’t mind being cited or linked, but I also don’t mind not to be cited or not to be linked to. :-D Not a helpful answer, I know. Sorry. ;-) But anyway, thanks for asking, mate! I do appreciate it.
To finish my thought, linking to my frontpage is probably also useless, since I deliberatly do not have a table of contents there. In fact, my entire frontpage is rather silly.
Budget 2026: Sector glad for $6.8b capital commitment, now to actually spend
Finance Minister Nicola Willis says the 2026 Budget’s $6.8 billion in capital spending is being directed to projects that are “ready to go”.
The capital package in the Budget delivered onThursday contained major transport items, including a $1.7b express … ⌘ Read more
Wide Fonterra forecast range points to volatility ahead
Fonterra Co-operative Group’s opening forecast milk price is a “solid number”, but the wide range around it is “very real”, its chief financial officer says.
The co-op will open the new dairy season with the same range as at the start of the outgoing season, between $8/kgMS and $11/kgMS, but with … ⌘ Read more
Claude Opus 4.8
Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-8
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48311647
Points: 139
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Budget 2026: A $7b capital spend on roads, rail, warships, and hospitals
The 2026 Budget will put a $6.8 billion capital package towards a Waikato expressway extension and road resilience, “fully-funded” rail freight network upgrades, a hospital tower in Whangārei, naval warship improvements, and more than 200 classrooms.
The capital package, arguably the centrepiece of a Budget that was light on operating spending, was buoyed not only by an increased c … ⌘ Read more
Mesa 26.0.8 Released To End Out The Series
Eric Engestrom announced the release of Mesa 26.0.8 today as the latest stable point release of that Q1’2026 driver series and the last planned update for that stable series… ⌘ Read more
Stride Property Group lifts annual profit to $31.3m, confirms 8c dividend
Stride Property Group posted an improved full-year profit in a period it describes as one of strategic progress, during which it paid an 8-cent-per-share combined cash dividend.
Its full-year profit after tax was $31.3 million, up $9.6m from $21.7m in FY25. Net rental income was $58.9m, down from $69.1m. Management fee income was $22.9m, from $20.4m. ⌘ Read more
Fonterra to open new season with a $9.75/kgMS opening forecast
Fonterra Co-operative Group will start the new dairy season with a forecast farmgate price of $9.75 per kilogram of milk solids, within a range of $8/kgMS to $11/kgMS.
The co-op was expected to start the season with a wide range, but its opening price sits at the upper end of forecasts from major NZ banks. ⌘ Read more
How to Quickly Warm Up Your MacBook
Article URL: https://z3ugma.github.io/2019/11/18/warm-up-your-macbook/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48300342
Points: 8
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Interview session with Jonathan Corbet
The Linux Foundation will be hosting a\
live interview with LWN co-founder Jonathan Corbet. The event will
take place on Tuesday, June 2 at 8:00AM Pacific daylight time (UTC-7).
Registration is open for those who would like to attend. ⌘ Read more
8 Best Computer Speakers (2026) After Testing 25+ Pairs
These WIRED-tested computer speakers, from stereo speakers to surround sound, will suit any budget. ⌘ Read more
Incident with Pull Requests, Issues, Git Operations and API Requests
Article URL: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/xy1tt3hs572m
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48293080
Points: 18
# Comments: 8 ⌘ Read more
The Osprey Farpoint 40 Has Been My Go-To Travel Bag for 8 Years
I’m a chronic overpacker, but this backpack is my perfect match, with its huge capacity, numerous pockets, and impressive durability. ⌘ Read more
Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs
Article URL: https://arps18.github.io/posts/claude-code-mastery/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48289950
Points: 8
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Scientists say they’ve reversed brain aging with a simple nasal spray
Article URL: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/05/260526022018.htm
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48288478
Points: 8
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