Albanese hits back at Hanson’s migrant call
Anthony Albanese has struck out at Pauline Hanson’s targeting of migrants, saying if it weren’t for foreign workers the health and aged care system would collapse. ⌘ Read more

Man killed by shark off WA
A 35-year-old man has been killed by a shark while spearfishing off WA. ⌘ Read more

Players consider BBL contract release requests following Melbourne merger
Multiple Melbourne Stars and Renegades players are seeking urgent one-on-one meetings with Cricket Victoria over last week’s sensational merger of the two BBL clubs, amid questions over the status of their contracts and the identities of the teams ⌘ Read more

AFL LIVE: Swans’ great escape: Sydney snatch two-point win over St Kilda in Sunday afternoon thriller
The Saints and Swans begin AFL Sunday before Carlton and Essendon face off in their annual King’s Birthday Eve matchup at the MCG. Follow along for live updates, news and reactions. ⌘ Read more

Kennedy’s freakish chase and pick-up
Sharks fullback Will Kennedy chases back and regathers a long kick from Daniel Atkinson. ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Oh, no, he was the one providing the feedback. 😅

mgk appears to be everywhere. His Unicode box drawing demo has been part of my unicode-test script for a long time: https://movq.de/git/bin-pub/file/unicode-test.html#l23

Tips and race-by-race guide for Canterbury on Monday
All you need to know to back a winner on the eight-race public holiday meeting. ⌘ Read more

Kenendy puts the Sharks ahead
Cronulla score back-to-back tries early in the second half as fullback Will Kennedy goes over under the sticks. ⌘ Read more

Joey rips into Dragons star
Andrew Johns reacts to a terrible missed tackle from Dragons centre Moses Suli that leads to a try. ⌘ Read more

Benji fumes over dismal Tigers display
Benji Marshall refuses to sugar coat his thoughts after witnessing a dismal display by his Wests Tigers team against the Panthers. ⌘ Read more

‘Funny game’: Gus bemused by penalty
Phil Gould reacts to a penalty against the Sharks for a high tackle. ⌘ Read more

Melbourne brothel owner among funders of ‘Ditch the Witch’ billboards against Allan
The controversial slogan was heavily criticised as sexist by the premier and other politicians on Sunday. ⌘ Read more

AFL LIVE: McCartin forced off with head knock as Ryan, Saints grow lead over Swans
The Saints and Swans begin AFL Sunday before Carlton and Essendon face off in their annual King’s Birthday Eve matchup at the MCG. Follow along for live updates, news and reactions. ⌘ Read more

‘Best football we’ve played’: Montemurro defends Tillies’ lack of goals in Mexico loss
Matildas coach Joe Montemurro said his side are “allowed to make mistakes” after their goalless match in Newcastle. ⌘ Read more

Holmes polishes off Dragons overlap
Dragons centre Valentine Holmes scores against his former club Cronulla. ⌘ Read more

Rise of supersized ‘nangs’ linked to deaths, paralysis and brain injuries
A rising wave of Victorians are being left with permanent spinal and neurological injuries, life-threatening complications and severe burns linked to inhaling nitrous oxide, as more people consume the gas from industrial-sized “nang” canisters. ⌘ Read more

Mulitalo opens scoring in local derby
Cronulla winger Ronaldo Mulitalo scores in the corner against the Dragons. ⌘ Read more

Fonua-Blake levels young Dragons star
Sharks prop Addin Fonua-Blake smashes Toby Couchman, forcing an error. ⌘ Read more

High Court judges should not air disagreements in public
Judges should avoid public controversy. A recent speech by the High Court’s Justice Robert Beech-Jones appeared to breach that rule. ⌘ Read more

Fewer Brumbies, only three Tahs and Suaalii on the bench. The Wallabies team I would pick on form
The outstanding form of Queensland Reds centre Filipo Daugunu means $5 million man Joseph-Aukuso Suaalii should not start for the Wallabies against Ireland in July. ⌘ Read more

NRL Highlights: Wests Tigers v Panthers - Round 14
The Wests Tigers take on the Penrith Panthers in Round 14 of the 2026 NRL Premiership at CommBank Stadium, Sydney. ⌘ Read more

AFL LIVE: Saints on fire against shocked Swans; Collingwood leave Sidebottom out for Big Freeze game
The Saints and Swans begin AFL Sunday before Carlton and Essendon face off in their annual King’s Birthday Eve matchup at the MCG. Follow along for live updates, news and reactions. ⌘ Read more

Panthers send toothless Tigers crashing to third-worst loss in NRL history
A Nathan Cleary-inspired Penrith annihilated the Tigers 68-0 in the biggest win in the club’s 59-year history. ⌘ Read more

I tried Google’s new health app. It can’t replace a real trainer
Over the past few weeks, Google’s omniscient Coach has messaged me constantly about my heart, sleep and exercise. But how capable is it? ⌘ Read more

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com Oh don’t get my wrong, I totally empathize, but yeah 👍

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Great to be asked for feedback! I just noticed that the first wcwidth version was derived from Markus Kuhn’s C code. I came across him in my ISO 8601 and RFC 3339 endeavors the other day. https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html What a surprise. :-)

The perils of UUID primary keys in SQLite
Article URL: https://andersmurphy.com/2026/06/05/the-perils-of-uuid-primary-keys-in-sqlite.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48419571

Points: 6

# Comments: 2 ⌘ Read more

Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers
Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/05/google-to-pay-spacex-920-million-a-month-for-xai-compute-capacity.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48417490

Points: 15

# Comments: 0 ⌘ Read more

(This settled at about 25k hits on the HTML page now. But only about 11k hits in total on favicon.ico and only around 7.5k hits on the image thumbnails. So I guess that, in reality, it might have gotten around 7k hits. The rest … is probably bots.)

[$] Moving beyond fork() + exec()
Since the earliest days of Unix, two of the core process-oriented system
calls have been fork(), which creates a child process as a copy of
the parent, and exec(), which runs a new program in the place of
the current one. In Linux kernels, those system calls are better known as
clone()
and execve(),
but the core functionality remains the same. While there is elegance to
this process-cr … ⌘ Read more

Ruby’s Bundler adds a cooldown feature
Version\
4.0.13 of Ruby’s Bundler
package-manager has added\
dependency cooldowns in order to help mitigate the effect of
supply-chain attacks:

Most supply-chain attacks against RubyGems exploit a narrow window:
an account is compromised, a malicious version ships, and any
bundle install in the minutes that follow resolves
str … ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Ah, I almost thought so (that you wrote it by hand), but then I looked at the source code and saw the TOC and I was like: “Naah, probably not. I would be way too lazy to do that manually.” 😅 And indeed … ha.

Oh god, yeah, that’s a lot of <span>. 🤔 Can’t really avoid that, I guess, especially if you want to do syntax highlighting of code blocks.

You wrote your own site generator, didn’t you?

In parts. I write everything in Markdown (it’s online, even: https://movq.de/blog/postings/2026-05-29/0/POSTING-en.md), plus a few Vim shortcuts (to generate thumbnails, for example), and then python-markdown renders it: https://pypi.org/project/Markdown/ This process is wrapped in a shell script, like “re-render every page if the .md file is newer than the .html file” and that’s mostly it. And the Atom feed generator is completely custom. 🤔

Anthropic urges global freeze on AI as it warns of losing control
The tech giant has offered to halt work on more powerful systems on one condition: that its rivals in the US and China agree to stop at the same time. ⌘ Read more

Castor: CERN Advanced STORage Manager
Article URL: https://castor.web.cern.ch/content/home.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48403753

Points: 11

# Comments: 1 ⌘ Read more

[$] Splicing out vmsplice()
The splice()
and vmsplice()
system calls are meant to improve performance for certain data-movement
tasks by minimizing (or avoiding altogether) system calls and the copying
of data. They also have a long history of security problems. The recent
flood of LLM-discovered vulnerabilities has drawn attention, once again, to
splice() and vmsplice(); as a result, they may end up
being removed a … ⌘ Read more

Gaussian Point Splatting
Article URL: https://momentsingraphics.de/Siggraph2026.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48396792

Points: 3

# Comments: 0 ⌘ 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

Take Action: LAPD Removed Crime Location Data. Here’s Why It Matters
Article URL: https://blog.spotcrime.com/2026/06/take-action-lapd-removed-crime-location.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48383451

Points: 4

# Comments: 1 ⌘ Read more

AI Engineers aren’t safe from being replaced by AI
Article URL: https://dmanco.dev/2025/08/17/fear-not-even-ai-engineers-will-be-replaced-by-ai.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48380987

Points: 3

# Comments: 1 ⌘ 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

Years ago, I used Kate, no, not somebody’s wife, but the KDE Advanced Text Editor, to export source code files and fragments into HTML with syntax highlighting. I think that’s where I got the initial <b> idea from. There were also bucketloads of <span style='color:#644a9b;'> all over the place, even inside <b>. No CSS classes defined upfront, all colors inlined. The final rendering in the browser looked great, but the source code ugly as hell in my opinion. However, I’m thankful for hinting me at <b>. I think this kicked off everything. :-)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de It’s the “Lyse types the entire HTML by hand” generator. Yes, no kidding. I write articles so rarely, that I can do that once in a while. It’s fun to some degree, but also not.

After some time, I finally recorded some Vim macros to insert <b>…</b>, <var>…</var>, <span class=s>…</span> etc. around the tokens. This helped a little bit. But I was still questioning my mental state doing it like that. I also had to fix a bunch of the end tags by hand, because the word movement wasn’t enough or the end movement went too far. Quite the annoying process for sure.

But I think the HTML looks a wee bit nicer and is maybe even semantically a little bit better than having only <span>s everywhere. I find the <span class="whatever"> just soo awfully long. Of course, I never look at the code again, but knowing, that e.g. there is a <b> and it saves so many bytes in comparison, makes me happy. It is a more elegant solution in my opinion. Not by much, but better nonetheless. It’s a matter of simplicity. Admittedly, even I can’t avoid the <span>s alltogether. Oh well. On the other hand, I’m sure that this does not make any difference whatsoever. I bet, nobody and nothing, like a screenreader, analyzes the HTML for that, where this would be truly useful.

Oh! Maybe text browsers, though. It just occurred to me while composing this reply. :-) Haha, I lost my bet quickly. w3m picks up at least the <b> for keywords and builtin types, <u> for filenames and <i> for comments. Yey. No different styles for <var> and <mark>, unfortunately. elinks only renders the bold. It’s cool that I had the right intuition right from the beginning, despite being unable to pinpoint it. :-)

All the <span> hell with common syntax highlighters is a downer for me that keeps me from looking more into them. If I wrote more articles, I might rig something up with Pygments. At least that’s somehow positively connotated in my brain. Not sure if it actually deserves it, but I dealt with that in some loose form (can’t even remember) years and years ago. Apparently, it wasn’t too terrible.

To prepare the table of contents, I used grep and sed with some manual intervention in the end. The entire process can be improved. Absolutely.

You wrote your own site generator, didn’t you?

Data centre boom could send power prices 26 per cent higher: Climate group
As Victoria and NSW chase billions in data centre capital, a report warns households could foot the bill for a dirtier, costlier grid. ⌘ Read more

[$] Caching for extended attributes
Extended\
attributes (xattrs) provide a way to attach key/value metadata to
inodes—files, directories, and the like—in a filesystem. As with many
Linux filesystems, the FUSE filesystem
supports xattrs. In a filesystem-track session at the 2026 Linux Storage,\
Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit, FUSE maintainer Miklos
Szeredi led a discussion a … ⌘ 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

お知らせ：JPCERT/CC Eyes「TSUBAMEレポート Overflow（2026年1～3月）」 ⌘ Read more

Crystal Nights by Greg Egan
Article URL: https://www.gregegan.net/MISC/CRYSTAL/Crystal.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48364754

Points: 3

# Comments: 0 ⌘ 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

# Comments: 0 ⌘ Read more

Iran stops negotiations with U.S., vows to ‘completely’ block Strait of Hormuz
Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/01/iran-us-negotiations-strait-of-hormuz.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48357637

Points: 32

# Comments: 13 ⌘ Read more

@arne@uplegger.eu Indeed. I’m glad that it’s all just static HTML. The most expensive part about this is probably TLS. 🤷‍♀️