Why FIFA’s ‘hydration break’ sham is working out for the Socceroos
The introduction of the mandatory breaks – even if the weather is relatively cool – looks set to be a defining feature of this World Cup. On the early evidence, it works beautifully for Australia. ⌘ Read more

World records and rising stars: 10 storylines to follow at the Australian swimming trials
Can Cam McEvoy lower his world record? How much faster can Lani Pallister go? Who are the Commonwealth Games bolters? Take note ahead of this week’s trials in Sydney. ⌘ Read more

AFL LIVE: Daniher honoured at MCG as Carlton seek fourth straight win against Bombers
A thrilling and late Jai Serong goal has completed Sydney’s great escape against St Kilda, entrenching the Swans in the top two. Tonight Carlton are chasing a fourth straight win in a compelling clash against lowly Essendon at the MCG. ⌘ Read more

Istolea Merc revved up to prove bookies wrong in comeback run
Istolea Merc hasn’t raced since running home into a place in the Mudgee Cup over 1400m in early December. ⌘ Read more

Serong seals it for Swans with last-gasp winner to break St Kilda hearts
The Swans came back from 33 points down to beat St Kilda by two points in a thrilling match at the SCG. ⌘ Read more

AFL LIVE: Bombers to chase new coach ‘on our time’; Saint flies high but Swans stage great escape to win
A thrilling and late Jai Serong goal has completed Sydney’s great escape against St Kilda, entrenching the Swans in the top two. Tonight Carlton are chasing a fourth straight win in a compelling clash against lowly Essendon at the MCG. ⌘ Read more

Man dies during arrest in South Australia
A man police say was armed with a metal pole has died during an arrest in Clare, South Australia. ⌘ Read more

‘Not ideal’: Dragons misery continues
Dragons coach Dean Young reveals star forward Jaydn Su’A might have played his last game for the club due to a pectoral injury. ⌘ Read more

Gold Coast player investigated for alleged homophobic slur
Gold Coast ruckman Max Knobel is under investigation for an alleged homophobic slur during a VFL match. ⌘ Read more

AFL LIVE: Welsh declares Dons will undergo coach search; Ryan flies high but Swans beat Saints
A thrilling and late Jai Serong goal has completed Sydney’s great escape against St Kilda, entrenching the Swans in the top two. Tonight Carlton are chasing a fourth straight win in a compelling clash against lowly Essendon at the MCG. ⌘ 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: Swans’ great escape as Serong’s goal beats Saints; Cowan reaches 50 games as Blues look to beat Dons at MCG
A thrilling and late Jai Serong goal has completed Sydney’s great escape against St Kilda, entrenching the Swans in the top two. Tonight Carlton are chasing a fourth straight win in a compelling clash against lowly Essendon at the MCG. ⌘ Read more

NRL Highlights: Sharks v Dragons - Round 14
The Cronulla Sharks host the St. George Illawarra Dragons in Round 14 of the 2026 NRL Premiership at Ocean Protect Stadium, Sydney. ⌘ Read more

Four tries in 15 minutes, but age-old Sharks questions remain
Cronulla eventually came to life and disposed of the Dragons after another week focused on their home ground foibles. ⌘ Read more

Machete fight breaks out at Melbourne train station
A man has been charged over a machete fight involving teenagers at Melbourne’s Flinders Street Station. ⌘ Read more

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