@bender@twtxt.net lol, no, please don’t send me a quackton of ducks. 😅 We use BIRD a lot at work, hence this bears some significance for me/us. 😅

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

The Night Manager Star Joins Ensemble Cast of New John Le Carré BBC Adaptation
A familiar face from the John le Carré universe is returning for another major spy project. The actor has joined a BBC and MGM+ adaptation that is already in production. The upcoming espionage series is going to be one of the most ambitious and interesting television projects based on le Carré’s work in recent years. […]

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Bees Can Use Tools To Solve Problems, Study Finds
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Bumblebees can use tools to solve a problem, according to experiments that demonstrate their remarkably advanced cognitive abilities. The bees were given an adapted version of an experiment that, 100 years ago, first demonstrated chimpanzees could work out how to retrieve an out-of-reach banana by stacking boxes. Since … ⌘ 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

Linux 7.1 + Mesa 26.1 Performance With The Radeon RX 9070 GRE, RX 9070 XT
With this week’s launch day review of the AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE, Ubuntu 26.04 with its Linux 7.0 and Mesa 26.0 default driver stack was used for testing. That choice was made since the Ubuntu 26.04 release is still fresh, the RDNA4-based RX 9070 GRE was working without issue there, and from other RDNA4 testing knowing there isn’t much uplift from the in-development Linux 7.1 kernel or the current stable Mesa 26.1 OpenGL RadeonSI / V … ⌘ Read more

Phoebe Bridgers Ditched the Internet to Hype Up Her New Music. It’s Working
The indie artist has played a string of surprise, small venue shows with no phones allowed, prompting fans to piece together clues about a potential upcoming album. ⌘ Read more

Spider-Noir’s Terrifying ‘Spider Soldier’ BTS Video Will Give You Nightmares
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Qualcomm Gets The Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x Gen11 Snapdragon X2 Laptop Working On Linux
For those interested in the prospects of running Snapdragon X2 laptops on Linux rather than Windows 11 on ARM, the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x Gen11 has emerged as one of the initial X2 laptops with tentative Device Tree handling to allow Linux to boot on this latest-generation Qualcomm-powered laptop,.. ⌘ Read more

Qualcomm Gets The Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x Gen11 Snapdragon X2 Laptop Working On Linux
For those interested in the prospects of running Snapdragon X2 laptops on Linux rather than Windows 11 on ARM, the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x Gen11 has emerged as one of the initial X2 laptops with tentative Device Tree handling to allow Linux to boot on this latest-generation Qualcomm-powered laptop,.. ⌘ Read more

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LLVM To Begin Offering Zstd-Compressed Binaries For “Significantly Reduced” Downloads
The LLVM project will begin offering Zstd-compressed archives of their binaries in addition to the existing XZ-compressed releases. LLVM developers are finding Zstd working out great with “significantly reduced” download sizes… ⌘ Read more

How Leonardo DiCaprio Almost Skipped Titanic for Boogie Nights
Hollywood veteran John C. Reilly recently opened up about his attempt to persuade Leonardo DiCaprio to choose Boogie Nights over Titanic. Reilly said he told DiCaprio that he should not miss the opportunity to work with Paul Thomas Anderson. DiCaprio ultimately chose Titanic, which went on to become one of the most celebrated films of […]

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Jennifer Aniston Shares Rare Comments About Ex Brad Pitt
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MCU’s Fantastic Four Director Tackles Bestselling Murder Mystery for Hulu
The Handmaid’s Tale creator reunites with The Fantastic Four: First Steps director for a gripping new crime series at Hulu. The streamer is developing a TV adaptation of a bestselling legal thriller featuring a scandal-plagued police chief. Suspect TV show in works at Hulu with Matt Shakman directing Hulu is developing a TV series based on Scott Turow’s novel Suspect, Variety reported. Marissa Jo … ⌘ Read more

3mdeb Keeps Making Progress On Their Coreboot + AMD openSIL Port To Ryzen MSI Board
Following thr 3mdeb consulting firm’s recent release of their Dasharo build of Coreboot and AMD openSIL for the Gigabyte MZ33-ARI1 EPYC 9005 series motherboard, the same engineers continue working on their port of Coreboot and the openSIL CPU silicon initialization library to a Ryzen 9000 series consumer motherboard… ⌘ Read more

How Microsoft became the Government’s default AI tool – without a competitive tender
When the Government announced 8700 public sector job cuts last month, Finance Minister Nicola Willis said artificial intelligence (AI) would absorb some of the work. She didn’t go into detail about which AI tools would be used and how.

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Moana Runtime Reveals Live-Action Remake Is Longer Than Disney Animated Movie
Moana‘s live-action remake is longer than the beloved Disney animated version. Ahead of its release this summer, an exhibitor has revealed the runtime of the tentpole, confirming that viewers will get to see more of Moana and Maui. Directed by Thomas Kail, best known for his work on the Broadway musical Hamilton, the film stars […]

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[$] Open-source security is not a solo activity
Over time, many open-source maintainers face the same problem: they
lack the time to do all of the work that their project needs, and no
one else is stepping up to provide adequate help. Maintainers, though,
are often reluctant to throw in the towel. The result is suboptimal
all around; the maintainer is stressed out, project quality suffers,
and users face security risks that they may not be fully aware of. At
the 2026 [Open\
Source Summit North America](https://events.linuxfoundation. … ⌘ Read more

Okay. I have lost the “battle” against “AI” at work and I will no longer try to “fight” any of it.

It is simply what people want. They want to use it. And that’s the end of it.

And why do they want it? Because it makes their job easier. And why is that? In very large parts, it’s because we have accumulated a metric fuckton of technical debt due to decades long mismanagement. We were (and are) operating in “emergency mode” all the time. There simply was no time to clean things up or to rethink designs. We always have to go with the cheapest and quickest solution. We are never ahead of things: Earlier this year, I started an initiative and wanted to tackle some issue that I could see coming. I was shut down because this wasn’t “urgent”. Very soon after, this exact thing became that exact problem – but now, there was no time anymore to do it properly because NOW it’s urgent, so, once again, we had to go with a quick and dirty solution.

It’s always like that and I had brought it up again and again. And now we have a huge spaghetti mess that hardly anyone understands anymore.

Nobody – except AI. It can still make some sense of this and, obviously, this is useful to people.

So, any argument I make against AI is completely pointless to begin with. I’m such a fool for not having seen this earlier.

The last argument I made today was: “Look, we already have so much technical debt and spaghetti systems, we really, really must clean this up. If we throw AI on top of this now, it’ll only get so much worse.” And once more, I was shut down. My intentions were “admirable”, but “there’s no time for that”.

Okay. Good luck with that. They’ll keep doing it this way. At some point, it’ll either explode entirely and some poor soul has to clean it up, or it’ll explode and they’ll have no other choice but to throw everything away and start from scratch – assuming they can still afford that.

In other words, none of this about AI, really, nor caused by it. Our department’s massive spike in AI usage is just a symptom of the underlying management issues. And since those aren’t being addressed, nothing will change and this whole mess will only get worse.

(I blame all this on management, because, well, that’s who’s to blame. I do not have a solution for it, though – and assigning blame without constructive criticism always sucks big time. I don’t like doing this. If you had put me into that particular management position, I wouldn’t have been able to solve any of this. The thing is, though, I’m not an expert on management and it isn’t my job – I’m just the “princess” who solves your technical issues.)

Tridgell: rsync and outrage
Andrew Tridgell has written a blog\
post responding to complaints that he has begun using LLM tools in
his work maintaining rsync:

Like many developers of open source packages I’ve been hit by a
flood of security reports lately in my role as the rsync
maintainer. Many of those reports are AI generated (not all though,
there are some notable ones with very careful and high quality manual
analysis).

As t … ⌘ Read more

Critics Are Not Loving Mindy Kaling’s New Hulu Series at All
Mindy Kaling‘s new Hulu comedy series has drawn divisive reviews from critics, leading to a terrible score on Rotten Tomatoes. Kaling created Not Suitable for Work, and Charlie Grandy, whose resume includes The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Saturday Night Live, and The Office, serves as the showrunner. The plot revolves around a group of […]

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Tom Holland & Zendaya’s Relationship Changed Spider-Man: Brand New Day
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A Crash Course in Mountain Bike Suspension (2026)
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Masters of the Universe Star Knighted Ahead of Movie’s Release
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Robert Pattinson Connects Batman & Harry Potter 21 Years After Cedric Diggory
Robert Pattinson recently linked two of his biggest franchises, Harry Potter and The Batman. He discussed plans for his daughter during a recent interview, ahead of the filming of The Batman: Part II. He joked that she might end up attending the same school as the child actors working on the upcoming Harry Potter TV […]

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Microsoft’s Project Solara Is an OS For Devices That Run AI Agents Instead of Apps
An anonymous reader quotes a report from GeekWire: A team inside Microsoft has been quietly building a platform for devices that run AI agents instead of apps, based on Android instead of Windows, with two working hardware designs so far, and an initial set of big-name companies lined up to run pilots. The p … ⌘ Read more

Marek Olšák Scores Up To 100% Pixel Throughput Optimization For RADV Driver
Marek Olšák who had been a longtime AMD Linux driver engineer specializing in the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver, recently began working for Valve on their Linux graphics driver team. His focus has understandably shifted to working on the RADV Vulkan driver and one of his early optimizations now with the Valve hat on is up to a 100% pixel throughput optimization for the RADV driver, which is already quite well optimized thanks to years … ⌘ Read more

Microsoft Unveils Scout, an Autonomous AI Agent Built On OpenClaw
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Flush With Cash From OpenAI, Opal Is Making an AI-Powered Audio Gadget
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@prologic@twtxt.net I do! I paginate usually 10 times on HN. Their algo is so messed up (but it works, I guess) that not doing that will make me miss a lot of good, interesting, things.

I join the tired masses. So tired, I slept through my alarm this morning (something that hasn’t happened for over 20 years, easily), and wife woke me up asking “Aren’t you going to work today?” So yeah, I could have slept for a while more this morning, for sure.

Nice work! Threading + mentions is where it gets fun 😅 Ping me if anything in the spec is unclear 👌

Aha, my nickname at work now appears to be “Princess Garbage Disposal” (“Prinzessin Müllabfuhr”). 🤦‍♀️ 🥴

ASUS ZenVision Laptop Lid Screen Reverse Engineered & Now Able To Work On Linux
ASUS ZenVision is a feature of some ASUS laptops like the Zenbook 14X OLED Space Edition where there is a 3.5-inch monochrome screen embedded into the top lid of the laptop. From this mini display embedded into the top lid of the laptop it’s possible to display animated themes, show the current date/time, battery status, or customized messages and the like. The practicality is rather limited as primarily it’s for showing off to people aro … ⌘ Read more

COSMIC Desktop’s Frosted Glass Is Giving Windows Aero Vibes
Some of the latest feature work for the Rust and Wayland based COSMIC desktop environment is on creating their new “Frosted Glass” appearance. It’s getting closer to release and giving off Windows Aero vibes for that design language from the Windows Vista days… ⌘ Read more

Remote Work, Not AI, Has Sidelined Recent College Graduates, Research Finds
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: The buzz on college campuses is that AI is disrupting the job market for young college graduates. But new research from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York finds that the culprit may be something else: remote work. An analysis of federal employment data, paired with a deep dive int … ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net @bender@twtxt.net Thanks! Yeah, it already supports Twt Hash via twtxt-lib (both v1 and v2, when the time is right), plus most of the other features (multiline, user-agent, and metadata), and I’m working on (re-)implementing threading, mentions, and hash filtering (to make conversations easier to follow).

Here’s a current snapshot of my local version, in case anyone is interested:

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That reminds me, I need to update yarnd too. I haven’t done so yet 😅 Been so bloody busy with work 🥵

Intel Xeon Diamond Rapids EDAC Driver Changes Readied For Linux 7.2
Ahead of Intel Diamond Rapids server processors launching in 2027, the Linux kernel continues getting into shape for these next-gen Xeon processors. The latest enablement work taking place for Diamond Rapids is readying the Error Detection And Correction (EDAC) driver support for propagating memory errors/correction information under Linux… ⌘ Read more

[$] Representing the true signatures of kernel functions
Optimizing compilers can, under some circumstances, infer when a parameter to a
function is not needed, and remove it. This is all well and good until the
kernel’s tracing or BPF subsystems need information on how to call the function
or where its arguments are stored.
Alan Maguire and Yonghong Song spoke at the 2026
Linux\
Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit about their work on
recording information regarding c … ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Interesting read! The current state is already a very great achievement. I felt honored being able to already have followed your development along here on twtxt. :-)

That’s a cool clock, I should remind myself of my working time, too.

Apologies to anyone who’s seen an uptick in twtxt pings from me today… I’ve been working on shoe-horning my twtxt reader (TwtStrm) into my editor (TwtKpr, aka the express-twtkpr npm library), and it kind ran amok a few times. So again, sorry - I’ve added a minimum 10-minute cool-down period between pulls which should help (I hope 🙂).

‘The Oral Tradition That Built Software May Not Survive AI’
A historian-turned-software engineer warns that “so little is ever written down” by professional programmers in a new article for Fast Company:

Perhaps there’s an early design doc, but then it turns out that everything was substantially revised before work began. Maybe there are a few wiki pages explaining known issues, some of which were solved a long … ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Hahaha, a ride indeed. Exactly, this affected each and every Atom feed and only Atom feeds. All RSS feeds worked like nothing ever happened. This std::string to time_t to std::string to time_t dance only happens for Atom feeds. RSS feeds, on the other hand, go right from std::string to time_t and be done. That’s precisely what the second option is aiming to propose for Atom feeds, too.

I will clarify that tomorrow in the article.

It’s very interesting what kind of quirks accumulate in software over the years. Especially quirks, the basically noone knows of anymore. Until something explodes and gets rediscovered. Luckily, that doesn’t happen all that often.

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

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Tokyo wants you to wear shorts to work. Say no
By Gearoid Reidy

Japan has long relied on innovation to beat the heat. From the invention of sensu fans that could be folded up into a kimono in the Heian era more than 1,200 years ago, to parasols, which in recent years have found users among men as well as women, the country has learned to adapt. ⌘ Read more

My Net Worth: Andrew Lance, Simplicity CIO
Simplicity co-founder and chief investment officer Andrew Lance moved to New Zealand after more than 10 years working in the City of London bond market for investment banks during the Big Bang. He held a variety of roles in New Zealand before co-founding financial services provider Simplicity with Sam Stubbs in 2016.

I was born and raised in West London, grew up in a very middle-class family. Dad worked at a law firm; mum was or … ⌘ Read more