Btrfs Preps Huge Folios Support Ahead Of Linux 7.2
The past few Linux kernel cycles there has been experimental support for large folios with Btrfs while for Linux 7.2 it looks like this modern file-system will be taking things further with huge folios… ⌘ Read more

I Never Liked a Laptop Sleeve Until I Tried the Bellroy Laptop Caddy
This sleeve works overtime to carry so much more than a spare laptop. With all the extra space and pockets, it’s the best laptop companion I’ve ever used. ⌘ Read more

It looks like someone forgot to check their email template… 😁

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

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

Points: 21

# Comments: 9 ⌘ Read more

It’s Like the Olympics - But Steroids Are Allowed
“Think Olympics on steroids. Literally,” quips the BBC, describing Sunday’s controversial Enhanced Games event in Las Vegas featuring dozens of athletes “using performance-enhancing drugs to try and break world records in track, weightlifting and swimming.

Some $25m (£18.6m) in prize money is up for grabs — with cash prizes for winners… The drugs they use must be legal, … ⌘ Read more

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com tack sharp pics, dude! Just like @movq@www.uninformativ.de, I want to know details on the rig. I am assuming a DSLR (Canon/Nikon), but if it was done with a mobile camera I wouldn’t be surprised.

Gas users’ Budget hopes collide with subsidy politics
Budget 2026 will be revealed on Thursday, with much of the energy sector hoping for help, though many are likely to be disappointed.

Solar supporters, biomass proponents and other energy players have all been looking for financial assistance or more favourable policy settings. ⌘ Read more

Public service squeeze: Fat to trim or muscle to cut
Can we really shave 8,000 from the core government sector, taking it from in excess of 63,000 to around 55,000?

The sentiment is fine, but one suspects this will be a bit like the commitment for New Zealand to invest US$20 billion (NZ$34b) in India over the coming 15 years; an aspirational target. ⌘ Read more

GitHub Copilot & Claude Code Helped With Graphics, WiFi Linux Driver Issues This Week
For those curious about the growing use of AI and coding agents within the Linux kernel, this week there was another large batch of new patches fixed that were generated or co-authored by agents like Claude Code and GitHub Copilot… ⌘ Read more

@tftp@tilde.town Ah, I see. I have a feeling that a lot of stuff is going on under the hood all the time and it’s mostly the userland-visible things that stay the same? 🤔 But yeah, some stuff is really, really old, like the TCP code I’ve recently (tried to) read.

Linux To Remove ISA Speech Synthesizer Driver That Likely Hasn’t Been Used In Decades
Following the process of phasing out Intel 486 CPU support and other old hardware drivers that were dropped in the Linux 7.1 kernel cycle for reducing the kernel maintenance burden, the upcoming Linux 7.2 cycle is continuing the trend of phasing out some of the old hardware support that is very obsolete, likely having no users on the latest upstream kernels, and no one formally maintaining the obsolete drivers… ⌘ Read more

Boot-Time Wizard Aims To Help Reduce Linux Boot Times
While in the past decade or so Linux desktop/laptop users likely have little to complain about boot times and there hasn’t been much emphasis around trying to make boot times even faster on the Linux desktop especially in an era where many systems are always-on and suspend/resume working more reliably these days, boot times are still an important factor in the embedded Linux world. Boot-Time Wizard is one of the new efforts aiming to help embedded Linux makers c … ⌘ Read more

I really dig #caturday on the Fediverse, so I thought I would start doing it here as well.

For this week, I’d like to introduce my spirit animal, Bowie.

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May his supreme laziness (and fuzzy-chunky-monkey cuteness) serve as an inspiration to you, too.

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Researchers Say the Worst Climate Future is Less Likely. But the Best One is Also Slipping Away
Citing new research, the Associated Press reports that “modest gains in the fight to curb climate change have dialed back the most catastrophic of future heating.”
That’s the good news. But the same research “also confirmed that there’s no chance to limit warming to the international go … ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org … this reminds me that I should finally write that tutorial on how to make your own X11/Wayland keymaps. That helps a lot in mitigating stupid design issues like these.

AV2 Codec Looks Like It Will Be Officially Released Next Week
For years already AV2 has been in development as the successor to AV1 for this wonderful open-source, royalty-free video codec. While there was talk about releasing AV2 by the end of 2025, that didn’t happen but now latest indicators are pointing toward its formal debut next week… ⌘ Read more

Launch HN: Superset (YC P26) – IDE for the agents era
Hey HN, we’re Avi, Kiet, and Satya. We’re building Superset ( https://github.com/superset-sh/superset), an open-source agentic IDE for running coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode etc in parallel.

Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWDHn7gUwfg

Try it: https://superset.sh/

We’re three engineers who’ve built and maintained large codebases, and we k … ⌘ Read more

Steve Wozniak Tells Graduates They All Have ‘AI’: Actual Intelligence
While other commencement speeches have been met with boos for hyping up artificial intelligence, Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak reminded college graduates that they already posses “AI” of their own: “actual intelligence.” He framed AI as an attempt to duplicate brain-like routines, and encouraged students to “think different” as they enter … ⌘ Read more

Today’s Linux Networking Fixes: “Craziness Continues With No End In Sight”
Driven by AI/LLM bots like Shashiko uncovering new issues within the Linux kernel source tree, including various security vulnerabilities like Dirty Frag, the mailing list has been wild with bug reports and fixes. Today’s networking fixes pull request for Linux 7.1 continues to highlight the ongoing craziness and fears that the worst may be yet to come… ⌘ Read more

Flipper One Could Be the Ultimate Linux Cyberdeck
BrianFagioli writes: Flipper Devices has finally revealed Flipper One, a Linux-powered cyberdeck that sounds less like a gadget and more like an attempt to rebuild portable ARM computing from the ground up. Unlike Flipper Zero, which focuses on offline protocols like RFID and Sub-1 GHz radio, Flipper One is all about networking, modular hardware, SDR experimentation, local … ⌘ Read more

Spotify Will Start Reserving Concert Tickets For Fans
Spotify is launching “Reserved,” a new feature that will set aside concert tickets for Premium subscribers it identifies as an artist’s most dedicated fans based on streams, shares, and other activity. “Getting concert tickets today can feel like a race you’re set up to lose,” Spotify wrote in a post on Thursday. “You show up at the right time, refresh endles … ⌘ 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

The Very Exciting Cache Aware Scheduling Looks Like It Will Land For Linux 7.2
As a very exciting development ahead of the Linux 7.2 kernel merge window opening in about one month’s time, it looks like the long-awaited Cache Aware Scheduling support will finally be merged! CONFIG_SCHED_CACHE has made it into a TIP branch with all the Cache Aware Scheduling code for helping with Linux performance on modern CPUs sporting multiple last level caches… ⌘ Read more

Initial Benchmarks Of The SpacemiT K3 RVA23 RISC-V CPU With The K3 Pico-ITX
One of the RISC-V SoCs we have been most looking forward to this year is the SpacemiT K3 that features the X100 RISC-V cores that are RVA23 compliant and among the first readily available RVA23 RISC-V platform for running on the likes of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. In this article is a preview of some very early benchmarks of the SpacemiT K3 with the new Pico-ITX single board computer offering. ⌘ Read more

‘Perfect Storm’: How Trump’s Aid Cuts Are Fueling the Ebola Outbreak
One health provider who works on the ground says that basic medical equipment like masks and hand sanitizers are in short supply due to funding cuts. ⌘ Read more

Ride1Up Roadster Review (2026): An Ebike That Feels Like a Bike
This lightweight commuter ebike feels a lot like a regular bike would feel if I had bionic legs. I wish there were more mechanics for it. ⌘ Read more

Hypershell X Ultra S Review: The Best Exoskeleton Yet
With its clever new algorithm, the latest Hypershell exoskeleton powers your legs without making you feel like a puppet on a string. ⌘ Read more

Trump Wants to Be the Hero Vapers Don’t Really Need
The White House says Trump’s pro-vape stance is based on “gold standard science.” It feels more like vice-signaling to a demographic that often doesn’t vote—over products that are widely available. ⌘ Read more

@tftp@tilde.town you say that like it is a bad thing. It is not! 😅 Once you have learned your way around, all works together quite lovely. Of course, experimenting with new clients is fun too!

Minnesota Becomes First State To Ban Prediction Markets
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has signed the nation’s first law banning prediction market sites from operating in the state, and in response, the Trump administration has sued, teeing up a legal battle over the most far-reaching crackdown on popular services like Kalshi and Polymarket. It comes as states confront a growing st … ⌘ Read more

Literary Prizewinners Are Facing AI Allegations. It Feels Like the New Normal
Three of five regional winners of the prestigious Commonwealth Short Story Prize are suspected of relying on chatbots. They’re certainly not alone. ⌘ Read more

More Intel Open-Source Projects Formally Sunset: BigDL Time Series Toolkit & Others
Yet more open-source Intel software projects have been formally archived. Over the past year Intel has formally discontinued a number of open-source projects it formally maintained. Many of them were already dormant and not too noteworthy but there were also some more notable ones discontinued like their legendary Clear Linux, Software Defined Silicon, Optane Memory software projects, and then other efforts like open ecosystem … ⌘ Read more

Everything you never wanted to know or say about integrated financial products
After almost four years of straining to make “integrated financial products” a thing, the Financial Markets Authority has bowed to popular opinion and ditched the unloved regulatory brand.

First spit-balled in a December 2020 official industry guidance, the Financial Markets Authority (FMA) re-pitched the concept in a sector review two years later, like so: “‘Integrate … ⌘ Read more

The US Is Betting On AI To Catch Insider Trading In Prediction Markets
The CFTC says it is ramping up efforts to catch insider trading and market manipulation in prediction markets, using AI tools, blockchain tracing, and other surveillance systems to flag suspicious bets. It’s also monitoring activity by U.S. traders accessing offshore platforms like Polymarket through VPNs. Wired reports: [T]he Commod … ⌘ Read more

@arne@uplegger.eu (Mixing lovely fruit with bitter things like olives or cheese is something that only Germans do, right? 😅)

@tftp@tilde.town mentioning in here requires he whole shebang. With jenny, if using vim, there is a key combination:

Nick name completions: Allows you to use ^X ^U to turn verbatim nick names into full twtxt mentions. For example, typing “cath” and then pressing ^X ^U will turn “cath” into a full mention, like “@”. (This function will read the contents of your “~/.config/jenny/follow” file.)

See: https://movq.de/git/jenny/file/vim/README.html

America’s Library of Congress Officially Inducts… the Soundtrack for the Videogame ‘Doom’
America’s Library of Congress “is preserving a little piece of Hell,” jokes Engadget, “by inducting the soundtrack to the original Doom into the National Recording Registry.”

The album of demon-slaying tracks is joined by several other notable 2026 additions to the registry, like Weezer’s self-ti … ⌘ Read more

Going with the flow: local government amalgamation
Chris Bishop’s announcement of compulsory local government amalgamation must have reverberated through the rubber chicken circuit supply chain like a sledgehammer.

Fewer local councils mean fewer council dinners, which means less work for caterers. ⌘ Read more

Sysadmin Creates ‘ModuleJail’ To Automatically Blacklist Unused Kernel Modules
Long-time Slashdot reader internet-redstar shares an interestging response to “the recent wave of Linux kernel privilege escalation vulnerabilities like ‘Copy Fail’ and ‘Dirty Frag’”:

Belgian Linux sysadmin and Tesla Hacker “Jasper Nuyens” got tired of the idea of manually blacklisting dozens or even hundreds of obscure … ⌘ Read more

Elon Musk’s xAI Launches ‘Grok Build’, Its First AI Coding Agent
xAI has launched Grok Build, “a coding agent of its own to serve as competitor to its rivals’ products, such as Anthropic’s Claude Code,” reports Engadget:

As Bloomberg notes, xAI has been trying to catch up to its rival companies like Anthropic and OpenAI. Elon Musk, the company’s founder and CEO, previously admitted that it has fallen behind … ⌘ Read more

If You’re a Serious Bowler, You Need to Know About Bowling Lane Oil
Bowling centers apply oil to their lanes using a machine that works like a giant inkjet printer. The pattern in which it’s applied can change everything about how the ball travels. ⌘ Read more

Gaza Is Rebuilding With Lego-Like Bricks Made From Rubble
As reconstruction materials remain blocked, Palestinians are crushing debris into interlocking blocks to build shelters from destruction. ⌘ Read more

An Entire Wikipedia That’s 100% AI Hallucinations
“Every link leads to an entry that does not exist yet,” explains the GitHub page for a Wikipedia-like site called Halupedia. “Until you click it, at which point an LLM pretends it has always existed and writes it for you, in the deadpan register of a 19th-century scholarly press…”

Every article is invented on demand. The footnotes are also lies… The hardest problem with an infi … ⌘ Read more

I wanted to hate this weird travel accessory. Then I slept soundly in economy
By Natalie B. Compton

It sounded like a gimmick you’d see on a late-night infomercial. A polyester arm sling that can help you sleep soundly on a plane! And for only US$24.95 (NZ$42.20)! ⌘ Read more

Japan Runs Out of Robot Wolves In Fight Against Bears
Japan’s worsening bear problem has created a shortage of handmade “Monster Wolf” robots, which are $4,000 solar-powered scarecrow-like devices with glowing eyes, sensors, and blaring sounds designed to frighten the animals away. “We make them by hand. We cannot make them fast enough now. We are asking our customers to wait two to three months,” company president Y … ⌘ Read more

LegalZoom Promo Code: Exclusive 10% Off LLC Formations
Save on top services at LegalZoom, like LLC registration, incorporation, estate plans, and more with coupons and deals from WIRED. ⌘ Read more

AMD Is Bringing Improved FSR 4 Upscaling To Its Older GPUs
AMD says FSR 4.1 will finally bring its newer hardware-accelerated upscaling technology to older Radeon GPUs. “The rollout will begin in July with RDNA3- and 3.5-based GPUs, which include the Radeon RX 7000 series, as well as integrated GPUs like the Radeon 890M and Radeon 8060S,” reports Ars Technica. “In ‘early 2027,’ support will also be extended to t … ⌘ Read more

ZimaCube 2 Makes For A Nice Personal Cloud/NAS With Power Of Linux + Intel CPU
Earlier this year we reviewed the ZimaBoard 2 for building a Linux home storage server. That was a nifty little device but for those looking for a more polished product than assembling your storage devices in cardboard cut-outs and the like, IceWhale has launched the ZimaCube 2. The ZimaCube 2 is a nice and polished, literal cube, to serve as your personal cloud / network attached storage (NAS) device. ⌘ Read more

Rocky Linux Launches Optional Security Repository To Get Important Fixes Sooner
In response to the likes of the Dirty Frag and Fragnesia vulnerabilities, Rocky Linux is introducing an optional security repository for shipping important security updates sooner… ⌘ Read more

Trump’s Federal Gas Tax Holiday Isn’t Likely to Bring Down Prices
Reducing the fee will only have a marginal impact on prices while depriving the government of revenue to maintain roads. ⌘ Read more