Hating AI Is Good
Article URL: https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/hating-ai-is-good-actually

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48222366

Points: 16

# Comments: 4 ⌘ Read more

Security updates for Thursday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel, kernel-rt, and libsndfile), Debian (bind9, evince, firefox-esr, openjpeg2, pdns, and rsync), Fedora (erlang-cowlib, evince, expat, firefox, kernel, mingw-expat, mysql8.0, mysql8.4, nss, opencryptoki, pgadmin4, proftpd, python-django5, python-django6, python-dotenv, rsync, rust-nu, rustup, and strongswan), Oracle (nginx, nginx:1.24, ruby, ruby:3.3, and squid), Slackware (bind and rsync), SUSE (buildah, distribution, distributi … ⌘ Read more

Python 3.15: features that didn’t make the headlines
Article URL: https://blog.changs.co.uk/python-315-features-that-didnt-make-the-headlines.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48220696

Points: 4

# Comments: 0 ⌘ Read more

SpaceX Reveals Its Finances For the First Time
SpaceX has revealed its financials for the first time as it prepares for a potentially massive IPO. The New York Times reports: SpaceX’s revenue soared to $18.7 billion in 2025, up 33 percent from a year earlier, the company disclosed in a filing required of firms that are seeking to go public. In the first three months of this year, revenue rose to $4.7 billion from $4.1 billion i … ⌘ Read more

RHEL 10.2 Released With New AI Command Line Assistance
Red Hat has released RHEL 10.2 and 9.8 with new AI-assisted command-line tools. The releases also add updated developer toolchains such as Go 1.26, LLVM 21, Rust 1.92, Python 3.14, and PHP 8.4. Phoronix reports: Red Hat Enterprise Linux has introduced the goose command for power users. Goose is an optional CLI AI assistance with model context protocol (MCP) integrati … ⌘ Read more

Energiepreise trieben Inflation im April auf 3,4 Prozent ⌘ Read more

Pressée par Trump, l’Union européenne parvient à un accord sur les droits de douane
Le compromis a été annoncé à l’aube, au terme d’une nuit d’intenses négociations à Strasbourg entre les représentants du Parlement européen et des États membres. Le président états-unien avait donné à l’UE jusqu’au 4 juillet pour s’entendre. ⌘ Read more

From dispute to deal: Mevo acquired by car-share rival Carbn
New Zealand car-share business Mevo has been acquired by the company it was in a dispute with, after being tipped into liquidation this month, owing $4.3 million.

Carbn Group acquired the business assets of Mevo and plans to relaunch a Wellington-only model initially, keeping the Mevo brand. ⌘ Read more

California ‘rich dude’ fights $4.2m public beach access fine
By Jim Carlton

John Levy jnr built his dream home by a lagoon overlooking the Pacific Ocean and turned it into a private retreat he christened “Levyland,” complete with his own pickleball court. ⌘ Read more

Napier Port lifts dividend, reaffirms guidance despite headwinds
Napier Port lifted its interim dividend by 31% and is upbeat about the second half despite the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.

Directors declared a fully imputed interim dividend of 5.25 cents per share versus 4 cents per share in the same period a year earlier, it said in its half-year report on Wednesday. ⌘ Read more

Dairy prices edge up at season finale
Dairy prices have edged out a small gain as the New Zealand season comes to an end.

The average price at the last Global Dairy Trade auction of the 2025/26 dairy season, held overnight, lifted 0.6% to US$4,198 (NZ$7,193) per metric tonne (MT). ⌘ Read more

Microsoft Surprises With Its First Server Linux Distribution: Azure Linux 4.0
Microsoft is turning Azure Linux into a general-purpose, Fedora-based cloud distribution available to all Azure customers, while also productizing Flatcar as Azure Container Linux for immutable container hosts. “When Microsoft joined the Linux Foundation, there was this big conspiracy theory that somehow the Linux Foundat … ⌘ Read more

Security updates for Monday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (freerdp, gimp:2.8, jq, kernel, and rsync), Debian (chromium, ffmpeg, firewalld, kernel, nginx, openjpeg2, openssh, php7.4, and redis), Fedora (apptainer, chromium, coturn, dnsmasq, firefox, kernel, libgit2_1.8, libmetal, nginx, nginx-mod-brotli, nginx-mod-fancyindex, nginx-mod-headers-more, nginx-mod-js-challenge, nginx-mod-modsecurity, nginx-mod-naxsi, nginx-mod-vts, open-amp, perl-Net-CIDR-Lite, pgbouncer, pypy, python-jupytext, python-uv-build … ⌘ Read more

An ICE Firearms Trainer Was Involved in At Least 4 Deadly Shootings
David Norman, a former Phoenix police officer who’s described himself as “a fucking savage,” now runs a company that provided training to Homeland Security’s Special Response Teams. ⌘ Read more

Us Math/Reading Scores Continue 13-Year Decline. Researchers Blame Reduced Testing and Social Media
Test scores “are lower than they were a decade ago in school districts across the U.S.,” reports Times magazine, citing new data released Wednesday by Stanford researchers. “Reading scores were down roughly 0.6 grades in 2025 compared to 2015, and math scores were down about 0.4 … ⌘ 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

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

USA stoppen Verlegung von 4.000 Soldaten nach Polen ⌘ Read more

Vulkan 1.4.352 Introduces VK_NV_cooperative_matrix_decode_vector
Vulkan 1.4.352 is out today as the latest minor spec update to this Khronos API. Besides just a few fixes/clarifications, there is one new extension and that is a NVIDIA vendor extension for cooperative matrix decode vector support… ⌘ Read more

TopResume Packages: Everything You Need to Get Hired
Discover ways to save at TopResume, including their free review service and 4-week Career Services Platform trial. ⌘ Read more

Cisco To Cut Almost 4,000 Jobs In AI-Driven Restructuring
Cisco’s stock soared 17% after the company announced it will cut nearly 4,000 jobs as it shifts investment and staffing toward higher-growth AI opportunities. CNBC reports: CEO Chuck Robbins wrote in a blog post on Wednesday that the latest round of job cuts will begin on May 14. Cisco is the latest company to announce head count reductions tied to AI. “The companies … ⌘ Read more

Physicists Find Possible Errors In 100-Year-Old Model of the Universe
A trio of preprint papers suggests the universe may not be perfectly uniform on the largest scales, finding tentative 2-to-4-sigma deviations from a core assumption of standard cosmology known as FLRW geometry. Live Science reports: The work combines observations of distant exploding stars and large-scale galaxy surveys to probe whet … ⌘ Read more

KDE Receives $1.4 Million Investment From Sovereign Tech Fund
The German Sovereign Tech Fund has invested 1.2 million euros ($1.4 million USD) in KDE Plasma technologies to help strengthen the structural reliability and security of the desktop environment’s core infrastructure, including Plasma, KDE Linux, and the frameworks underlying its communication services. Longtime Slashdot reader jrepin shares an excerpt fro … ⌘ Read more

Scrcpy 4.0 发布：远程控制安卓手机，让 Android 应用开始有“桌面化”体验
Scrcpy 是一款开源免费的电脑控制安卓工具，支持 Windows、macOS、Linux，Scrcpy v4.0 今日更新，新增弹性显示功能（Flex Display），让 Android 应用的界面会跟着窗口大小自动调整。@Appinn 大概就是，当你在电脑上拉宽 Scrc ⌘ Read more

OpenZFS 2.4.2 Released With Linux 7.0 Kernel Support, Many Bug Fixes
For those making use of OpenZFS on Linux or FreeBSD, OpenZFS 2.4.2 is out today as the newest stable release of this ZFS file-system implementation… ⌘ Read more

Security updates for Tuesday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (freerdp, glib2, libsoup3, and openexr), Debian (dnsmasq, p7zip, p7zip-rar, python-authlib, and rails), Fedora (chromium, firefox, httpd, and nss), SUSE (java-25-openj9, krb5, libmodsecurity3, and mcphost), and Ubuntu (imagemagick, linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-fips, linux-aws-hwe, linux-azure-4.15, linux-fips, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-4.15, linux-gcp-fips, linux-hwe, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-azure, linux-azure-fips, linux-oracle, linux-az … ⌘ Read more

Vulkan 1.4.351 Brings Six New Extensions, Including A Ray-Tracing Improvement
Quietly sneaking out at the end of last week was Vulkan 1.4.351 as the newest spec update to this high performance graphics and compute API… ⌘ Read more

Anthropic Says ‘Evil’ Portrayals of AI Were Responsible For Claude’s Blackmail Attempts
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Fictional portrayals of artificial intelligence can have a real effect on AI models, according to Anthropic. Last year, the company said that during pre-release tests involving a fictional company, Claude Opus 4 would often try to blackmail engineers to avo … ⌘ Read more

Intel IGC 2.34.4 Compiler Brings Many Improvements
The Intel Graphics Compiler “IGC” 2.34.4 release is out today as this compiler used by the Intel Compute Runtime for Level Zero and OpenCL compute on Intel graphics hardware plus is also used as the graphics shader compiler under Windows… ⌘ Read more

Security updates for Monday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (corosync, freeipmi, kernel, and kernel-rt), Debian (corosync, firefox-esr, kernel, lcms2, libpng1.6, linux-6.1, php8.2, php8.4, postorius, pyjwt, and tor), Fedora (dotnet10.0, exim, gnutls, kernel, nextcloud, nodejs22, php, proftpd, prosody, python-pulp-glue, python-requests, rclone, and SDL3_image), Mageia (firefox, nss, rootcerts, openvpn, thunderbird, and vim), Oracle (corosync, freeipmi, gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free, gstreamer1-plugins … ⌘ Read more

How to Disable Google’s Gemini in Chrome
Chrome users were caught off guard by a 4-GB Google AI model baked into Chrome, sparking privacy concerns. The good news: You can easily uninstall it. The bad? You might not want to. ⌘ Read more

Three stable kernel updates
The
7.0.4,
6.18.27, and
6.12.86
stable kernels have been released; each contains another set of important
fixes. ⌘ Read more

White House App Is a Terrifying Security Mess
New submitter spazmonkey writes: From a hidden GPS tracker polling your location every 4.5 minutes to JavaScript loaded from a random GitHub account, no SSL certificate pinning, and an in-app browser that silently strips cookie consent dialogs and paywalls from every page you visit, the new White House app seems to have a little bit of everything. A security researcher pulled the APK a … ⌘ Read more

Manjaro 26.1 Preview Released With GNOME 50, KDE Plasma 6.6 & Xfce 4.20 Options
The preview release of the Arch Linux powered Manjaro 26.1 is now available for testing… ⌘ Read more

发现频道：最近10日的热门排行榜[2026年第18期]
最近10日，来自小众软件论坛的发现频道的热门排行榜，由系统自动生成，直接列出来： 序号 主题 1️⃣ 【开源免费自荐】无羁 音乐播放器：一款现代化的 Windows 在线和本地音乐播放器 2️⃣ 推荐一款在Win下替代剪贴板工具(Win+V)的工具 3️⃣ 分享我写的高校数据可视化工具 4️⃣ 5套 ⌘ Read more

Brush v0.4 Released As “Significant” Release For This Rust-Based Shell
Brush v0.4 debuted today for this “Bourne Rusty Shell” as a Bash/POSIX-compatible shell written in the Rust programming language… ⌘ Read more

Linux Percentage of Steam Users Doubled in One Year
Steam on Linux use in March “had skyrocketed to 5.33%…” reports Phoronix, “easily the highest level we’ve seen Steam on Linux at since its inception more than a decade ago.”

So what happened in April?
[April’s results] point to Linux having a 4.52% marketshare on Steam, a drop of 0.81% compared to March. Year-over-year it’s roughly double with Steam on Linux in Apri … ⌘ Read more

AI Agent Designed To Speed Up Company’s Coding Wipes Entire Database In 9 Seconds
joshuark shares a report from Live Science: An AI coding agent designed to help a small software company streamline its tasks instead blew a hole through its business in just nine seconds. PocketOS founder Jer Crane, said that the AI coding agent Cursor –powered by Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 model – delet … ⌘ Read more

Vulkan 1.4.350 Released With Three New Extensions
Vulkan 1.4.350 released earlier today as the newest routine spec update. Beyond the usual minor fixes/clarifications, Vulkan 1.4.350 tacks on three more extensions… ⌘ Read more

Shotcut 26.4 Released With Timeline Improvements, Vulkan Accelerated Speech-To-Text
Shotcut 26.4.30 shipped today as the latest and greatest version of this open-source, cross-platform video editor… ⌘ Read more

@klaxzy@klaxzy.net twtstrm/0.4.0 is from Eric. The getwtxt-ng/dev seems to be this.

A security bug in AEAD sockets
Security analysis firm Xint has disclosed a security bug in the Linux kernel
that allows for arbitrary 4-byte writes to the page cache, and which has been
present since 2017.
The vulnerability has
been fixed in mainline kernels. A proof-of-concept script demons … ⌘ Read more

The 4 Best Laptop Power Banks We’ve Tested (2026)
If you’re looking for the perfect laptop power bank, I’ve tested ‘em all, and these are the best. ⌘ Read more

作为 Snipaste 付费用户，试完 PixPin 3 我动摇了，就差最后一点细节
备受好评的 Windows/macOS 跨平台截图 PixPin 进入 3.x 时代，目前最新版本 v3.1.4.0，主要更新：全新界面、接入 AI 提升识别与翻译，以及新增自动马赛克、贴图穿透、条码识别等功能。@Appinn PixPin 3 新增功能 新增功能 说明 全新界面（UI 重构） 界面 ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org 4 is a keeper! Wish it was landscape, perfect for a wall then. :-P

Valve Confirms Steam Controller Release Date, $99 Price
Valve just announced that their new Steam Controller will be going on sale on 4 May. Pricing in the US is at $99 USD… ⌘ Read more

浏览器里跑 Gemma 4：不用 API、不花钱，无限量生成 Excalidraw 流程图
手机上能跑 Gemma 4 大模型已经不新鲜了（iPhone、安卓现在就能跑 Gemma 4 了），现在浏览器也可以了。@Appinn 有开发者利用 Google 新提出的 TurboQuant 算法，把 Gemma 4 放进浏览器里运行。 直接打开网页，就能在 Excalidraw 里用 AI 画 ⌘ Read more

Is the World Ready For a Car Without a Rear Window?
There’s a glass roof — but no rear-view window. Instead the Polestar 4 replaces the rear-view mirror with a live feed from a wide-angle camera. Its high-resolution display (1480 x 320 pixels) promises “a panoramic view of the outside,” according to Polestar’s web site, showing more of what’s behind you. “Visibility in the dark and in rainy conditions is also vastly improve … ⌘ Read more

Godot 4.7 Reaches Beta With HDR Output, Ray-Tracing Improvements & Editor Enhancements
Godot 4.7 reached its beta milestone on Friday for this leading open-source, cross-platform game engine… ⌘ Read more

Windows 11 更新终于改了：可永久暂停更新
Windows 11 更新终于没那么烦人了，现在你可以自己决定什么时候更新，甚至一直不更新。 青小蛙此前遇到过好几次这种情况：某一个更新，无论点多少次“立即更新”，它都不会动，就卡在那里，完全没办法处理。 微软发博客说《您的 Windows 更新体验刚刚升级》，至少解决了 4 件事：更新能跳过、能永 ⌘ Read more