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Systemd 261 released with systemd-sysinstall, IMDSD, and storagectl

Systemd 261 has been released with several major new features including systemd-sysinstall (a text-based OS installer),…

Supermarket giant Tesco sues VMware for breach of contract

Tesco is suing Broadcom (which acquired VMware) for breach of contract, seeking £100 million in damages, claiming the…

Linux Eliminates the Strncpy API After Six Years of Work, 360 Patches

Linux 7.2 has successfully eliminated the deprecated strncpy API from the kernel after six years of work and over 360…

Seeing the world in radio waves with the QuadRF

The QuadRF is an open-source, phase-coherent four-channel software-defined radio (SDR) built around a Raspberry Pi 5…

Show HN: Pulse – Dashboard for Claude Code, approve tool calls from your phone

Hi everyone, I'm a student from Flanders and I like to use Claude Code for my purposes, ideas and also just for fun and…

UK Home Office launches £75M 'PoliceAI' to capitalise on artificial intelligence

The UK Home Office has launched PoliceAI, a £75m national centre to scale up artificial intelligence use across police…

Signal’s Meredith Whittaker wants you to remember that AI chatbots ‘are not your friends’

"These are not your friends. These are not conscious beings. These are not sentient interlocutors.”

Unauthorized alert sent to cell phones across Brazil

An unauthorized "extreme alert" containing the word "misanthropy" (spelled as "misantropi4" in leetspeak) was sent to…

In the Weights is your new AI-centric vanity search

So ... what's your In the Weights score?

AMD will reinstate memory encryption on Ryzen 9000 CPUs via BIOS update in July

AMD will reinstate Transparent Secure Memory Encryption (TSME) on Ryzen 9000 desktop processors via a BIOS update in…

Show HN: My Windows XP portfolio with working Game Boy and iPod

I posted my portfolio here about a year ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45154609) and while there was a big…

PostgresBench: A Reproducible Benchmark for Postgres Services

PostgresBench is a new public, reproducible benchmark tool designed to compare managed Postgres services using the…

Show HN: Tiny – An interpeted dynamic langauge with inline Go native functions

Tiny is a new dynamically-typed programming language with an interpreted bytecode virtual machine written in Go,…

Founders Fund’s outlier bet on humanely killed fish

Shinkei makes a refrigerator-sized robot called Poseidon to kill fish quickly and humanely.

Show HN: Make PDFs look scanned (CLI or in the browser via WASM)

A new open-source tool transforms PDFs to look like physical scans by applying effects such as skew, grayscale…

Agency stole bestselling author's book, used AI to relaunch as their own

An unauthorized website claiming to be The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows has republished John Koenig's bestselling book…

OpenRouter's Fusion Promises Claude Fable-Level AI for Cheap—Right as Fable 5 Goes Dark

OpenRouter's compound-model API stacks budget AI models—and beat GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.8 outright in benchmark…

Ask HN: Due to spam on GitHub, what platforms can I move my projects?

I have a few projects on Github. I am receiving a lot of spam PRs and requests from vibe coders and bots.

UHF X11: X11 Built for VisionOS and Apple Vision Pro

UHF X11 is a new application that transforms Apple Vision Pro into a full X11 display server, allowing users to run…

Bun has an open PR adding shared-memory threads to JavaScriptCore

Bun has an open pull request adding shared-memory threads to JavaScriptCore that allows running functions on separate…

SMPTE Makes Its Standards Freely Accessible

Ember, a native iOS Hacker News reader I built around accessibility

Ember is a native Hacker News reader app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac built with SwiftUI that prioritizes accessibility…

Nobel laureate John Jumper is leaving DeepMind for rival Anthropic

Jumper isn't the only big name leaving Google DeepMind.

RAISE Summit – The largest AI event in Europe: Info and exclusive promo code

Paris is about to become the world capital of artificial intelligence for two days.

Show HN: StartupWiki – A Free Alternative to Crunchbase

I've been building StartupWiki, a free startup database designed to make it easier to discover and research…

Big Tech is stoking unrest in the UK. Why?

DOS Game "F-15 Strike Eagle II" reversing project needs DOS test pilots

A reverse engineering project reconstructing the 1989 DOS game F-15 Strike Eagle II from its original binaries into C…

Every new iOS 27 feature that’s worth knowing about

While it's not flashy like Apple’s new Siri AI and Apple Intelligence upgrades, there are still a number of additions to…

Cargo-Geiger

Cargo-Geiger is a Rust tool that analyzes a crate and its dependencies to provide statistics on unsafe code usage.