System76 boss reckons he can liberate the entire PC stack... just give him another 15 years
Bootstrapped Linux box-botherer flogs new Thelio kit, talks up COSMIC, and politely declines to bolt AI onto everything
GLM-5.2 is the new leading open weights model on Artificial Analysis
Article URL: https://artificialanalysis.ai/articles/glm-5-2-is-the-new-leading-open-weights-model-on-the-artificial-analysis-intelligence-index Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48567759 Points: 61 # Comments: 12
Hacking the atmosphere: Geoengineering gets a reality check
Jim Franke pulls away the cover page of a presentation on the wraparound desk in his office, revealing an illustration of an odd-looking aircraft with massive wings stretching out from a stubby fuselage. The uncrewed plane is soaring thousands of meters higher than commercial jets fly—so high yo...
Entrepreneurs in Nairobi make the case for going solar
Most of Kenya’s power grid runs on renewables. But with 25% of communities lacking centralized electricity, the nation is looking to off-grid solar to hit its goal of delivering universal electricity access by 2030 without driving up emissions. The ever-improving economics of solar technology ha...
KPop Demon Hunters gets its first Lego set
Lego's gonna show us all how it's done done done.
Most of the CVE-2026-4020 attackers are the same client
Article URL: https://honeylabs.net/blog/the-cloud-fleet-behind-cve-2026-4020 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48567574 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Microsoft working on Defender patch for RoguePlanet zero-day
Microsoft confirmed that it's working on a security patch for a Defender zero-day vulnerability named "RoguePlanet," disclosed one week ago. [...]
Hacker News but for Independent Blogs
Article URL: https://bubbles.town/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48567155 Points: 101 # Comments: 31
GLM 5.2 Performance Benchmarks
Article URL: https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/glm-5-2 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48567004 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
Tesco is sprinting to quit VMware and Broadcom despite rapid migration risks
Supermarket giant has turned to third-party support as court sets date to hear licensing dispute
Kodak confirms data breach claimed by ShinyHunters extortion gang
Kodak has confirmed that it's working with external cybersecurity experts to investigate a security breach after hackers gained access to some of the company's data. [...]
The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup
Article URL: https://claude.com/blog/the-founders-playbook Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48566832 Points: 94 # Comments: 89
From Chesterton's fence to Chesterton's gap
Article URL: https://stephantul.github.io/blog/unfence/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48566727 Points: 11 # Comments: 8
FIFA wants Jamal Musiala to forget about Dre (during the World Cup)
FIFA, which has strict policies around advertising, reportedly had the Bayern player tape over the Beats logo of his headphones.
Developers build the best tools for developers – and are now defanging the AI menace
Fear and even grief are natural reactions to machines that do your job. The next reactions – acceptance and innovation – are more useful
Semiclassical Gravity Efficiently Solves NP-Complete Problems
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.14806 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48565326 Points: 33 # Comments: 16
Leaked OpenAI financials show $38.5B loss and compute burn
Article URL: https://runtimewire.com/article/openai-leaked-financials-altman-compute-burn Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48565130 Points: 71 # Comments: 55
Cyberattack sees crops kept in the ground
Bitter harvest for Australia's Mackay Sugar, attacked in peak cane crushing season
Stop Killing Games fails to secure EU law despite 1.3M signatures
Article URL: https://www.dexerto.com/gaming/stop-killing-games-fails-to-secure-eu-law-despite-1-3m-signatures-3376431/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48564696 Points: 74 # Comments: 18
Apple releases Beats Studio Buds firmware update with important microphone security fix
In addition to three AirPods firmware updates released earlier today, Apple also rolled out firmware version 1B211 for the Beats Studio Buds, fixing a serious vulnerability. Here are the details.