May 2026 is now in the books after writing 275 original Linux/open-source minded news articles and another 20 featured-length benchmark articles / Linux hardware reviews. There was a lot of exciting topics in May to keep the month interesti
Article URL: https://twitter.com/i/status/2060746160558543217 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48348578 Points: 475 # Comments: 221
Dell is using Computex to announce their new XPS 13 that comes at their lowest price ever of $599 USD for students and $699 for everyone else. The new Dell XPS 13 aims to compete directly with the Apple MacBook Neo while leveraging the new
Last year at Tech Tour Arizona, Intel announced Clearwater Forest as the Xeon 6+ series. Details were rather light then while for Computex, Intel is announcing that Xeon 6+ is now “launching” beginning tomorrow, 1 June. In addition to Xeo
Most teams do not think about logging governance until something bad happens. A customer ID gets logged in the wrong place. A token shows up in a debug message. A developer adds email, ssn, or authorizationHeader because they are trying to
Article URL: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/products/rtx-spark/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48352939 Points: 16 # Comments: 6
Article URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/rubin-tracks-skyscraper-size-asteroids-failed-supernovas-and-interstellar-visitors-20260515/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48352500 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
A backup script of mine stopped running on a Tuesday. I found out the following Tuesday — three weeks later — when I actually needed one of those backups and the most recent file was 21 days old. The cron entry was still there. The server w
Article URL: https://dirkdeklein.net/2026/02/03/the-fascinating-history-of-prisencolinensinainciusol-the-nonsense-song-that-became-a-global-hit/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48348737 Points: 45 # Comments: 13
I’ve been running field tests against live open-source issues to study a specific question: When AI coding agents make repairs, where do they lose the actual truth of the repo? Not “does the AI write code?” Not “can it pass a test?” More sp