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Cascading pipelines with DSPy are kind of good

https://martnquesada.github.io/blog/2026/01/cascading-pipelines-with-dspy-are-kind-of-good/
1•jxub•34s ago•0 comments

How AI code review is changing pull requests

https://themainthread.substack.com/p/how-ai-code-review-changing-pull-request
1•alediaferia•35s ago•0 comments

Show HN: Signfile – e-signatures with SHA-256 fingerprints, $19/mo unlimited

https://signfile.io/
1•abdullah_eldoud•48s ago•0 comments

Job Loss Fears in the First Years of Generative Artificial Intelligence

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5136877&__cf_chl_tk=2WJamtftqdfDIR9yFfYIrEBu9...
1•paulpauper•54s ago•0 comments

Tyler Cowen: Should You Believe the Dire Warnings About 'AI Takeover'?

https://www.thefp.com/p/tyler-cowen-artificial-intelligence-takeover-hugging-face
1•paulpauper•1m ago•0 comments

People in China are more optimistic about AI technology than Americans

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/world/china-ai-nepal-tibet-flood.html
1•yogthos•1m ago•0 comments

The Cost of Bun's Rust Rewrite: Counting the Bugs Left Behind

https://medium.com/@monikasinghal713/the-real-cost-of-buns-rust-rewrite-counting-the-bugs-left-be...
1•syumei•1m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Alternative to Proton Mail?

1•OhMeadhbh•1m ago•0 comments

'Superhuman' AI tool spots heart disease in less than 2 seconds

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/31/superhuman-ai-tool-spots-heart-disease
1•Brajeshwar•2m ago•0 comments

Cities are suing residents who try to take action against data centers

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/kansas-data-center-petition-lawsuit-b3042167.html
2•AdmiralAsshat•4m ago•0 comments

Trying out open weights LLM-s on hardware that I can afford

https://ounapuu.ee/posts/2026/09/01/open-weights-llm/
1•ilreb•4m ago•0 comments

Global bond sell-off deepens amid inflation fears

https://www.ft.com/content/e6f5f97a-b199-444e-aaec-b8199359b08e
2•latentframe•4m ago•0 comments

A Must-Have On-Screen Ruler for Designers and Developers

https://medium.com/@chris.ahrweiler/a-must-have-on-screen-ruler-for-designers-and-developers-14c1...
1•docjojo•5m ago•0 comments

Star Wars Zero Company maker has reportedly furloughed the majority of its staff

https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/the-studio-behind-star-wars-zero-company-which-is-current...
3•ReptileMan•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Shed – Git Repo Management for Terminal Agents

https://github.com/AndrewHannigan/shed
1•andrewhannigan•5m ago•0 comments

The Parent Uprising Against Screen Time at School

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/school-technology-screens-parents-9fc7384b
1•vladgur•6m ago•0 comments

Zstandard einfach erklärt in 2 Episoden – Episode 1

https://medium.com/@chris.ahrweiler/zstandard-einfach-erkl%C3%A4rt-in-2-episoden-episode-1-1b2458...
1•docjojo•7m ago•0 comments

Bowditch's American Practical Navigator

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowditch%27s_American_Practical_Navigator
1•teleforce•7m ago•0 comments

Bazel's UX Is Bad

https://blog.appliedcomputing.io/p/bazels-ux-is-really-really-really
1•avenger337•8m ago•0 comments

Lawsuit: Flock Enables Police to Misuse Location Data for Surveillance, Stalking

https://www.classaction.org/news/class-action-lawsuit-alleges-flock-enables-law-enforcement-perso...
1•DeepLogin•8m ago•0 comments

Nvidia's controversial DLSS 5 will launch September 3

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/nvidias-controversial-dlss-5-will-launch-septembe...
1•jonbaer•9m ago•0 comments

OpenBSD Release Songs

https://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html
2•accountrequired•11m ago•1 comments

63% of these memecoin calls never doubled. Here is the file

https://smugcalls.com/data.html
3•smugcalls•12m ago•0 comments

Keenable SELECT: an agent that searches the web in SQL

https://keenableai.github.io/select-showcase/
10•phoenix120•12m ago•0 comments

Tell HN: Google Cloud Outage

3•imalerba•12m ago•5 comments

Step through the spanning tree protocol in the browser via WebAssembly

https://vincent.bernat.ch/en/blog/2026-spanning-tree
2•vbernat•13m ago•0 comments

Why your weather app sucks

https://slate.com/technology/2026/08/weather-app-forecast-apple-android.html
1•speckx•14m ago•0 comments

Upgrade took 1 hour. Preparation 2 months. Lessons from an Open edX migration

https://aulasneo.com/blog/open-edx-migration-lessons-learned
3•eetcheverry•15m ago•0 comments

Everything Is a File (Again)

https://newsletter.cloudsquid.io/p/agents-need-their-own-ui
1•universesquid•17m ago•0 comments

Ambient CSS v3 – Blender meets CSS

https://ambientcss.vercel.app/
3•kikkupico•18m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Ubisoft's FOR HONOR will block SteamOS / Linux players starting September 10

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/ubisofts-for-honor-will-block-steamos-linux-on-september-10/
45•haunter•43m ago

Comments

haunter•41m ago
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/anticheat/
vsviridov•28m ago
When you though Ubisoft can't get any worse...
AlexandrB•27m ago
I've gotten very comfortable not owning Ubisoft games[1].

[1] https://www.ign.com/articles/ubisoft-exec-says-gamers-need-t...

everdrive•25m ago
"Ubisoft Exec Says Gamers Need to Get 'Comfortable' Not Owning Their Games"

Nothing makes more comfortable than not playing Ubisoft games.

Hamuko•7m ago
Apparently so have other gamers considering that Ubisoft's stock price has fallen over 90% in the last five years.
jorvi•25m ago
This stuff should only be legal if companies are forced to return you the full purchase price of the game.
thrownawaysz•24m ago
But they are not selling the game for Linux. Only for Windows. It's another story that it works because of Proton but technically they don't support the platform at all.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/304390/FOR_HONOR/

https://www.ubisoft.com/en-us/help/for-honor/article/system-...

tempfile•17m ago
So they should have to return the money you paid, to account for their mistake in selling you the game.
john_strinlai•10m ago
>account for their mistake in selling you the game.

i hate ubisoft as much as the next person, but if they listed the game as only supporting windows when it launched, and someone bought it for linux despite it not being supported, ubisoft did not make a "mistake" in selling the game to them. the buyer made a decision to purchase the game for an unsupported system.

(the rule i follow, which hasn't gone wrong yet, is to avoid all ubisoft games like the plague)

bigstrat2003•15m ago
And that would be fine if they left it at "we don't support it, if you run into problems on your own". When they go so far as to actively block Linux users, then they are doing something wrong and should be required to refund those purchases.
thrownawaysz•25m ago
Valve can't even make their own anti cheat system work (VAC) on Windows let alone on Linux so not surprised that 3rd party publishers with 3rd party anti cheat system is giving up. I mean they technically work as a software but they don't fullfil their purpose, to block cheaters.
nemomarx•15m ago
Doesn't easy anti cheat work on Linux / proton?
thrownawaysz•11m ago
This is what I meant by my last sentence.

Easy Anti cheat works as a software but doesn't work as an anti cheat system.

Insanity•10m ago
Yeah I guess the confusion is the overloaded term "work". It _runs_ on Linux, but it's not effective on any system.
netsharc•14m ago
I suppose the only good solution is like those "game streaming services": move all the logic to the server and use the client only as a rendering device.

Even sending metadata so the client can use local sprites to render the enemy is hackable, if the end-user knows the coordinates where to render the enemy, it can immediately tell the server that "user aimed at $COORDS and pulled the trigger"...

foxyv•15m ago
---I stopped buying Ubisoft games after CoD MW2 when they stopped allowing dedicated servers and switched to P2P. The gameplay was trash. Can't say I miss it.---

Nevermind, wrong company.

Hamuko•12m ago
What does CoD have to do with Ubisoft?
TiredOfLife•11m ago
What does Ubisoft have to do with CoD MW2?
foxyv•7m ago
Woops, wrong bad gaming company. Derp.
fetus8•8m ago
CoD games come from Activision…
cheschire•2m ago
Ubisoft didn’t make either iteration of MW2. That was activision.

But a year after that bullshit, then Ubisoft started pushing the always-online requirement for even single player games like assassins creed. Maybe you were thinking of that?

Insanity•12m ago
I recently moved to Linux for gaming. Last time I tried was around 2008 and I guess I was reluctant to move gaming to Linux because that experience was far from smooth.

Honestly, it's like magic that I can run "The Finals" on highest settings without any hiccup. It literally 'just works'. Happy that I could completely get rid of Windows (it was only there for gaming). It's still hard to believe, given back in 2008 when playing CS I had framerate bugs, text would not render properly (even after messing around with it for some days), and mouse input was.. not ideal. It's come a long way since the days of WINE.

FWIW, I moved from Debian to "Nobara Linux" for this. Mostly because I was in the mood for some distro hopping as well. Highly recommend the experience. (https://nobaraproject.org/). It was a smooth experience from the start, no issues installing it, drivers worked out-of-the-box, audio settings all worked fine, and Steam was pre-installed as well. Super cool.

Would not move back to Windows gaming for Ubisoft games lol.

stackghost•10m ago
Which distro are you using? I'm currently on bazzite and it's merely an okay experience.
Insanity•1m ago
Nobara Linux, which is based on Fedora. I used the "Gnome" installer rather than "official" because I still want a regular desktop experience as well. I've been on Linux for development since 2008 as well so I wanted an "all in one" OS this time rather than dual-boot Linux/Windows.

I'm running this on AMD CPU & GPU (because AMD historically was always better supported than Nvidia). I've not run into any issues the past weeks. Discord and the game both run smoothly. Honestly hard to believe given how rough it was in the past.

That said, I don't play a wide variety of games, I tend to stick with a single game for years. So I'm happy just running "The Finals" and haven't tried other games lol.

What kind of issues are you running into with Bazzite?

unpopularopp•12m ago
That's the caveat of Proton. Running games on unsupported platforms they are not meant for. And if it doesn't work who's fault that? Valve? The dev? No one because it's open source so fix your own?

Honestly Valve should have a stricter warning if a game is Windows only

bogwog•2m ago
The situation here isn't that the game doesn't work. It does work, it's just the Ubisoft isn't happy with the quality of Easy Anti Cheat's (their third party anti cheat provider) Linux offering.
john_strinlai•1m ago
>Honestly Valve should have a stricter warning if a game is Windows only

the "system requirements" section is right there, with "OS" being the first line. i dont agree that this is a valve thing.

iririririr•12m ago
will never understand people who opt for a rootkit just for a 0,1% chance of a match without cheaters.

you're all the worse.

mysteria•7m ago
Wouldn't it be possible to have two tiers of servers here? Like have one that's accessible to everyone with a possibly increased risk of cheating and one restricted to Windows users.

I remember in the old days some games had optional anticheat and there were servers with and without it.

john_strinlai•4m ago
of course that would be possible, but i can't see ubisoft opting into that.

it'd be an additional expense for a very small % of the player base of a 9 year old game.

ChrisArchitect•2m ago
Source: https://www.ubisoft.com/en-gb/game/for-honor/news-updates/4W...