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European governments: 3.000 tracking sites, 1.000 phpMyAdmins, and 99% poorly

https://internetcleanup.foundation/2026/05/european-governments-3000-tracking-sites-1000-phpmyadm...
103•aequitas•1h ago•36 comments

Deterministic Fully-Static Whole-Binary Translation Without Heuristics

https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.08419
151•matt_d•4h ago•33 comments

Restore full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers

https://github.com/FULU-Foundation/OrcaSlicer-bambulab
407•Murfalo•10h ago•175 comments

The vi family

https://lpar.ATH0.com/posts/2026/05/the-vi-family/
145•hggh•1w ago•74 comments

Googlebook

https://googlebook.google/
763•tambourine_man•15h ago•1272 comments

Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model

https://github.com/cactus-compute/needle
439•HenryNdubuaku•14h ago•149 comments

How to make your text look futuristic (2016)

https://typesetinthefuture.com/2016/02/18/futuristic/
330•_vaporwave_•12h ago•39 comments

Kraftwerk's radical 1976 track

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20260511-kraftwerks-radical-1976-track-radioactivity-became-a...
149•tcp_handshaker•9h ago•95 comments

"I applied to be pope"

https://www.thestandard.com.hk/world/article/331886/I-applied-to-be-pope-Losing-grip-on-reality-w...
13•hansmayer•1h ago•6 comments

CERT is releasing six CVEs for serious security vulnerabilities in dnsmasq

https://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/pipermail/dnsmasq-discuss/2026q2/018471.html
310•chizhik-pyzhik•14h ago•145 comments

Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise

https://www.nair.sh/guides-and-opinions/communicating-your-expertise/why-senior-developers-fail-t...
548•nilirl•17h ago•236 comments

Traceway: MIT-licensed observability stack you can self-host in ~90s

https://github.com/tracewayapp/traceway
97•sebakubisz•2d ago•6 comments

What if there was no BASIC in EndBASIC? – by Julio Merino

https://blogsystem5.substack.com/p/no-basic-in-endbasic
18•rbanffy•3d ago•1 comments

My graduation cap runs Rust

https://ericswpark.com/blog/2026/2026-05-12-my-graduation-cap-runs-rust/
149•ericswpark•8h ago•47 comments

Rendering the Sky, Sunsets, and Planets

https://blog.maximeheckel.com/posts/on-rendering-the-sky-sunsets-and-planets/
472•ibobev•19h ago•38 comments

Scrcpy v4.0

https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy/releases/tag/v4.0
170•xnx•12h ago•24 comments

Up in Smoke

https://thebaffler.com/odds-and-ends/the-profession-that-does-not-exist-symposium
18•NaOH•2d ago•0 comments

Quack: The DuckDB Client-Server Protocol

https://duckdb.org/2026/05/12/quack-remote-protocol
277•aduffy•14h ago•56 comments

When "idle" isn't idle: how a Linux kernel optimization became a QUIC bug

https://blog.cloudflare.com/quic-death-spiral-fix/
84•sbulaev•9h ago•5 comments

Referer Reality

https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/referer/
39•tobr•2d ago•10 comments

The Future of Obsidian Plugins

https://obsidian.md/blog/future-of-plugins/
369•xz18r•17h ago•138 comments

Fc, a lossless compressor for floating-point streams

https://github.com/xtellect/fc
64•enduku•2d ago•13 comments

Reimagining the mouse pointer for the AI era

https://deepmind.google/blog/ai-pointer/
193•devhouse•15h ago•164 comments

Tell NYT, Atlantic, USA Today to keep Wayback Machine

https://www.savethearchive.com/newsleaders/
321•doener•9h ago•88 comments

I made rust's cargo copy but for CPP

https://github.com/user-with-username/crow
10•anybodyy•2d ago•2 comments

As researchers age, they produce less disruptive work

https://nautil.us/is-this-why-science-advances-one-funeral-at-a-time-1280650
65•Brajeshwar•15h ago•61 comments

Starship V3

https://www.spacex.com/updates#starship-v3
212•fprog•7h ago•288 comments

Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/bambu-lab-abusing-open-source-social-contract/
1245•rubenbe•17h ago•393 comments

Lanzaboote – NixOS Secure Boot

https://x86.lol/generic/2022/11/26/lanzaboote.html
86•evilmonkey19•3d ago•8 comments

Show HN: Agentic interface for mainframes and COBOL

https://www.hypercubic.ai/hopper
70•sai18•15h ago•41 comments
Open in hackernews

AluminiumOS, by Google: Android Reimagined for the Desktop

https://aluminium-os.com/
9•brysonreece•1h ago

Comments

sans_souse•1h ago
I was stoked for a second. But I read the open. Did anyone really want this?
ThePowerOfFuet•1h ago
Perhaps if it can be de-googled.

GrapheneOS for desktop — with a few more knobs exposed — would probably be second only to Qubes from a security standpoint.

Yes, I use a lot of emdashes.

cpcallen•29m ago
> Yes, I use a lot of emdashes.

If only you used them properly—like this.

ulfw•1h ago
This is just 'dexified' Android. How is this a 'new OS'?

Are we living in minimal effort, maximum Marketing BS world now?

sgt•59m ago
One side effect of the AI revolution, yes.
gehsty•1h ago
Opportunistic url and vibe coded copy? The site looks quite good though, just reads super AI generated!
microflash•1h ago
> Gemini AI baked into every layer of the operating system.

This itself is a dealbreaker (and probably a recipe for some litigations in future).

TheDong•1h ago
> Not officially affiliated with Google.

This thing stinks so hard of AI that it's impossible to trust any of the specific details.

IMO this is slop, it's not worth reading, once we have something written by an actual human with actual information about the subject, I'll read that.

Jallal•1h ago
This. They use ambiguous wording throughout their site.
28304283409234•1h ago
> Aluminium OS is Google's ground-up Android desktop operating system

So... built on Android built on Linux built on GNU inspired by UNIX?

randfur•1h ago
This is a parody website that was created long before the recent Googlebook announcement back when it was known by the code name Aluminium.
ottobonn•1h ago
The marketing copy here is low quality. It spends a lot of words explaining what this isn't instead of what it is. It also just sounds like AI in an off-putting way. What does it mean to have an operating system with "Gemini at every layer"? Based on this page I fear that the entire OS will have a similar level of quality and consideration.

This paragraph in particular shows a confusing lack of understanding:

"The name itself is deliberate. ChromeOS came from Chromium — a metallic element ending in "-ium." Aluminium follows the same pattern, but the British spelling highlights the prefix Al, standing for Android-Linux: an honest acknowledgment of what this platform is built on."

The British spelling does not in fact highlight the fact that the word starts with "Al" any more than the American spelling would. By this point in the page I got angry and stopped reading, because it's a waste of my time.

Edit: if this is a parody, it makes way more sense. I fell for it!

happymellon•59m ago
> It spends a lot of words explaining what this isn't instead of what it is.

There us certainly more about how it can't run Adobe than what Gemini could do to improve your desktop workflows. Terrible site.

sgt•57m ago
Someone mentioned this is maybe a parody site. Might be true.

Also says at the bottom: "Not officially affiliated with Google."

sgt•1h ago
https://aluminium-os.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/cropped-...

Oh my.