GNU Hurd News 2026-Q2

https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/news/2026-q2.html

38•plaguna•3d ago

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p0w3n3d•1h ago

Wow.

sirsinsalot•51m ago

I hope Hurd has its day. Maybe in 100 years or something.

lynx97•49m ago

Hurd will have its day once Linux makes it on the desktop :-)

pjmlp•38m ago

Linux has made it to the desktop, packaged inside VMs served by Apple, Microsoft and Google.

NoImmatureAdHom•31m ago

It just...has made it. Plenty of power users just use it as their primary OS. I think official figures under-estimate it because many people daily-driving will spoof user agents of other OSes.

And there's Android.

metalliqaz•29m ago

That's not really what everyone means.

However the recent success of gaming-related distros such as SteamOS and Bazzite seem to be succeeding where Usability-focused distros such as Mint, Pop!, and Zorin couldn't get deep traction

inigyou•16m ago

This should be a lesson about providing a product versus providing a technology.

Ubuntu is "like Windows but not" which is mostly relevant to people boycotting Windows. Steam Deck is "a gamebox" which people who already like games might want to buy. Bazzite is "a thing that turns your computer into a game box."

pjmlp•6m ago

No, but that is what they will ever get from OEMs selling PCs at computer stores used by normies.

veqq•25m ago

Linux hit 10% desktop usage recently

shevy-java•23m ago

First there will be the Desktop Linux of the year breakthrough. Evil folks say it will coincide with the end of the world via a total global catastrophy but these people don't understand beauty - such as TempleOS, the most perfect OS of all times.

EarlKing•17m ago

Fun fact: Duke Nukem Forever shipped before GNU Hurd.

this_user•13m ago

Instead of rewriting Bun, maybe Anthropic should have thrown some tokens at finishing Hurd.

jnpnj•48m ago

It seems Samuel Thibault is still there, sweet.

ps: some slides from earlier this year https://fosdem.org/2026/events/attachments/7FZXHF-updates_on...

full vid here https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/7FZXHF-updates_on_gnu...

isityettime•31m ago

> I plan to build bootable images and boot the kernel on Apple M1

GuixSD with GNU Hurd would be a really fun way to repurpose an old MBP.

shevy-java•24m ago

Next year will be the year of GNU Hurd, as well as The Desktop Linux Year and people really using HaikuOS on real hardware for years. You read it here first!

csb6•19m ago

Does anyone more familiar with Hurd know how they addressed performance issues encountered by other Mach-based kernels? I remember reading that one of Mach's bottlenecks was validating that each IPC message had proper permissions/access when sending them between processes due to the large number and frequency of messages.

inigyou•18m ago

Cool to finally see some small silly tech stuff here that isn't trying to make money.

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GNU Hurd News 2026-Q2

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Discovery Loop

Zed DeltaDB

Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs

Beating GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval with 100x cheaper open models

Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls

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Celld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects

Launch HN: HyperProbe (YC S26) – Agents that do read-only debugging in prod

The Valley of Webhooks

Phishers are hijacking legitimate cloud infrastructure

Discovery of a multicomponent alloy forged by the Hiroshima atomic blast

Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work

Sula: A Gemini protocol server written in Scryer Prolog

Western Sahara

Goodhart's Law Comes for Every Benchmark You Trust

The Entropy of a Markov Chain

Aristotle quotes on virtue, knowledge, and happiness

I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy

Microsoft's AI Sales Mostly Come from OpenAI, Disclosures Show

Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence (2025)

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