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Xorg-Server 26.0.99.901

https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2026-August/003741.html
23•st_goliath•2h ago

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kobbs•4m ago
Intel modesetting driver with tearfree support in a xorg release!
throw0101d•3m ago
The mention of XQuartz reminded me to check that, and 2.8.6 was released mid-July:

* https://www.xquartz.org/releases/bare/XQuartz-2.8.6.html

Previously 2.8.5 was out in 2023:

* https://www.xquartz.org/releases/bare/XQuartz-2.8.5.html

There's a XQuartz 2.8.7 beta as well (xorg-server 26.1 rebase):

* https://www.xquartz.org/releases/index.html

AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint

https://blog.laserphile.com/2026/08/aliexpress-webpage-keeping-multipoint.html
413•emctech•5h ago•135 comments

Show HN: I trained a 125M model to autocomplete piano on-device

https://simedw.com/2026/08/20/midi-autocomplete/
211•simedw•3h ago•50 comments

Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload

https://safedep.io/arrayref-proc-macro1-rust-build-time-malware/
163•abhisek•1h ago•125 comments

DiffusionGemma Technical Report

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.00146
47•gmays•1h ago•8 comments

Slack Code

https://www.salesforce.com/introducing-slack-code/?bc=HL
27•trollied•57m ago•21 comments

Hacking with Claude on a $27 Smart Watch

https://www.mikekasberg.com/blog/2026/08/19/hacking-with-claude-on-a-27-smart-watch.html
25•speckx•1h ago•10 comments

HTML Can Do That

https://chrisburnell.com/html-can-do-that/
59•encyclopedism•1d ago•2 comments

Windows brings out the Rorschach test in everyone (2003)

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20030825-00/?p=42803
296•luu•9h ago•106 comments

Mojo is now open source

https://www.modular.com/blog/mojo-open-source
173•visheshdembla•1d ago•48 comments

CIA funding helped keep NeXT afloat in the 80s

https://www.wsj.com/tech/steve-jobs-apple-next-cia-161b65f9?st=NWWds1&reflink=desktopwebshare_per...
30•EwanG•15h ago•7 comments

Git at any scale

https://cursor.com/blog/git-at-any-scale
71•meetpateltech•1d ago•5 comments

An elliptic curve of rank ≥ 30

https://elliptic-rank.icarm.cloud/curve/273
14•robinhouston•1h ago•5 comments

Proof of Human (YC S23) Is Hiring a Member of Technical Staff

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/proof-of-human/jobs/ZTZHEbb-member-of-technical-staff
1•timshell•3h ago

Every Model Cheats

https://dreadnode.io/research/every-model-cheats-prompt-level-mitigation-of-cheating-on-offensive...
11•vga805•1h ago•3 comments

Why the Ocean Cleanup hasn't solved the plastic pollution crisis

https://therevelator.org/why-ocean-cleanup-has-not-solved-plastic-pollution/
29•sohkamyung•2h ago•23 comments

An American Mosaic (interactive map of ancestry census data)

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/07/01/us/america-ancestry-census-data-map.html
20•cckolon•3d ago•3 comments

Xorg-Server 26.0.99.901

https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2026-August/003741.html
23•st_goliath•2h ago•2 comments

Theory of Fluids Enters the 21st Century

https://www.quantamagazine.org/theory-of-fluids-enters-the-21st-century-20260817/
35•librasteve•2d ago•2 comments

Nearly 1,400 live streams from Japan

https://tomarigi.me/
31•pajop•2d ago•4 comments

Show HN: Open-source Stripe Connect alternative

https://zoneless.com
7•tinyprojects•40m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Check if any of the $656M in unclaimed royalties at The MLC is yours

https://pub.doub.ly/
5•knaught•40m ago•0 comments

Double-double: 31 digits of precision without leaving the FPU

https://marekfiser.com/blog/double-double-arithmetic/
5•iliketrains•3d ago•0 comments

Bun 1.4

https://bun.com/blog/bun-v1.4
69•meetpateltech•1h ago•25 comments

Seeing beyond BMI: Estimating cardiometabolic risk with smartphone imagery

https://research.google/blog/seeing-beyond-bmi-estimating-cardiometabolic-risk-with-smartphone-im...
42•leanderjanssen•4h ago•17 comments

Stop Anthropomorphizing Intermediate Tokens as Reasoning/Thinking Traces

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.09762
93•nunodonato•1d ago•19 comments

Stwipe Acquires OpenWouter

https://stwipe.com/
119•eatonphil•1h ago•17 comments

CI jobs artifacts should not be difficult

https://deadsimpleci.sparrowhub.io/doc/job-artifacts
13•melezhik•1h ago•7 comments

Router by Ramp

https://router.com
89•zackfield•19h ago•53 comments

Risk Engineering

https://risk-engineering.org/
49•throwaw12•5h ago•7 comments

Turns are Better than Radians (2022)

https://www.computerenhance.com/p/turns-are-better-than-radians
300•mayoff•13h ago•158 comments