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Libreboot 26.10 "Ominous Olive" released with UEFI, Chromebook support

https://libreboot.org/news/libreboot2610.html
28•iamnothere•23m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Unfenced – Land for sale that borders public land

https://unfenced.land/
45•otherwatersflow•1h ago•17 comments

Things to know when you get cancer

https://jjmaxwell4.com/writing/things-to-know-when-you-get-cancer/
1608•jjmaxwell4•17h ago•383 comments

Wanted to download an ISO, ended up writing a kernel exploit

https://blog.dfb.sh/blog/eap770-root-for-two-zeros/
198•0xdeafbeef•2d ago•101 comments

Israeli firm's digital ads enabling installation of 'zero-click' spyware

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/15/israeli-firm-digital-ads-enabling-installation...
33•chunkyslink•16m ago•4 comments

OpenCode 2.0

https://anoma.ly/notes/opencode-2-0/
712•gmays•16h ago•300 comments

The First Social Network: In rural Argentina residents send messages w AM radio

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/10/19/the-first-social-network
67•bookofjoe•1d ago•25 comments

Tiny Little Office

https://tinylittleoffice.com/
516•donohoe•15h ago•108 comments

X purges 13,000 accounts linked to suspected meddling ahead of US midterms

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/10/15/x-purges-13000-accounts-linked-to-suspected-meddl...
28•ilreb•29m ago•11 comments

Show HN: Indigene – Native plants for where you stand

https://indigene.app/
61•olivierlacan•2d ago•12 comments

The Haunted Toys R Us

https://www.retroist.com/p/the-haunted-toys-r-us
6•speckx•2d ago•0 comments

Do dentists know what they're doing?

https://mapwriting.substack.com/p/dentists
797•doitLP•3d ago•587 comments

Catch a Bird – I made it for my own sanity

https://catchabird.com
261•eduardsik•3d ago•76 comments

LFM2.5-24B-A2B: Built for fast on-device agents

https://www.liquid.ai/blog/lfm2-5-24b-a2b
249•gmays•13h ago•60 comments

Americans' social activity has steeply declined in the past 30 years

https://www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2026/9/29/americans-social-activity-has-steeply-declined-in-...
466•hubraumhugo•21h ago•430 comments

Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stingray) released

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2026-October/000330.html
24•dgavrilov•1h ago•18 comments

Sticky alpine flower confirms Darwin's 150-year-old carnivorous plant prediction

https://phys.org/news/2026-08-sticky-alpine-darwin-year-carnivorous.html
64•maxall4•2d ago•25 comments

It took me nine years to hack my Xbox 360

https://kennedn.com/blog/posts/glitching/
117•kennedn•2d ago•33 comments

Show HN: Ito – Build Terminal UIs in Lua

https://uji.sh/ito/
47•cat-whisperer•14h ago•9 comments

Donaldson Futuro House in Idyllwild, California, USA

https://www.wowhaus.co.uk/2026/10/12/donaldson-futuro-house-in-idyllwild-california-usa/
59•rmason•1d ago•21 comments

Tracing Mystery Network Traffic with eBPF Across HRT's Global Compute Cluster

https://www.hudsonrivertrading.com/hrtbeat/long-on-research-short-on-bandwidth/
12•theHRTBeat•2d ago•2 comments

Show HN: Flipflop, Iroh-powered persistent tunnels for filesharing

https://github.com/andunieee/flipflop
62•andunie•8h ago•25 comments

Better HTTP/1 connection reuse in Go 1.27

https://go.dev/blog/http-connection-reuse
273•allddd•20h ago•45 comments

David Rudnick on "borderline impossible" process of designing Arsenal typeface

https://www.itsnicethat.com/features/david-rudnick-johnnie-campbell-arsenal-rocastle-typeface-gra...
42•droidjj•2d ago•24 comments

The Double Headed Stack Allocator

https://blog.demofox.org/2026/10/03/the-double-headed-stack-allocator/
77•g0xA52A2A•11h ago•25 comments

Your C is not standard C

https://sebsite.pw/w/20261012-notstdc.html
105•dverlaeckt80•1d ago•72 comments

Stopping sand from destroying a hydropower turbine [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCYrSBexF_4
12•CaliforniaKarl•2d ago•2 comments

Show HN: Petal, open-source CoScreen/ScreenHero finally free

https://petal.live/
191•thedracle•18h ago•39 comments

How Amazon pushes up prices all across the Internet

https://www.not-ship.com/how-amazon-pushes-up-prices-all-across-the-internet/
879•sighborg•1d ago•676 comments

The Toftwood Male Voice Choir: A Mystery Pressed in Vinyl

https://ei3lh.eu/2026/10/11/the-toftwood-male-voice-choir-a-mystery-pressed-in-vinyl/
47•austinallegro•3d ago•12 comments
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Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stingray) released

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2026-October/000330.html
23•dgavrilov•1h ago

Comments

eu•38m ago
just upgraded an old notebook from 16.04 to 18.04 :) i’m surprised they kept the files up for such a long time.
luipugs•23m ago
...but why?
wongogue•21m ago
The oldest commercially supported release at the moment is 14.04 so of course they will have the files.
antonyh•25m ago
I personally consider Ubuntu an irresponsible choice. They hold back security updates unless you subscribe to Ubuntu Pro with the 'esm-apps'. I'd rather use a distro that doesn't apply a ransom to security updates.
philipallstar•22m ago
How do they compare with Debian for the same updates?
esseph•19m ago
> I personally consider Ubuntu an irresponsible choice

Absolutely. Injecting ads into the desktop and cli, having a package manager that runs as a root service, their decades of poor upgrade testing, etc.

I have never found them to be trustworthy when other, better options exist.

torben-friis•19m ago
Is Ubuntu pro just a paid extension for the LTS?

If so, why pay for that rather than upgrading? Honest question.

esseph•16m ago
May not be able to easily replatform the application running on top of the 5-10yr server or VM.

LTS also only covers core OS components with security updates, not the 30k+ packages available in the repo...

sekh60•15m ago
I agree, since that move I've migrated everything I had running on Ubuntu to Debian, with the exception of my big blue button VPS whose installation script is really tied to it.
stackskipton•11m ago
What? Ubuntu Non-LTS, which this release is, support window is 9 months of support and LTS is 5 years free + 5 years paid.

That's well spelled out here: https://ubuntu.com/about/release-cycle

You can also just upgrade your LTS and continue to get support for free.

blablabla123•11m ago
Ubuntu is surely controversial but no, security updates aren't paid. ;) Well, unless you need an LTS that cannot be updated for whatever reasons for 10 years. Or for people that need an extra FIPS approval.
erelong•11m ago
Used to love Ubuntu but they dropped X11 support so I'm out

(I'm fine with Wayland for those who want it but it still breaks things I've used)

OroPla•10m ago
I left ubuntu back during the unity desktop days. It was a great desktop for beginners, but not my cup of tea. Since then they put ads in their operating system and embraced these nonsensical snap packages, so I'll never go back to ubuntu.

Instead, I'll probably move everything over to Void next.

jadar•8m ago
stonks?