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Wine Ported to OpenBSD

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=179236125692175
147•iamnothere•2h ago•24 comments

Timestral: Mistral release time-series foundation models

https://mistral.ai/news/timestral/
295•groar•5h ago•45 comments

Linux 7.3 Released

https://lwn.net/Articles/1101143/
470•cjd8•8h ago•203 comments

Alternatives to Animal Testing Are Finally Taking Off

https://spectrum.ieee.org/alternatives-to-animal-testing
131•rbanffy•4h ago•33 comments

Let's Encrypt is adding two additional remote perspectives for domain validation

https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/lets-encrypt-is-adding-two-additional-remote-perspectives-for...
128•gslin•4h ago•36 comments

Show HN: KiviDB, a faster Redis-compatible memory database and vector cache

https://github.com/kividbio/kividb
27•murtazayusuf•1h ago•2 comments

ESA's Hera Will View Asteroid Scars from DART's Strike

https://spectrum.ieee.org/esa-hera-dimorphos-rendezvous
48•rbanffy•4h ago•1 comments

Gdynia and the Dream of a Maritime Poland

https://engelsbergideas.com/notebook/gdynia-and-the-dream-of-a-maritime-poland/
72•lermontov•2d ago•18 comments

Show HN: Qwen3-4B with the AI writing tics trained out

https://100toolkit.com/blog/deslop-model/
93•erikkannike•2h ago•70 comments

A death, a plagiarism scandal and a quest for revenge: the tale of Otto Z

https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/oct/08/a-death-a-plagiarism-scandal-and-a-qu...
18•Hooke•2d ago•1 comments

Hybrid Reasoning Agents: LLM agents that think in latent space, act through text

https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.18861
476•allinonai•18h ago•227 comments

There's never been a better time to go into math (by: 3blue1brown) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKrwhjOI8Nc
481•mdp2021•1d ago•637 comments

Beyond the Glass

https://longreads.com/2026/10/15/mother-museum-skulls-grief-agni/
10•Petiver•3d ago•0 comments

If you don't run your own LLM proxy, how do you know whats going on?

https://jrdsgl.com/if-you-dont-run-your-own-llm-proxy-how-the-fuck-do-you-even-know-whats-going-on/
260•amrrs•18h ago•178 comments

William Gibson and the trademarking of cyberspace

https://colo.to/cyberspace.html
239•Eric_Gullichsen•16h ago•111 comments

How to Train Your Robot

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-to-train-your-robot
110•crescit_eundo•4d ago•35 comments

It's still OK to enjoy programming

https://chriskiehl.com/article/it-is-still-ok-to-enjoy-programming
9•goostavos•1d ago•0 comments

Rabbits were a medieval royal luxury in England until the Black Death

https://phys.org/news/2026-10-rabbits-medieval-royal-luxury-england.html
121•samizdis•2d ago•115 comments

Someone behind the software

https://karrisaarinen.com/posts/someone-behind-the-software/
517•tosh•23h ago•186 comments

Dogs seem to agree with humans that 'bouba' is round and 'kiki' is spiky

https://www.sciencealert.com/dogs-seem-to-agree-with-humans-that-bouba-is-round-and-kiki-is-spiky
311•gmays•1d ago•180 comments

Laptop Based on 6502 CPU

https://www.maddox.pro/?p=448
179•nanochess•3d ago•88 comments

RepRapMicron

https://github.com/VikOlliver/RepRapMicron/wiki
433•RobotToaster•1d ago•68 comments

Kevin Bacon's missing clothes finally delivered in Ireland

https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2026/1019/1595980-kevin-bacon/
5•austinallegro•13m ago•1 comments

Maybe There Was an Egg Cartel After All

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/10/18/egg-prices-conspiracy-affordability-issue-01100411
59•iamnothere•1h ago•41 comments

How Quickly Can the DoD Rebuild and Recast the Munitions Industrial Base?

https://www.csis.org/analysis/how-quickly-can-dod-rebuild-and-recast-munitions-industrial-base
118•gmays•16h ago•176 comments

The DNS Museum

https://dns.museum
117•zdw•2d ago•15 comments

Harness2 by Google Research – Recursive Agent Harnessing

https://github.com/google-research/harness2
52•irthomasthomas•4h ago•10 comments

Tmux and Claude Code: Sessions, Send-Keys, and the Ceiling

https://crystl.dev/guides/tmux-for-ai-agents/
109•ankitg12•9h ago•77 comments

Superlite: A Faster Alternatie to Superpowers

https://contextfirst.blog/superlite-hand-an-agent-a-spec/
130•iheatuchriswogu•13h ago•60 comments

Free Pascal compiler now supports dynamic packages

https://www.getlazarus.org/dynamic/
187•sysrpl•20h ago•44 comments
Open in hackernews

Wine Ported to OpenBSD

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=179236125692175
145•iamnothere•2h ago

Comments

ndbe•55m ago
Insane work!

There's even the remaster of The Witcher running! If I had money I would simply gift to those guys.

throwaway27448•49m ago
Out of curiosity, how much work/what sorts of openbsd-specific details must be addressed to get such a port working?
coldpie•14m ago
You can download the attachment and take a look at the patches. Wine already supports FreeBSD and macOS, so it's not tooooo crazy hard to add another BSD/Unix to the pile. Looks like there's a few Unix APIs that have drifted, so the patches add some #if OpenBSD style stuff to avoid using some symbols that don't exist on OpenBSD. The gs register stuff is by far the most complex bit. IIRC that register is used for thread-local storage on Windows, but for other purposes on other OS's, so handling access from win32 binaries to the gs register is a big problem when porting to a new OS.

On the whole it looks well written to me, especially with how complex & low-level these areas of Wine are. Good work to the author. I'd encourage them to try upstreaming it if they're interested. Some of it looks a little hacky, which upstream will object to, but maybe they could get some help cleaning it up, which will avoid having to maintain a diff and result in an even better port.

Edit: Oh, looks like they already talked with upstream https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=179241414029592 It's not a huge diff to maintain, so maybe that is the better route. Great work either way.

Bluescreenbuddy•46m ago
Good lord this is awesome
ericfrederich•46m ago
My first thought was this must have something to do with the development momentum around the PS5 but that apparently runs FreeBSD not OpenBSD.
CodeCompost•46m ago
That is awesome. I take it I can't run this with nVidia.
ninjin•11m ago
Nvidia support for OpenBSD is not really a thing [1]. With AMD and Intel, you have support for modern hardware in the tree [2,3].

[1]: https://man.openbsd.org/nv

[2]: https://man.openbsd.org/amdgpu

[3]: https://man.openbsd.org/intel

RunSet•40m ago
Especially welcome news now that OpenBSD is shaping up to be a refuge from slopcode.

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=177411620801633&w=2

smlacy•21m ago
Wow, I honestly didn't think HN would succumb to the AI := Slop perspective.
lionkor•17m ago
I think it's the complete saturation of the platform with members who make it feel like HN is a platform for people to boast about how many tokens they burnt to rewrite something that already worked fine.

It polarizes people to either join the "the LLM is my god" crowd or the "if AI touches the repo, it's all slop" crowd.

The careful balance is rarely discussed, probably because that's the part that still takes work.

kingcauchy•9m ago
It really depends on the post anymore. Have had a lot of really thoughtful discussions about the nuance that came out of HN convos. Seems like most businesses and people are still just trying to figure out.
greyw•21m ago
OpenBSD will probably fall even further behind
freedomben•
BlackRabbit1•37m ago
Finally I can run Zonealarm on OBSD
timcobb•34m ago
Kaspersky though
GuinansEyebrows•3m ago
Still waiting on 64-bit BonziBuddy...
haunter•33m ago
Gameplay videos

Disco Elysium https://video.gamerstavern.online/w/qYjXr8dBauynzvEquJ7cP4

Hollow Knight https://video.gamerstavern.online/w/8tjjFRDtGJQZwxfE4ojVoC

Prey 2017 https://video.gamerstavern.online/w/vNxVThRcpijbT9FAQPcKdz

Death Stranding https://video.gamerstavern.online/w/rzz2TLCxcmneHsydukAFLU

Witcher 3 Remastered https://video.gamerstavern.online/w/oZcTRKL5JMiU4M4FqGKcNH

According to the reddit post:

AMD Ryzen 9 9900X, 16GB RAM, AMD Radeon RX 9070

philipallstar•20m ago
Missed opportunity to call it Port.
kingcauchy•12m ago
Probable being reserved for the OpenBrandSherryDaquiri rebranding.
brynet•19m ago
I OK'd this port. I apologize in advance.
t-3•18m ago
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=179241414029592

> I doubt much will be merged upstream. Many updates we have can technically run on other OSes (%gs stubs won't be built on Linux because %gs is correctly set, SIGUSR1 will work but less optimally, etc). However I picked an approach where everything that is done for OpenBSD is just marked as OpenBSD only. I did that purely to simplify my life while I was working on it and clearly mark the changes.

> When I was talking to Wine maintainers a month ago, they were hesitant to accept even patching Wine so it compiles for OpenBSD, mostly because it's another OS they will have to support and keep operational, while the %gs stub fix is something they definitely cannot take upstream. They are very hesitant to take anything that is changing the "emulated" application code.

saurilabs•15m ago
This is awessome!
imagetic•5m ago
Yes. More of this.
6m ago
Yep, drivers are one of if not the biggest blocker in my experience, and that's an area AI can help immensely