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OpenTofu 1.12 The Feature Terraform Never Shipped
The OpenTofu community released version 1.12.0 on May 14, 2026. This update isn’t a complete rewrite, but it does resolve some issues that infrastructure teams have faced for a while. By Claudio Masolo
We're testing new ad formats in Search and expanding our Direct Offers pilot
431 points, 353 comments on Hacker News
Show HN: Rmux – A programmable terminal multiplexer with a Playwright-style SDK
Author here. RMUX started from a frustration: I've used tmux for years and got tired of scraping output with grep and sleeps to automate anything. So I rebuilt the multiplexer from scratch in Rust, with a programmable layer on top. Two surfaces: a tmux-compatible CLI (~90 commands, your keybindings just work), and a typed async Rust SDK on the same daemon — stable pane IDs, structured snapshots, locator-style waits. The idea is Playwright-style automation, but for terminals. Native on Linux, macOS, Windows (real ConPTY, no WSL). Demos and docs at rmux.io. Happy to answer questions about the daemon protocol, ConPTY, or the SDK design. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48219918 Points: 13 # Comments: 6
The famous O3 "GeoGuessr" prompt did not work
Article URL: https://www.seangoedecke.com/the-o3-geoguessr-prompt-did-not-work/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48219682 Points: 14 # Comments: 6
The physicists who convinced Fermilab to send Brazil's emails
24 points, 9 comments on Hacker News
Typewise (YC S22) Is Hiring an AI Growth Engineer (Zurich or Remote)
Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/typewise/jobs/HmCzfBK-ai-growth-engineer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48219340 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
9-Year-Old Linux Kernel Flaw Enables Root Command Execution on Major Distros
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a vulnerability in the Linux kernel that remained undetected for nine years. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-46333 (CVSS score: 5.5), is a case of improper privilege management that could permit an unprivileged local user to disclose sensitive files and execute arbitrary commands as root on default installations of several major
Vivaldi 8.0
Article URL: https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-on-desktop-8-0/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48219060 Points: 126 # Comments: 56
[RFC] LLVM Foundation statement in favor of open access to standards documents
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No query strings here either
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OpenSMTPD Is The Mail Server For The Future
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GitHub Internal Repositories Breached via Malicious Nx Console VS Code Extension
GitHub on Wednesday officially confirmed that the breach of its internal repositories was the result of a compromise of an employee device involving a poisoned version of the Nx Console Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extension. The development comes as the Nx team revealed that the extension, nrwl.angular-console, was breached after one of its developers' systems was hacked in the
Aggressive AI scrapers are making it kinda suck to run wikis
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Highly Critical Drupal Core Flaw Exposes PostgreSQL Sites to RCE Attacks
Drupal has released security updates for a "highly critical" security vulnerability in Drupal Core that could be exploited by attackers to achieve remote code execution, privilege escalation, or information disclosure. The vulnerability, now tracked as CVE-2026-9082, carries a CVSS score of 6.5 out of 10.0, per CVE.org. Drupal said the vulnerability resides in a database abstraction API that is
Twelve Ways to Be Wrong About AI-Assisted Coding
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OpenAI to confidentially file for IPO as soon as Friday
Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/20/openai-ipo-filing.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48217052 Points: 28 # Comments: 0
Haskell Foundation 2026 Update
Article URL: https://discourse.haskell.org/t/haskell-foundation-2026-update/14136 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48216983 Points: 17 # Comments: 3
What is Demand Coop and why tech workers should join one
Article URL: https://cahootzcoops.com/blog/what-is-a-demand-coop Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48216619 Points: 40 # Comments: 41
The Mislabeled Bricks of Utopia
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Intuit to lay off over 3k employees to refocus on AI
Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/20/intuit-to-lay-off-over-3000-employees-to-refocus-on-ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48216278 Points: 82 # Comments: 48
LAN-LOK: The Antarctic DOS Sabotage Game Lost for 34 Years
17 points, 0 comments on Hacker News
The Letter S, by Donald Knuth (1980) [pdf]
Article URL: https://gwern.net/doc/design/typography/1980-knuth.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48216016 Points: 71 # Comments: 7
Show HN: I reverse engineered Apple's video wallpapers
Ever since Apple introduced their video wallpapers I wanted to be able to put custom videos there. I decided to reverse engineer and see what I can do. I built Phosphene to sell it, but the existing competitors were polished enough that the time it would have taken to catch up wasn't going to pay off. So I'm open-sourcing it. WallpaperExtensionKit.framework is what powers macOS wallpapers. It controls what’s shows in the Settings app. It took a lot of trial and error to replicate the behavior, but the result is that your custom wallpapers appear alongside everything else. I wanted to have an “add” button there too, but I couldn’t find a way to do so, so there’s a companion app that will put your video where it needs to be. Unlike Apple's Aerials, the video keeps playing on the desktop (not just the lock screen). The renderer drives AVSampleBufferDisplayLayer directly with PTS-offset gapless looping, and pauses or downshifts based on thermal state, battery level, brightness, and window
DOS Zone
Article URL: https://dos.zone/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48215418 Points: 134 # Comments: 27
Starship's Twelfth Flight Test
13 points, 1 comments on Hacker News
Google Declaring War on the Web
43 points, 7 comments on Hacker News
Show HN: CPU-only transcription for YouTube, TikTok, X, Instagram videos
Article URL: https://github.com/kouhxp/yapsnap Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48214399 Points: 40 # Comments: 14
My two-part desk setup (2025)
152 points, 100 comments on Hacker News
PopuLoRA: Co-Evolving LLM Populations for Reasoning Self- Play
18 points, 1 comments on Hacker News
Investigating unauthorized access to GitHub’s internal repositories
If any impact is discovered, customers will be notified via established incident response and notification channels. The post Investigating unauthorized access to GitHub’s internal repositories appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
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