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b11718 · 2026-10-18 04:45 UTC

Restore ESIMD kernels on FFN path ( #30239 ) Reenable ESIMD on the FFN path Signed-off-by: Todd Malsbary todd.malsbary@intel.com Extend ESIMD fusion on FFN path to include Q8_0 Signed-off-by: Todd Malsbary todd.malsbary@intel.com Remove comment explicitly referencing ESIMD in test-backend-ops…

b11717 · 2026-10-18 02:53 UTC

hexagon: add support for hadamard MUL_MAT and GET_ROW for flat and tiled Q1_0 and Q2_0 ( #30627 ) hex-hadamard: add support for hadamard ops hex-mm: reduce pkt counts in the q8_1 quantizer and vec_dot_q1 hex-q1/q2: add support for flat and tiled GET_ROWS for Q1_0 and Q2_0 Co-authored-by: Max…

b11716 · 2026-10-17 21:15 UTC

hexagon: add support for Q1_0 and Q2_0 ( #30122 ) hexagon: add support for q1_0 quant hexagon: enable Q1_0 weights in the 2D HMX MUL_MAT path hex-q1: cleanup gates, generalize tiling and remove in-loop divs hex-tiling: document tiled formats in developer.md and update htp-tensor.h hex-q2: add…

Now Playing Card shows media info for multiple apps at a time · 2026-10-18 02:55 UTC

Now Playing Card is an extension for GNOME Shell that can show playback info and media controls from multiple sources at the same time. You're reading Now Playing Card shows media info for multiple apps at a time , a blog post from OMG!

v4.0.5 · 2026-10-18 02:51 UTC

This release brings a bunch of fixes and refinements to tighten things up as we prep for the next feature release coming soon. Under the hood, it also moves Omarchy onto Qt 6.12, bumps the packages on the stable ring, and brings an updated Omarchy kernel with BORE scheduler.

Zuckerberg's Meta Takes Down No Kings Instagram During Protest Day · 2026-10-18 01:18 UTC

Article URL: https://meidasnews.com/news/zuckerbergs-meta-takes-down-no-kings-instagram-during-massive-protest-day Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50136881 Points: 437 # Comments: 262

OpenCode Hacked: User credentials leaked · 2026-10-17 18:01 UTC

Article URL: https://twitter.com/opencode/status/2111516673953935833 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50133401 Points: 819 # Comments: 152

Gold is now the top U.S. export · 2026-10-17 17:06 UTC

Article URL: https://www.numismaticnews.net/gold-now-top-u-s-export Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50132870 Points: 278 # Comments: 147

Synchronous Queues For VirtIO-FS Show Huge Performance Potential · 2026-10-18 00:55 UTC

VirtIO-FS as the shared file-system for transferring data between guest VMs to/from a host server is showing some promising performance results with pending code for allowing synchronous queues rather than always being asynchronous...

ReactOS Can Now Be Installed & Used With Its NTFS Driver · 2026-10-17 22:01 UTC

The ReactOS open-source operating system has seen its NTFS file-system driver mature to the point that it can be finally used for installing and using ReactOS with it. NTFS formatting support is also finally now possible with this driver too...

MeshXFS: AI Adapts XFS Into A Clustered File-System · 2026-10-17 17:02 UTC

MeshXFS is a clustered open-source file-system in which "no human wrote any of its own code". Depending upon your views of AI, not necessarily something you want to hear for entrusting your data in an AI-created solution.

Skorpion 3.5 · 2026-10-18 00:54 UTC

Skorpion OS is a Debian-based Linux distribution with built-in privacy and artificial intelligence (AI) features. It uses Skorpion AI (SKAI), a fully offline AI subsystem powered by Ollama and the Qwen2.5:14B language model.

MuliOS 26.07.03S · 2026-10-17 21:45 UTC

MuliOS is a minimalist, Arch-based Linux distribution featuring the KDE Plasma desktop. It comes with several custom tools, including a system installer called MuliOS Installer, as well as a MuliOS Welcome screen, a MuliOS task manager, and a command-line system update utility called "mupdate".

AOSC 20261017 · 2026-10-17 15:10 UTC

AOSC OS an independently maintained Linux distribution based on the Linux kernel and various software components, using a custom package manager called oma which works with Deb packages for package management. AOSC OS is targeted at experienced Linux users and optimised for use on personal devices.

v0.40.7 · 2026-10-18 00:28 UTC

What's Changed openai: allow Responses effort on non-thinking models by @hoyyeva in #19010 llama-server: let llama-server infer the draft speculative type by @dhiltgen in #19064 mlx: add PPLX Decider v1.2 support by @dhiltgen in #19072 Full Changelog : v0.40.6...v0.40.7-rc0

v0.40.6 · 2026-10-17 15:29 UTC

What's Changed win: prevent orphaned runners by @dhiltgen in #18500 gguf: add the q2_0 tensor and file types by @jmorganca in #18967 Launch clef in Ollama's cloud by @jberg5 in #19036 use identifiers for --ask mode question keys by @jberg5 in #19041 Full Changelog : v0.40.5...v0.40.6-rc0

Nix-store-csi: Serve Nix closures to k8s pods · 2026-10-17 23:18 UTC

I’ve been working on a Nix CSI for kubernetes since NixCon when I realized that everyone seems to working towards killing OCI layers (and images) in Kubernetes deployments. I’m hoping to get people to give it a spin and report back to me bugs, feature requests or general feedback.

Inline rendering with document​.currentScript · 2026-10-17 21:11 UTC

Lean Rada describes a neat trick that takes advantage of the document.currentScript property.

web-edit 0.1a2 · 2026-10-17 13:16 UTC

Release: web-edit 0.1a2 web-edit ( previously ) is my tiny web app for browsing and editing files in a folder. I mainly built it for editing files on different machines via Tailscale.

v0.32.0 · 2026-10-17 18:57 UTC

[Bugfix][Rust Frontend] Fix macOS build: read inherited listener fami…

Re: Patch pre-submission to Sashiko · 2026-10-17 18:21 UTC

On Sat, 17 Oct 2026 at 07:39, Jiri Kosina wrote: > > Another option I'd like to propose would be to introduce a way for > submitters to run patches through back-and-forth with Sashiko even before > properly submitting the Sashiko-polished v1 to maintainers and > mailinglists.

GNOME 50.6 Desktop Environment Released with Fixes for Nautilus, GNOME Shell · 2026-10-17 17:20 UTC

GNOME 50.6 is now available as the sixth update to the latest GNOME 50 desktop environment series with various bug fixes, updated translations, and other changes.

Ubuntu Touch OTA 2.1 Rolls Out with Support for Volla Tablet, Various Updates · 2026-10-17 07:30 UTC

Ubuntu Touch OTA 2.1 rolls out with support for Volla Tablet, updated Morph Browser, flashlight support for Volla Phone Plinius, a security fix, and other changes.

PeaZip 11.4 Open-Source Archive Manager Released with Various Improvements · 2026-10-17 06:55 UTC

PeaZip 11.4 open-source archive manager is now available for download with improvements to sanitization of input file names in multiple stages of the scripting engine.

Development statistics for the 7.2 kernel · 2026-10-17 17:14 UTC

Article URL: https://lwn.net/Articles/1088776/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50132950 Points: 127 # Comments: 104

Meta shakes up the frontiers, open and closed · 2026-10-17 14:06 UTC

This has been a week where the balance of American open-weight models took a step change back toward the frontier.

Not Every Open Source OS Needs to Be Based on Linux, and These Six Aren’t · 2026-10-17 13:01 UTC

Anyone who wants a break from Linux is usually told to try another distro. That advice, while good, leaves out those who want a break from Linux itself.

Planet News Roundup · 2026-10-17 08:00 UTC

This is a roundup of articles from the openSUSE community listed on planet.opensuse.org . This community blog feed aggregator lists the featured highlights below from Oct.

[AINews] High Taste Testers Ep. 1 · 2026-10-17 07:47 UTC

We are piloting a new show on Latent Space: High Taste Testers, a variant of our food show where we pull you in to a typical lunch conversation in San Francisco.