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A live DreamHost incident is the operational item. The Linux 7.4 merge window brings ext4 and sound changes, with a maintainer flagging AI patch volume. Tesco's move off VMware is a concrete example of the Proxmox shift.

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DreamHost reports an active incident on its status page and is forcing customers to reset their passwords. The summary gives no cause or scope.
HighHacker News (front page) ↗yesterday4 min read
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Tesco is replacing VMware with Proxmox for store and edge virtualisation, according to a job advertisement.
NotableThe Register ↗8 h ago3 min read
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Linux 7.4 adds opt-in buffered IOmap support to ext4, promising a significant performance gain for large writes.
NotablePhoronix ↗3 h ago1 min read
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Linux 7.4 sound changes are merged. Maintainer Takashi Iwai notes a rising flood of AI-generated kernel patches and bug reports.
NotablePhoronix ↗23 h ago1 min read
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Work to prepare DNS for post-quantum cryptography is accelerating, with RIR reform approaching. A separate paper compares IETF proposals for carrying large post-quantum KEM public keys in IKEv2.
NotableThe Register ↗9 h ago4 min read
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Kali Linux 2026.3 ships six new penetration testing tools and desktop environment updates.
NotableBleepingComputer ↗3 h ago3 min read
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Linux 7.4 fixes a Cache Aware Scheduling regression on AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 laptops. The fix is backported to 7.2 and 7.3.
Phoronix ↗3 h ago2 min read
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Simon Ser proposed the ext-transient-output Wayland protocol to help VNC and remote desktop software work under Wayland.
NotablePhoronix ↗22 h ago1 min read

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All you need is Wide Events, not "Metrics, Logs and Traces"3
An essay argues that wide events, rich structured per-request records, should replace the metrics, logs, and traces model in observability.
Hacker News (front page)19 h agoobservabilitymonitoringessay
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Article URL: https://isburmistrov.substack.com/p/all-you-need-is-wide-events-not-metrics Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50234329 Points: 51 # Comments: 12
JetBrains Thinkrail3
JetBrains published Thinkrail, a new project on GitHub, drawing substantial Hacker News discussion.
Hacker News (front page)21 h agojetbrainsdeveloper-toolsopen-source
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Article URL: https://github.com/JetBrains/thinkrail Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50233294 Points: 109 # Comments: 67
Moxnox: NT-Like, POSIX-Compatible Hobby OS Running Atop Btrfs2
Mark Harmstone's hobby operating system Moxnox is a POSIX-compatible OS built atop Btrfs.
Phoronix3 h agoos-devbtrfsopen-source
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Open-source developer Mark Harmstone who is known for his work on developing a Btrfs file-system driver for Windows has spent the past few years working on a new hobby operating system. Moxnox is an HT-like, POSIX-compatible operating system...
OpenLDK: Bringing the Java World into Common Lisp2
OpenLDK is a project implementing a Java runtime environment in Common Lisp, with little further detail in the summary.
Lobsters7 h agocommon-lispjavaopen-source
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Embedding Large PQC KEMs in IKEv22
The paper compares IETF proposals for carrying large post-quantum KEM public keys in IKEv2 handshakes under identical conditions.
arXiv cs.CR (Cryptography & Security)9 h agoikev2post-quantumvpn
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arXiv:2610.32356v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Post-quantum key encapsulation mechanisms carry public keys far larger than the established VPN handshake protocol IKEv2 was designed for. At the same time, its initial exchange comprising the public keys cannot be fragmented. In response, the IETF discusses a range of protocol adjustments, yet these proposals have never been compared in terms of their performance and stability under identical conditions. We systematically screened the IETF document corpus for such proposals, added three of our own (one using forward error correction and two using IKEv2 with QUIC, namely QUIKE and QUIKE with a composite key exchange), identified two specification gaps in existing acknowledgment drafts, and implemented all eight on the same open-source codebase. Measurements across different bandwidths, latencies, and packet loss rates, and with ML-KEM, FrodoKEM, and Classic McEliece, total 126 500 handshakes in 1296 different configurations and show that no mechanism fully compensates for the effect of the key size on performance. For Classic McEliece, no approach handles challenging conditions acceptably. The approaches either congest the link or tak…
PaperPilot – Zero-Cloud, Pure-Rust PDF Engine with WASM and MCP2
PaperPilot is a Show-style open-source Rust PDF engine offering WASM builds and MCP integration without cloud dependence.
Hacker News (front page)10 h agorustpdfopen-sourcewasm
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Article URL: https://github.com/KrushnaVardhanReddy/PaperPilot Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50238739 Points: 54 # Comments: 9
Removing Next.js Got My Blog to 100 on Every Lighthouse Category2
A blogger reports removing Next.js from their site raised Lighthouse scores to 100 across all categories.
Hacker News (front page)12 h agowebperformancenextjs
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Article URL: https://korindiehacker.bloffy.blog/en/removing-nextjs-got-my-blog-to-100-on-every-lighthouse-category Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50237712 Points: 23 # Comments: 3
Redox OS Landed Nice Performance Improvements In September2
Redox OS published its September status update covering performance improvements to the Rust-based operating system.
Phoronix13 h agoredox-osrustopen-source
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The Rust-based open-source operating system Redox OS had a very eventful September as they outlined in a status update published this weekend...
Simple NetBSD webserver2
A post describing how to set up a simple web server on NetBSD, shared on Lobsters.
Lobsters14 h agonetbsdweb-serverlobsters
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