Lunch update, generated 2026-08-19.
14 new stories since Morning.
Sources: Hacker News, Lobsters
HN: 148 points, 170 comments (discussion)
This is a big forwards-compatibility risk. Suppose glibc adds a new symbol, and then a GPU driver adds a dependency on that symbol. The user wants to run an old executable with the updated GPU driver (maybe the old GPU driver doesn’t support their GPU). Normally, this would work fine: the user ha...
Sources: Hacker News, Lobsters
HN: 114 points, 19 comments (discussion)
Sources: Hacker News
HN: 827 points, 233 comments (discussion)
2 anecdotes about Logitech software: I had a high-end webcam that flickered. There should be switch in the software to switch from 50hz to 60hz that'd fix it but it was nowhere to be found. After digging deeper I found that it was only available in English version of software. It was before macOS ha...
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Sources: The Register
Sources: Hackaday
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Sources: Hacker News
HN: 306 points, 205 comments (discussion)
God I wish they'd back up all of those claims by offering a subscription of Kimi K3 and GLM 5.3, not some outdated GLM 4.7 instance that they then proceed to call a preview model and say that they'll remove it, leaving users only with GPT-OSS 120B which is nigh useless nowadays: https://support.cere...
Sources: The Register
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