Daily News Digest — Night Update

Night update, generated 2026-08-28.

25 new stories since Lunch.

Htmx 4.0

Sources: Hacker News, Lobsters

HN: 282 points, 61 comments (discussion)

GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven

Sources: Hacker News, Lobsters

HN: 264 points, 145 comments (discussion)

Hilariously fast volume computation with the divergence theorem (2018)

Sources: Hacker News, Lobsters

HN: 218 points, 56 comments (discussion)

Debugging my new network, when 10 Gigabit Ethernet Runs at 300 Megabits

Sources: Hacker News, Lobsters

HN: 42 points, 15 comments (discussion)

“It works better in the app”

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 591 points, 397 comments (discussion)

At this point the barrier for me to install an app is pretty high. If you're going to needlessly gate certain functions behind an app that work on a desktop browser (or could work in-browser), then I just won't use those functions. If by extension that degrades the value I get from your site, then I...

Yap: a particular kind of slop

Sources: Lobsters

Apple TV and Apple One Subscription Prices Increase By Up To 20%

Sources: Slashdot

LibreOffice 26.8 is out – local first, and with no AI

Sources: The Register

Casting Engine Parts from 3D Prints

Sources: Hackaday

Get your Windows license refund

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 545 points, 212 comments (discussion)

In 2011 I got a 143€ reimbursement from Dell for an E6420 laptop that I had bought for 910€. Maybe I got lucky but I called the customer service, told the lady I did not agree with the Windows license terms, fully ready to argue my case and she just went "oh, ok, let me just edit a new invoice and w...

OpenOffice does not print on Tuesdays (2009)

Sources: Lobsters

Pentagon's Blacklisting of Anthropic Was Unlawful, US Judge Rules

Sources: Slashdot

Green Party wants to slam the brakes on UK datacenter construction until water and energy use are sorted

Sources: The Register

Hackaday Podcast Episode 384: OCR MOD Records, Magical PCBs, and the Gravity of Space Stations

Sources: Hackaday

GLM-5.3 is now open-weight

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 376 points, 136 comments (discussion)

Quest for eternal dock on Wayland - lambdock (C + GTK4 + Lisp GNU Guile Scheme)

Sources: Lobsters

Stripe and Advent Ditch $50 Billion PayPal Takeover Bid

Sources: Slashdot

US government snitch-finder pleads guilty to leaking state secrets to foreign spies

Sources: The Register

Building a Headless Game Boy Emulator

Sources: Hackaday

Judge rules Trump administration’s blacklisting of Anthropic was illegal

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 370 points, 288 comments (discussion)

I think this both overstates and understates the case. The evidence being weak does not invalidate the decision; as the court notes, the government gets substantial deference on matters of national security. The invalidation comes from the fact that this is clearly retaliatory behavior for speech; a...

Now Hiring: Senior Open Source Maintainer

Sources: Lobsters

Roblox Is Cracking Down On Games That Reward Kids For Doomscrolling

Sources: Slashdot

Keepers of Noble Numbats to be offered a Resolute Racoon: Ubuntu 26.04.1 is coming

Sources: The Register

This Week in Security: Android Malware, VOIP Hijack, Signal Contact Discovery, and TeamPCP Arrests

Sources: Hackaday

Luanti removed from Google Play due to baseless AI copyright notice

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 326 points, 110 comments (discussion)