Daily News Digest — Night Update

Night update, generated 2026-09-17.

16 new stories since Lunch.

My temporary PHP fix from 2014 has nearly 20M installs. Today I'm deprecating it

Sources: Hacker News, Lobsters

HN: 298 points, 85 comments (discussion)

Fujitsu launches made-in-Japan next-generation CPU FUJITSU-MONAKA

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 407 points, 150 comments (discussion)

Back in 2008 Fujitsu has one of the best performing 10Gbps Switches. We were building 40 Gbps packet sniffers at Google (4x 10 Gbps NICs) and needed switches that could do things like mirror traffic across ports at line rate. Fujitsu was way ahead of the pack. I always wondered what held them back f...

I expected better from Google

Sources: Lobsters

Hackers Stole Flock's Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks Cars and People

Sources: Slashdot

Why Wave Energy is the Final Frontier of Renewable Energy

Sources: Hackaday

How GLM built its own inference infrastructure

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 305 points, 232 comments (discussion)

US chip export restrictions may actually be an advantage for China's AI Infrastructure. Chinese companies are forced to speed up developing their own AI chips

I Don't Like LLMs

Sources: Lobsters

'Zuckoff' App Detects Meta Smartglasses, as Meta Plans Camera-Free Version, Loses Money, and Offers Social Media Subscriptions

Sources: Slashdot

Eye-D Badge Catches Your Attention

Sources: Hackaday

Keys Not Included: recovering the signing keys for US driver's license barcodes

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 275 points, 138 comments (discussion)

The Golden Spike, and Resurrecting the Vale(n) Programming Language

Sources: Lobsters

FCC ISM Rules May Shatter Lora Mesh Communities

Sources: Hackaday

CCC invites all model citizens to 40C3

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 270 points, 127 comments (discussion)

Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 203 points, 72 comments (discussion)

Everybody's Lost Their Minds

Sources: Lobsters

The Return of Sail Power: Cargo Ships Are Turning Back to the Wind

Sources: Hacker News

HN: 145 points, 105 comments (discussion)