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KDE at 30 – KDE Community

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💥 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: KDE triviaDid you know that…?…KDE has helped put robots on Mars?We did! And we have the graphical evidence to prove it:That is from the documentary Good Night Oppy, about the Opportunity Mars rover. In the scene you can see a NASA engineer troubleshooting the rover while in flight towards Mars from a KDE 3 workstation.You can watch Good Night Oppy on Amazon Prime.Submitted by Paul Brown…KDE built the HTML engine that powers most web browsers?It’s true!KDE’s web engine was written back in 1998 -…

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Sysadmining like it’s 2009 – ((lambda (x) (create x)) ‘(knowledge))

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✨ Read this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: I'm wicked excited, it's finally here! Legacy Labs is officially starting its first ever event! For the next two months I'm going to be sysadmining like it's 2009, well sort of, I'll break down my full plan here in a second and it's a little bit anachronistic but there's a reasoning behind it. But I'm getting ahead of myself, you probably already have a couple of questions, like what is legacy labs exactly? And "I thought summer camps were for kids, what?". What is a…

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Microsoft builds its ultimate MacBook Pro rival with the NVIDIA powered Surface Laptop Ultra

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🚀 Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Microsoft announces the Surface Laptop Ultra powered by NVIDIA RTX SPARK Microsoft just dropped a bombshell at Computex 2026 by unveiling the most powerful device ever to bear the Surface name. The newly announced Surface Laptop Ultra is a direct answer to Apple and its dominant MacBook Pro lineup. Built in a deep partnership with NVIDIA, the new flagship laptop runs Windows on Arm and completely redefines professional computing. Ever since the Surface division came into existence, I’ve always wondered why they didn’t go all…

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LLMs are closer to religion than they appear. Watch out for those who like it that way

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💥 Discover this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: AI + ML Papal's 40k-word encyclical drops and lawyers already asking if Catholics can refuse workplace AI on religious grounds OPINION AI and religion is becoming a hot topic. Pope Leo XIV just dropped a fat encyclical half as thick as a novel, saying we’re doing it wrong and threatening human dignity. Meanwhile, a study led by a consortium of religiously affiliated universities says that AIs don't give religious answers to questions. The two critiques are revelatory in very different ways about the unguided disruption AI is…

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Cessation of public development of Kefir C compiler

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🚀 Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: To whom it may concern, Today I announce the cessation of public development of Kefir C compiler and transition the work into private mode for an indefinite period of time. What is happening? First and foremost, I myself am saddened by this change, however consider it necessary for sustainability of the project. From now on and for an indefinite period of time, no new major developments of the Kefir compiler project will be distributed publicly. The work on the project will continue privately. The new…

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Why Video Games Still Baffle AI Models

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🔥 Discover this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Large language models (LLMs) have improved so quickly that the benchmarks themselves have evolved, adding more complex problems in an effort to challenge the latest models. Yet LLMs haven’t improved across all domains, and one task remains far outside their grasp: They have no idea how to play video games. While a few have managed to beat a few games (for example, Gemini 2.5 Pro beat Pokemon Blue in May of 2025), these exceptions prove the rule. The eventually victorious AI completed games far more…

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Meta legal action forces Facebook whistleblower to sit in silence at Hay festival | Meta

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🚀 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Facebook whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams was forced to sit in silence on stage at an event at Hay festival, after lawyers advised her not to speak because of ongoing legal action brought by Meta.Wynn-Williams, whose bestselling memoir, Careless People, details her years working at Facebook, was due to appear in conversation with the investigative journalist Carole Cadwalladr and academic Tim Wu.Instead, Wynn-Williams sat on stage for the duration of the hour-long discussion between Cadwalladr and Wu, without speaking or responding. She was unable even to…

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Dune’s Butlerian Jihad and the future of AI

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🔥 Read this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: MANILA, Philippines – Warner Bros. recently published a two-and-a-half-minute teaser for the final part of Denis Villeneuve’s Dune film trilogy. As a science fiction fan who has read Frank Herbert’s original Dune novel and thoroughly enjoyed the first two parts of the trilogy, I can’t wait to see Paul Atreides as the galaxy’s new emperor this December. Why is there no AI in Dune? One thing that sets the world of Herbert’s Dune apart from other sci-fi stories is that he deliberately suppressed the advance…

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Malaysia enforces social media ban for children under 16

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🔥 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia on Monday began enforcing rules barring millions of children younger than 16 from owning social media accounts, joining a global effort to tighten online safety protections for young users.The rules require social media platforms to implement age-verification systems and block users under 16 from creating accounts. They apply to platforms with at least 8 million users, including Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube.Companies that fail to comply could face penalties of up to 10 million ringgit ($2.5 million). But…

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Rubin Tracks Skyscraper-Size Asteroids, Failed Supernovas, and Interstellar Visitors

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✨ Discover this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Once the full survey begins this summer, Rubin is expected to produce 7 million alerts and 20 terabytes of data a night. For just one example of how this firehose of data is expected to transform our understanding of the cosmos, consider supernovas, the brilliant death throes of exhausted stars. Back in the late 1990s, two teams of astronomers used observations of under 100 “Type Ia” supernovas to make a revolutionary discovery about our universe: Its expansion is accelerating due to a still-mysterious force called…

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