Open Source·
SQLite won't accept AI-written code, but QEMU just opened the door to it
Two of the most cautious C projects split on AI contributions in the same week. The real fight is over copyright provenance and who cleans up the slop.
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Hacker News is obsessed with durable Postgres workflows and a game about clicking yes
Six dev-tooling and AI posts that climbed Hacker News in late May 2026: durable execution on plain Postgres, LLM code smells, a permission-fatigue game, Rust 1.96, and more.
Open Source·
MySQL just fixed a 20-year-old bug where cascade deletes silently skipped triggers
MySQL bug #11472 was filed in 2005: triggers never fired on foreign key cascade actions, silently breaking audit logs. MySQL 9.7 finally closes it via WL#17024.
Open Source·
Microsoft just open-sourced 86-DOS. Tim Paterson's 45-year-old listings are now on GitHub under MIT.
Yufeng Gao and Rich Cini scanned Tim Paterson's 1981 assembler printouts. Microsoft pushed them to DOS-History/Paterson-Listings on April 28, the 45th anniversary.
Open Source·
Flatpak's next sandboxing milestone bolts it to systemd. Alpine and Void users get the bill.
Sebastian Wick and Adrian Vovk pitched systemd-appd at Linux App Summit on May 17. The cost of nested sandboxing is a hard systemd dependency in mainline Flatpak.
Open Source·
yt-dlp's maintainer says Bun is now 'fully vibe-coded'. Support is officially deprecated.
yt-dlp's maintainer bashonly says Bun's Rust rewrite 'has taken a turn towards being fully vibe-coded.' The supported window narrowed to four versions.
Open Source·
Cloudflare taught wasm-bindgen to catch a Rust panic. Workers no longer poison the sandbox.
Three Cloudflare engineers shipped panic and abort recovery into wasm-bindgen on April 22. A Rust Worker that panics now reinitialises on the next request.
Web·
Atlassian laid off the engineer who built its edge. He published the blueprints.
Vasilios Syrakis spent eight years building Atlassian's Envoy control plane. After the March cuts, he posted a 40-minute walkthrough that hit 1.1M views.
Hardware·
The OrcaSlicer fork Bambu Lab killed has six mirrors. Jeff Geerling joined the boycott.
FULU-Foundation/OrcaSlicer-bambulab hit 1,700 stars on May 12. Geerling won't recommend a Bambu printer again, and Louis Rossmann pledged $10,000 toward Jarczak's defense.
Open Source·
120 million plugin downloads later, Obsidian moved off GitHub. Paid plugins are now allowed.
Obsidian launched Obsidian Community on May 12. The new directory replaces the GitHub plugin queue with automated reviews, and paid plugins are in for the first time.
Open Source·
RPCS3's maintainers will ban contributors who submit undisclosed AI pull requests
The PS3 emulator project posted on X on May 10, citing 'AI slop' that has been clogging review. The hard line: ban-on-sight if you don't disclose.
Open Source·
Jarred Sumner rewrote 960,000 lines of Bun from Zig to Rust in six days. He might throw it all away.
Bun's creator used Claude to port the JavaScript runtime from Zig to Rust, hitting 99.8% test compatibility. He says there's a 'very high chance' it gets scrapped.
Gaming·
Valve open-sourced the Steam Controller's shell. Dbrand had a skin ready in 48 hours.
Valve published STP and STL CAD files for the Steam Controller and Puck under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 on GitLab. Anyone with a 3D printer can now mod it.
Hardware·
Bambu Lab killed an OrcaSlicer fork by lawyer letter. The fork was based on Bambu's own AGPL code.
Pawel Jarczak pulled OrcaSlicer-bambulab off GitHub on May 1 after Bambu Lab's legal team accused him of impersonating Bambu Studio and bypassing authorization.
Open Source·
Microsoft open-sourced the earliest known DOS code, transcribed from a stack of Tim Paterson's printouts.
MIT-licensed at GitHub on April 28, the 86-DOS 1.00 kernel and PC-DOS development snapshots were OCR'd from 45-year-old assembler listings.
Open Source·
An unofficial Notepad++ port finally landed on Mac. Don Ho didn't write it.
Andrey Letov shipped a native macOS Notepad++ port as a universal binary with the original Scintilla engine and a new Cocoa UI. It's GPL, free, and unaffiliated with Don Ho.
Open Source·
Zed 1.0 ships its agentic editor. The Atom team's Rust rewrite finally has a stable label.
Zed Industries shipped 1.0 on April 29 after five years of Rust and GPU work. Free forever for humans, with $10/month hosted AI and an open Agent Client Protocol.
Open Source·
Mitchell Hashimoto is pulling Ghostty off GitHub. The reason is daily outages.
Ghostty's creator has tracked GitHub outages every workday for months. After 18 years on the platform, he's moving the project. A read-only mirror stays.