Hacker News with Generative AI: Beta Releases

WebGPU enabled by default in iOS 18.2 beta (twitter.com)
FreeBSD 14.2 Beta 1 Released (phoronix.com)
FreeBSD 14.2 Beta 1 is out today as the first tagged test snapshot in working toward this newest FreeBSD 14 point release.
Haiku OS'S Beta 5 Release Brings US into a New BeOS Era (hackaday.com)
The name BeOS is one which tends to evoke either sighs of nostalgia or blank stares, mostly determined by one’s knowledge of the 1990s operating system scene.
Build durable apps on Cloudflare Workers: write Workflows, we do the rest (cloudflare.com)
Workflows, Cloudflare’s durable execution engine that allows you to build reliable, repeatable multi-step applications that scale for you, is now in open beta.
The PlanetScale vectors public beta (planetscale.com)
We're excited to announce that PlanetScale vector search and storage is now available in open beta! With PlanetScale vector support, you can store your vector data alongside your application's relational MySQL data — eliminating the need for a separate specialized vector database.
xAI Grok API Beta (twitter.com)
Flawless is now in public beta (flawless.dev)
Flawless is a durable execution engine for Rust. But what is durable execution actually?
Thunderbird for Android Beta has been released (github.com/thunderbird)
Tell HN: Hetzner just launched object storage in beta (ycombinator.com)
This is a game changer, since this keeps me form having to roll my own Minio. I was considering moving from S3 to R2, but if I can keep all traffic away from the internet until it needs to leave, that is ideal to me. Hopefully they add a CDN too.
GPU Acceleration with Polars (pola.rs)
Since we announced the new accelerated GPU engine in April, both the NVIDIA and Polars teams have worked to provide a seamless experience and bring GPU acceleration to Polars. In this beta release, most common operations are covered and may benefit from GPU acceleration.
Fedora Linux 41 Beta (fedoramagazine.org)
Today, the Fedora Project is pleased to announce the availability of Fedora Linux 41 Beta.
Haiku OS R1 Beta 5 Is Keeping the BeOS Dream Alive (howtogeek.com)
BeOS inspired Haiku R1/beta5 is out (haiku-os.org)
Haiku is developed by a small group of volunteers & occasional contractors. To help with development and bandwidth costs, please consider donating, if you are able. We rely on your support to continue the development of Haiku into the future.
Nue 1.0 (Beta) – A web framework for UX developers (nuejs.org)
Grok 2.0 mini beta is pretty decent at generating code better than Gemini (twitter.com)
Grok-2 Beta Release (x.ai)
Apple Maps on the web launches in beta (apple.com)
Apple releases public betas for iOS 18, macOS, and more (theverge.com)
Android 15 beta has an optional desktop mode (theregister.com)
Tell HN: Wikipedia dark mode for desktop is in beta (wikipedia.org)
Linux Mint 22 "Wilma" – Beta Release (linuxmint.com)
Tuple for Windows Public Beta (tuple.app)
Artifact Attestations–now in public beta (github.blog)
Show HN: Glasskube – The new Kubernetes Package Manager is now in Beta (github.com/glasskube)
Overture Maps Foundation Releases Beta of Its First Open Map Dataset (overturemaps.org)
The First Beta of Android 15 (googleblog.com)