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Did the Linux memory management maintainer "just quit"?

Mon, 05/25/2026 - 2:50pm

I came across this breathlessly written article, the beginning of which I will reproduce below, so as to not give its author any more engagement:

Title: "Linux Memory Had One Maintainer for 26 Years. He Just Quit. Now What?"

Subtitle: "One person held the code that runs every Android phone, cloud server, and supercomputer for 26 years. On April 21, he posted one message and then was silent."

Last non-paywalled sentence: "Two weeks later, at a developer summit in Zagreb, the memory management team tried to figure out how to replace him. They couldn’t."

This sounded very alarmist so I did a quick search (note: I'm not a Linux kernel expert or enthusiast by any measure). What I found seemed fairly tame:

Andrew Mortan's transition announcement: https://lwn.net/ml/all/20260421094216.8dfe14a8c62f2420fa5aace1@linux-foundation.org/

May 7 announcement of new maintainer: https://lwn.net/Articles/1070994/

Can someone familiar with the matter confirm that I was right to dismiss the original article as alarmist engagement bait, or is there reason for worry?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48270275

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New Wix Headless Skills Released

Mon, 05/25/2026 - 2:49pm

Article URL: https://www.wix-headless.dev/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48270266

Points: 1

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Show HN: CloudPostOffice – Send messages between apps and agents in 4 lines

Mon, 05/25/2026 - 2:38pm

CloudPostOffice is realtime messaging for apps, scripts, and AI agents. No MQTT broker setup or configuration, no infrastructure to manage.

p1 = cpo.postbox('postbox-1', 'your-secret') p1.send(to='postbox-2', msg='hello') p2 = cpo.postbox('postbox-2', 'your-secret') p2.listen(lambda msg: print(msg))

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48270134

Points: 2

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