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1.Vercel April 2026 security incident (bleepingcomputer.com)
866 points by colesantiago 6 days ago | 492 comments
2.College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work (sentinelcolorado.com)
490 points by gnabgib 7 days ago | 429 comments
3.Archive of BYTE magazine, starting with issue #1 in 1975 (archive.org)
600 points by DamnInteresting 8 days ago | 153 comments
4.What are skiplists good for? (antithesis.com)
289 points by mfiguiere 8 days ago | 70 comments
5.Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7 (simonwillison.net)
368 points by pretext 6 days ago | 218 comments
6.SPEAKE(a)R: Turn Speakers to Microphones for Fun and Profit [pdf] (2017) (usenix.org)
186 points by Eridanus2 6 days ago | 70 comments
7.The Bromine Chokepoint (warontherocks.com)
229 points by crescit_eundo 6 days ago | 142 comments
8.Game devs explain the tricks involved with letting you pause a game (kotaku.com)
451 points by speckx 9 days ago | 255 comments
9.The RAM shortage could last years (theverge.com)
353 points by omer_k 6 days ago | 485 comments
10.The seven programming ur-languages (2022) (madhadron.com)
351 points by helloplanets 6 days ago | 155 comments
11.Nanopass Framework: Clean Compiler Creation Language (nanopass.org)
137 points by NordStreamYacht 10 days ago | 37 comments
12.Modern Common Lisp with FSet (common-lisp.dev)
182 points by larve 10 days ago | 28 comments
13.Notion leaks email addresses of all editors of any public page (twitter.com/weezerosint)
400 points by Tiberium 6 days ago | 148 comments
14.The world in which IPv6 was a good design (2017) (apenwarr.ca)
230 points by signa11 6 days ago | 166 comments
15.Show HN: Prompt-to-Excalidraw demo with Gemma 4 E2B in the browser (3.1GB) (teamchong.github.io)
163 points by teamchong 6 days ago | 62 comments
16.Updating Gun Rocket through 10 years of Unity Engine (jackpritz.com)
112 points by tyleo 9 days ago | 57 comments
17.2,100 Swiss municipalities showing which provider handles their official email (mxmap.ch)
236 points by doener 6 days ago | 69 comments
18.Zero-Copy GPU Inference from WebAssembly on Apple Silicon (abacusnoir.com)
120 points by agambrahma 7 days ago | 53 comments
19.Six Levels of Dark Mode (2024) (cssence.com)
114 points by Akcium 6 days ago | 53 comments
20.NASA Shuts Off Instrument on Voyager 1 to Keep Spacecraft Operating (nasa.gov)
232 points by sohkamyung 7 days ago | 118 comments
21.I wrote a CHIP-8 emulator in my own programming language (github.com/navid-m)
80 points by pizza_man 6 days ago | 20 comments
22.Show HN: Faceoff – A terminal UI for following NHL games (vincentgregoire.com)
135 points by vcf 6 days ago | 47 comments
23.Ask HN: How did you land your first projects as a solo engineer/consultant?
300 points by modelcroissant 6 days ago | 145 comments
24.Show HN: Shader Lab, like Photoshop but for shaders (basement.studio)
160 points by ragojose 9 days ago | 47 comments
25. [dupe] Vercel says internal systems hit in breach (decipher.sc)
379 points by whiteyford 6 days ago | 2 comments
26.Prove you are a robot: CAPTCHAs for agents (browser-use.com)
106 points by lukasec 10 days ago | 69 comments
27.It's cool to care (2025) (alexwlchan.net)
110 points by surprisetalk 10 days ago | 44 comments
28.I learned Unity the wrong way (darkounity.com)
180 points by lelanthran 9 days ago | 113 comments
29.My first impressions on ROCm and Strix Halo (marcoinacio.com)
59 points by random_ 7 days ago | 60 comments
30.Spiral staircase with a single guardrail once led to the top of the Eiffel Tower (smithsonianmag.com)
53 points by bookofjoe 9 days ago | 33 comments

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