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1.		Someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted a backdoor in all of them (anchor.host)
		1194 points by speckx 8 days ago \| 339 comments
2.		DIY Soft Drinks (blinry.org)
		738 points by _Microft 9 days ago \| 243 comments
3.		GitHub Stacked PRs (github.github.com)
		900 points by ezekg 8 days ago \| 528 comments
4.		Nothing Ever Happens: Polymarket bot that always buys No on non-sports markets (github.com/sterlingcrispin)
		470 points by m-hodges 8 days ago \| 275 comments
5.		All elementary functions from a single binary operator (arxiv.org)
		857 points by pizza 8 days ago \| 297 comments
6.		US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional (nypost.com)
		460 points by t-3 8 days ago \| 338 comments
7.		Make tmux pretty and usable (2024) (hamvocke.com)
		457 points by speckx 8 days ago \| 278 comments
8.		Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)
		347 points by david927 9 days ago \| 1173 comments
9.		Android now stops you sharing your location in photos (shkspr.mobi)
		425 points by edent 8 days ago \| 319 comments
10.		Taking on CUDA with ROCm: 'One Step After Another' (eetimes.com)
		263 points by mindcrime 9 days ago \| 197 comments
11.		Building a CLI for all of Cloudflare (cloudflare.com)
		336 points by soheilpro 8 days ago \| 107 comments
12.		Servo is now available on crates.io (servo.org)
		482 points by ffin 8 days ago \| 152 comments
13.		A perfectable programming language (alok.github.io)
		210 points by yuppiemephisto 9 days ago \| 143 comments
14.		How to make Firefox builds 17% faster (farre.se)
		204 points by mbitsnbites 8 days ago \| 37 comments
15.		How long-distance couples use digital games to facilitate intimacy (2025) (arxiv.org)
		133 points by radeeyate 9 days ago \| 38 comments
16.		The economics of software teams: Why most engineering orgs are flying blind (viktorcessan.com)
		417 points by kiyanwang 8 days ago \| 281 comments
17.		Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning (adlrocha.substack.com)
		437 points by walterbell 8 days ago \| 384 comments
18.		Microsoft isn't removing Copilot from Windows 11, it's just renaming it (neowin.net)
		376 points by bundie 8 days ago \| 287 comments
19.		I just want simple S3 (feld.me)
		246 points by g0xA52A2A 10 days ago \| 127 comments
20.		N-Day-Bench – Can LLMs find real vulnerabilities in real codebases? (winfunc.com)
		91 points by mufeedvh 8 days ago \| 29 comments
21.		I ran Gemma 4 as a local model in Codex CLI (danielvaughan.com)
		284 points by dvaughan 9 days ago \| 116 comments
22.		Tracking down a 25% Regression on LLVM RISC-V (kaving.me)
		132 points by luu 9 days ago \| 28 comments
23.		This year’s insane timeline of hacks (ringmast4r.substack.com)
		345 points by laurex 8 days ago \| 201 comments
24.		Is math big or small? (chessapig.github.io)
		89 points by robinhouston 9 days ago \| 30 comments
25.		Michigan 'digital age' bills pulled after privacy concerns raised (thecentersquare.com)
		228 points by iamnothere 8 days ago \| 132 comments
26.		Optimization of 32-bit Unsigned Division by Constants on 64-bit Targets (arxiv.org)
		110 points by mpweiher 9 days ago \| 14 comments
27.		Show HN: Ithihāsas – a character explorer for Hindu epics, built in a few hours (ithihasas.in)
		176 points by cvrajeesh 8 days ago \| 45 comments
28.		The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Safety (aphyr.com)
		330 points by aphyr 8 days ago \| 181 comments
29.		MEMS Array Chip Can Project Video the Size of a Grain of Sand (ieee.org)
		90 points by bookofjoe 8 days ago \| 41 comments
30.		If you started a company two years ago, many assumptions are no longer true (steveblank.com)
		207 points by tie-in 10 days ago \| 151 comments
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