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1.		Vercel April 2026 security incident (bleepingcomputer.com)
		866 points by colesantiago 3 days ago \| 490 comments
2.		College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work (sentinelcolorado.com)
		490 points by gnabgib 4 days ago \| 429 comments
3.		Archive of BYTE magazine, starting with issue #1 in 1975 (archive.org)
		599 points by DamnInteresting 5 days ago \| 153 comments
4.		What are skiplists good for? (antithesis.com)
		288 points by mfiguiere 5 days ago \| 70 comments
5.		Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7 (simonwillison.net)
		367 points by pretext 3 days ago \| 217 comments
6.		SPEAKE(a)R: Turn Speakers to Microphones for Fun and Profit [pdf] (2017) (usenix.org)
		186 points by Eridanus2 3 days ago \| 70 comments
7.		The Bromine Chokepoint (warontherocks.com)
		227 points by crescit_eundo 3 days ago \| 139 comments
8.		Game devs explain the tricks involved with letting you pause a game (kotaku.com)
		451 points by speckx 6 days ago \| 254 comments
9.		The RAM shortage could last years (theverge.com)
		353 points by omer_k 3 days ago \| 481 comments
10.		The seven programming ur-languages (2022) (madhadron.com)
		349 points by helloplanets 3 days ago \| 155 comments
11.		Nanopass Framework: Clean Compiler Creation Language (nanopass.org)
		137 points by NordStreamYacht 7 days ago \| 36 comments
12.		Modern Common Lisp with FSet (common-lisp.dev)
		182 points by larve 7 days ago \| 27 comments
13.		Notion leaks email addresses of all editors of any public page (twitter.com/weezerosint)
		400 points by Tiberium 3 days ago \| 146 comments
14.		The world in which IPv6 was a good design (2017) (apenwarr.ca)
		230 points by signa11 3 days ago \| 165 comments
15.		Show HN: Prompt-to-Excalidraw demo with Gemma 4 E2B in the browser (3.1GB) (teamchong.github.io)
		159 points by teamchong 3 days ago \| 62 comments
16.		Updating Gun Rocket through 10 years of Unity Engine (jackpritz.com)
		112 points by tyleo 6 days ago \| 57 comments
17.		2,100 Swiss municipalities showing which provider handles their official email (mxmap.ch)
		236 points by doener 3 days ago \| 69 comments
18.		Zero-Copy GPU Inference from WebAssembly on Apple Silicon (abacusnoir.com)
		120 points by agambrahma 4 days ago \| 53 comments
19.		Six Levels of Dark Mode (2024) (cssence.com)
		114 points by Akcium 3 days ago \| 53 comments
20.		NASA Shuts Off Instrument on Voyager 1 to Keep Spacecraft Operating (nasa.gov)
		231 points by sohkamyung 4 days ago \| 116 comments
21.		I wrote a CHIP-8 emulator in my own programming language (github.com/navid-m)
		79 points by pizza_man 3 days ago \| 20 comments
22.		Show HN: Faceoff – A terminal UI for following NHL games (vincentgregoire.com)
		133 points by vcf 3 days ago \| 45 comments
23.		Ask HN: How did you land your first projects as a solo engineer/consultant?
		298 points by modelcroissant 3 days ago \| 144 comments
24.		Show HN: Shader Lab, like Photoshop but for shaders (basement.studio)
		159 points by ragojose 6 days ago \| 47 comments
25.		[dupe] Vercel says internal systems hit in breach (decipher.sc)
		379 points by whiteyford 3 days ago \| 2 comments
26.		Prove you are a robot: CAPTCHAs for agents (browser-use.com)
		106 points by lukasec 7 days ago \| 68 comments
27.		It's cool to care (2025) (alexwlchan.net)
		110 points by surprisetalk 7 days ago \| 44 comments
28.		I learned Unity the wrong way (darkounity.com)
		178 points by lelanthran 6 days ago \| 112 comments
29.		My first impressions on ROCm and Strix Halo (marcoinacio.com)
		58 points by random_ 4 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 6 days ago \| 32 comments
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