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Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables

(github.com/darrylmorley/whatcable)

72 points by sleepingNomad 2 hours ago | loading comments

Show HN: Perfect Bluetooth MIDI for Windows

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23 points by mayerwin an hour ago | loading comments

Auto Polo

(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto_polo)

56 points by canjobear 3 days ago | loading comments

How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt]

(thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-whistleblower-who-uncovered-the-nsas-big-brother-machine/)

607 points by the-mitr 18 hours ago | loading comments

After dissing Anthropic for limiting Mythos, OpenAI restricts access to Cyber

(techcrunch.com/2026/04/30/after-dissing-anthropic-for-limiting-mythos-openai-restricts-access-to-cyber-too/)

6 points by gbourne1 20 minutes ago | loading comments

New copy of earliest poem in English, written 1,3k years ago, discovered in Rome

(www.tcd.ie/news_events/articles/2026/caedmons-hymn-discovery/)

67 points by giuliomagnifico 2 days ago | loading comments

If I could make my own GitHub

(matduggan.com/if-i-could-make-my-own-github/)

58 points by vinhnx 4 hours ago | loading comments

For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions

(www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/04/30/10)

510 points by ori_b 18 hours ago | loading comments

Grok 4.3

(docs.x.ai/developers/models/grok-4.3)

87 points by simianwords 2 hours ago | loading comments

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The Rotary Un-Smartphone

(skysedge.com/telecom/RUSP/index.html)

12 points by tzury an hour ago | loading comments

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OpenWarp

(openwarp.zerx.dev)

96 points by zero-lab 9 hours ago | loading comments

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Shai-Hulud Themed Malware Found in the PyTorch Lightning AI Training Library

(semgrep.dev/blog/2026/malicious-dependency-in-pytorch-lightning-used-for-ai-training/)

397 points by j12y 19 hours ago | loading comments

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Opus 4.7 knows the real Kelsey

(www.theargumentmag.com/p/i-can-never-talk-to-an-ai-anonymously)

359 points by ilamont 2 days ago | loading comments

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Softmax, can you derive the Jacobian? And should you care?

(idlemachines.co.uk/essays/softmax)

49 points by smaddrellmander 4 days ago | loading comments

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Maladaptive Frugality

(herbertlui.net/maladaptive-frugality/)

106 points by herbertl 2 days ago | loading comments

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Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw"

(twitter.com/theo/status/2049645973350363168)

1172 points by elmean 20 hours ago | loading comments

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CPanel and WHM Authentication Bypass – CVE-2026-41940

(labs.watchtowr.com/the-internet-is-falling-down-falling-down-falling-down-cpanel-whm-authentication-bypass-cve-2026-41940/)

109 points by zikani_03 12 hours ago | loading comments

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How an oil refinery works

(www.construction-physics.com/p/how-an-oil-refinery-works)

427 points by chmaynard 21 hours ago | loading comments

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I built a Game Boy emulator in F#

(nickkossolapov.github.io/fame-boy/building-a-game-boy-emulator-in-fsharp/)

281 points by elvis70 18 hours ago | loading comments

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Can I disable all data collection from my vehicle?

(rivian.com/support/article/can-i-disable-all-data-collection-from-my-vehicle)

634 points by Cider9986 14 hours ago | loading comments

21.

How we run iSCSI over the internet

(scsipub.com/blog/how-we-run-iscsi-over-the-internet)

14 points by qdotme 2 days ago | loading comments

22.

You can beat the binary search

(lemire.me/blog/2026/04/27/you-can-beat-the-binary-search/)

321 points by vok 4 days ago | loading comments

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Roboticist-Turned-Teacher Built a Life-Size Replica of Eniac

(spectrum.ieee.org/roboticist-turned-teacher-eniac-replica)

31 points by oldnetguy 2 days ago | loading comments

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Reverse Engineering SimTower

(phulin.me/blog/simtower)

206 points by patrickhulin 3 days ago | loading comments

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New mechanical panoramic film camera from Jeff Bridges

(wideluxx.com)

150 points by armadsen 3 days ago | loading comments

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Canonical/Ubuntu have been under DDoS for more than 15h

(status.canonical.com/#/incident/KNms6QK9ewuzz-7xUsPsNylV20jEt5kyKsd8A-3ptQEHpOd8VQ40ZQs-KD81fboQXeGZB94okNHdHBGlCv58Sw==)

53 points by jtlebigot 3 hours ago | loading comments

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The Hearts of the Super Nintendo (2024)

(fabiensanglard.net/snes_hearts/)

29 points by droppedasbaby 9 hours ago | loading comments

28.

Your Biggest Vulnerability is your Shitty Compensation

(green.spacedino.net/your-biggest-vulnerability-is-your-shitty-compensation/)

31 points by jfil 7 hours ago | loading comments

29.

Using a 1978 terminal in 2026 (DEC VT-100)

(nikhiljha.com/posts/vt100/)

36 points by ninjha 3 days ago | loading comments

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Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants

(dpa-international.com/general-news/urn:newsml:dpa.com:20090101:260430-930-14717/)

827 points by mpweiher a day ago | loading comments