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Vercel April 2026 security incident

(www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/vercel-confirms-breach-as-hackers-claim-to-be-selling-stolen-data/)

451 points by colesantiago 9 hours ago | loading comments

(warontherocks.com/cogs-of-war/the-bromine-chokepoint-how-strife-in-the-middle-east-could-halt-production-of-the-worlds-memory-chips/)

131 points by crescit_eundo 6 hours ago | loading comments

2,100 Swiss municipalities showing which provider handles their official email

(mxmap.ch/)

23 points by doener 40 minutes ago | loading comments

A Brief History of Fish Sauce

(www.legalnomads.com/fish-sauce/)

12 points by vinhnx 15 hours ago | loading comments

Show HN: Faceoff – A terminal UI for following NHL games

(www.vincentgregoire.com/faceoff/)

86 points by vcf 6 hours ago | loading comments

Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7

(simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/18/opus-system-prompt/)

164 points by pretext 13 hours ago | loading comments

Prove You Are a Robot: CAPTCHAs for Agents

(browser-use.com/posts/prove-you-are-a-robot)

31 points by lukasec 4 days ago | loading comments

Six Levels of Dark Mode

(cssence.com/2024/six-levels-of-dark-mode/)

25 points by Akcium 5 hours ago | loading comments

I wrote a CHIP-8 emulator in my own programming language

(github.com/navid-m/chip8emu)

33 points by pizza_man 4 hours ago | loading comments

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Archive of BYTE magazine, starting with issue #1 in 1975

(archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1975-09)

517 points by DamnInteresting 2 days ago | loading comments

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The seven programming ur-languages (2022)

(madhadron.com/programming/seven_ur_languages.html)

267 points by helloplanets 16 hours ago | loading comments

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Game devs explain the tricks involved with letting you pause a game

(kotaku.com/video-game-devs-explain-how-pausing-works-and-sometimes-it-gets-weird-2000686339)

399 points by speckx 3 days ago | loading comments

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The RAM shortage could last years

(www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/914672/the-ram-shortage-could-last-years)

155 points by omer_k 16 hours ago | loading comments

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Nanopass Framework: Clean Compiler Creation Language

(nanopass.org/)

109 points by NordStreamYacht 4 days ago | loading comments

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A. J. Ayer – ‘What I Saw When I Was Dead’ (1988)

(www.philosopher.eu/others-writings/a-j-ayer-what-i-saw-when-i-was-dead/)

55 points by isomorphy 4 hours ago | loading comments

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Notion leaks email addresses of all editors of any public page

(twitter.com/weezerOSINT/status/2045849358462222720)

308 points by Tiberium 8 hours ago | loading comments

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SPEAKE(a)R: Turn Speakers to Microphones for Fun and Profit [pdf] (2017)

(www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/woot17/woot17-paper-guri.pdf)

154 points by Eridanus2 15 hours ago | loading comments

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Ex-CEO, ex-CFO of bankrupt AI company charged with fraud

(www.reuters.com/legal/government/ex-ceo-ex-cfo-bankrupt-ai-company-charged-with-fraud-2026-04-17/)

13 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 an hour ago | loading comments

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Scientific datasets are riddled with copy-paste errors

(www.sciencedetective.org/scientific-datasets-are-riddled-with-copy-paste-errors/)

12 points by jruohonen 4 hours ago | loading comments

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What are skiplists good for?

(antithesis.com/blog/2026/skiptrees/)

254 points by mfiguiere 2 days ago | loading comments

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Reverse Engineering ME2's USB with a Heat Gun and a Knife

(github.com/coremaze/ME2-Writeup)

48 points by Bawoosette a day ago | loading comments

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Eliza a Play by Tom Holloway

(www.mtc.com.au/plays-and-tickets/whats-on/season-2026/eliza)

12 points by abrax3141 2 days ago | loading comments

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3D-Printing a Trombone

(unnamed.website/posts/3d-printing-trombone/)

12 points by surprisetalk 3 days ago | loading comments

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C++26: Reflection, Memory Safety, Contracts, and a New Async Model

(www.infoq.com/news/2026/04/cpp-26-reflection-safety-async/)

24 points by birdculture 3 hours ago | loading comments

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Show HN: Prompt-to-Excalidraw demo with Gemma 4 E2B in the browser (3.1GB)

(teamchong.github.io/turboquant-wasm/draw.html)

80 points by teamchong 12 hours ago | loading comments

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KTaO3-Based Supercurrent Diode

(pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.nanolett.5c05590)

25 points by PaulHoule 4 days ago | loading comments

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Blue Origin's rocket reuse achievement marred by upper stage failure

(arstechnica.com/space/2026/04/errant-upper-stage-spoils-blue-origins-success-in-reusing-new-glenn-booster/)

50 points by rbanffy 4 hours ago | loading comments

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Reading Input from an USB RFID Card Reader

(kevwe.com/blog/usb-rfid-reader)

33 points by kevwedotse 2 days ago | loading comments

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Hot Wiring the Lisp Machine

(scheatkode.com/blog/019d463d-38b3-7e63-80fd-6ed97bd8815e/hot-wiring-the-lisp-machine/)