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1.
Vercel April 2026 security incident (bleepingcomputer.com)
844 points by colesantiago 1 day ago | 479 comments
2.
College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work (sentinelcolorado.com)
482 points by gnabgib 2 days ago | 425 comments
3.
Archive of BYTE magazine, starting with issue #1 in 1975 (archive.org)
588 points by DamnInteresting 3 days ago | 152 comments
4.
What are skiplists good for? (antithesis.com)
286 points by mfiguiere 3 days ago | 70 comments
5.
SPEAKE(a)R: Turn Speakers to Microphones for Fun and Profit [pdf] (2017) (usenix.org)
185 points by Eridanus2 1 day ago | 69 comments
6.
Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7 (simonwillison.net)
353 points by pretext 1 day ago | 206 comments
7.
The Bromine Chokepoint (warontherocks.com)
222 points by crescit_eundo 1 day ago | 130 comments
8.
Game devs explain the tricks involved with letting you pause a game (kotaku.com)
441 points by speckx 4 days ago | 249 comments
9.
The RAM shortage could last years (theverge.com)
338 points by omer_k 1 day ago | 456 comments
10.
The seven programming ur-languages (2022) (madhadron.com)
340 points by helloplanets 1 day ago | 146 comments
11.
Nanopass Framework: Clean Compiler Creation Language (nanopass.org)
137 points by NordStreamYacht 5 days ago | 35 comments
12.
Modern Common Lisp with FSet (common-lisp.dev)
182 points by larve 5 days ago | 27 comments
13.
Notion leaks email addresses of all editors of any public page (twitter.com/weezerosint)
390 points by Tiberium 1 day ago | 143 comments
14.
The world in which IPv6 was a good design (2017) (apenwarr.ca)
228 points by signa11 1 day ago | 161 comments
15.
Show HN: Prompt-to-Excalidraw demo with Gemma 4 E2B in the browser (3.1GB) (teamchong.github.io)
148 points by teamchong 1 day ago | 61 comments
16.
Updating Gun Rocket through 10 years of Unity Engine (jackpritz.com)
110 points by tyleo 4 days ago | 56 comments
17.
Zero-Copy GPU Inference from WebAssembly on Apple Silicon (abacusnoir.com)
118 points by agambrahma 1 day ago | 51 comments
18.
2,100 Swiss municipalities showing which provider handles their official email (mxmap.ch)
225 points by doener 23 hours ago | 69 comments
19.
Six Levels of Dark Mode (2024) (cssence.com)
108 points by Akcium 1 day ago | 51 comments
20.
NASA Shuts Off Instrument on Voyager 1 to Keep Spacecraft Operating (nasa.gov)
230 points by sohkamyung 1 day ago | 116 comments
21.
I wrote a CHIP-8 emulator in my own programming language (github.com/navid-m)
77 points by pizza_man 1 day ago | 20 comments
22.
Show HN: Faceoff – A terminal UI for following NHL games (vincentgregoire.com)
121 points by vcf 1 day ago | 40 comments
23.
Show HN: Shader Lab, like Photoshop but for shaders (basement.studio)
155 points by ragojose 4 days ago | 45 comments
24.
Ask HN: How did you land your first projects as a solo engineer/consultant?
281 points by modelcroissant 1 day ago | 131 comments
25.
 [dupe] Vercel says internal systems hit in breach (decipher.sc)
377 points by whiteyford 1 day ago | 2 comments
26.
Prove you are a robot: CAPTCHAs for agents (browser-use.com)
104 points by lukasec 5 days ago | 65 comments
27.
It's cool to care (2025) (alexwlchan.net)
110 points by surprisetalk 5 days ago | 42 comments
28.
My first impressions on ROCm and Strix Halo (marcoinacio.com)
57 points by random_ 2 days ago | 54 comments
29.
Spiral staircase with a single guardrail once led to the top of the Eiffel Tower (smithsonianmag.com)
51 points by bookofjoe 4 days ago | 32 comments
30.
Keep Pushing: We Get 10 More Days to Reform Section 702 (eff.org)
188 points by nobody9999 1 day ago | 41 comments

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