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1.		Someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted a backdoor in all of them (anchor.host)
		1099 points by speckx 22 hours ago \| 312 comments
2.		DIY Soft Drinks (blinry.org)
		720 points by _Microft 1 day ago \| 226 comments
3.		GitHub Stacked PRs (github.github.com)
		839 points by ezekg 20 hours ago \| 462 comments
4.		Nothing Ever Happens: Polymarket bot that always buys No on non-sports markets (github.com/sterlingcrispin)
		459 points by m-hodges 1 day ago \| 254 comments
5.		All elementary functions from a single binary operator (arxiv.org)
		827 points by pizza 1 day ago \| 270 comments
6.		US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional (nypost.com)
		437 points by t-3 1 day ago \| 305 comments
7.		Make tmux pretty and usable (2024) (hamvocke.com)
		419 points by speckx 1 day ago \| 255 comments
8.		Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)
		330 points by david927 2 days ago \| 1122 comments
9.		Android now stops you sharing your location in photos (shkspr.mobi)
		403 points by edent 1 day ago \| 312 comments
10.		Taking on CUDA with ROCm: 'One Step After Another' (eetimes.com)
		261 points by mindcrime 1 day ago \| 195 comments
11.		Building a CLI for all of Cloudflare (cloudflare.com)
		321 points by soheilpro 1 day ago \| 105 comments
12.		Servo is now available on crates.io (servo.org)
		462 points by ffin 1 day ago \| 147 comments
13.		A perfectable programming language (alok.github.io)
		204 points by yuppiemephisto 1 day ago \| 128 comments
14.		How to make Firefox builds 17% faster (farre.se)
		195 points by mbitsnbites 21 hours ago \| 36 comments
15.		How long-distance couples use digital games to facilitate intimacy (2025) (arxiv.org)
		129 points by radeeyate 2 days ago \| 38 comments
16.		The economics of software teams: Why most engineering orgs are flying blind (viktorcessan.com)
		405 points by kiyanwang 1 day ago \| 277 comments
17.		Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning (adlrocha.substack.com)
		421 points by walterbell 1 day ago \| 371 comments
18.		Microsoft isn't removing Copilot from Windows 11, it's just renaming it (neowin.net)
		359 points by bundie 1 day ago \| 273 comments
19.		N-Day-Bench – Can LLMs find real vulnerabilities in real codebases? (winfunc.com)
		86 points by mufeedvh 18 hours ago \| 28 comments
20.		I just want simple S3 (feld.me)
		207 points by g0xA52A2A 3 days ago \| 111 comments
21.		I ran Gemma 4 as a local model in Codex CLI (danielvaughan.com)
		269 points by dvaughan 1 day ago \| 110 comments
22.		Tracking down a 25% Regression on LLVM RISC-V (kaving.me)
		123 points by luu 1 day ago \| 25 comments
23.		This year’s insane timeline of hacks (ringmast4r.substack.com)
		328 points by laurex 1 day ago \| 190 comments
24.		Is math big or small? (chessapig.github.io)
		85 points by robinhouston 2 days ago \| 30 comments
25.		Michigan 'digital age' bills pulled after privacy concerns raised (thecentersquare.com)
		218 points by iamnothere 1 day ago \| 127 comments
26.		Optimization of 32-bit Unsigned Division by Constants on 64-bit Targets (arxiv.org)
		110 points by mpweiher 2 days ago \| 14 comments
27.		Show HN: Ithihāsas – a character explorer for Hindu epics, built in a few hours (ithihasas.in)
		162 points by cvrajeesh 21 hours ago \| 42 comments
28.		The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Safety (aphyr.com)
		313 points by aphyr 1 day ago \| 175 comments
29.		MEMS Array Chip Can Project Video the Size of a Grain of Sand (ieee.org)
		87 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago \| 43 comments
30.		If you started a company two years ago, many assumptions are no longer true (steveblank.com)
		200 points by tie-in 3 days ago \| 142 comments
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