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1.		Someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted a backdoor in all of them (anchor.host)
		876 points by speckx 13 hours ago \| 247 comments
2.		DIY Soft Drinks (blinry.org)
		711 points by _Microft 1 day ago \| 221 comments
3.		All elementary functions from a single binary operator (arxiv.org)
		814 points by pizza 1 day ago \| 256 comments
4.		Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)
		321 points by david927 1 day ago \| 1083 comments
5.		Taking on CUDA with ROCm: 'One Step After Another' (eetimes.com)
		258 points by mindcrime 1 day ago \| 191 comments
6.		A perfectable programming language (alok.github.io)
		204 points by yuppiemephisto 1 day ago \| 119 comments
7.		Servo is now available on crates.io (servo.org)
		447 points by ffin 19 hours ago \| 143 comments
8.		Nothing Ever Happens: Polymarket bot that always buys No on non-sports markets (github.com/sterlingcrispin)
		403 points by m-hodges 15 hours ago \| 222 comments
9.		US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional (nypost.com)
		373 points by t-3 17 hours ago \| 251 comments
10.		GitHub Stacked PRs (github.github.com)
		643 points by ezekg 10 hours ago \| 351 comments
11.		Make tmux pretty and usable (2024) (hamvocke.com)
		358 points by speckx 16 hours ago \| 223 comments
12.		The economics of software teams: Why most engineering orgs are flying blind (viktorcessan.com)
		395 points by kiyanwang 1 day ago \| 271 comments
13.		Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning (adlrocha.substack.com)
		409 points by walterbell 1 day ago \| 360 comments
14.		How long-distance couples use digital games to facilitate intimacy (2025) (arxiv.org)
		128 points by radeeyate 1 day ago \| 38 comments
15.		Building a CLI for all of Cloudflare (cloudflare.com)
		293 points by soheilpro 15 hours ago \| 97 comments
16.		Android now stops you sharing your location in photos (shkspr.mobi)
		348 points by edent 19 hours ago \| 295 comments
17.		Microsoft isn't removing Copilot from Windows 11, it's just renaming it (neowin.net)
		342 points by bundie 17 hours ago \| 259 comments
18.		Tracking down a 25% Regression on LLVM RISC-V (kaving.me)
		114 points by luu 1 day ago \| 22 comments
19.		This year’s insane timeline of hacks (ringmast4r.substack.com)
		298 points by laurex 16 hours ago \| 179 comments
20.		I ran Gemma 4 as a local model in Codex CLI (danielvaughan.com)
		258 points by dvaughan 1 day ago \| 107 comments
21.		Is math big or small? (chessapig.github.io)
		82 points by robinhouston 1 day ago \| 28 comments
22.		How to make Firefox builds 17% faster (farre.se)
		164 points by mbitsnbites 12 hours ago \| 31 comments
23.		Michigan 'digital age' bills pulled after privacy concerns raised (thecentersquare.com)
		214 points by iamnothere 19 hours ago \| 121 comments
24.		Optimization of 32-bit Unsigned Division by Constants on 64-bit Targets (arxiv.org)
		110 points by mpweiher 1 day ago \| 14 comments
25.		Show HN: Ithihāsas – a character explorer for Hindu epics, built in a few hours (ithihasas.in)
		143 points by cvrajeesh 12 hours ago \| 35 comments
26.		The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Safety (aphyr.com)
		294 points by aphyr 14 hours ago \| 162 comments
27.		MEMS Array Chip Can Project Video the Size of a Grain of Sand (ieee.org)
		85 points by bookofjoe 16 hours ago \| 38 comments
28.		I just want simple S3 (feld.me)
		151 points by g0xA52A2A 2 days ago \| 81 comments
29.		If you started a company two years ago, many assumptions are no longer true (steveblank.com)
		181 points by tie-in 3 days ago \| 133 comments
30.		Visualizing CPU Pipelining (2024) (timmastny.com)
		78 points by flipacholas 12 hours ago \| 10 comments
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