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  1. Vercel April 2026 security incident (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
    459 points • by colesantiago • today at 2:14 PM • 282 comments
  2. The Bromine Chokepoint (warontherocks.com)
    132 points • by crescit_eundo • today at 5:44 PM • 65 comments
  3. 2,100 Swiss municipalities showing which provider handles their official email (mxmap.ch)
    32 points • by doener • today at 10:55 PM • 11 comments
  4. A Brief History of Fish Sauce (www.legalnomads.com)
    16 points • by vinhnx • today at 8:32 AM • 4 comments
  5. Show HN: How context engineering works, a runnable reference (github.com)
    4 points • by linsys • last Friday at 6:20 PM • 0 comments
  6. Show HN: Faceoff – A terminal UI for following NHL games (www.vincentgregoire.com)
    88 points • by vcf • today at 5:44 PM • 32 comments
  7. Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7 (simonwillison.net)
    164 points • by pretext • today at 10:36 AM • 100 comments
  8. Prove you are a robot: CAPTCHAs for agents (browser-use.com)
    32 points • by lukasec • last Wednesday at 5:03 PM • 21 comments
  9. Six Levels of Dark Mode (cssence.com)
    29 points • by Akcium • today at 6:36 PM • 6 comments
  10. Archive of BYTE magazine, starting with issue #1 in 1975 (archive.org)
    518 points • by DamnInteresting • last Friday at 2:07 PM • 130 comments
  11. Ex-CEO, ex-CFO of bankrupt AI company charged with fraud (www.reuters.com)
    21 points • by 1vuio0pswjnm7 • today at 10:30 PM • 4 comments
  12. I wrote a CHIP-8 emulator in my own programming language (github.com)
    33 points • by pizza_man • today at 7:21 PM • 9 comments
  13. The seven programming ur-languages (2022) (madhadron.com)
    268 points • by helloplanets • today at 7:38 AM • 102 comments
  14. The RAM shortage could last years (www.theverge.com)
    160 points • by omer_k • today at 7:18 AM • 159 comments
  15. Nanopass Framework: Clean Compiler Creation Language (nanopass.org)
    110 points • by NordStreamYacht • last Wednesday at 11:38 AM • 25 comments
  16. Scientific datasets are riddled with copy-paste errors (www.sciencedetective.org)
    14 points • by jruohonen • today at 7:18 PM • 0 comments
  17. Notion leaks email addresses of all editors of any public page (twitter.com)
    309 points • by Tiberium • today at 3:20 PM • 106 comments
  18. A. J. Ayer – ‘What I Saw When I Was Dead’ (1988) (www.philosopher.eu)
    57 points • by isomorphy • today at 8:04 PM • 68 comments
  19. SPEAKE(a)R: Turn Speakers to Microphones for Fun and Profit [pdf] (2017) (www.usenix.org)
    154 points • by Eridanus2 • today at 8:45 AM • 67 comments
  20. What are skiplists good for? (antithesis.com)
    255 points • by mfiguiere • last Friday at 1:57 PM • 61 comments
  21. Reverse Engineering ME2's USB with a Heat Gun and a Knife (github.com)
    49 points • by Bawoosette • yesterday at 2:21 PM • 7 comments
  22. Hot Wiring the Lisp Machine (scheatkode.com)
    19 points • by spudlyo • today at 4:57 PM • 0 comments
  23. Eliza a Play by Tom Holloway (www.mtc.com.au)
    12 points • by abrax3141 • last Friday at 2:22 PM • 7 comments
  24. Show HN: Prompt-to-Excalidraw demo with Gemma 4 E2B in the browser (3.1GB) (teamchong.github.io)
    83 points • by teamchong • today at 11:17 AM • 41 comments
  25. C++26: Reflection, Memory Safety, Contracts, and a New Async Model (www.infoq.com)
    25 points • by birdculture • today at 9:00 PM • 2 comments
  26. KTaO3-Based Supercurrent Diode (pubs.acs.org)
    25 points • by PaulHoule • last Wednesday at 10:32 PM • 3 comments
  27. Blue Origin's rocket reuse achievement marred by upper stage failure (arstechnica.com)
    51 points • by rbanffy • today at 7:41 PM • 16 comments
  28. Reading Input from an USB RFID Card Reader (kevwe.com)
    33 points • by kevwedotse • last Friday at 5:14 PM • 5 comments
  29. Show HN: Shader Lab, like Photoshop but for shaders (eng.basement.studio)
    132 points • by ragojose • last Thursday at 5:32 PM • 38 comments
  30. Reminder: Enable ZRAM on your Linux system to optimize RAM usage (www.cnx-software.com)
    14 points • by type0 • today at 10:19 PM • 2 comments
  31. 4-bit floating point FP4 (www.johndcook.com)
    71 points • by chmaynard • yesterday at 5:21 PM • 50 comments
  32. The world in which IPv6 was a good design (2017) (apenwarr.ca)
    206 points • by signa11 • today at 2:50 AM • 118 comments
  33. Got an Old Kindle? It Might Not Work Anymore (www.nytimes.com)
    6 points • by eigenhombre • today at 10:56 PM • 0 comments
  34. Game devs explain the tricks involved with letting you pause a game (kotaku.com)
    400 points • by speckx • last Thursday at 2:05 PM • 222 comments
  35. It's cool to care (2025) (alexwlchan.net)
    92 points • by surprisetalk • last Wednesday at 2:20 PM • 37 comments
  36. Updating Gun Rocket through 10 years of Unity Engine (jackpritz.com)
    108 points • by tyleo • last Thursday at 12:00 PM • 52 comments
  37. Airline worker arrested after sharing photos of bomb damage in WhatsApp group (www.lbc.co.uk)
    236 points • by aa_is_op • today at 1:13 PM • 154 comments
  38. Binary GCD (en.algorithmica.org)
    79 points • by tosh • today at 8:33 AM • 1 comment
  39. Minimal Viable Programs (2014) (joearms.github.io)
    39 points • by bachmeier • last Wednesday at 4:13 PM • 6 comments
  40. Ask HN: How did you land your first projects as a solo engineer/consultant? (self)
    239 points • by modelcroissant • today at 9:17 AM • 108 comments
  41. I learned Unity the wrong way (darkounity.com)
    82 points • by lelanthran • last Thursday at 7:59 AM • 34 comments
  42. Notes from the SF peptide scene (12gramsofcarbon.com)
    114 points • by theahura • today at 2:43 PM • 118 comments
  43. College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work (sentinelcolorado.com)
    457 points • by gnabgib • yesterday at 7:00 PM • 410 comments
  44. Louisiana Advances One of the Country's 'Cruelest' Anti-Homeless Bills (www.commondreams.org)
    19 points • by MiguelX413 • today at 8:44 PM • 17 comments
  45. NIST scientists create 'any wavelength' lasers (www.nist.gov)
    406 points • by rbanffy • yesterday at 8:54 PM • 185 comments
  46. Optimizing Ruby Path Methods (byroot.github.io)
    129 points • by weaksauce • yesterday at 8:42 PM • 53 comments
  47. Swiss authorities want to reduce dependency on Microsoft (www.swissinfo.ch)
    195 points • by doener • today at 8:25 PM • 74 comments
  48. Modern Common Lisp with FSet (fset.common-lisp.dev)
    179 points • by larve • last Wednesday at 2:38 PM • 26 comments
  49. When moving fast, talking is the first thing to break (daverupert.com)
    102 points • by Brajeshwar • today at 2:34 PM • 46 comments
  50. SI Units for Request Rate (2024) (entropicthoughts.com)
    80 points • by fanf2 • last Thursday at 8:42 AM • 62 comments