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1.		Someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted a backdoor in all of them (anchor.host)
		925 points by speckx 15 hours ago \| 263 comments
2.		DIY Soft Drinks (blinry.org)
		711 points by _Microft 1 day ago \| 222 comments
3.		All elementary functions from a single binary operator (arxiv.org)
		815 points by pizza 1 day ago \| 263 comments
4.		Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)
		323 points by david927 1 day ago \| 1092 comments
5.		Taking on CUDA with ROCm: 'One Step After Another' (eetimes.com)
		258 points by mindcrime 1 day ago \| 192 comments
6.		Nothing Ever Happens: Polymarket bot that always buys No on non-sports markets (github.com/sterlingcrispin)
		414 points by m-hodges 17 hours ago \| 233 comments
7.		GitHub Stacked PRs (github.github.com)
		701 points by ezekg 12 hours ago \| 368 comments
8.		A perfectable programming language (alok.github.io)
		204 points by yuppiemephisto 1 day ago \| 122 comments
9.		Servo is now available on crates.io (servo.org)
		450 points by ffin 20 hours ago \| 145 comments
10.		Make tmux pretty and usable (2024) (hamvocke.com)
		375 points by speckx 18 hours ago \| 234 comments
11.		US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional (nypost.com)
		380 points by t-3 19 hours ago \| 255 comments
12.		Building a CLI for all of Cloudflare (cloudflare.com)
		300 points by soheilpro 17 hours ago \| 99 comments
13.		Android now stops you sharing your location in photos (shkspr.mobi)
		364 points by edent 21 hours ago \| 297 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.		The economics of software teams: Why most engineering orgs are flying blind (viktorcessan.com)
		397 points by kiyanwang 1 day ago \| 272 comments
16.		Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning (adlrocha.substack.com)
		410 points by walterbell 1 day ago \| 362 comments
17.		Microsoft isn't removing Copilot from Windows 11, it's just renaming it (neowin.net)
		348 points by bundie 19 hours ago \| 262 comments
18.		How to make Firefox builds 17% faster (farre.se)
		175 points by mbitsnbites 14 hours ago \| 34 comments
19.		Tracking down a 25% Regression on LLVM RISC-V (kaving.me)
		115 points by luu 1 day ago \| 22 comments
20.		I ran Gemma 4 as a local model in Codex CLI (danielvaughan.com)
		261 points by dvaughan 1 day ago \| 108 comments
21.		This year’s insane timeline of hacks (ringmast4r.substack.com)
		310 points by laurex 18 hours ago \| 181 comments
22.		Is math big or small? (chessapig.github.io)
		82 points by robinhouston 2 days ago \| 28 comments
23.		Michigan 'digital age' bills pulled after privacy concerns raised (thecentersquare.com)
		215 points by iamnothere 20 hours ago \| 123 comments
24.		I just want simple S3 (feld.me)
		170 points by g0xA52A2A 2 days ago \| 88 comments
25.		Optimization of 32-bit Unsigned Division by Constants on 64-bit Targets (arxiv.org)
		110 points by mpweiher 1 day ago \| 14 comments
26.		Show HN: Ithihāsas – a character explorer for Hindu epics, built in a few hours (ithihasas.in)
		147 points by cvrajeesh 13 hours ago \| 38 comments
27.		The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Safety (aphyr.com)
		299 points by aphyr 16 hours ago \| 166 comments
28.		MEMS Array Chip Can Project Video the Size of a Grain of Sand (ieee.org)
		86 points by bookofjoe 18 hours ago \| 38 comments
29.		N-Day-Bench – Can LLMs find real vulnerabilities in real codebases? (winfunc.com)
		63 points by mufeedvh 11 hours ago \| 18 comments
30.		If you started a company two years ago, many assumptions are no longer true (steveblank.com)
		185 points by tie-in 3 days ago \| 136 comments
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