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1.		Vercel April 2026 security incident (bleepingcomputer.com)
		862 points by colesantiago 2 days ago \| 487 comments
2.		College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work (sentinelcolorado.com)
		489 points by gnabgib 3 days ago \| 427 comments
3.		Archive of BYTE magazine, starting with issue #1 in 1975 (archive.org)
		596 points by DamnInteresting 4 days ago \| 153 comments
4.		What are skiplists good for? (antithesis.com)
		287 points by mfiguiere 4 days ago \| 70 comments
5.		Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7 (simonwillison.net)
		365 points by pretext 2 days ago \| 213 comments
6.		SPEAKE(a)R: Turn Speakers to Microphones for Fun and Profit [pdf] (2017) (usenix.org)
		185 points by Eridanus2 2 days ago \| 70 comments
7.		The Bromine Chokepoint (warontherocks.com)
		227 points by crescit_eundo 2 days ago \| 137 comments
8.		Game devs explain the tricks involved with letting you pause a game (kotaku.com)
		448 points by speckx 5 days ago \| 253 comments
9.		The RAM shortage could last years (theverge.com)
		352 points by omer_k 2 days ago \| 476 comments
10.		The seven programming ur-languages (2022) (madhadron.com)
		348 points by helloplanets 2 days ago \| 154 comments
11.		Nanopass Framework: Clean Compiler Creation Language (nanopass.org)
		137 points by NordStreamYacht 6 days ago \| 36 comments
12.		Modern Common Lisp with FSet (common-lisp.dev)
		182 points by larve 6 days ago \| 27 comments
13.		Notion leaks email addresses of all editors of any public page (twitter.com/weezerosint)
		399 points by Tiberium 2 days ago \| 146 comments
14.		The world in which IPv6 was a good design (2017) (apenwarr.ca)
		230 points by signa11 2 days ago \| 165 comments
15.		Show HN: Prompt-to-Excalidraw demo with Gemma 4 E2B in the browser (3.1GB) (teamchong.github.io)
		157 points by teamchong 2 days ago \| 61 comments
16.		Updating Gun Rocket through 10 years of Unity Engine (jackpritz.com)
		112 points by tyleo 5 days ago \| 57 comments
17.		2,100 Swiss municipalities showing which provider handles their official email (mxmap.ch)
		235 points by doener 1 day ago \| 69 comments
18.		Zero-Copy GPU Inference from WebAssembly on Apple Silicon (abacusnoir.com)
		119 points by agambrahma 2 days ago \| 51 comments
19.		Six Levels of Dark Mode (2024) (cssence.com)
		113 points by Akcium 2 days ago \| 52 comments
20.		NASA Shuts Off Instrument on Voyager 1 to Keep Spacecraft Operating (nasa.gov)
		230 points by sohkamyung 2 days ago \| 116 comments
21.		I wrote a CHIP-8 emulator in my own programming language (github.com/navid-m)
		78 points by pizza_man 2 days ago \| 20 comments
22.		Show HN: Faceoff – A terminal UI for following NHL games (vincentgregoire.com)
		128 points by vcf 2 days ago \| 44 comments
23.		Show HN: Shader Lab, like Photoshop but for shaders (basement.studio)
		159 points by ragojose 5 days ago \| 47 comments
24.		Ask HN: How did you land your first projects as a solo engineer/consultant?
		294 points by modelcroissant 2 days ago \| 140 comments
25.		[dupe] Vercel says internal systems hit in breach (decipher.sc)
		379 points by whiteyford 2 days ago \| 2 comments
26.		Prove you are a robot: CAPTCHAs for agents (browser-use.com)
		106 points by lukasec 6 days ago \| 68 comments
27.		It's cool to care (2025) (alexwlchan.net)
		110 points by surprisetalk 6 days ago \| 44 comments
28.		I learned Unity the wrong way (darkounity.com)
		176 points by lelanthran 5 days ago \| 106 comments
29.		My first impressions on ROCm and Strix Halo (marcoinacio.com)
		58 points by random_ 3 days ago \| 59 comments
30.		Spiral staircase with a single guardrail once led to the top of the Eiffel Tower (smithsonianmag.com)
		53 points by bookofjoe 5 days ago \| 32 comments
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