THE HACKER NEWS

colesantiago
21 hours ago
Vercel April 2026 security incident
Cloud development platform Vercel has disclosed a security incident after threat actors claimed to have breached its systems and are attempting to sell stolen data....
17 HOURS AGO
CRESCIT_EUNDO
The Bromine Chokepoint
3 HOURS AGO
KLASTER_1
IEA: Solar overtakes all energy sources in a major global first
7 HOURS AGO
DEBUGGA
A cache-friendly IPv6 LPM with AVX-512 (linearized B+-tree, real BGP benchmarks)
16 HOURS AGO
JRUOHONEN
Scientific datasets are riddled with copy-paste errors
12 HOURS AGO
DOENER
2,100 Swiss municipalities showing which provider handles their official email
4 HOURS AGO
MIKHAEL
How Long Poop Stays in Your Body May Impact Your Health, Study Finds
15 HOURS AGO
PIZZA_MAN
I wrote a CHIP-8 emulator in my own programming language
21 HOURS AGO
TAMBOURINE_MAN
The creative software industry has declared war on Adobe
5 DAYS AGO
LUKASEC
Prove you are a robot: CAPTCHAs for agents
3 DAYS AGO
SKMURPHY
A Common MVP Evolution: Service to System Integration to Product (2017)
Liriel
2 hours ago
GitHub's Fake Star Economy
Six million fake stars, $0.06 per click, and a VC funding pipeline that treats GitHub popularity as proof of traction. We ran our own analysis on 20 repos and found the fingerprints.
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prismatic
4 days ago
Ben Lerner's Big Feelings
The acclaimed writer of cerebral autofiction returns with his strangest and most moving novel yet....
vinhnx
a day ago
A Brief History of Fish Sauce
A brief history of fish sauce, from Ancient Asian recipes, Roman times, and through to today's many (delicious) uses....
pseudolus
3 days ago
Monumental ship burial beneath ancient Norwegian mound predates the Viking Age
Monumental ship burials in Scandinavia may have started around a century earlier than previously thought, according to a paper published in the journal Antiquity. It reports the discovery of...
tibbar
6 hours ago
Stripe's Payment APIs: the first 10 years (2020)
Abstracting away the complexity of payments has driven the evolution of our APIs over the last decade. Learn more about Stripe payments APIs here....
walterbell
15 hours ago
Stop trying to engineer your way out of listening to people
I spend a lot of time negotiating this in the software world: And if you're wondering why this happens, it's normally because: 1. people aren't talking to people 2. people aren't listeni...
breve
3 days ago
Focused microwaves allow 3D printers to fuse circuits onto almost anything
Engineers at Rice University have cracked one of printed electronics' most stubborn problems: how to cure freshly printed conductive ink without destroying the delicate surface underneath....
twapi
10 hours ago
Claude Token Counter, now with model comparisons
I upgraded my Claude Token Counter tool to add the ability to run the same count against different models in order to compare them. As far as I can tell …...
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/20/claude-token-counts/
Brajeshwar
19 hours ago
Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction
"They say it's the journey, not the destination."...
akashwadhwani35
5 days ago
Mechanical Keyboard Sounds – A listening Museum
36 mechanical keyboards. Click. Type. Listen. From IBM Model M (1985) to modern thocky customs....
omer_k
a day ago
The RAM shortage could last years
Memory makers are only expected to meet 60 percent of demand by the end of 2027....
shivampkumar
11 hours ago
Show HN: Run TRELLIS.2 Image-to-3D generation natively on Apple Silicon
Contribute to shivampkumar/trellis-mac development by creating an account on GitHub....
Akcium
16 hours ago
Six Levels of Dark Mode (2024)
From HTML-only to JS-infused, and all the CSS in between....
axbyte
2 hours ago
Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers took 2 minutes to break it
Cyber experts say they have found holes in Brussels’ age verification app, despite claims by the EU executive that it is “technically ready.”...
Hooke
2 days ago
Interesting Map Geometry and Mathematics
Hello everyone! We have a bit of a different entry this fortnight. I don’t normally talk too extensively about how things are coded in detail since I prefer to focus on design questions, but...
ragojose
4 days ago
Show HN: Shader Lab, like Photoshop but for shaders
A powerful toolkit to create, stack, and animate shaders....