Article URL: https://webmatrices.com/post/how-a-roblox-cheat-and-one-ai-tool-brought-down-vercel-s-entire-platform Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47844431 Points: 138 # Comments: 60
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- A Roblox cheat and one AI tool brought down Vercel's platform◆ 5.4
- Anthropic says OpenClaw-style Claude CLI usage is allowed again
Article URL: https://docs.openclaw.ai/providers/anthropic Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47844269 Points: 167 # Comments: 91
◆ 6.2 - How to make a fast dynamic language interpreter
Article URL: https://zef-lang.dev/implementation Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47843194 Points: 162 # Comments: 22
◆ 4.9 - Jujutsu megamerges for fun and profit
Article URL: https://isaaccorbrey.com/notes/jujutsu-megamerges-for-fun-and-profit Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47841129 Points: 222 # Comments: 108
◆ 4.8 - OpenAI ad partner now selling ChatGPT ad placements based on “prompt relevance”
Article URL: https://www.adweek.com/media/exclusive-leaked-deck-reveals-stackadapts-playbook-for-chatgpt-ads/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47840980 Points: 258 # Comments: 127
◆ 5.8 - John Ternus to become Apple CEO
Article URL: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/04/tim-cook-to-become-apple-executive-chairman-john-ternus-to-become-apple-ceo/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47840219 Points: 1753 # Comments: 896
◆ 6.2 - AI Resistance: some recent anti-AI stuff that’s worth discussing
Article URL: https://stephvee.ca/blog/artificial%20intelligence/ai-resistance-is-growing/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47839951 Points: 307 # Comments: 303
◆ 6.3 - F-35 is built for the wrong war
Article URL: https://warontherocks.com/cogs-of-war/the-f-35-is-a-masterpiece-built-for-the-wrong-war/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47839835 Points: 234 # Comments: 480
◆ 5.6 - Soul Player C64 – A real transformer running on a 1 MHz Commodore 64
Article URL: https://github.com/gizmo64k/soulplayer-c64 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47839645 Points: 125 # Comments: 33
◆ 4.2 - We got 207 tok/s with Qwen3.5-27B on an RTX 3090
Article URL: https://github.com/Luce-Org/lucebox-hub Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47838788 Points: 139 # Comments: 38
◆ 5.8 - Kimi vendor verifier – verify accuracy of inference providers
Article URL: https://www.kimi.com/blog/kimi-vendor-verifier Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47838703 Points: 253 # Comments: 22
◆ 4.4 - At Long Last, InfoWars Is Ours
Article URL: https://theonion.info/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47837620 Points: 157 # Comments: 2
◆ 5.9 - At long last, InfoWars is ours
Article URL: https://theonion.com/at-long-last-infowars-is-ours/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47837611 Points: 451 # Comments: 182
◆ 6.8 - Quantum Computers Are Not a Threat to 128-Bit Symmetric Keys
Article URL: https://words.filippo.io/128-bits/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47836784 Points: 220 # Comments: 78
◆ 4.2 - We accepted surveillance as default
Article URL: https://vivianvoss.net/blog/why-we-accepted-surveillance Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47836730 Points: 269 # Comments: 113
◆ 5.7 - Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated
Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/20/deezer-says-44-of-songs-uploaded-to-its-platform-daily-are-ai-generated/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47835928 Points: 333 # Comments: 326
◆ 4.9 - Not buying another Kindle
Article URL: https://www.androidauthority.com/amazon-kindle-2026-3657863/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47835775 Points: 223 # Comments: 183
◆ 5.8 - Kimi K2.6: Advancing open-source coding
Article URL: https://www.kimi.com/blog/kimi-k2-6 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47835735 Points: 604 # Comments: 318
◆ 5.4 - I prompted ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini and watched my Nginx logs
Article URL: https://surfacedby.com/blog/nginx-logs-ai-traffic-vs-referral-traffic Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47835646 Points: 106 # Comments: 18
◆ 6.3 - Qwen3.6-Max-Preview: Smarter, Sharper, Still Evolving
Article URL: https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.6-max-preview Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47834565 Points: 619 # Comments: 328
◆ 4.8 - Ask HN: How to solve the cold start problem for a two-sided marketplace?
I'm building a P2P crowdshipping marketplace, basically BlaBlaCar but for packages instead of passengers. Travelers going between cities/countries carry items for people who need to send stuff. About to launch the MVP and hitting the classic chicken-and-egg problem. Travelers won't sign up without packages to carry, senders won't post without travelers available. Every marketplace founder says "f…
◆ 5.2 - All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027
Article URL: https://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2026/04/20/eu-to-force-replaceable-batteries-in-phones-and-tablets-from-2027/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47834195 Points: 1228 # Comments: 1021
◆ 4.9 - Sauna effect on heart rate
Article URL: https://tryterra.co/research/sauna-effect-on-heart-rate Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47834184 Points: 399 # Comments: 210
◆ 4.7 - ggsql: A Grammar of Graphics for SQL
Article URL: https://opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-04-20_ggsql_alpha_release/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47833558 Points: 409 # Comments: 80
◆ 4.1 - Atlassian enables default data collection to train AI
Article URL: https://letsdatascience.com/news/atlassian-enables-default-data-collection-to-train-ai-f71343d8 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47833247 Points: 545 # Comments: 124
◆ 4.5 - Tesla Hid Fatal Accidents to Continue Testing Autonomous Driving (French)
Article URL: https://www.rts.ch/info/monde/2026/article/tesla-dissimule-des-milliers-d-incidents-de-conduite-autonome-mortels-29214161.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47833156 Points: 197 # Comments: 59
◆ 6.4 - WebUSB Extension for Firefox
Article URL: https://github.com/ArcaneNibble/awawausb Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47832969 Points: 240 # Comments: 209
◆ 3.8 - M 7.4 earthquake – 100 km ENE of Miyako, Japan
Article URL: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000sri7/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47832248 Points: 275 # Comments: 129
◆ 3.9 - NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/us-security-agency-is-using-anthropics-mythos-despite-blacklist-axios-reports-2026-04-19/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47832222 Points: 140 # Comments: 102
◆ 6.2 - NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist
Article URL: https://www.axios.com/2026/04/19/nsa-anthropic-mythos-pentagon Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47832222 Points: 404 # Comments: 290
◆ 5.9 - Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers took 2 minutes to break it
Article URL: https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-brussels-launched-age-checking-app-hackers-say-took-them-2-minutes-break-it/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47831742 Points: 218 # Comments: 116
◆ 3.4 - GitHub's fake star economy
Article URL: https://awesomeagents.ai/news/github-fake-stars-investigation/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47831621 Points: 729 # Comments: 354
◆ 5.1 - OpenClaw isn't fooling me. I remember MS-DOS
Article URL: https://www.flyingpenguin.com/build-an-openclaw-free-secure-always-on-local-ai-agent/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47831437 Points: 241 # Comments: 275
◆ 4.8 - IEA: Solar overtakes all energy sources in a major global first
Article URL: https://electrek.co/2026/04/19/iea-solar-overtakes-all-energy-sources-in-a-major-global-first/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47831272 Points: 116 # Comments: 79
◆ 5.1 - The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cge0grppe3po Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47829486 Points: 191 # Comments: 80
◆ 6.1 - Claude Token Counter, now with model comparisons
Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/20/claude-token-counts/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47829178 Points: 187 # Comments: 73
◆ 4.4 - Show HN: Run TRELLIS.2 Image-to-3D generation natively on Apple Silicon
I ported Microsoft's TRELLIS.2 (4B parameter image-to-3D model) to run on Apple Silicon via PyTorch MPS. The original requires CUDA with flash_attn, nvdiffrast, and custom sparse convolution kernels: none of which work on Mac. I replaced the CUDA-specific ops with pure-PyTorch alternatives: a gather-scatter sparse 3D convolution, SDPA attention for sparse transformers, and a Python-based mesh ext…
◆ 4.5 - 2,100 Swiss municipalities showing which provider handles their official email
Related ongoing thread: Swiss authorities want to reduce dependency on Microsoft - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47827383 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47828420 Points: 206 # Comments: 62
◆ 4.5 - Ex-CEO, ex-CFO of bankrupt AI company charged with fraud
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/ex-ceo-ex-cfo-bankrupt-ai-company-charged-with-fraud-2026-04-17/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47828225 Points: 131 # Comments: 54
◆ 5.4 - Swiss authorities want to reduce dependency on Microsoft
Article URL: https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-ai/swiss-authorities-want-to-reduce-dependency-on-microsoft/91280532 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47827383 Points: 173 # Comments: 61
◆ 5.9 - Stop trying to engineer your way out of listening to people
Article URL: https://ashley.rolfmore.com/stop-trying-to-engineer-your-way-out-of-listening-to-people/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47827259 Points: 355 # Comments: 205
◆ 4.1 - 10 years ago, someone wrote a test for Servo that included an expiry in 2026
Article URL: https://mastodon.social/@jdm_/116429380667467307 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47826839 Points: 207 # Comments: 113
◆ 2.5 - Scientific datasets are riddled with copy-paste errors
Article URL: https://www.sciencedetective.org/scientific-datasets-are-riddled-with-copy-paste-errors/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47826834 Points: 124 # Comments: 38
◆ 3.7 - Show HN: Faceoff – A terminal UI for following NHL games
Faceoff is a TUI app written in Python to follow live NHL games and browse standings and stats. I got the inspiration from Playball, a similar TUI app for MLB games that was featured on HN. The app was mostly vibe-coded with Claude Code, but not one-shot. I added features and fixed bugs by using it, as I spent way too much time in the terminal over the last few months. Try it out with `uvx faceof…
◆ 4.4 - The Bromine Chokepoint
Article URL: https://warontherocks.com/cogs-of-war/the-bromine-chokepoint-how-strife-in-the-middle-east-could-halt-production-of-the-worlds-memory-chips/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47826100 Points: 215 # Comments: 126
◆ 3.7 - Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction
Article URL: https://www.pcgamer.com/games/world-of-warcraft/turtle-wow-classic-server-announces-shutdown-after-blizzard-wins-injunction/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47825160 Points: 286 # Comments: 250
◆ 3.7 - Vercel says internal systems hit in breach
Article URL: https://decipher.sc/2026/04/19/vercel-says-internal-systems-hit-in-breach/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47824976 Points: 361 # Comments: 101
◆ 6.2 - Notion leaks email addresses of all editors of any public page
Article URL: https://twitter.com/weezerOSINT/status/2045849358462222720 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47824945 Points: 349 # Comments: 125
◆ 4.7 - Vercel April 2026 security incident
https://vercel.com/kb/bulletin/vercel-april-2026-security-in... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47824463 Points: 815 # Comments: 465
◆ 4.0 - Vercel April 2026 security incident
Article URL: https://vercel.com/kb/bulletin/vercel-april-2026-security-incident Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47824463 Points: 185 # Comments: 69
◆ 6.0 - The creative software industry has declared war on Adobe
Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/tech/913765/adobe-rivals-free-creative-software-app-updates Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47824403 Points: 115 # Comments: 87
◆ 5.5 - Airline worker arrested after sharing photos of bomb damage in WhatsApp group
Article URL: https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/dubai-police-spied-private-whatsapp-5HjdXwr_2/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47824068 Points: 187 # Comments: 113
◆ 5.7 - Show HN: Prompt-to-Excalidraw demo with Gemma 4 E2B in the browser (3.1GB)
Article URL: https://teamchong.github.io/turboquant-wasm/draw.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47823460 Points: 127 # Comments: 47
◆ 3.4 - Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7
Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/18/opus-system-prompt/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47823270 Points: 336 # Comments: 186
◆ 3.7 - Ask HN: How did you land your first projects as a solo engineer/consultant?
I’ve spent roughly the last decade and some change as a software engineer, and recently decided to start a solo consultancy. I’m focused on helping SMEs sort out the messy back-office parts of the business: spreadsheet glue, brittle internal workflows, poor reporting, awkward integrations, backend/platform problems, and AI workflows that need to do real work rather than just look good in a demo. …
◆ 4.9 - SPEAKE(a)R: Turn Speakers to Microphones for Fun and Profit [pdf] (2017)
Article URL: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/woot17/woot17-paper-guri.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47822805 Points: 179 # Comments: 69
◆ 3.3 - A Brief History of Fish Sauce
Article URL: https://www.legalnomads.com/fish-sauce/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47822734 Points: 212 # Comments: 92
◆ 2.7 - Modern Rendering Culling Techniques
Article URL: https://krupitskas.com/posts/modern_culling_techniques/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47822549 Points: 143 # Comments: 35
◆ 1.6 - The seven programming ur-languages (2022)
Article URL: https://madhadron.com/programming/seven_ur_languages.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47822486 Points: 312 # Comments: 120
◆ 3.8 - The RAM shortage could last years
Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/914672/the-ram-shortage-could-last-years Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47822414 Points: 312 # Comments: 389
◆ 3.3 - Keep Pushing: We Get 10 More Days to Reform Section 702
Article URL: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/keep-pushing-we-get-10-more-days-reform-section-702 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47822356 Points: 130 # Comments: 25
◆ 4.8 - The world in which IPv6 was a good design (2017)
Article URL: https://apenwarr.ca/log/20170810 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47821429 Points: 190 # Comments: 95
◆ 3.8 - NASA Shuts Off Instrument on Voyager 1 to Keep Spacecraft Operating
Article URL: https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/voyager/2026/04/17/nasa-shuts-off-instrument-on-voyager-1-to-keep-spacecraft-operating/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47820531 Points: 175 # Comments: 78
◆ 4.8 - Dad brains: How fatherhood rewires the male mind
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260417-fatherhood-how-the-male-brain-and-body-prepare-for-childcare Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47820046 Points: 109 # Comments: 62
◆ 5.1 - NIST scientists create 'any wavelength' lasers
Article URL: https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2026/04/any-color-you-nist-scientists-create-any-wavelength-lasers-tiny-circuits Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47819453 Points: 402 # Comments: 185
◆ 3.6 - SDF Public Access Unix System
Article URL: https://sdf.org/?ssh Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47819410 Points: 155 # Comments: 75
◆ 1.8 - Optimizing Ruby Path Methods
Article URL: https://byroot.github.io/ruby/performance/2026/04/18/faster-paths.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47819369 Points: 117 # Comments: 43
◆ 3.6 - Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design
Article URL: https://samhenri.gold/blog/20260418-claude-design/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47818700 Points: 336 # Comments: 209
◆ 4.6 - College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work
Article URL: https://sentinelcolorado.com/uncategorized/a-college-instructor-turns-to-typewriters-to-curb-ai-written-work-and-teach-life-lessons/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47818485 Points: 449 # Comments: 407
◆ 3.5 - Traders placed over $1B in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/18/iran-war-bets-ethics-concerns Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47818305 Points: 171 # Comments: 105
◆ 5.7 - PgQue: Zero-Bloat Postgres Queue
Article URL: https://github.com/NikolayS/pgque Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47817349 Points: 101 # Comments: 24
◆ 4.1 - The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker
Article URL: https://www.righto.com/2026/04/B-52-star-tracker-angle-computer.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47817132 Points: 413 # Comments: 106
◆ 3.1 - Anonymous request-token comparisons from Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.7
Article URL: https://tokens.billchambers.me/leaderboard Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47816960 Points: 598 # Comments: 561
◆ 3.4 - Show HN: MDV – a Markdown superset for docs, dashboards, and slides with data
Article URL: https://github.com/drasimwagan/mdv Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47816629 Points: 122 # Comments: 44
◆ 3.5 - Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner
Article URL: https://isayeter.com/posts/digitalocean-to-hetzner-migration/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47815774 Points: 835 # Comments: 413
◆ 3.9 - Why Japan has such good railways
Article URL: https://worksinprogress.co/issue/why-japan-has-such-good-railways/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47815395 Points: 532 # Comments: 502
◆ 3.1 - The quiet disappearance of the free-range childhood
Article URL: https://bigthink.com/mind-behavior/the-quiet-disappearance-of-the-free-range-childhood/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47815127 Points: 156 # Comments: 167
◆ 5.0 - State of Kdenlive
Article URL: https://kdenlive.org/news/2026/state-2026/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47815118 Points: 451 # Comments: 143
◆ 2.9 - Category Theory Illustrated – Orders
Article URL: https://abuseofnotation.github.io/category-theory-illustrated/04_order/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47813668 Points: 236 # Comments: 60
◆ 3.5 - Amiga Graphics Archive
Article URL: https://amiga.lychesis.net/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47813566 Points: 241 # Comments: 77
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