news, !paper / hn digest   2026-04-13

1181 Someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted a backdoor in all of them / anchor.host / 335
888 GitHub Stacked PRs / github.github.com / 512
846 All elementary functions from a single binary operator / arxiv.org / 288
480 Servo is now available on crates.io / servo.org / 152
465 Nothing Ever Happens: Polymarket bot that always buys No on non-sports markets / github.com/sterlingcrispin / 273
457 US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional / nypost.com / 335
450 Make tmux pretty and usable (2024) / hamvocke.com / 274
430 Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning / adlrocha.substack.com / 383
419 Android now stops you sharing your location in photos / shkspr.mobi / 318
411 The economics of software teams: Why most engineering orgs are flying blind / viktorcessan.com / 284
374 Microsoft isn't removing Copilot from Windows 11, it's just renaming it / neowin.net / 286
338 This year’s insane timeline of hacks / ringmast4r.substack.com / 199
333 Building a CLI for all of Cloudflare / blog.cloudflare.com / 107
327 The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Safety / aphyr.com / 180
282 I ran Gemma 4 as a local model in Codex CLI / blog.danielvaughan.com / 115
263 Taking on CUDA with ROCm: 'One Step After Another' / eetimes.com / 197
261 Stanford report highlights growing disconnect between AI insiders and everyone / techcrunch.com / 400
227 Michigan 'digital age' bills pulled after privacy concerns raised / thecentersquare.com / 131
205 If you started a company two years ago, many assumptions are no longer true / steveblank.com / 150
203 Introduction to Obsidian / bryanhogan.com / 154
203 How to make Firefox builds 17% faster / blog.farre.se / 37
197 I went to America's worst national parks so you don't have to / substack.com / 184
188 Show HN: I built a social media management tool in 3 weeks with Claude and Codex / github.com/brightbeanxyz / 132
186 AI could be the end of the digital wave, not the next big thing / thenextwavefutures.wordpress.com / 279
185 Picasso’s Guernica (Gigapixel) / guernica.museoreinasofia.es / 77
174 Show HN: Ithihāsas – a character explorer for Hindu epics, built in a few hours / ithihasas.in / 45
155 GAIA – Open-source framework for building AI agents that run on local hardware / amd-gaia.ai / 34
134 Claude.ai down / status.claude.com / 126
133 Missouri town fires half its city council over data center deal / politico.com / 141
132 They See Your Photos / theyseeyourphotos.com / 114
131 Tracking down a 25% Regression on LLVM RISC-V / blog.kaving.me / 28
125 Tax Wrapped 2025 / taxwrapped.com / 73
123 New Orleans's Car-Crash Conspiracy / newyorker.com / 81
123 B-trees and database indexes (2024) / planetscale.com / 50
119 State of Homelab 2026 / mrlokans.work / 98
119 Who's Been Impersonating This ProPublica Reporter? / propublica.org / 2
117 The tech jobs bust is real. Don't blame AI (yet) / economist.com / 193
117 The looming college-enrollment death spiral / theatlantic.com / 164
110 Optimization of 32-bit Unsigned Division by Constants on 64-bit Targets / arxiv.org / 14

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