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HERMES.md: Anthropic bug causes $200 extra charge, refuses refund
Article URL: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/53262 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47952722 Points: 284 # Comments: 92
Copy Fail – CVE-2026-31431
48 points, 13 comments on Hacker News
Copy Fail: 732 Bytes to Root on Every Major Linux Distributions
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Ramp's Sheets AI Exfiltrates Financials
27 points, 3 comments on Hacker News
Opus 4.7 knows the real Kelsey
19 points, 3 comments on Hacker News
Laws of UX
27 points, 3 comments on Hacker News
Why Software Needs a Third Loop [audio]
Article URL: https://www.heavybit.com/library/podcasts/third-loop/ep-3-give-it-a-name-why-software-needs-a-third-loop Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47951098 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
Rise of the Forward Deployed Engineer
15 points, 13 comments on Hacker News
Virtualisation on Apple Silicon Macs is different
Article URL: https://eclecticlight.co/2026/04/29/virtualisation-on-apple-silicon-macs-is-different/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47951037 Points: 22 # Comments: 6
Maryland becomes first state to ban surveillance pricing in grocery stores
73 points, 33 comments on Hacker News
The USB Situation
25 points, 13 comments on Hacker News
Because It Doesn't Have To
16 points, 3 comments on Hacker News
SAP-Related npm Packages Compromised in Credential-Stealing Supply Chain Attack
Cybersecurity researchers are sounding the alarm about a new supply chain attack campaign targeting SAP-related npm Packages with credential-stealing malware. According to reports from Aikido Security, SafeDep, Socket, StepSecurity, and Google-owned Wiz, the campaign – calling itself the mini Shai-Hulud – has affected the following packages associated with SAP's JavaScript and cloud application
At Protocol: Building the Social Internet
Article URL: https://atproto.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47950575 Points: 9 # Comments: 2
FastCGI: 30 years old and still the better protocol for reverse proxies
106 points, 20 comments on Hacker News
Contributor Poker and Zig's AI Ban
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Court Rules 2nd Amendment Covers Firearms Parts Good News Those Who Build Guns
Article URL: https://cowboystatedaily.com/2026/04/28/court-rules-2nd-amendment-covers-firearms-parts-good-news-for-those-who-build-guns/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47950377 Points: 78 # Comments: 40
Show HN: A new benchmark for testing LLMs for deterministic outputs
24 points, 9 comments on Hacker News
Online age verification is the hill to die on
371 points, 233 comments on Hacker News
The Smelly Baby Problem
9 points, 1 comments on Hacker News
Third Editor Fired in Elsevier's Citation Cartel Crackdown
91 points, 29 comments on Hacker News
Cursor Camp
121 points, 18 comments on Hacker News
VoidZero’s Experimental Oxc Angular Compiler with Up to 20x Faster Build Performance
VoidZero has released an experimental Angular compiler in Rust, promising improved build performance compared to Angular CLI. Benchmarks indicate it is up to 6.4x faster than Angular CLI, especially for larger applications. Developed over two months with AI collaboration, it integrates with Vite and offers significant reductions in build time. The initiative is for research purposes only. By Daniel Curtis
To Restore an Island Paradise, Add Fungi
20 points, 2 comments on Hacker News
Mistral Medium 3.5
257 points, 146 comments on Hacker News
KDE’s 30th anniversary
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Linux 7.0 Broke PostgreSQL: The Preemption Regression Explained
93 points, 34 comments on Hacker News
Building the compute infrastructure for the Intelligence Age
OpenAI scales Stargate to build the compute infrastructure powering AGI, adding new data center capacity to meet growing AI demand.
An open-source stethoscope that costs between $2.5 and $5 to produce
74 points, 35 comments on Hacker News
Microsoft Releases .NET 11 Preview 3 with Updates Across Runtime, SDK, MAUI, and ASP.NET Core
Microsoft has released .NET 11 Preview 3, the third preview of its upcoming Standard Term Support version due in November 2026. The update spans the runtime, SDK, libraries, ASP.NET Core, EF Core, and .NET MAUI, with Runtime Async leaving the preview-feature gate, new JIT optimizations, Zstandard compression in ASP.NET Core, and expanded MAUI Map controls. By Almir Vuk
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