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Writing a C Compiler, in Zig
Article URL: https://ar-ms.me/thoughts/c-compiler-1-zig/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47873694 Points: 33 # Comments: 6
China-Linked GopherWhisper Infects 12 Mongolian Government Systems with Go Backdoors
Mongolian governmental institutions have emerged as the target of a previously undocumented China-aligned advanced persistent threat (APT) group tracked as GopherWhisper. "The group wields a wide array of tools mostly written in Go, using injectors and loaders to deploy and execute various backdoors in its arsenal," Slovakian cybersecurity company ESET said in a report shared with The Hacker
Vercel Finds More Compromised Accounts in Context.ai-Linked Breach
Vercel on Wednesday revealed that it has identified an additional set of customer accounts that were compromised as part of a security incident that enabled unauthorized access to its internal systems. The company said it made the discovery after expanding its investigation to include an extra set of compromise indicators, alongside a review of requests to the Vercel network and environment
A Linux desktop in x86_64 Assembly
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Email could have been X.400 times better
Article URL: https://buttondown.com/blog/x400-vs-smtp-email Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47873323 Points: 21 # Comments: 17
Apple Fixes iOS Flaw That Let FBI Recover Deleted Signal Messages
Apple has rolled out a software fix for iOS and iPadOS to address a Notification Services flaw that stored notifications marked for deletion on the device. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-28950 (CVSS score: N/A), has been described as a logging issue that has been addressed with improved data redaction. "Notifications marked for deletion could be unexpectedly retained on the device,"
Rediscovering the Handcart
7 points, 0 comments on Hacker News
Gecko: a fast GLR parser with automatic syntax error recovery
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Ars Technica: Our newsroom AI policy
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/staff/2026/04/our-newsroom-ai-policy/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47872452 Points: 9 # Comments: 1
A disabled kea parrot is the alpha male of his circus
26 points, 6 comments on Hacker News
I am building a cloud
Article URL: https://crawshaw.io/blog/building-a-cloud Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47872324 Points: 124 # Comments: 30
MacBook Neo and how the iPad should be
191 points, 109 comments on Hacker News
How The Heck Does Shazam Work?
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Borrow-checking without type-checking
Article URL: https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/borrow-checking-without-type-checking/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47871817 Points: 42 # Comments: 6
Flow Map Learning via Nongradient Vector Flow [pdf]
Article URL: https://openreview.net/pdf?id=C1bkDPqvDW Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47871800 Points: 19 # Comments: 0
Tempest vs. Tempest: The Making and Remaking of Atari's Iconic Video Game
Article URL: https://tempest.homemade.systems Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47871195 Points: 55 # Comments: 19
OpenAI's response to the Axios developer tool compromise
Article URL: https://openai.com/index/axios-developer-tool-compromise/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47871077 Points: 60 # Comments: 26
OpenAI Privacy Filter
184 points, 32 comments on Hacker News
GPT-5.5 Bio Bug Bounty
Explore the GPT-5.5 Bio Bug Bounty: a red-teaming challenge to find universal jailbreaks for bio safety risks, with rewards up to $25,000.
Approximating Hyperbolic Tangent
10 points, 1 comments on Hacker News
Desmond Morris, 98, Dies; Zoologist Saw Links Between Humans and Apes
53 points, 4 comments on Hacker News
Bring your own Agent to MS Teams
Article URL: https://microsoft.github.io/teams-sdk/blog/bring-your-agent-to-teams/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47870108 Points: 9 # Comments: 1
The Neon King of New Orleans
Article URL: https://gardenandgun.com/new-orleans-neon-king Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47869496 Points: 23 # Comments: 3
nondescript: a simple embedded programming language
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Olive CSS: Lisp powered vanilla CSS utility-class a la Tailwind
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Insights into firewood use by early Middle Pleistocene hominins
29 points, 6 comments on Hacker News
Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones
301 points, 79 comments on Hacker News
The Illuminated Man: an unconventional portrait of JG Ballard
44 points, 15 comments on Hacker News
Arch Linux now has a bit-for-bit reproducible Docker image
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What are your favorite Emacs packages?
Reading about Magit and people using Emacs as a web browser made me wonder: what are your essential packages for it? Thank you
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