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Who's Been Impersonating This ProPublica Reporter?
Article URL: https://www.propublica.org/article/impersonating-propublica-reporter Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47754100 Points: 20 # Comments: 0
Lean proved this program was correct; then I found a bug
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Building a CLI for All of Cloudflare
142 points, 38 comments on Hacker News
Nothing Ever Happens: Polymarket bot that always buys No on non-sports markets
239 points, 92 comments on Hacker News
Configuration flags are where software goes to rot
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GitHub for Beginners: Getting started with GitHub Pages
Learn how to create a free website for any repository on GitHub Pages. The post GitHub for Beginners: Getting started with GitHub Pages appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
We May Be Living Through the Most Consequential Hundred Days in Cyber History
161 points, 82 comments on Hacker News
Make Tmux Pretty and Usable (2024)
200 points, 143 comments on Hacker News
FBI and Indonesian Police Dismantle W3LL Phishing Network Behind $20M Fraud Attempts
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), in partnership with the Indonesian National Police, has dismantled the infrastructure associated with a global phishing operation that leveraged an off-the-shelf toolkit called W3LL to steal thousands of victims' account credentials and attempt more than $20 million in fraud. In tandem, authorities detained the alleged developer, who has&
Recovering a Lost Document: Habitat Anecdotes (1988)
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MEMS Array Chip Can Project Video the Size of a Grain of Sand
43 points, 15 comments on Hacker News
Microsoft isn't removing Copilot from Windows 11, it's just renaming it
204 points, 136 comments on Hacker News
US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional
232 points, 158 comments on Hacker News
Initial mainline video capture and camera support for Rockchip RK3588
49 points, 11 comments on Hacker News
Little LaTeX Pearls
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Durable Objects in Dynamic Workers: Give each AI-generated app its own database
We’re introducing Durable Object Facets, allowing Dynamic Workers to instantiate Durable Objects with their own isolated SQLite databases. This enables developers to build platforms that run persistent, stateful code generated on-the-fly.
Agents have their own computers with Sandboxes GA
Cloudflare Sandboxes give AI agents a persistent, isolated environment: a real computer with a shell, a filesystem, and background processes that starts on demand and picks up exactly where it left off.
⚡ Weekly Recap: Fiber Optic Spying, Windows Rootkit, AI Vulnerability Hunting and More
Monday is back, and the weekend’s backlog of chaos is officially hitting the fan. We are tracking a critical zero-day that has been quietly living in your PDFs for months, plus some aggressive state-sponsored meddling in infrastructure that is finally coming to light. It is one of those mornings where the gap between a quiet shift and a full-blown incident response is basically
Dynamic, identity-aware, and secure Sandbox auth
Outbound Workers for Sandboxes provide a programmable, zero-trust egress proxy for AI agents. This allows developers to inject credentials and enforce dynamic security policies without exposing sensitive tokens to untrusted code.
Show: /digest – a Claude Code skill for daily dev news digest
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中文 Literacy Speedrun II: Character Cyclotron
30 points, 13 comments on Hacker News
Servo is now available on crates.io
309 points, 102 comments on Hacker News
Michigan 'digital age' bills pulled after privacy concerns raised
Article URL: https://www.thecentersquare.com/michigan/article_7ca4e268-4a68-42fb-9042-f9d8604ebd7f.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47750821 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Android now stops you sharing your location in photos
Article URL: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/04/android-now-stops-you-sharing-your-location-in-photos/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47750669 Points: 43 # Comments: 12
What are you doing this week?
What are you doing this week? Feel free to share! Keep in mind it’s OK to do nothing at all, too.
Your MTTD Looks Great. Your Post-Alert Gap Doesn't
Anthropic restricted its Mythos Preview model last week after it autonomously found and exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in every major operating system and browser. Palo Alto Networks' Wendi Whitmorewarned that similar capabilities are weeks or months from proliferation. CrowdStrike's 2026 Global Threat Report puts average eCrime breakout time at 29 minutes. Mandiant's M-Trends 2026
ReBot-DevArm: open-source Robotic Arm
37 points, 2 comments on Hacker News
Galactic Algorithm
Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactic_algorithm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47750519 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
Too much discussion of the XOR swap trick
15 points, 4 comments on Hacker News
Show HN: I built a social media management tool in 3 weeks with Claude and Codex
Article URL: https://github.com/brightbeanxyz/brightbean-studio Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47749674 Points: 72 # Comments: 57
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