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5701ENG

Internet outage in Iran reaches 1,008 hours

Article URL: https://mastodon.social/@netblocks/116384935123261912 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47738514 Points: 6 # Comments: 0

Hacker Newsmastodon.socialApr 12

5702ENG

Rust is Just a Tool

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Lobsterslewiscampbell.techApr 12

5703ENG

The Physics of GPS

69 points, 17 comments on Hacker News

Hacker Newsperthirtysix.comApr 12

5704ENG

What have been the greatest intellectual achievements? (2017)

Article URL: https://www.thinkingcomplete.com/2017/09/what-have-been-greatest-intellectual.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47738196 Points: 25 # Comments: 27

Hacker Newsthinkingcomplete.comApr 12

5705ENG

JVM Options Explorer

Article URL: https://chriswhocodes.com/vm-options-explorer.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47738094 Points: 43 # Comments: 17

Hacker Newschriswhocodes.comApr 12

5706ENG

Fix monitor that goes black, off or blinks due to static electricity in chair

29 points, 17 comments on Hacker News

Hacker Newsaalonso.devApr 12

5707ENG

DOOM, played over cURL

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Lobstersgithub.comApr 12

5708ENG

AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It

Article URL: https://www.thealgorithmicbridge.com/p/ai-will-be-met-with-violence-and Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47737563 Points: 77 # Comments: 103

Hacker Newsthealgorithmicbridge.comApr 12

5709ENG

Optimization of 32-bit Unsigned Division by Constants on 64-bit Targets

54 points, 7 comments on Hacker News

Hacker Newsarxiv.orgApr 12

5710ENG

Modern Microprocessors – A 90-Minute Guide

50 points, 4 comments on Hacker News

Hacker Newslighterra.comApr 12

5711ENG

Apple update looks like Czech mate for locked-out iPhone user

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/12/ios_passcode_bug/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47737383 Points: 225 # Comments: 115

Hacker Newstheregister.comApr 12

5712ENG

Phyphox – Physical Experiments Using a Smartphone

Article URL: https://phyphox.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47737376 Points: 47 # Comments: 11

Hacker Newsphyphox.orgApr 12

5713ENG

Is math big or small?

27 points, 8 comments on Hacker News

Hacker Newschessapig.github.ioApr 12

5714ENG

The quest for the perfect 2D sprite pipeline

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Lobsterscoldbytesgames.comApr 12

5715ENG

IrDA

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Lobsterscomputer.ripApr 12

5716ENG

FIXAPL

48 points, 3 comments on Hacker News

Hacker Newsfixapl.netlify.appApr 12

5717ENG

I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack

Article URL: https://stevehanov.ca/blog/how-i-run-multiple-10k-mrr-companies-on-a-20month-tech-stack Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47736555 Points: 354 # Comments: 229

Hacker Newsstevehanov.caApr 12

5718SEC

CPUID Breach Distributes STX RAT via Trojanized CPU-Z and HWMonitor Downloads

Unknown threat actors compromised CPUID ("cpuid[.]com"), a website that hosts popular hardware monitoring tools like CPU-Z, HWMonitor, HWMonitor Pro, and PerfMonitor, for less than 24 hours to serve malicious executables for the software and deploy a remote access trojan called STX RAT. The incident lasted from approximately April 9, 15:00 UTC, to about April 10, 10:00 UTC, with

The Hacker News (Security)thehackernews.comApr 12

5719ENG

Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th

Article URL: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/46829 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47736476 Points: 127 # Comments: 109

Hacker Newsgithub.comApr 12

5720ENG

US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/law/2026/apr/11/appeals-court-ruling-home-distilling-ban-unconstitutional Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47736298 Points: 63 # Comments: 33

Hacker Newstheguardian.comApr 12

5721SEC

Adobe Patches Actively Exploited Acrobat Reader Flaw CVE-2026-34621

Adobe has released emergency updates to fix a critical security flaw in Acrobat Reader that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2026-34621, carries a CVSS score of 8.6 out of 10.0. Successful exploitation of the flaw could allow an attacker to run malicious code on affected installations. It has been described as

The Hacker News (Security)thehackernews.comApr 12

5722ENG

Why meaningful days look like nothing while you are living them

Article URL: https://pilgrima.ge/p/the-grand-line Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47735810 Points: 13 # Comments: 3

Hacker Newspilgrima.geApr 12

5723ENG

Building a Z-Machine in the worst possible language – Whitebeard's Realm

Article URL: https://whitebeard.blog/posts/building-a-z-machine-in-elm/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47735779 Points: 15 # Comments: 0

Hacker Newswhitebeard.blogApr 12

5724ENG

How a dancer with ALS used brainwaves to perform live

Article URL: https://www.electronicspecifier.com/products/sensors/how-a-dancer-with-als-used-brainwaves-to-perform-live/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47735581 Points: 25 # Comments: 1

Hacker Newselectronicspecifier.comApr 12

5725ENG

The End of Eleventy

Article URL: https://brennan.day/the-end-of-eleventy/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47735535 Points: 120 # Comments: 68

Hacker Newsbrennan.dayApr 12

5726ENG

Software Preservation Group: C++ History Collection

Article URL: https://softwarepreservation.computerhistory.org/c_plus_plus/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47735405 Points: 15 # Comments: 1

Hacker Newssoftwarepreservation.computerhistory.orgApr 12

5727ENG