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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
AI Job Loss Tracker
9 points, 3 comments on Hacker News
Surely there must be a way to make container secrets less dangerous?
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Midnight Captain – A midnight commander inspired file manager
Article URL: https://github.com/duguyue100/midnight-captain Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47734912 Points: 29 # Comments: 10
PBS Nova: Terror in Space (1998)
14 points, 6 comments on Hacker News
What Is in Road Flares?
23 points, 10 comments on Hacker News
No one owes you supply-chain security
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Apple Silicon and Virtual Machines: Beating the 2 VM Limit (2023)
126 points, 63 comments on Hacker News
Brocards for vulnerability triage
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447 TB/cm² at zero retention energy – atomic-scale memory on fluorographane
123 points, 63 comments on Hacker News
Dark Castle
106 points, 15 comments on Hacker News
Writing design docs
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How We Broke Top AI Agent Benchmarks: And What Comes Next
198 points, 54 comments on Hacker News
New synthesis of astronomical measurements shows Hubble tension is real
Article URL: https://noirlab.edu/public/news/noirlab2611/?nocache=true&lang=en Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47733066 Points: 27 # Comments: 4
PCI Express over Fiber [video]
17 points, 1 comments on Hacker News
How to build a `Git diff` driver
68 points, 4 comments on Hacker News
The Orange Pi 6 Plus
107 points, 71 comments on Hacker News
The APL programming language source code (2012)
Article URL: https://computerhistory.org/blog/the-apl-programming-language-source-code/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47732402 Points: 35 # Comments: 9
Small models also found the vulnerabilities that Mythos found
Article URL: https://aisle.com/blog/ai-cybersecurity-after-mythos-the-jagged-frontier Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47732020 Points: 280 # Comments: 85
Phone Trips
Article URL: http://www.wideweb.com/phonetrips/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47731998 Points: 23 # Comments: 2
The disturbing white paper Red Hat is trying to erase from the internet
Article URL: https://www.osnews.com/story/144776/the-disturbing-white-paper-red-hat-is-trying-to-erase-from-the-internet/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47731960 Points: 83 # Comments: 14
Keeping a Postgres Queue Healthy
Article URL: https://planetscale.com/blog/keeping-a-postgres-queue-healthy Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47731838 Points: 35 # Comments: 1
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