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Rockstar Games Hacked, Hackers Threaten a Massive Data Leak If Not Paid Ransom
Article URL: https://kotaku.com/rockstar-games-reportedly-hacked-massive-data-leak-ransom-gta-6-shinyhunters-2000686858 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47731707 Points: 37 # Comments: 24
Replacing Lenovo’s WWAN Unlock Blob with a 100-Line Bash Script
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The future of everything is lies, I guess – Part 5: Annoyances
Article URL: https://aphyr.com/posts/415-the-future-of-everything-is-lies-i-guess-annoyances Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47730981 Points: 132 # Comments: 72
Rewriting a 20-year-old Python library
5 points, 0 comments on Hacker News
The Problem That Built an Industry
Article URL: https://ajitem.com/blog/iron-core-part-1-the-problem-that-built-an-industry/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47730712 Points: 59 # Comments: 25
South Korea introduces universal basic mobile data access
Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/10/south_korea_data_access_universal/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47730407 Points: 195 # Comments: 57
High-Level Rust: Getting 80% of the Benefits with 20% of the Pain
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Git fixup is magic (and Magit is too)
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Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI
Article URL: https://cirruslabs.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47730194 Points: 183 # Comments: 87
Analyzing KDE Project Health With git
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An Introduction to Obsidian
133 points, 86 comments on Hacker News
SQLite 3.53.0
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How do Wake-On-LAN works
45 points, 17 comments on Hacker News
Windows Defender is being used to hack Windows
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I Just Want Simple S3
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Air Powered Segment Display? [video]
30 points, 6 comments on Hacker News
Write less code, be more responsible
10 points, 2 comments on Hacker News
What We Learned Building a Rust Runtime for TypeScript
38 points, 6 comments on Hacker News
Picasso's Guernica (Gigapixel)
33 points, 7 comments on Hacker News
France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk
86 points, 42 comments on Hacker News
Tesla's supervised self-driving software gets Dutch okay, first in Europe
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/teslas-self-driving-software-gets-dutch-go-ahead-boost-eu-ambitions-2026-04-10/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47727974 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
Show HN: Pardonned.com – A searchable database of US Pardons
https://pardonned.com Inspired by the videos of Liz Oyer, I wanted to be able to verify her claims and just look up all the pardons more easily. Tech Stack: Playwright - to sccrape the DOJ website SQLite - local database Astro 6 - Build out a static website from the sqlite db All code is open source and available on Github. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47727960 Points: 60 # Comments: 15
Citizen Lab: Law Enforcement Used Webloc to Track 500 Million Devices via Ad Data
Hungarian domestic intelligence, the national police in El Salvador, and several U.S. law enforcement and police departments have been attributed to the use of an advertising-based global geolocation surveillance system called Webloc. The tool was developed by Israeli company Cobwebs Technologies and is now sold by its successor Penlink after the two firms merged in July 2023
With AI, you barely need a frontend framework
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20 Years on AWS and Never Not My Job
Article URL: https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2026-04-11-20-years-on-AWS-and-never-not-my-job.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47727711 Points: 60 # Comments: 4
Productive Procrastination
Article URL: https://www.maxvanijsselmuiden.nl/blog/productive-procrastination/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47727659 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Advanced Mac Substitute
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Great at gaming? US air traffic control wants you to apply
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce84rvx0e6do Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47727575 Points: 5 # Comments: 2
Quien – A better WHOIS lookup tool
Article URL: https://github.com/retlehs/quien/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47727076 Points: 18 # Comments: 5
A bet on whether ML-KEM-768 or X25519 will break first
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