Hacker News

Show HN: Apple's Sharp Running in the Browser via ONNX Runtime Web A couple million lines of Haskell: Production engineering at Mercury This Month in Ladybird – April 2026 Dav2d Six Years Perfecting Maps on WatchOS Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March Group averages obscure how an individual's brain controls behavior: study Do_not_track Unverified Evaluations in Dusk's PLONK Neanderthals ran 'fat factories' 125,000 years ago (2025) Utilyze measures how efficiently your GPU is doing useful work Investors pile into clean energy as Iran war drives push for energy security Care homes and hotels in Japan shut as expansion strategy unravels Specsmaxxing – On overcoming AI psychosis, and why I write specs in YAML Inventions for battery reuse and recycling increase seven-fold in last decade Systemd-manager-TUI: A TUI application for managing systemd services VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage The agent harness belongs outside the sandbox Benchmarking a Bug Scanner A more efficient implementation of Shor's algorithm Clojurists Together – Q2 2026 Open Source Funding Announcement Because it doesn't have to Show HN: State of the Art of Coding Models, According to Hacker News Commenters How fast is a macOS VM, and how small could it be? A physics engine with incremental rollback for multiplayer games AI, Intimacy, and the Data You Never Meant to Share Maryland to ban A.I.-driven price increases in grocery stores The USB Situation DeepSeek V4 – almost on the frontier Windows API is Successful Cross-Platform API (2024)

Bleeping Computer

Critrical cPanel flaw mass-exploited in "Sorry" ransomware attacks ConsentFix v3 attacks target Azure with automated OAuth abuse Microsoft tests modern Windows Run, says it's faster than legacy dialog Edu tech firm Instructure discloses cyber incident, probes impact 15-year-old detained over French govt agency data breach Story retracted Criminal IP and Securonix ThreatQ Collaborate to Enhance Threat Intelligence Operations Microsoft fixes Remote Desktop warnings displaying incorrectly Microsoft now lets admins choose pre-installed Store apps to uninstall Windows 11 KB5083631 update released with 34 changes and fixes US ransomware negotiators get 4 years in prison over BlackCat attacks New Bluekit phishing service includes an AI assistant, 40 templates Romanian leader of online swatting ring gets 4 years in prison FBI links cybercriminals to sharp surge in cargo theft attacks April KB5083769 Windows 11 update causes backup software failures

Ars Technica

Senators ban themselves from prediction markets after candidates bet on own races Minnesota passes ban on fake AI nudes; app makers risk $500K fines Women sue the men who used their Instagram feeds to create AI porn influencers US falls below Ukraine in press freedom as global autocracy takes hold Elon Musk's 7 biggest stumbles on the stand at OpenAI trial Meta cuts contractors who reported seeing Ray-Ban Meta users have sex More than half of all Polymarket "long shot" bets on military action pay off ABC can beat Trump FCC's license threat if owner Disney is willing to fight New Sam Bankman-Fried trial would be huge waste of court’s time, judge says Attempt to repeal Colorado's right-to-repair law fails Sam Altman is “the face of evil” for not reporting school shooter, says lawyer Anti-Trump Instagram pic of seashells now enough to indict ex-FBI directors FCC orders review of ABC licenses after Kimmel joke offends Trump and first lady Drone pilot makes US rescind no-fly zones around unmarked, moving ICE vehicles Musk and Altman face off in trial that will determine OpenAI's future Palantir employees are talking about company's "descent into fascism" FCC: Router ban includes portable hotspots, but not phones with hotspot features Soldier won $410K in Polymarket bets on timing of Maduro capture, US alleges Man faces 5 years in prison for using AI to fake sighting of runaway wolf Trump administration attempt to gut Endangered Species Act hits roadblock

Slashdot

Smuggled Starlink Terminals are Beating Iran's Internet Blackout Pentagon Reaches Agreements With Top AI Companies, But Not Anthropic The California Government Is Coming For Your E-Bikes Musk Concludes Testimony At OpenAI Trial US Senators Ban Themselves From Prediction Markets Trading New Linux 'Copy Fail' Vulnerability Enables Root Access On Major Distros French Prosecutors Link 15-Year-Old To Mega-Breach At State's Secure Document Agency DOJ Sues Cloudera For Deliberately Excluding American Workers From Tech Jobs Elon Musk Says OpenAI Betrayed Him, Clashes With Company's Attorney New Sam Bankman-Fried Trial Would Be Huge Waste of Court's Time, Judge Says Colorado's Anti-Repair Bill Is Dead Musk Testifies OpenAI Was Created As Nonprofit To Counter Google Google and Pentagon Reportedly Agree On Deal For 'Any Lawful' Use of AI Supreme Court Hears Case On How To Label Risks of Popular Weed Killer Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Head To Court

Events

The Verge

Severe Linux Copy Fail security flaw uncovered using AI scanning help GitHub rushed to fix a critical vulnerability in less than six hours Attack of the killer script kiddies Anthropic’s Mythos breach was humiliating Anthropic’s Mythos rollout has missed America’s cybersecurity agency Anthropic’s most dangerous AI model just fell into the wrong hands Cloud development platform Vercel was hacked Rockstar Games says hack will have ‘no impact’

The Cipher Brief

Britain’s Antisemitism Crisis Is Now a National Security Threat CIA Deaths Expose Fragile U.S.-Mexico Security Ties Houthi's are Positioned to Close the Bab el-Mandeb Strait Pakistan’s Terror Landscape Continues to Threaten South Asia From Chernobyl to Ukraine: The Enduring Cost of Kremlin Lies Why the Navy’s Next Battleship Faces Major Hurdles Pyongyang’s Bet: Nuclear Growth and Great Power Support America Is Fighting the Wrong Drone War The Dangerous Trade of State Secrets Half Measures and Maximum Risk in Iran

Blogs

Cory Doctorow

The prehistory of the Democratic Nuremberg Caucus How not to ban surveillance pricing Vicky Osterweil's "The Extended Universe" The enshittification multiverse Ada Palmer's "Inventing the Renaissance" A free, open visual identity for enshittification The It's not a crime if we do it Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff's "Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed" Comrade Trump