Someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted a backdoor in all of them(anchor.host)
1116 points by speckx | 312 comments
Anchor Hosting blog post describing how someone acquired 30 WordPress plugins and inserted a backdoor into each of them.
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GitHub Stacked PRs(github.github.com)
847 points by ezekg | 475 comments
Documentation landing page for GitHub Stacked PRs, a private-preview feature and gh stack CLI for splitting large changes into small, dependent pull requests.
All elementary functions from a single binary operator(arxiv.org)
777 points by pizza | 246 comments
arXiv paper showing a single binary operator eml(x,y)=exp(x)-ln(y) with constant 1 generates all elementary functions of a scientific calculator.
Nothing Ever Happens: Polymarket bot that always buys No on non-sports markets(github.com)
456 points by m-hodges | 251 comments
GitHub repository for a bot that automatically buys "No" shares on non-sports Polymarket prediction markets, released under CC0.
The dangers of California's legislation to censor 3D printing(eff.org)
451 points by salkahfi | 389 comments
EFF Deeplinks article arguing against proposed California legislation that would restrict or censor 3D printing.
Servo is now available on crates.io(servo.org)
442 points by ffin | 140 comments
Servo project blog post announcing the v0.1.0 release of the servo crate, its first crates.io release, along with an LTS version.
US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional(nypost.com)
433 points by t-3 | 307 comments
New York Post (Reuters) news article reporting that a US appeals court declared a nearly 158-year-old federal ban on home distilling unconstitutional.
Make tmux pretty and usable (2024)(hamvocke.com)
417 points by speckx | 254 comments
Blog post by Ham Vocke explaining how to customize tmux.conf to make tmux look nicer and easier to use.
Android now stops you sharing your location in photos(shkspr.mobi)
399 points by edent | 309 comments
Terence Eden blog post explaining how Android now strips location metadata from photos shared via the web, breaking geotagging for sites like OpenBenches.
Lean proved this program correct; then I found a bug(kirancodes.me)
375 points by bumbledraven | 167 comments
Blog post describing how fuzzing a formally verified Lean implementation of zlib uncovered a buffer overflow in the Lean runtime.
The economics of software teams: Why most engineering orgs are flying blind(viktorcessan.com)
372 points by kiyanwang | 238 comments
Blog post by Viktor Cessan analyzing the financial costs of software teams, why organizations lack visibility into them, and how LLMs change the picture.
Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning(adlrocha.substack.com)
347 points by walterbell | 302 comments
Substack essay arguing Apple, seen as an AI laggard, may win through its hardware and on-device advantage as frontier AI models become commoditized.
Microsoft isn't removing Copilot from Windows 11, it's just renaming it(neowin.net)
318 points by bundie | 230 comments
Neowin opinion piece arguing Microsoft is renaming rather than removing Copilot from Windows 11; the capture shows a Cloudflare verification page.
The paper computer(jsomers.net)
262 points by jsomers | 83 comments
Let's talk space toilets(mceglowski.substack.com)
201 points by zdw | 54 comments
A Python Interpreter Written in Python(aosabook.org)
134 points by xk3 | 39 comments
They See Your Photos(theyseeyourphotos.com)
110 points by cyberlurker | 100 comments
Claude.ai down(status.claude.com)
110 points by rob | 104 comments
New Orleans's Car-Crash Conspiracy(newyorker.com)
102 points by Geekette | 56 comments
Tax Wrapped 2025(taxwrapped.com)
91 points by entrapi | 46 comments
Six Characters(ajitem.com)
85 points by Airplanepasta | 13 comments
Average is all you need(rawquery.dev)
80 points by AlexC04 | 81 comments
State of Homelab 2026(mrlokans.work)
74 points by swq115 | 65 comments
Just Enough Chimera Linux(dwarmstrong.org)
48 points by speckx | 11 comments
