Hacker News on Sunday, 19 April 2026

Vercel April 2026 security incident(bleepingcomputer.com)

817 points by colesantiago 6 months ago | 466 comments

Vercel security bulletin disclosing unauthorized access to certain internal systems in April 2026, affecting a limited subset of customers, with an ongoing investigation.

5x5 Pixel font for tiny screens(maurycyz.com)

781 points by zdw 6 months ago | 151 comments

A personal blog post presenting a 5x5 pixel bitmap font designed for tiny screens such as those used with microcontrollers.

Stop trying to engineer your way out of listening to people(ashley.rolfmore.com)

363 points by walterbell 6 months ago | 224 comments

A blog post by Ashley Rolfmore titled "Stop trying to engineer your way out of listening to people"; the captured screenshot instead shows her post on playing Traitors at home.

Notion leaks email addresses of all editors of any public page(twitter.com)

357 points by Tiberium 6 months ago | 129 comments

An X post reporting that public Notion pages expose editors' names, emails, and photos via an unauthenticated POST request, reported in 2022 and still unfixed.

Vercel says internal systems hit in breach(decipher.sc)

352 points by whiteyford 6 months ago | 97 comments

Decipher news article reporting that cloud platform Vercel disclosed a breach affecting its internal systems.

Edit store price tags using Flipper Zero(github.com)

346 points by trueduke 6 months ago | 316 comments

GitHub repository for TagTinker, a Flipper Zero app for researching electronic shelf label price tags over infrared, with an Android companion.

Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7(simonwillison.net)

337 points by pretext 6 months ago | 186 comments

Simon Willison's blog post comparing Anthropic's published Claude system prompts for Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.7, using a git diff to highlight the changes.

The seven programming ur-languages (2022)(madhadron.com)

321 points by helloplanets 6 months ago | 123 comments

Essay on the madhadron blog arguing programming languages descend from seven fundamental 'ur-languages' that learners should explore instead of similar mainstream languages.

The RAM shortage could last years(theverge.com)

312 points by omer_k 6 months ago | 388 comments

Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction(pcgamer.com)

291 points by Brajeshwar 6 months ago | 252 comments

Airline worker arrested after sharing photos of bomb damage in WhatsApp group(lbc.co.uk)

227 points by aa_is_op 6 months ago | 147 comments

Ask HN: How did you land your first projects as a solo engineer/consultant?

223 points by modelcroissant 6 months ago | 100 comments

A Brief History of Fish Sauce(legalnomads.com)

217 points by vinhnx 6 months ago | 93 comments

The Bromine Chokepoint(warontherocks.com)

215 points by crescit_eundo 6 months ago | 126 comments

10 years ago, someone wrote a test for Servo that included an expiry in 2026(mastodon.social)

210 points by luu 6 months ago | 117 comments

2,100 Swiss municipalities showing which provider handles their official email(mxmap.ch)

207 points by doener 6 months ago | 63 comments

The world in which IPv6 was a good design (2017)(apenwarr.ca)

196 points by signa11 6 months ago | 103 comments

Swiss authorities want to reduce dependency on Microsoft(swissinfo.ch)

193 points by doener 6 months ago | 69 comments

Claude Token Counter, now with model comparisons(simonwillison.net)

187 points by twapi 6 months ago | 73 comments

The creative software industry has declared war on Adobe(theverge.com)

184 points by tambourine_man 6 months ago | 144 comments

SPEAKE(a)R: Turn Speakers to Microphones for Fun and Profit [pdf] (2017)(usenix.org)

179 points by Eridanus2 6 months ago | 69 comments

Show HN: Run TRELLIS.2 Image-to-3D generation natively on Apple Silicon(github.com)

179 points by shivampkumar 6 months ago | 31 comments

Windows Server 2025 Runs Better on ARM(jasoneckert.github.io)

175 points by jasoneckert 6 months ago | 130 comments

Modern Rendering Culling Techniques(krupitskas.com)

162 points by krupitskas 6 months ago | 38 comments

In the UK, EVs are cheaper than petrol cars, thanks to Chinese competition(electrek.co)

154 points by breve 6 months ago | 137 comments

Keep Pushing: We Get 10 More Days to Reform Section 702(eff.org)

144 points by nobody9999 6 months ago | 26 comments

Ex-CEO, ex-CFO of bankrupt AI company charged with fraud(reuters.com)

143 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 6 months ago | 61 comments

Scientific datasets are riddled with copy-paste errors(sciencedetective.org)

130 points by jruohonen 6 months ago | 40 comments

Show HN: Prompt-to-Excalidraw demo with Gemma 4 E2B in the browser (3.1GB)(teamchong.github.io)

129 points by teamchong 6 months ago | 48 comments

Clojure: Transducers(clojure.org)

125 points by tosh 6 months ago | 53 comments

Show HN: Faceoff – A terminal UI for following NHL games(vincentgregoire.com)

111 points by vcf 6 months ago | 36 comments

Notes from the SF peptide scene(12gramsofcarbon.com)

105 points by theahura 6 months ago | 91 comments

Garbage Collection Without Unsafe Code(fitzgen.com)

101 points by foota 6 months ago | 48 comments

Six Levels of Dark Mode (2024)(cssence.com)

99 points by Akcium 6 months ago | 46 comments

Contact Lens Uses Microfluidics to Monitor and Treat Glaucoma(spectrum.ieee.org)

87 points by pseudolus 6 months ago | 2 comments

When moving fast, talking is the first thing to break(daverupert.com)

87 points by Brajeshwar 6 months ago | 40 comments

Swiss AI Initiative (2023)(swiss-ai.org)

84 points by doener 6 months ago | 25 comments

The purist's guide to phở in Hanoi(connla.substack.com)

82 points by vinhnx 6 months ago | 31 comments

Uber’s Anthropic AI push hits a wall(finance.yahoo.com)

79 points by dakiol 6 months ago | 86 comments

Bullshit About Bullshit Machines [pdf](aphyr.com)

75 points by hedayet 6 months ago | 28 comments

I wrote a CHIP-8 emulator in my own programming language(github.com)

75 points by pizza_man 6 months ago | 18 comments

Binary GCD(en.algorithmica.org)

74 points by tosh 6 months ago | 1 comments

A. J. Ayer – ‘What I Saw When I Was Dead’ (1988)(philosopher.eu)

68 points by isomorphy 6 months ago | 88 comments

Sudo for Windows (2024)(github.com)

68 points by luispa 6 months ago | 56 comments

Russia's doping program is run by the same FSB team that poisoned Navalny(theins.press)

60 points by dralley 6 months ago | 21 comments

Slava's Monoid Zoo(factorcode.org)

59 points by luu 6 months ago | 8 comments

Got an Old Kindle? It Might Not Work Anymore(nytimes.com)

57 points by eigenhombre 6 months ago | 37 comments

Blue Origin's rocket reuse achievement marred by upper stage failure(arstechnica.com)

56 points by rbanffy 6 months ago | 20 comments

Modern Front end Complexity: essential or accidental?(binaryigor.com)

55 points by gsky 6 months ago | 39 comments

Chernobyl's last wedding(bbc.com)

53 points by 1659447091 6 months ago | 12 comments

High-Fidelity KV Cache Summarization Using Entropy and Low-Rank Reconstruction(jchandra.com)

52 points by jchandra 6 months ago | 13 comments

Banned by Anthropic(bannedbyanthropic.com)

48 points by gck1 6 months ago | 21 comments

Why Musicians Are Manufacturing Sold-Out Shows(bloomberg.com)

47 points by helsinkiandrew 6 months ago | 46 comments

Matt Mullenweg Overrules Core Committers; Puts Akismet on WP 7's Connector List(therepository.email)

46 points by mooreds 6 months ago | 35 comments

PM Carney declares U.S. ties now a 'weakness' in address to Canadians(ctvnews.ca)

46 points by Teever 6 months ago | 11 comments

Show HN: Google Gemini Is Scanning Your Photos – and the EU Said No

43 points by anju-kushwaha 6 months ago | 8 comments

Why Zip drives dominated the 90s, then vanished almost overnight(xda-developers.com)

42 points by naves 6 months ago | 34 comments

Prefill-as-a-Service:KVCache of Next-Generation Models Could Go Cross-Datacenter(arxiv.org)

42 points by matt_d 6 months ago | 1 comments

Canada's PM calls economic ties with US a weakness that must be corrected(abcnews.com)

37 points by jmward01 6 months ago | 1 comments

CEOs admit AI had no impact on employment or productivity(fortune.com)

36 points by tcp_handshaker 6 months ago | 25 comments