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Tell HN: Fiverr left customer files public and searchable

×5.06 8 #13 | 130 points by morpheuskafka 2 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
California ghost-gun bill wants 3D printers to play cop, EFF says (theregister.com)

×4.16 87 | 119 points by Bender 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The dangers of California's legislation to censor 3D printing (eff.org)

×4.30 2 #12 | 51 points by salkahfi 1 hour ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Zig 0.16.0 Release Notes (ziglang.org)

×6.17 18 #39 | 100 points by ska80 6 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
40% of lost calories globally are from beef, needing 33 cal of feed per 1 cal (iop.org)

×4.14 40 #47 | 131 points by randycupertino 3 hours ago | 213 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Google, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Opt Out (404media.co)

×5.36 77 | 159 points by Cider9986 6 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
YouTube now world's largest media company, topping Disney (hollywoodreporter.com)

×3.36 17 #20 | 216 points by bookofjoe 3 hours ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I wrote to Flock's privacy contact to opt out of their domestic spying program (honeypot.net)

×3.16 6 #7 | 405 points by speckx 4 hours ago | 172 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times (bandaancha.eu)

×3.39 89 | 390 points by akyuu 4 hours ago | 375 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Two Months After I Gave an AI $100 and No Instructions (sebastian-jais.de)

×4.82 57 | 86 points by gleipnircode 8 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OpenSSL 4.0.0 (github.com/openssl)

×2.72 3 #11 | 143 points by petecooper 4 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others (rareese.com)

×5.56 6 #17 | 865 points by rrreese 13 hours ago | 529 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
For the first time in the U.S., renewables generate more power than natural gas (yale.edu)

×3.09 56 #72 | 145 points by Brajeshwar 6 hours ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Gas Town: From Clown Show to v1.0 (medium.com)

×2.13 2 #15 | 50 points by martythemaniak 2 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
SpaceX Is Basically a Huge Meme Stock (theatlantic.com)

×4.58 60 | 7 points by breve 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude Code Routines (claude.com)

×2.35 5 #1 | 268 points by matthieu_bl 4 hours ago | 162 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The future of everything is lies, I guess: Work (aphyr.com)

×2.90 24 #36 | 231 points by aphyr 6 hours ago | 194 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
An AI Vibe Coding Horror Story (tobru.ch)

×4.78 56 | 197 points by teichmann 13 hours ago | 196 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mamdani Plans to Open City-Owned Grocery Store in East Harlem (nytimes.com)

×3.10 40 | 6 points by paulpauper 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: GitHub might have been leaking your webhook secrets. Check your emails.

×2.80 25 | 20 points by ssiddharth 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why Amazon Is Buying Starlink Rival Globalstar in $11B Deal (wsj.com)

×1.89 6 #51 | 10 points by JumpCrisscross 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
All 5 units of life's genetic code were just discovered in an asteroid sample (theconversation.com)

×2.09 22 #66 | 21 points by PaulHoule 4 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Autonomous Robot Brigade Successfully Retook Russian Positions in Ukraine (thetimes.com)

×1.70 18 #60 | 11 points by alephnerd 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hacker compromises A16Z-backed phone farm, calling them the 'antichrist' (404media.co)

×5.40 20 | 163 points by wibbily 18 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: I quit my job over weaponized robots to start my own venture

×3.11 51 | 107 points by barratia 10 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tactical Success, Strategic Failure? Washington Walks the Path to Defeat in Iran (warontherocks.com)

×2.43 36 | 4 points by colonCapitalDee 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Sometimes powerful people just do dumb shit (joanwestenberg.com)

×5.19 35 | 253 points by zdw 18 hours ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Orange Pi 6 Plus (taoofmac.com)

×1.53 16 #3 | 58 points by rcarmo 3 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
TN's Charlie Kirk Act bans student walkouts, protects conservative speakers (wpln.org)

×2.50 41 | 4 points by bediger4000 48 minutes ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why Is France Moving from Microsoft Windows to Linux (qazinform.com)

×1.76 14 | 4 points by losgehts 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Demoralize Your Teams Quickly and Efficiently with Micromanagement (2010) (stellman-greene.com)

×1.77 3 | 3 points by downbad_ 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
To teach in the era of ChatGPT is to know pain (arstechnica.com)

×2.33 3 #62 | 39 points by ckemere 7 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Pave – CLI for Managing Path (github.com/microsoft)

×1.75 22 | 4 points by cpendery 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive (techcrunch.com)

×2.24 7 #2 | 432 points by jrm-veris 8 hours ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: GUI or TUI for Coding Harness?

×1.78 6 | 3 points by nwparker 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
.NET 11 Preview 3 is now available (microsoft.com)

×1.89 15 | 3 points by vyrotek 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Rails at the Center of DNSimple (rubyonrails.org)

×1.81 16 | 3 points by robbyrussell 57 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
jj – the CLI for Jujutsu (steveklabnik.github.io)

×2.72 4 #19 | 457 points by tigerlily 11 hours ago | 393 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Amazon acquires Apple's satellite partner (sixcolors.com)

×1.45 3 #61 | 17 points by CharlesW 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
War as a Pretext: Gulf States Are Tightening the Screws on Speech–Again (eff.org)

×1.94 2 #55 | 39 points by hn_acker 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A Claude Code–driven tutor for learning algorithms in Go (github.com/zuzuleinen)

×1.95 41 | 4 points by zuzuleinen 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A simpler, faster way to unlock 1Password (1password.com)

×1.06 4 #58 | 6 points by doener 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DaVinci Resolve – Photo (blackmagicdesign.com)

×4.18 4 #24 | 1021 points by thebiblelover7 19 hours ago | 256 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
California moves forward with its 'Stop Nick Shirley Act' (deseret.com)

×1.85 24 | 3 points by donsupreme 41 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I Went to China to See Its Progress on A.I. We Can't Beat It (nytimes.com)

×2.00 27 | 3 points by suvan 38 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ClawRun – Deploy and manage AI agents in seconds (github.com/clawrun-sh)

×1.04 27 #52 | 25 points by afshinmeh 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Single-Dose Creatine Reduces Sleep Deprivation-Induced Deterioration (mdpi.com)

×2.07 5 #78 | 35 points by pvsukale3 8 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Are Web Agencies Cooked?

×0.95 23 | 7 points by mijustin 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A new spam policy for “back button hijacking” (google.com)

×3.67 5 #27 | 795 points by zdw 18 hours ago | 454 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: We built an MCP for Windows – ask Claude about CPU, temps, and privacy (github.com/AppControlLabs)

×2.34 47 | 7 points by suprnurd 6 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Trusted access for the next era of cyber defense (openai.com)

×0.88 13 #4 | 23 points by surprisetalk 1 hour ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A CLI that writes its own integration code (superglue.cloud)

×4.77 56 | 15 points by adinagoerres 13 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Stack Overflow moderator publicly leaks private flagger information (stackoverflow.com)

×2.10 4 #42 | 4 points by hskdididn 26 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tom7: No one can force me to have a secure website [video] (youtube.com)

×5.21 34 | 72 points by Audiophilip 22 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Troubleshooting Email Delivery to Microsoft Users (rozumem.xyz)

×0.77 31 #16 | 8 points by rozumem 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The human cost of 10x: How AI is physically breaking senior engineers (techtrenches.dev)

×5.23 39 | 73 points by forks 23 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Fediverse deserves a dumb graphical client (pages.casa)

×1.25 12 #40 | 64 points by speckx 6 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Turn your best AI prompts into one-click tools in Chrome (blog.google)

×1.03 17 #6 | 60 points by xnx 4 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Stanford report highlights growing disconnect between AI insiders and everyone (techcrunch.com)

×4.09 10 | 253 points by ZeidJ 1 day ago | 388 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted a backdoor in all of them (anchor.host)

×4.38 1 #31 | 1135 points by speckx 1 day ago | 317 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GitHub Stacked PRs (github.com/gh-stack)

×3.91 5 #38 | 861 points by ezekg 1 day ago | 490 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Plain – The full-stack Python framework designed for humans and agents (github.com/dropseed)

×0.82 17 #10 | 35 points by focom 4 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
5NF and Database Design (databasedesignbook.com)

×0.96 13 #5 | 104 points by petalmind 5 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Let's talk space toilets (mceglowski.substack.com)

×1.06 16 #8 | 99 points by zdw 6 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
guide.world: A compendium of travel guides (guide.world)

×0.82 17 #9 | 42 points by firloop 4 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A memory database that forgets, consolidates, and detects contradiction (github.com/yantrikos)

×0.97 18 #23 | 40 points by pranabsarkar 6 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Missouri town fires half its city council over data center deal (politico.com)

×4.20 37 | 129 points by impish9208 1 day ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Math Is Still Catching Up to the Mysterious Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan (2024) (quantamagazine.org)

×2.28 2 | 103 points by paulpauper 17 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The secrets of the Shinkansen (worksinprogress.news)

×1.96 27 #87 | 149 points by WillDaSilva 15 hours ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Modifying FileZilla to Workaround Bambu 3D Printer's FTP Issue (lantian.pub)

×0.76 24 #56 | 39 points by speckx 4 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Sam Altman's home targeted in second attack (sfstandard.com)

×6.89 64 | 153 points by babelfish 1 day ago | 364 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Can Claude Fly a Plane? (thanks.fish)

×1.90 13 | 101 points by casi 15 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: LangAlpha – what if Claude Code was built for Wall Street? (github.com/ginlix-ai)

×0.94 15 #14 | 80 points by zc2610 6 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hungary's Viktor Orbán Concedes Defeat in Election (wsj.com)

×8.24 80 | 73 points by JumpCrisscross 2 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly building an AI clone to replace him in meetings (theverge.com)

×4.67 60 | 81 points by temphaaa 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Write better Go integration tests with open source dockertest v4 (github.com/ory)

×1.18 81 | 3 points by pragmaticviber 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Mouse Programming Language on CP/M (2020) (techtinkering.com)

×0.77 19 #18 | 40 points by PaulHoule 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
On hacker mindset (henrikkarlsson.xyz)

×1.35 65 #45 | 29 points by jger15 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The tech jobs bust is real. Don't blame AI (yet) (economist.com)

×2.91 25 | 115 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 189 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude.ai down (claude.com)

×3.42 35 | 132 points by rob 1 day ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Kelet – Root Cause Analysis agent for your LLM apps (kelet.ai)

×0.70 7 #32 | 37 points by almogbaku 5 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Introspective Diffusion Language Models (introspective-diffusion.github.io)

×1.48 15 #21 | 212 points by zagwdt 13 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Who needs contributors? (April 2026)

×0.87 18 | 16 points by Kathan2651 7 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
This year’s insane timeline of hacks (ringmast4r.substack.com)

×3.23 2 | 330 points by laurex 1 day ago | 192 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ransomware Is Growing Three Times Faster Than the Spending Meant to Stop It (ciphercue.com)

×1.34 21 | 84 points by adulion 13 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
PersMEM: Persistent Semantic Memory and Multi-Instance Communication for AI

×0.49 69 | 3 points by asixicle 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Lean proved this program correct; then I found a bug (kirancodes.me)

×2.08 20 #28 | 372 points by bumbledraven 21 hours ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The exponential curve behind open source backlogs (armanckeser.com)

×1.03 5 #68 | 65 points by armanckeser 10 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The M×N problem of tool calling and open-source models (thetypicalset.com)

×1.14 20 #26 | 119 points by remilouf 11 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I went to America's worst national parks so you don't have to (substack.substack.com)

×3.26 26 | 197 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 184 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???