1. Vercel April 2026 security incident (vercel.com)
Weβve identified a security incident that involved unauthorized access to certain internal Vercel systems.
2. Archive of Byte magazine, starting with issue #1 in 1975 (archive.org)
Foreground p.20 RECYCLING USED ICs [theme Hardware] [author Mikkelsen] p.62 DECIPHERING MYSTERY KEYBOARDS [theme Hardware] [author Heltners] p.72 LIFE...
3. Game Devs Explain the Tricks Involved with Letting You Pause a Game (kotaku.com)
Developers provide some insight into how they all make games stop and start when you press a button
5. Vercel Says Internal Systems Hit in Breach (decipher.sc)
Vercel, a widely used cloud platform for developing and deploying apps, has disclosed a breach of its internal systems, and says a βlimited subset of customersβ is affected. The incident came to light on Sunday and the company says it has brought in an incident response provider to investigate the intrusion.Β Details of the intrusion are [β¦]
6. Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7 (simonwillison.net)
Anthropic are the only major AI lab to publish the system prompts for their user-facing chat systems. Their system prompt archive now dates all the way back to Claude 3 β¦
7. The RAM shortage could last years (www.theverge.com)
ο»ΏMemory makers are only expected to meet 60 percent of demand by the end of 2027.
8. The seven programming ur-languages (madhadron.com)
9. Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction (www.pcgamer.com)
"They say it
11. Airline worker arrested after sharing photos of bomb damage in WhatsApp group (www.lbc.co.uk)
Police lured the man to a meeting and arrested him after accessing a private WhatsApp group with colleagues
12. What Are Skiplists Good For? (antithesis.com)
An exotic data structure and a whole lot of JOINs.
13. The creative software industry has declared war on Adobe (www.theverge.com)
All empires must fall.
14. Swiss authorities want to reduce dependency on Microsoft (www.swissinfo.ch)
The government is planning a gradual, long-term shift away from Microsoft products, according to a media report.
15. NASA Shuts Off Instrument on Voyager 1 to Keep Spacecraft Operating (science.nasa.gov)
On April 17, engineers at NASAβs Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California sent commands to shut down an instrument aboard Voyager 1 called the
16. The world in which IPv6 was a good design (apenwarr.ca)
Last November I went to an IETF meeting for the first time. The IETF is an
interesting place; it seems to be about 1/3 maintenance grunt wo...
interesting place; it seems to be about 1/3 maintenance grunt wo...
17. The Bromine Chokepoint: How Strife Could Halt Production of Worldβs Memory Chips (warontherocks.com)
The U.S.-Israeli war with Iran, now in an unstable ceasefire, has exposed a structural failure in the global semiconductor memory supply chain, and it is
18. Keep Pushing: We Get 10 More Days to Reform Section 702 (www.eff.org)
In a dramatic middle-of-the-night stand off, a bipartisan set of lawmakers pushing for true reform and privacy protections for Americans bought us some more time to fight! They are holding out for, at a minimum, the requirement of an actual probable cause warrant for FBI access to information...
19. SPEAKE(a)R: Turn Speakers to Microphones for Fun and Profit [pdf] (www.usenix.org)
20. Dad brains: How fatherhood rewires the male mind (www.bbc.com)
From before their babies are born, men undergo serious hormonal changes that can powerfully influence their behaviour β with consequences for their child's wellbeing.
21. Show HN: Prompt-to-Excalidraw demo with Gemma 4 E2B in the browser (3.1GB) (teamchong.github.io)
Gemma 4 E2B runs locally in desktop Chrome. KV cache compressed 2.4Γ via WGSL compute shaders. 30+ tok/s on M1, no server, no API key. Chrome 134+ desktop only β needs WebGPU subgroups + shader-f16.
22. Shader Lab, like Photoshop but for shaders (eng.basement.studio)
A powerful toolkit to create, stack, and animate shaders.
23. I learned Unity the wrong way (darkounity.com)
I spent 3 years building Unity games by copying tutorials and stitching forum scripts together. Then an interviewer asked me what Queue<T> was. I could not answer.
24. Show HN: Faceoff β A terminal UI for following NHL games (www.vincentgregoire.com)
Terminal tool for watching hockey games
25. Nanopass Framework: Clean Compiler Creation Language (nanopass.org)
26. Updating Gun Rocket through 10 years of Unity Engine (jackpritz.com)
Join me as I update a project through 10 years of Unity editors. Along the way I will talk about my process, Unity tips and tricks, and the tech changes of Unity Engine - several of which I observed firsthand while working at Unity.
27. Notes from the SF Peptide Scene (12gramsofcarbon.com)
28. Zero-Copy GPU Inference from WebAssembly on Apple Silicon (abacusnoir.com)
A WebAssembly module's linear memory can be shared directly with the Apple Silicon GPU: no copies, no serialization, no intermediate buffers. Here's how the zero-copy chain works, what we measured, and what it enables for stateful AI inference.
29. Prove You Are a Robot: CAPTCHAs for Agents (browser-use.com)
For our agent-native signup we built a reverse-CAPTCHA that keeps humans out and lets agents in.
30. Six Levels of Dark Mode (cssence.com)
From HTML-only to JS-infused, and all the CSS in between.