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A $440k Breast Reduction: How Doctors Cashed in on a Consumer Protection Law

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/us/politics/doctors-insurers-arbitration.html
1•kevinwang•1m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Find a Claude skill is so hard

1•chunpaiyang•2m ago•0 comments

Proofs Are Programs: A Few Examples of the Curry-Howard Correspondence

https://adueck.github.io/blog/curry-howard-proofs-are-programs/
1•birdculture•3m ago•0 comments

Tailwind CSS v4: A Complete Migration Guide

https://news.ycombinator.com/submit
1•Craftly•8m ago•1 comments

Jeffrey Epstein's name appears twice on a 2015 Silicon Valley dinner invite

https://hebrewhorror.substack.com/p/the-eternal-jew-the-eternal-jeff
1•meandthemajor•10m ago•0 comments

My extension got crickets here, but just got Google's Featured badge

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/nexopad-expansor-de-texto/jjjmhgbdbepmledkcoalkfhnnnoignca
1•rychzx•10m ago•1 comments

New Gas-Powered Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gas Than Nations

https://www.wired.com/story/new-gas-powered-data-centers-could-emit-more-greenhouse-gases-than-en...
3•voxadam•14m ago•0 comments

Ask iFixit: How Do I Fix Sticky Plastics?

https://www.ifixit.com/News/93833/ask-ifixit-how-do-i-fix-sticky-plastics
2•yladiz•15m ago•0 comments

France's 'Secure' ID agency probes breach as crooks claim 19M records

https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/22/frances_secure_id_agency_probes/
2•Brajeshwar•15m ago•0 comments

Tesla lithium refinery discharge contains toxic metals, district demands halt

https://electrek.co/2026/04/21/tesla-lithium-refinery-toxic-metals-wastewater-texas/
3•breve•17m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Sift – save AI tokens in Codex/Claude by summarizing command output

https://github.com/panpeter/sift-skill
1•piotrwilczek•18m ago•1 comments

Alby AI Transport

https://ably.com/ai-transport
1•handfuloflight•19m ago•0 comments

Chat-py: A Python port of Vercel's chat SDK

https://github.com/desplega-ai/chat-py
1•tarasyarema•19m ago•1 comments

Scientists build 'gas battery' that turns noxious pollutants into electricity

https://www.the-independent.com/tech/battery-breakthrough-current-air-pollution-b2961684.html
1•giuliomagnifico•21m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Galen – a structured layer between humans and AI

https://galenvoice.com/
1•drgeorgealex•21m ago•0 comments

Spaced Repetition: Beginner Guide/FAQ

https://entropicthoughts.com/spaced-repetition-beginner-guide-faq
2•ibobev•22m ago•0 comments

A WebGPU Implementation of Surfel-Based Global Illumination

https://juretriglav.si/surfel-based-global-illumination-on-the-web/
3•juretriglav•22m ago•0 comments

X402-Powered X API

https://twit.sh/
2•mempirate•22m ago•1 comments

Symposium: Community-Oriented Agentic Development

https://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2026/04/21/symposium/
1•ibobev•22m ago•0 comments

Columnar Storage Is Normalization

https://buttondown.com/jaffray/archive/columnar-storage-is-normalization/
1•ibobev•22m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Postchi, An ide like api client, clean and local

https://getpostchi.com
1•hamedmonji30•23m ago•0 comments

Spectrum-Ts

https://github.com/photon-hq/spectrum-ts
1•handfuloflight•24m ago•0 comments

The eighth-generation TPU: An architecture deep dive

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/tpu-8t-and-tpu-8i-technical-deep-dive
2•meetpateltech•25m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Every 4s, Familiar OCRs my screen into Markdown (open source, local)

https://github.com/familiar-software/familiar
1•talsraviv•25m ago•3 comments

Gecko: A fast GLR parser with automatic syntax error recovery

https://vnmakarov.github.io/parsing/compilers/c/open-source/2026/04/22/gecko-glr.html
1•compilersfun•25m ago•0 comments

Russia's funeral industry booms amid record losses in Ukraine

https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/articles/russias-funeral-industry-booms-amid-102400132.html
1•jonnybgood•26m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Why don’t laptops beep loudly like cars when locking and unlocking?

1•amichail•28m ago•3 comments

Show HN: Rapunzel – a tree-style terminal for AI agents

https://github.com/salmanjavaid/rapunzel/tree/main
1•WasimBhai•28m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Cai – Local AI Action Layer for macOS (Free, MIT, MLX)

https://getcai.app/
1•soyasis•30m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Infinite Lofi Radio Station Composed Live by Claude Code

https://beats.softwaresoftware.dev
1•thatcherthorn•31m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Iran claims US exploited networking equipment backdoors during strikes

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/iran-claims-us-exploited-networking-equipment-backdoors-during-strikes
20•pseudolus•1h ago

Comments

TacticalCoder•1h ago
Which is why banning chinese routers and banning chinese cars than can be remotely disabled by the komrades makes sense.

Selling cars, worldwide, made sense when they weren't always connected to the mother land. Germans selling you a BMW in the 80s? You've got the key: you turn the key. They couldn't turn off all the BMWs if suddenly the US were to be at war with Germany again.

But this madness of cars receiving OTA updates and remote subscriptions and whatnots?

jeroenhd•1h ago
If you bought a BMW in the 80s and you were suddenly at war with Germany, you'd be stuck scavenging for replacement parts the moment something in the engine failed. It's not as easy and direct, but the problem is still there.

Doing business with the enemy always comes with a risk. For countries that don't build their own networking equipment (including the PCBs and chips), you have to accept some level of risk or you have to avoid such technology all together.

exitb•1h ago
The average time before a car NEEDS a replacement part to run must be at least a few years. That's a different situation from flipping a switch to turn all connected cars off.
jeroenhd•58m ago
But on average, all cars are a few years old, and wars aren't over in a few months.
steveBK123•48m ago
Mechanical parts can be reverse engineered after you run out of inventory and the ability to gray-source them via 3rd parties/countries.

Also that is an "eventual problem".

The era of smart everything exposes you to pinpoint time/place/person disablement by the enemy.

dasKrokodil•8m ago
Not for a BMW though.
kilpikaarna•55m ago
> Doing business with the enemy always comes with a risk.

Or indeed with allies, as Europe is just finding out...

jeroenhd•46m ago
Indeed, though we are also finding out how bad it is to not have any local competition in many fields of hardware, software, and manufacturing.

Heavily sanctioned countries like Afghanistan and Iran have one thing going for them, and that's that they can't easily build a dependence on foreign technology (though not having such technology at all is arguably just as bad).

steveBK123•53m ago
The era of "smart cars" actually makes targeting much easier. You don't need to bulk disable cars in a country.

Imagine an enemy country using zero-days to track a military leader via their personal device(s), then disabling their smart civilian vehicle they use to commute to work. Final leg is they had previously parked drones along their expected commute routes for just such an occasion and..

edit: see interesting hypothetical future war series on YT, specifically this bit.. https://youtu.be/drr7mmibt9E?t=157

CGMthrowaway•42m ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hastings_(journalist)#...
kakacik•32m ago
I presume the very basic safety requirement for any VIP person in the future will be fully offline car, with updates only done at certified secured service, or simply not done since the car just keeps working. Something along melting chip of 5g/whatever antenna or ripping out whole comm box.

Ah, think about it, the luxury of owning your own car, you and only you. I can almost imagine it. The future, its bright.

halJordan•2m ago
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Geof25•1h ago
So they burned through weapon stockpile and also through zero day stockpile. Good job, another strategic success which will help in war with China...
jeroenhd•1h ago
Surely they don't need backdoors when they can just exploit the awful network security that American networking equipment vendors already come with out of the box?

The US needed to smuggle Stuxnet in, but with networking equipment there's a treasure trove of shitty practices. Cisco and Juniper have been caught hiding hard-coded password how many times now?

kakacik•38m ago
At this point, any US company's products on software and hardware side can be safely considered an espionage asset. Even ignoring well known things like intercepting international packages during transit and putting malware into them.

Same goes obviously for ie Chinese stuff, but I don't think you guys realize how for outsider the border between China and US in terms of morality is practically non-existent now. I don't mean it in any snarky way, just looking at facts.

Also, China doesn't invade countries half around the world and bring them to utter destruction and misery for generations to come, killing thousands to millions of civilians and creating breeding grounds for things like ISIS. They do their own thing, quietly and patiently, with laser focus and for outsiders its at most 'not great not terrible' category.

mr_mitm•10m ago
Sometimes it's hard to tell if it's a real bug or a backdoor masquerading as a vulnerability.
throwawayffffas•40m ago
Which is why they should have bought networking equipment from their friends.
ungreased0675•6m ago
Turns out, a $14.5 Billion budget can buy some mind-bendingly awesome cyber effects.
mugiseyebrows•3m ago
Is it worse than bombing school, though?