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Vercel April 2026 security incident

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/vercel-confirms-breach-as-hackers-claim-to-be-sell...
626•colesantiago•14h ago•353 comments

A Brief History of Fish Sauce

https://www.legalnomads.com/fish-sauce/
129•vinhnx•20h ago•56 comments

The Bromine Chokepoint

https://warontherocks.com/cogs-of-war/the-bromine-chokepoint-how-strife-in-the-middle-east-could-...
177•crescit_eundo•11h ago•86 comments

Stop trying to engineer your way out of listening to people

https://ashley.rolfmore.com/stop-trying-to-engineer-your-way-out-of-listening-to-people/
101•walterbell•8h ago•23 comments

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

https://github.com/shivampkumar/trellis-mac
119•shivampkumar•4h ago•20 comments

Claude Token Counter, now with model comparisons

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/20/claude-token-counts/
26•twapi•4h ago•7 comments

Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/world-of-warcraft/turtle-wow-classic-server-announces-shutdown-afte...
168•Brajeshwar•13h ago•147 comments

Sudo for Windows

https://github.com/microsoft/sudo
35•luispa•5h ago•16 comments

Monumental ship burial beneath ancient Norwegian mound predates the Viking Age

https://phys.org/news/2026-04-monumental-ship-burial-beneath-ancient.html
9•pseudolus•2d ago•0 comments

Mechanical Keyboard Sounds – A listening Museum

https://sheets.works/data-viz/keyboard-sounds
67•akashwadhwani35•4d ago•27 comments

Swiss AI Initiative (2023)

https://www.swiss-ai.org
36•doener•6h ago•13 comments

Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/18/opus-system-prompt/
253•pretext•18h ago•150 comments

2,100 Swiss municipalities showing which provider handles their official email

https://mxmap.ch/
101•doener•6h ago•31 comments

A cache-friendly IPv6 LPM with AVX-512 (linearized B+-tree, real BGP benchmarks)

https://github.com/esutcu/planb-lpm
4•debugga•1h ago•0 comments

Scientific datasets are riddled with copy-paste errors

https://www.sciencedetective.org/scientific-datasets-are-riddled-with-copy-paste-errors/
61•jruohonen•9h ago•9 comments

A Common MVP Evolution: Service to System Integration to Product (2017)

https://www.skmurphy.com/blog/2017/08/07/a-common-evolution-service-to-system-integration-to-prod...
8•skmurphy•2d ago•2 comments

Show HN: A lightweight way to make agents talk without paying for API usage

https://juanpabloaj.com/2026/04/16/a-lightweight-way-to-make-agents-talk-without-paying-for-api-u...
20•juanpabloaj•4h ago•5 comments

Prove you are a robot: CAPTCHAs for agents

https://browser-use.com/posts/prove-you-are-a-robot
76•lukasec•4d ago•38 comments

The RAM shortage could last years

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/914672/the-ram-shortage-could-last-years
236•omer_k•21h ago•263 comments

Recovering Windows Live Writer Files

https://benovermyer.com/blog/2026/04/recovering-windows-live-writer-files/
18•bovermyer•5d ago•6 comments

Archive of BYTE magazine, starting with issue #1 in 1975

https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1975-09
554•DamnInteresting•2d ago•145 comments

The seven programming ur-languages (2022)

https://madhadron.com/programming/seven_ur_languages.html
312•helloplanets•21h ago•120 comments

I wrote a CHIP-8 emulator in my own programming language

https://github.com/navid-m/chip8emu
58•pizza_man•9h ago•13 comments

Six Levels of Dark Mode (2024)

https://cssence.com/2024/six-levels-of-dark-mode/
62•Akcium•10h ago•27 comments

Interesting Map Geometry and Mathematics

https://www.markrjohnsongames.com/2026/04/11/ultima-ratio-regum-0-11-update-57-interesting-map-ge...
17•Hooke•1d ago•0 comments

Show HN: A working reference implementation of context engineering

https://github.com/outcomeops/context-engineering
38•linsys•2d ago•11 comments

Contra Benn Jordan, data center (and all) sub-audible infrasound issues are fake

https://blog.andymasley.com/p/contra-benn-jordan-data-center-and
6•logicprog•2h ago•2 comments

Nanopass Framework: Clean Compiler Creation Language

https://nanopass.org/
126•NordStreamYacht•4d ago•28 comments

Show HN: Faceoff – A terminal UI for following NHL games

https://www.vincentgregoire.com/faceoff/
107•vcf•11h ago•35 comments

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

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/woot17/woot17-paper-guri.pdf
169•Eridanus2•20h ago•69 comments
Open in hackernews

Anthropic installed a spyware bridge on my machine?

https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/anthropic-spyware/
46•twapi•2h ago

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_wire_•2h ago
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dankwizard•1h ago
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tomhow•24m ago
Please don't reply to a bad comment with another bad one.
tomhow•24m ago
Please don't fulminate on HN. The guidelines make it clear we're trying for something better here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
timfsu•1h ago
I might call it a few different things, but spyware seems disingenuous until we learn that it’s actually spying…
Nevin1901•1h ago
But that won't fit the narrative that Antrhopic is an evil company nickel and diming their users...
catcowcostume•1h ago
As if we needed more evidence to corroborate that.
bot403•25m ago
I'll stand up and say we do need more evidence of that please.
Trufa•1h ago
Yes, very possibly bloatware fits it more, a shit pattern, and very dubious behavior but not necessarily spyware.
bpodgursky•1h ago
You should not install Claude Desktop or Claude Code unless you trust Anthropic. You either trust them to be a responsible custodian of your compute environment or you don't.

I mean it almost doesn't matter what is installed at any given time, the agent is going to install stuff you can't realistically observe, the software will auto-update, there is simply no way you can be sure spyware won't end up on your computer.

xfactorial•1h ago
Having faith on a for-profit organization about doing the right thing, with access to your computer and the things you do on it, may be a bit too much.

It was always quite a simple thing to do: “disclosure”. Explain me, in plain English, the things you are going to do when I install your software: do not bury it on a 40-page EULA with multiple amendments referring to different aspects that affect me and for which I would probably need a lawyer, or their very service to understand it, and that is of course subject to be changed at any time they feel.

It’s 2026 and they keep on nagging it: even Apple stopped doing the little summary at the beginning of the “Accept the New Terms” where they explained, in plain English, what those changes were.

And every time they do that, it is always on their favor: you code and eat pizza, they have a 1000 dollar an hour group of lawyers, ironing the hell out of their legal terms to must accept to use their services.

bpodgursky•1h ago
I am not telling you what to do, I am saying that Claude Code and Claude Desktop are not "normal" pieces of software that you can install once and choose to upgrade or not. It's a semi-alive agentic daemon. This is not something you can firewall and upgrade once a quarter after reviewing the changelog.
jimmydoe•1h ago
I double Anthropic did this, as apparently people copy this manually and it's still not working :

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/14616

Of course if they actually did it, without your consent, that's really really bad.

ibash•1h ago
That’s not spyware, that’s just how native messaging is designed to work. You have to put a manifest there if you want the native messaging to work later.