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StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month

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Hackers expose the identities of more than 40k DHS employees

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Requests, Please

Requests, Please: a mobile-first WAF simulator. Inspect HTTP requests, decode payloads, block the hackers, let the customers through.

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Show HN: UK Farming Simulator

Let's take life a little slower shall we?

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Getting debug access on a Brother printer over Telnet

As it turns out, the Brother NC-8700w Command Console is more interesting than it first appears.

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If IPv4 Were Land

An interactive world map where every country is resized by how many IPv4 addresses it holds instead of its land area. Flip between real land and IPv4 land, zoom in, and compare countries.

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Google determines the names for bodies of water in Google Earth (2008)

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Southern Africa's first known stenciled rock art found hiding in plain sight

Southern Africa has one of the most detailed and elaborate bodies of rock art anywhere in the world, from herds of running antelope to dancing men and humanoid beings with wings, hooves and horns. All are painted with fine brushstrokes or fingers. One thing this art lacks is stencils.

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Why is this fingerprinting script creating bioweapons?

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Zero click, silent, remote Android DoS

A single malformed WAP Push SMS crashes com.android.phone on Android, dropping calls including emergency calls, with zero interaction from the victim. Full disclosure by Mark Blaszczyk.

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NetBSD adds a new beginner-friendly text editor called atto

To ease the transition for new users, #NetBSD -current now includes an alternative editor to vi(1) and xedit(1) in its base system, atto(1). https://man.netbsd.org/atto.1 It is a modeless screen-based editor similar to nano, pico, xedit, or emacs. It is only 48 kilobytes, making it suitable for inclusion in the rescue system. (This is real, but I'm honestly missing an opportunity by not posting it on 1 April. Let the editor wars commence!)

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Qwenputer: A functioning, deterministic RISC-V CPU inside Qwen3.5

I compiled a RISC-V CPU into Qwen 3.5 4B's weights, using its Gated DeltaNet layers as RAM. It runs C and MicroPython inside the forward passes, and Qwen uses it for exact arithmetic.

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OpenAI's agents talked to each other through the CPU Cache

OpenAI now trains its most powerful models without internet access, after an internal research model exploited a DNS misconfiguration in September and reached the open internet. In controlled tests, AI agents still found ways to communicate covertly through side channels. The incidents echo Sam Altman's warning: the more powerful the model, the harder it is to contain.

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Gemini 4 Carbon is the new #1 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5

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MiniLake Is a Local Databricks API Emulator with SQL, Delta Lake and Spark

MiniLake is a free, open-source local Databricks API emulator. Real SQL, real Delta Lake and real Spark job execution — for databricks-sdk, the CLI, Terraform, Asset Bundles and LLM agents. No account, no API key, no cloud bill.

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Chained PHP2Shell Exploit Roots 25 Servers, Including US Government Servers

Custom PHP2Shell Exploit Chained with Kernel LPE to Root Firewalls in the Wild

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Forging a Microsoft Edge Full Chain with Logic Bugs Only

This is what I built for Pwn2Own Berlin 2026 — a completely handmade, logic-only Microsoft Edge Full Chain, with no memory corruption, and no AI at all! 🔥

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DoorDash to Acquire Instacart

Transaction values Instacart at $65.00 per share, representing a 26% premium to Instacart's closing price on October 22, 2026 Together, DoorDash and Instacart would help stores of every size reach more customers with the kinds of innovative technology that the biggest online retailers and grocers build for themselves Consumers to benefit from more choice and access to affordable delivery and savings Dashers and Shoppers to have more earnings opportunities and more choice over when and how they earn DoorDash , Inc. (NASDAQ: DASH) and Maplebear Inc. (d.b.a. Instacart , NASDAQ: CART) today announced a definitive agreement under which DoorDash will acquire Instacart for a total value of $65.00 for each Instacart share, or an equity value of app

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Read the letter the FBI sent MLK to try to convince him to kill himself (2014)

Vox is a general interest news site for the 21st century. Its mission: to help everyone understand our complicated world, so that we can all help shape it. In text, video and audio, our reporters explain politics, policy, world affairs, technology, culture, science, the climate crisis, money, health and everything else that matters. Our goal is to ensure that everyone, regardless of income or status, can access accurate information that empowers them.

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The US added a record 20.2 GWh of battery storage in just 3 months

US battery storage set a quarterly record in Q2 2026, adding 20.2 GWh as utility-scale projects surged in Arizona, Texas, and California.

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At least 156 die at a crowd crush during a Halloween celebration in Itaewon district, Seoul, South Korea.

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Top Stories from Hacker News

StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month

Hackers expose the identities of more than 40k DHS employees

Requests, Please

Show HN: UK Farming Simulator

Getting debug access on a Brother printer over Telnet

If IPv4 Were Land

Google determines the names for bodies of water in Google Earth (2008)

Southern Africa's first known stenciled rock art found hiding in plain sight

Why is this fingerprinting script creating bioweapons?

Zero click, silent, remote Android DoS

NetBSD adds a new beginner-friendly text editor called atto

Qwenputer: A functioning, deterministic RISC-V CPU inside Qwen3.5

OpenAI's agents talked to each other through the CPU Cache

Gemini 4 Carbon is the new #1 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5

MiniLake Is a Local Databricks API Emulator with SQL, Delta Lake and Spark

Chained PHP2Shell Exploit Roots 25 Servers, Including US Government Servers

Forging a Microsoft Edge Full Chain with Logic Bugs Only

DoorDash to Acquire Instacart

Read the letter the FBI sent MLK to try to convince him to kill himself (2014)

The US added a record 20.2 GWh of battery storage in just 3 months

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At least 156 die at a crowd crush during a Halloween celebration in Itaewon district, Seoul, South Korea.

At least 100 people are killed and over 300 are injured by a double car bombing in Mogadishu, Somalia.

Jeremy Corbyn, former Leader of the Labour Party and of the Opposition in the United Kingdom is suspended from the Labour Party following his response to findings from the EHRC on the issue of antisemitism within the party.

Lion Air Flight 610, a Boeing 737 MAX, crashes after taking off from Jakarta, Indonesia killing 189 people on board. This is the first of two crashes that will lead to the plane being grounded worldwide.

China announces the end of its one-child policy after 35 years.

A mud slide; the 2014 Badulla landslide, in south-central Sri Lanka, kills at least 16 people, and leaves hundreds of people missing.

Hurricane Sandy hits the east coast of the United States, killing hundreds, while leaving nearly $70 billion in damages and causing major power outages.

Delta Air Lines merges with Northwest Airlines, creating the world's largest airline and reducing the number of US legacy carriers to five.

A pair of deadly earthquakes hits Baluchistan, Pakistan, killing 215.

ADC Airlines Flight 053 crashes after takeoff from Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja, Nigeria killing 96 people and injuring nine.

Bombings in Delhi, India kill 67 and injure over 200 people.

The Arabic-language news network Al Jazeera broadcasts an excerpt from a 2004 Osama bin Laden video in which the terrorist leader first admits direct responsibility for the September 11, 2001 attacks and references the 2004 U.S. presidential election.

A fire destroys a luxurious department store in Ho Chi Minh City, where 1,500 people are shopping. More than 60 people die and over 100 are unaccounted for in the deadliest peacetime disaster in Vietnam.

A large cyclone devastates Odisha, India.

In South Africa, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission presents its report, which condemns both sides for committing atrocities.

Space Shuttle Discovery blasts off on STS-95 with 77-year-old John Glenn on board, making him the oldest person to go into space at that time.

ATSC HDTV broadcasting in the United States is inaugurated with live coverage of the launch of the STS-95 space shuttle mission.

Hurricane Mitch, the second deadliest Atlantic hurricane in history, makes landfall in Honduras.

The Gothenburg discothèque fire in Sweden kills 63 and injures over 200.

Francisco Martin Duran fires over two dozen shots at the White House; he is later convicted of trying to kill U.S. President Bill Clinton.

The American Galileo spacecraft makes its closest approach to 951 Gaspra, becoming the first probe to visit an asteroid.

British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher opens the last stretch of the M25 motorway.

Major General Samuel K. Doe is announced as the winner of the first multi-party election in Liberia.

Demonstration flight of a secretly modified C-130 for an Iran hostage crisis rescue attempt ends in a crash landing at Eglin Air Force Base's Duke Field, Florida, leading to the cancellation of Operation Credible Sport.

The three surviving perpetrators of the Munich massacre are released from prison in exchange for the hostages of the hijacked Lufthansa Flight 615.

The first-ever computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet.

Montreal's World Fair, Expo 67, closes with over 50 million visitors.

The United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar is renamed to the United Republic of Tanzania.

Biggest jewel heist in American history when Murph the Surf and gang burgle the American Museum of Natural History stealing the Star of India and other gems.

An airplane carrying the Cal Poly football team crashes on takeoff in Toledo, Ohio.

Israel's prime minister David Ben-Gurion and five of his ministers are injured when Moshe Dwek throws a grenade into the Knesset.

Suez Crisis begins: Israeli forces invade the Sinai Peninsula and push Egyptian forces back toward the Suez Canal.

The Soviet battleship Novorossiysk sinks after probably striking a World War II mine in the harbor at Sevastopol, with a loss of more than 600 sailors.

BCPA Flight 304, a DC-6, crashes near San Francisco.

Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Safsaf massacre: Israeli soldiers capture the Palestinian village of Safsaf in the Galilee; afterwards, between 52 and 64 villagers are massacred by the IDF.

World War II: The Dutch city of Breda is liberated by 1st Polish Armoured Division.

World War II: The Soviet Red Army enters Hungary.

The Holocaust: In the Kaunas Ghetto, over 10,000 Jews are shot by German occupiers at the Ninth Fort, a massacre known as the "Great Action".

Black Tuesday: The New York Stock Exchange crashes, ending the Great Bull Market of the 1920s and eventually contributing to the Great Depression.

Turkey becomes a republic following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.

World War I: the German High Seas Fleet is incapacitated when sailors mutiny, an action which would trigger the German Revolution of 1918–19.

World War I : the Ottoman Empire enters the war on the side of the Central Powers.

The Convention of Constantinople is signed, guaranteeing free maritime passage through the Suez Canal during war and peace.

Eighteen countries meet in Geneva and agree to form the International Red Cross.

American Civil War: Battle of Wauhatchie: Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant repel a Confederate attack led by General James Longstreet in one of the few night battles of the war, protecting the Union's recently opened supply line into Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Mount Hood (Oregon) is named after Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood by Lt. William E. Broughton who sighted the mountain near the mouth of the Willamette River.

Leibniz makes the first use of the long s (∫) as a symbol of the integral in calculus.

Portuguese forces defeat the Kingdom of Kongo and decapitate King António I of Kongo, also known as Nvita a Nkanga.

Second Northern War: Naval forces of the Dutch Republic defeat the Swedes in the Battle of the Sound.

The London Pageant of 1621 celebrates the inauguration of Edward Barkham (Lord Mayor).

Russian homage to the King of Poland, Sigismund III Vasa.

Battle of Brustem: Charles the Bold defeats Prince-Bishopric of Liège.

First trial for witchcraft in Paris leading to the death of three people.

The Mamluk Sultanate defeats the Ilkhanate in the second battle of Homs.

Conradin, the last Hohenstaufen king, is executed at Naples.

Valentinian III, Western Roman Emperor, marries Licinia Eudoxia, daughter of his cousin Theodosius II, Eastern Roman Emperor in Constantinople unifying the two branches of the House of Theodosius.

Constantine the Great enters Rome after his victory at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge, stages a grand adventus in the city, and is met with popular jubilation. Maxentius' body is fished out of the Tiber and beheaded.

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