Vercel April 2026 security incident

513 colesantiago 2026-04-19 14:20:04 UTC bleepingcomputer.com Llama Share 307

Vercel disclosed a security incident after threat actors claimed to have breached its systems and are selling stolen data. The company is investigating and notifying affected customers, advising them to review environment variables and rotate secrets.

A Brief History of Fish Sauce

54 vinhnx 2026-04-19 22:20:04 UTC legalnomads.com Llama Share 18

Fish sauce has a long history, with ancient Greeks and Romans producing garum and liquamen, while Southeast Asians independently developed nuoc mam and nam pla. The origins of fish sauce are unclear, but it remains a crucial condiment in Southeast Asian cuisine, with various regional variations and uses.

The Bromine Chokepoint

145 crescit_eundo 2026-04-19 18:20:04 UTC warontherocks.com Llama Share 72

A global semiconductor memory supply chain is vulnerable to a bromine shortage due to Israel's reliance on bromine imports and limited conversion capacity outside the country. A disruption would immediately impact global memory production, affecting consumer devices, military systems, and AI infrastructure.

Show HN: How context engineering works, a runnable reference

21 linsys 2026-04-19 23:20:04 UTC github.com/outcomeops Llama Share 6

This repo demonstrates context engineering, a discipline that designs, retrieves, and injects AI system information for accurate outputs. It has five components and uses Amazon Bedrock with Claude for generation and Amazon Titan for embeddings.

Swiss AI Initiative (2023)

10 doener 2026-04-19 23:20:04 UTC swiss-ai.org Llama Share 2

The Swiss AI Initiative was launched in December 2023 with 10m GPU hours and 20m CHF grant for AI research. It brings together 800 researchers for frontier AI research on the Alps supercomputer.

Show HN: TRELLIS.2 image-to-3D running on Mac Silicon – no Nvidia GPU needed

13 shivampkumar 2026-04-20 00:20:04 UTC github.com/shivampkumar Llama Share 0

A port of Microsoft's TRELLIS.2 image-to-3D model is available for Apple Silicon via PyTorch MPS. It replaces CUDA-only libraries with pure-PyTorch alternatives, allowing use without an NVIDIA GPU.

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

53 doener 2026-04-19 23:20:04 UTC mxmap.ch Full Share 14

Each municipality's official domain is checked via 11 signals from DNS records, SMTP banners, ASN lookups, and a public Microsoft API endpoint, then classified by provider type with confidence scoring. Disclaimer: DNS records indicate mail routing and authorized senders, not necessarily where data is stored.

Uber’s Anthropic AI push hits a wall

53 dakiol 2026-04-19 18:20:04 UTC finance.yahoo.com Llama Share 63

Uber spent $3.4 billion on AI research and development, exhausting its budget early in 2026 due to rapid adoption and high costs. The company is now testing OpenAI's Codex to expand its AI stack and aims for AI to handle coding and deployment tasks.

Ex-CEO, ex-CFO of bankrupt AI company charged with fraud

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Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction

108 Brajeshwar 2026-04-19 16:20:04 UTC pcgamer.com Llama Share 86

Turtle WoW, a popular World of Warcraft private server, is shutting down on May 14 after a cease and desist from Blizzard. The server will close its servers to the final patch and associated social media channels will shut down later this year.

Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7

197 pretext 2026-04-19 11:20:04 UTC simonwillison.net Llama Share 115

Anthropic published system prompts for their chat system, with updates from Claude 3 to Opus 4.7, showing changes in child safety, tool usage, and response style. The new prompt includes tools like Claude in Chrome and a tool search mechanism to resolve ambiguities.

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

95 vcf 2026-04-19 18:20:04 UTC vincentgregoire.com Full Share 33

This project was inspired by Playball, a similar terminal application for following MLB baseball games. This project is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or in any way officially connected with the National Hockey League (NHL), any of its teams, or any of its affiliates. All NHL logos, trademarks, and data are the property of the NHL and its teams.

Six Levels of Dark Mode (2024)

42 Akcium 2026-04-19 19:20:04 UTC cssence.com Llama Share 12

The author discusses six levels of dark mode in CSS, starting with a meta tag that allows browsers to follow user color scheme preferences. They then explore CSS color-scheme declarations, light-dark() color functions, and media queries for maximum customization.

Prove you are a robot: CAPTCHAs for agents

42 lukasec 2026-04-19 20:20:04 UTC browser-use.com Llama Share 27

We launched agent-native signup for Browser Use with no email or OAuth. Agents parse obfuscated math problems, and humans sign up the old way.

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

527 DamnInteresting 2026-04-19 10:20:04 UTC archive.org Full Share 135

Foreground p.20 RECYCLING USED ICs [theme Hardware] [author Mikkelsen] p.62 DECIPHERING MYSTERY KEYBOARDS [theme Hardware] [author Heltners] p.72 LIFE...

Scientific datasets are riddled with copy-paste errors

28 jruohonen 2026-04-19 20:20:04 UTC sciencedetective.org Llama Share 2

A software detected 18 cases of potential data errors in 600 open-access datasets, with 15 cases posted on PubPeer. The true error rate is likely higher than the estimated 3% due to undetectable errors and less lazy methods of data fabrication.

Got an Old Kindle? It Might Not Work Anymore

38 eigenhombre 2026-04-19 23:20:04 UTC nytimes.com Llama Share 19

Amazon will stop supporting older Kindle and Fire devices released in 2012 or earlier on May 20. Users can upgrade to a new Kindle with a 20% discount and $20 e-book credit until June 20.

The seven programming ur-languages (2022)

280 helloplanets 2026-04-19 08:20:04 UTC madhadron.com Llama Share 109

The user explains that programming languages can be grouped into seven fundamental "ur-languages" that share common patterns and characteristics, and that learning a language from the same ur-language is easier than learning one from a different ur-language. The user suggests learning a language from the ALGOL family (such as Python or Java), then learning a language from the Prolog family ...

The RAM shortage could last years

185 omer_k 2026-04-19 08:20:04 UTC theverge.com Llama Share 193

Memory makers will meet only 60 percent of demand by 2027 due to production shortages. New fabrication capacity won't be online until 2027 or 2028, exacerbating the RAM shortage.

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

37 pizza_man 2026-04-19 20:20:04 UTC github.com/navid-m Full Share 13

Chip8 Emulator. Contribute to navid-m/chip8emu development by creating an account on GitHub.

Nanopass Framework: Clean Compiler Creation Language

113 NordStreamYacht 2026-04-19 12:20:04 UTC nanopass.org Full Share 26

The Nanopass Framework is an embedded domain-specific language for creating compilers that focuses on creating small passes and many intermediate representations. Nanopass reduces the boilerplate required to create compilers making them easier to understand and maintain.

Recovering Windows Live Writer Files

4 bovermyer 2026-04-19 23:20:04 UTC benovermyer.com Prefix Share 2

Over a decade ago, I used a program made by Microsoft called Windows Live Writer for a couple years to write blog posts before uploading them to whatever blog platform I was using at the time. That program used a proprietary file format. The blog platforms are lost to me now, an unfortunate casuality of my earlier habit of creating (and sunsetting) new websites all the time. Also, Windows ...

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

158 Eridanus2 2026-04-19 09:20:04 UTC usenix.org Llama Share 67

A new type of malware called SPEAKE(a)R can covertly turn headphones, earphones, or simple earbuds connected to a PC into microphones when a standard microphone is not present, muted, taped, or turned off. The malware can record human speech of intelligible quality and eavesdrop from nine meters away, posing a significant cyber security threat.

Interesting Map Geometry and Mathematics

4 Hooke 2026-04-19 23:20:04 UTC markrjohnsongames.com Prefix Share 0

Hello everyone! We have a bit of a different entry this fortnight. I don’t normally talk too extensively about how things are coded in detail since I prefer to focus on design questions, but I decided to do so this week. While working on a few edge cases and bugs and the like for the world map clues since last fortnight’s entry I ran into a somewhat interesting challenge involving resolving ...

Aliens.gov will be running as a WordPress multisite

27 johnnyApplePRNG 2026-04-19 23:20:04 UTC aliens.gov Full Share 29

This is a multisite, but a site was not found at the requested URL. Please check the URL and domain mapping and try again.

Notion leaks email addresses of all editors of any public page

321 Tiberium 2026-04-19 16:20:04 UTC twitter.com/weezerosint Full Share 109

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What are skiplists good for?

261 mfiguiere 2026-04-19 03:20:04 UTC antithesis.com Llama Share 64

The user encountered a problem at Antithesis where they needed to efficiently query a large tree data structure in Google BigQuery, but point lookups were slow. They solved this by inventing a "skiptree" data structure, which is a hierarchy of skiplists that allows for efficient querying with a fixed number of JOINs in SQL.

Hot-wiring the Lisp machine

24 spudlyo 2026-04-19 17:20:04 UTC scheatkode.com Llama Share 1

The user created a static website generator called opd that uses Emacs's Org-mode to generate HTML from Org files without any external dependencies. The generator uses a routing layer to handle different types of content and a two-pass compiler to resolve links and generate URLs, and it has a flexible and composable API that allows users to define custom routes and filters.

Show HN: Prompt-to-Excalidraw demo with Gemma 4 E2B in the browser (3.1GB)

87 teamchong 2026-04-19 11:20:04 UTC teamchong.github.io Full Share 43

Gemma 4 E2B generating Excalidraw diagrams from text prompts, running entirely in desktop Chrome via WebGPU. KV cache compressed 2.4× using TurboQuant's polar+QJL algorithm reimplemented in WGSL compute shaders. Requires Chrome 134+ on desktop — Safari/iOS not supported.

The creative software industry has declared war on Adobe

180 tambourine_man 2026-04-19 14:20:04 UTC theverge.com Llama Share 142

Adobe's Creative Cloud is facing competition from free alternatives like Autograph and Canva, which offer similar design tools at no cost. Industry rivals like Apple and DaVinci Resolve are also undercutting Adobe's pricing with affordable subscription options.