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6:38

Hacker Newsroom for 14 April: WordPress Plugin...

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2026/04/14

Hacker Newsroom for 14 April recaps 7 major Hacker News stories, moving through wordpress plugin backdoor, single operator math, github stacked prs, doki doki takedown. 1. WordPress Plugin Backdoor The next story is about someone buying 30 WordPress plugins, hiding a backdoor in them, and turning a trusted portfolio into a supply-chain attack. The article traces how the malicious code hid in wp-config. Story link Hacker News discussion 2. Single Operator Math The next story looks at a

6:54

Hacker Newsroom for 13 April: Lean Tech Stack, Docker...

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2026/04/13

Hacker Newsroom for 13 April recaps 7 major Hacker News stories, moving through lean tech stack, docker spain block, pro max quota, renewables leaders.1. Lean Tech Stack The next story is a post about running multiple small MRR businesses on a shoestring stack: a cheap VPS, Go binaries, local AI for batch jobs, OpenRouter for frontier models, GitHub Copilot for coding, and SQLite with WAL for the database. The author’s point is that staying tiny can buy real runway and avoid a lot of

6:33

Hacker Newsroom for 12 April: Small Models Vs Mythos,...

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2026/04/12

Hacker Newsroom for 12 April recaps 7 major Hacker News stories, moving through small models vs mythos, firefox extension marathon, kernel ai rules, france linux push. 1. Small Models Vs Mythos The next story is Small models also found the vulnerabilities that Mythos found, a post arguing that the real moat in AI cybersecurity is the system around the model, not the model size itself. The article says that when Anthropic’s showcase bugs are isolated and fed into cheap open-weights

6:18

Hacker Newsroom for 10 April: Little Snitch Linux,...

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2026/04/10

Hacker Newsroom for 10 April recaps 7 major Hacker News stories, moving through little snitch linux, eff leaves x, meta litigation ads, thunderbird funding push.(00:00) - Intro (00:14) - Little Snitch Linux (01:03) - EFF Leaves X (01:58) - Meta Litigation Ads (02:55) - Thunderbird Funding Push (03:35) - Hormuz Status Tracker (04:21) - Avignon Papacy Threat (05:12) - Claude Attribution Bug (05:57) - Closing 1. Little Snitch Linux The next story is Little Snitch for Linux, a new network

6:12

Hacker Newsroom for 09 April: Git Before Code, Mac OS...

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2026/04/09

Hacker Newsroom for 09 April recaps 7 major Hacker News stories, moving through git before code, mac os x wii, veracrypt certificate, flock camera backlash.(00:00) - Intro (00:21) - Git Before Code (01:11) - Mac OS X Wii (02:01) - VeraCrypt Certificate (02:40) - Flock Camera Backlash (03:36) - Iran Ceasefire (04:16) - ANC Bicycle Bell (05:04) - Microsoft Vs VeraCrypt (05:49) - Closing 1. Git Before Code The next story is about a post called The Git Commands I Run Before Reading Any

7:14

Hacker Newsroom for 08 April: Project Glasswing,...

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2026/04/08

Hacker Newsroom for 08 April recaps 7 major Hacker News stories, moving through project glasswing, concrete laptop stand, claude mythos card, idiocracy index.(00:00) - Intro (00:22) - Project Glasswing (01:18) - Concrete Laptop Stand (02:11) - Claude Mythos Card (03:08) - Idiocracy Index (03:59) - Artemis Lunar Flyby (04:44) - GLM Long Horizon (05:54) - Ghost Pepper Dictation (06:50) - Closing 1. Project Glasswing Project Glasswing is Anthropic’s new cybersecurity push, built with major

6:39

Hacker Newsroom for 07 April: Sam Altman May Control...

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2026/04/07

Hacker Newsroom for 07 April recaps 7 major Hacker News stories, moving through sam altman may control our, issue claude code is unusable, i built tiny llm demystify, i wont download your app. (00:00) - Intro (00:27) - Sam Altman May Control Our (01:21) - Issue Claude Code Is Unusable (02:09) - I Built Tiny LLM Demystify (02:56) - I Wont Download Your App (03:45) - Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit (04:41) - France Pulls Last Gold Held (05:20) - Cult Vibe Coding Is Dogfooding (06:17) -

6:36

Hacker Newsroom for 06 April: Threat Is Comfortable...

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2026/04/06

Hacker Newsroom for 06 April recaps 7 major Hacker News stories, moving through threat is comfortable drift toward, caveman why use many token, eight years wanting three months, german implementation eidas will require. (00:00) - Intro (00:25) - Threat Is Comfortable Drift Toward (01:14) - Caveman Why Use Many Token (02:02) - Eight Years Wanting Three Months (02:51) - German Implementation eIDAS Will Require (03:41) - Gemma 4 On Iphone (04:31) - Artemis II Crew See First (05:20) - AWS

6:14

Hacker Newsroom for 2026-04-05

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2026/04/05

Seven Hacker News stories for 2026-04-05: Author of "Careless People" banned from saying anything negative about Meta; Show HN: A game where you build a GPU; Embarrassingly simple self-distillation improves code generation; How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?; Delve removed from Y Combinator; Apple approves driver that lets Nvidia eGPUs work with Arm Macs; Claude Code Found a Linux Vulnerability Hidden for 23 Years.

6:14

Hacker Newsroom for 2026-04-05

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2026/04/05

6:17

Hacker Newsroom for 2026-04-04

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2026/04/04

Seven Hacker News stories for 2026-04-04: Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection; iNaturalist; European alternatives to Google, Apple, Dropbox and 120 US apps; NHS staff refusing to use FDP over Palantir ethical concerns; The FAA’s flight restriction for drones is an attempt to criminalize filming ICE; OpenClaw privilege escalation vulnerability; April 2026 TLDR Setup for Ollama and Gemma 4 26B on a Mac mini.

5:13

Hacker Newsroom for 2026-04-03

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2026/04/03

Seven Hacker News stories for 2026-04-03: Google releases Gemma 4 open models; Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom; Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer; Qwen3.6-Plus: Towards real world agents; Lemonade by AMD: a fast and open source local LLM server using GPU and NPU; I Am Not A Number. In memory of the more than 72,000 Palestinians killed; Tailscale's new macOS home.

6:50

Hacker Newsroom for 2026-03-30

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2026/03/30

Seven Hacker News stories for 2026-03-30: LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs; Say No to Palantir in Europe; Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics; ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state; Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder; CSS is DOOMed; The Cognitive Dark Forest.

10:16

Hacker Newsroom — March 29, 2026

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2026/03/29

Today’s Hacker News roundup covers Sid Sijbrandij’s public cancer treatment push, GitHub Copilot privacy backlash, Spanish legislation in Git, sycophantic AI advice, Stanford’s jai containment tool for agents, and a very Hacker News fight about macOS window corners.

13:19

Hacker Newsroom — 2026-03-28

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2026/03/28

Today's Hacker Newsroom episode rounds up major Hacker News discussions, including We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do, Apple discontinues the Mac Pro, People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account, Hold on to Your Hardware, The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner, and Anatomy of the .claude/ folder. The episode pulls together the day's most talked-about threads and turns them into a concise audio

13:19

Hacker Newsroom — 2026-03-28

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2026/03/28

6:56

Hacker Newsroom — 2026-03-27

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2026/03/27

Today’s Hacker Newsroom episode follows six widely discussed stories: a warning about the social damage of gambling and prediction markets, the European Parliament’s move against Chat Control, a practical migration from GitHub to Codeberg, shell workflow tips for power users, another debate over Chat Control from a social-post angle, and a court fight over the Pentagon’s supply chain risk label for Anthropic. The thread running through the episode is institutional trust — how software

16:23

Hacker Newsroom — March 26, 2026

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2026/03/26

A seven-story Hacker News audio recap covering the shutdown of Sora, Europe’s renewed chat-control fight, a warning about slowing down with coding agents, AI fatigue, Slovenia’s Black Cube election scandal, a desk-booted Tesla Model 3 computer, and one long-time user’s breaking point with Apple.

9:21

Hacker Newsroom — 2026-03-25

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2026/03/25

Today’s Hacker Newsroom moves from Flighty’s airport-disruption dashboard to a revealing U.S. Army enlistment policy change, then into the power-engineering shift from AC to DC inside AI-era data centers. It also covers Google’s TurboQuant compression research, the BeOS-inspired VitruvianOS project, and a sharp strategic critique of the U.S. war with Iran.

10:19

Hacker Newsroom — 2026-03-24

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2026/03/24

Today’s Hacker Newsroom moves from a practical push to migrate digital life toward European services, to GrapheneOS drawing a hard line against identity-heavy phone policies, to a technically flashy demo of a 400B mixture-of-experts model running on an iPhone. It also covers developer frustration with GitHub reliability, a renewed indie-web argument for publishing on your own site first, and a political-energy fight as offshore wind money is redirected toward fossil fuel projects.

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