Daily Top Stories
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Someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted a backdoor in all of them (anchor.host)
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GitHub Stacked PRs (github.github.com)
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DaVinci Resolve – Photo (blackmagicdesign.com)
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A new spam policy for “back button hijacking” (developers.google.com)
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Nothing Ever Happens: Polymarket bot that always buys No on non-sports markets (github.com)
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US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional (nypost.com)
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Make tmux pretty and usable (2024) (hamvocke.com)
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Microsoft isn't removing Copilot from Windows 11, it's just renaming it (neowin.net)
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Backblaze has stopped backing up your data (rareese.com)
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This year’s insane timeline of hacks (ringmast4r.substack.com)
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Building a CLI for all of Cloudflare (blog.cloudflare.com)
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The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Safety (aphyr.com)
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Lean proved this program correct; then I found a bug (kirancodes.me)
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Stanford report highlights growing disconnect between AI insiders and everyone (techcrunch.com)
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Sometimes powerful people just do dumb shit (joanwestenberg.com)
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How to make Firefox builds 17% faster (blog.farre.se)
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WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii (github.com)
18.
An AI Vibe Coding Horror Story (tobru.ch)
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Show HN: Ithihāsas – a character explorer for Hindu epics, built in a few hours (ithihasas.in)
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Hacker compromises A16Z-backed phone farm, calling them the 'antichrist' (404media.co)
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GAIA – Open-source framework for building AI agents that run on local hardware (amd-gaia.ai)
22.
Claude.ai down (status.claude.com)
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They See Your Photos (theyseeyourphotos.com)
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Missouri town fires half its city council over data center deal (politico.com)
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The secrets of the Shinkansen (worksinprogress.news)
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Tax Wrapped 2025 (taxwrapped.com)
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Who's Been Impersonating This ProPublica Reporter? (propublica.org)
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The tech jobs bust is real. Don't blame AI (yet) (economist.com)
29.
New Orleans's Car-Crash Conspiracy (newyorker.com)
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B-trees and database indexes (2024) (planetscale.com)