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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DaVinci Resolve – Photo (blackmagicdesign.com)
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GitHub Stacked PRs (github.github.com)
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A new spam policy for “back button hijacking” (developers.google.com)
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Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others (rareese.com)
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jj – the CLI for Jujutsu (steveklabnik.github.io)
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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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WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii (github.com)
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Rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive (techcrunch.com)
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How to make Firefox builds 17% faster (blog.farre.se)
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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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Introspective Diffusion Language Models (introspective-diffusion.github.io)
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Hacker compromises A16Z-backed phone farm, calling them the 'antichrist' (404media.co)
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The secrets of the Shinkansen (worksinprogress.news)
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The future of everything is lies, I guess: Work (aphyr.com)
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GAIA – Open-source framework for building AI agents that run on local hardware (amd-gaia.ai)
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Distributed DuckDB Instance (github.com)
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Tax Wrapped 2025 (taxwrapped.com)
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New Orleans's Car-Crash Conspiracy (newyorker.com)
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The tech jobs bust is real. Don't blame AI (yet) (economist.com)
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B-trees and database indexes (2024) (planetscale.com)
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The looming college-enrollment death spiral (theatlantic.com)
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Google, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Opt Out (404media.co)
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Ask HN: I quit my job over weaponized robots to start my own venture
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Math Is Still Catching Up to the Mysterious Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan (2024) (quantamagazine.org)
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The AI revolution in math has arrived (quantamagazine.org)
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Can Claude Fly a Plane? (so.long.thanks.fish)