top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-04-13

Someone Bought 30 WordPress Plugins and Planted a Backdoor in All of Them

https://anchor.host/someone-bought-30-wordpress-plugins-and-planted-a-backdoor-in-all-of-them/

2 months ago

1194 upvotes – 340 comments

GitHub Stacked PRs

https://github.github.com/gh-stack/

2 months ago

898 upvotes – 524 comments

All elementary functions from a single binary operator

https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.21852

2 months ago

856 upvotes – 294 comments

The Dangers of California's Legislation to Censor 3D Printing

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/dangers-californias-legislation-censor-3d-printing

2 months ago

501 upvotes – 469 comments

Servo is now available on crates.io

https://servo.org/blog/2026/04/13/servo-0.1.0-release/

2 months ago

482 upvotes – 152 comments

Nothing Ever Happens: Polymarket bot that always buys No on non-sports markets

https://github.com/sterlingcrispin/nothing-ever-happens

2 months ago

★ 908PythonCC0-1.0
469 upvotes – 274 comments

US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional

https://nypost.com/2026/04/11/us-news/us-appeals-court-declares-158-year-old-home-distilling-ban-unconstitutional/

2 months ago

460 upvotes – 337 comments

Make Tmux Pretty and Usable

https://hamvocke.com/blog/a-guide-to-customizing-your-tmux-conf/

2 months ago

457 upvotes – 279 comments

Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning

https://adlrocha.substack.com/p/adlrocha-how-the-ai-loser-may-end

2 months ago

437 upvotes – 384 comments

Android now stops you sharing your location in photos

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/04/android-now-stops-you-sharing-your-location-in-photos/

2 months ago

424 upvotes – 320 comments

The Economics of Software Teams: Why Most Engineering Orgs Are Flying Blind

https://www.viktorcessan.com/the-economics-of-software-teams/

2 months ago

417 upvotes – 281 comments

Microsoft isn't removing Copilot from Windows 11, it's just renaming it

https://www.neowin.net/opinions/microsoft-isnt-removing-copilot-from-windows-11-its-just-renaming-it/

2 months ago

376 upvotes – 287 comments

We May Be Living Through the Most Consequential Hundred Days in Cyber History

https://ringmast4r.substack.com/p/we-may-be-living-through-the-most

2 months ago

345 upvotes – 201 comments

Building a CLI for All of Cloudflare

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cf-cli-local-explorer/

2 months ago

336 upvotes – 107 comments

The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Safety

https://aphyr.com/posts/417-the-future-of-everything-is-lies-i-guess-safety

2 months ago

330 upvotes – 181 comments

The Paper Computer

https://jsomers.net/blog/the-paper-computer

2 months ago

288 upvotes – 88 comments

Stanford report highlights growing disconnect between AI insiders and everyone

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/13/stanford-report-highlights-growing-disconnect-between-ai-insiders-and-everyone-else/

2 months ago

263 upvotes – 406 comments

WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii

https://github.com/fabienmillet/WiiFin

2 months ago

259 upvotes – 128 comments

Michigan 'digital age' bills pulled after privacy concerns raised

https://www.thecentersquare.com/michigan/article_7ca4e268-4a68-42fb-9042-f9d8604ebd7f.html

2 months ago

228 upvotes – 132 comments

Let's Talk Space Toilets

https://mceglowski.substack.com/p/lets-talk-space-toilets

2 months ago

221 upvotes – 58 comments
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