top 50% 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/

4 months ago

GitHub Stacked PRs

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

4 months ago

All elementary functions from a single binary operator

https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.21852

4 months ago

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

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

4 months ago

Servo is now available on crates.io

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

4 months ago

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

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

4 months ago

★ 908 Python CC0-1.0

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/

4 months ago

Make Tmux Pretty and Usable

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

4 months ago

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

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

4 months ago

Android now stops you sharing your location in photos

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

4 months ago

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

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

4 months ago

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/

4 months ago

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

4 months ago

Building a CLI for All of Cloudflare

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

4 months ago

The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Safety

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

4 months ago

The Paper Computer

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

4 months ago

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/

4 months ago

WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii

https://github.com/fabienmillet/WiiFin

4 months ago

Michigan 'digital age' bills pulled after privacy concerns raised

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

4 months ago

Let's Talk Space Toilets

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

4 months ago

How to make Firefox builds 17% faster

https://blog.farre.se/posts/2026/04/10/caching-webidl-codegen/

4 months ago

I went to America's worst national parks so you don't have to

https://substack.com/home/post/p-193626949

4 months ago

Show HN: I built a social media management tool in 3 weeks with Claude and Codex

https://github.com/brightbeanxyz/brightbean-studio

4 months ago

AI could be the end of the digital wave, not the next big thing

https://thenextwavefutures.wordpress.com/2026/04/07/ai-end-digital-wave-technology-innovation-perez/

4 months ago

Show HN: Ithihāsas – a character explorer for Hindu epics, built in a few hours

https://www.ithihasas.in

4 months ago

A Python Interpreter Written in Python

https://aosabook.org/en/500L/a-python-interpreter-written-in-python.html

4 months ago

(AMD) Build AI Agents That Run Locally

https://amd-gaia.ai/docs

4 months ago

Too much discussion of the XOR swap trick

https://heather.cafe/posts/too_much_xor_swap_trick/

4 months ago

Introduction to Spherical Harmonics for Graphics Programmers

https://gpfault.net/posts/sph.html

4 months ago

30 Years of HPC: many hardware advances, little adoption of new languages

https://chapel-lang.org/blog/posts/30years/

4 months ago

Brunost: The Nynorsk Programming Language

https://lindbakk.com/blog/introducing-brunost

4 months ago

Claude.ai down

https://status.claude.com/incidents/6jd2m42f8mld

4 months ago

Missouri town fires half its city council over data center deal

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/13/missouri-city-council-data-center-00867259

4 months ago

They See Your Photos

https://theyseeyourphotos.com/

4 months ago

New Orleans's Car-Crash Conspiracy

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/04/20/the-car-crash-conspiracy

4 months ago

Tax Wrapped 2025

https://taxwrapped.com

4 months ago

B-trees and database indexes (2024)

https://planetscale.com/blog/btrees-and-database-indexes

4 months ago

State of Homelab 2026

https://mrlokans.work/posts/state-of-homelab-2026/

4 months ago

Who's Been Impersonating This ProPublica Reporter?

https://www.propublica.org/article/impersonating-propublica-reporter

4 months ago

The AI Revolution in Math Has Arrived

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-ai-revolution-in-math-has-arrived-20260413/

4 months ago

The tech jobs bust is real. Don't blame AI (yet)

https://economist.com/finance-and-economics/2026/04/13/the-tech-jobs-bust-is-real-dont-blame-ai-yet

4 months ago

The Looming College-Enrollment Death Spiral

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/04/college-enrollment-demographic-cliff/686750/

4 months ago

Average Is All You Need

https://rawquery.dev/blog/average-is-all-you-need

4 months ago

Show HN: CodeBurn – Analyze Claude Code token usage by task

https://github.com/AgentSeal/codeburn

4 months ago

Six Characters

https://ajitem.com/blog/iron-core-part-2-six-characters/

4 months ago

Visualizing CPU Pipelining (2024)

https://timmastny.com/blog/visualizing-cpu-pipelining/

4 months ago

ReBot-DevArm: open-source Robotic Arm

https://github.com/Seeed-Projects/reBot-DevArm

4 months ago

The Rational Conclusion of Doomerism Is Violence

https://www.campbellramble.ai/p/the-rational-conclusion

4 months ago

N-Day-Bench – Can LLMs find real vulnerabilities in real codebases?

https://ndaybench.winfunc.com

4 months ago

Initial mainline video capture and camera support for Rockchip RK3588

https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/mainline-video-capture-and-camera-support-for-rockchip-rk3588.html

4 months ago

X Randomly Banning Users for "Inauthentic Behavior"

https://old.reddit.com/r/LinusTechTips/comments/1rsdk7i/anybody_here_talking_about_the_massive/

4 months ago

MEMS Array Chip Can Project Video the Size of a Grain of Sand

https://spectrum.ieee.org/mems-photonics

4 months ago

Tom7: No one can force me to have a secure website [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1si1y5lvkk

4 months ago

'Yes to fields of wheat, no to fields of iron': how Denmark soured on solar

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/20/solar-power-renewable-energy-denmark-backlash-national-elections

4 months ago

Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly building an AI clone to replace him in meetings

https://www.theverge.com/tech/910990/meta-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-ai-clone

4 months ago

Haunt, the 70s text adventure game, is now playable on a website

https://haunt.madebywindmill.com

4 months ago

Programming Used to Be Free

https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/programming-used-to-be-free/

4 months ago

The Human Cost of 10x: How AI Is Physically Breaking Senior Engineers

https://techtrenches.dev/p/the-human-cost-of-10x-how-ai-is-physically

4 months ago

The Utopia of the Family Computer

https://mudmapmagazine.com/the-utopia-of-the-family-computer/

4 months ago

中文 Literacy Speedrun II: Character Cyclotron

https://blog.kevinzwu.com/character-cyclotron/

4 months ago

Caffeine, cocaine, and painkillers detected in sharks from The Bahamas

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0269749126001880

4 months ago

Just Enough Chimera Linux

https://www.dwarmstrong.org/chimera-install-zfs/

4 months ago

Webloc: Analysis of Penlink's Ad-Based Geolocation Surveillance Tech

https://citizenlab.ca/research/analysis-of-penlinks-ad-based-geolocation-surveillance-tech/

4 months ago

A Git helper tool that breaks large merges into parallelizable tasks

https://github.com/mwallner/mergetopus

4 months ago