Vercel April 2026 security incident

450 colesantiago 2026-04-19 14:36:20 UTC bleepingcomputer.com Llama Share 280

Vercel disclosed a security incident after threat actors claimed to have breached its systems and are selling stolen data. The company is investigating and notifying affected customers, advising them to review environment variables and rotate secrets.

The Bromine Chokepoint

131 crescit_eundo 2026-04-19 18:36:21 UTC warontherocks.com Llama Share 64

A global semiconductor memory supply chain is vulnerable to a bromine shortage due to Israel's reliance on bromine imports and limited conversion capacity outside the country. A disruption would immediately impact global memory production, affecting consumer devices, military systems, and AI infrastructure.

2,100 Swiss municipalities showing which provider handles their official email

23 doener 2026-04-19 22:57:21 UTC mxmap.ch Full Share 10

Each municipality's official domain is checked via 11 signals from DNS records, SMTP banners, ASN lookups, and a public Microsoft API endpoint, then classified by provider type with confidence scoring. Disclaimer: DNS records indicate mail routing and authorized senders, not necessarily where data is stored.

A Brief History of Fish Sauce

12 vinhnx 2026-04-19 22:36:21 UTC legalnomads.com Llama Share 2

Fish sauce has a long history, with ancient Greeks and Romans producing garum and liquamen, while Southeast Asians independently developed nuoc mam and nam pla. The origins of fish sauce are unclear, but it remains a crucial condiment in Southeast Asian cuisine, with various regional variations and uses.

Show HN: Faceoff – A terminal UI for following NHL games

86 vcf 2026-04-19 18:36:21 UTC vincentgregoire.com Full Share 31

This project was inspired by Playball, a similar terminal application for following MLB baseball games. This project is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or in any way officially connected with the National Hockey League (NHL), any of its teams, or any of its affiliates. All NHL logos, trademarks, and data are the property of the NHL and its teams.

Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7

164 pretext 2026-04-19 11:36:21 UTC simonwillison.net Llama Share 99

Anthropic published system prompts for their chat system, with updates from Claude 3 to Opus 4.7, showing changes in child safety, tool usage, and response style. The new prompt includes tools like Claude in Chrome and a tool search mechanism to resolve ambiguities.

Prove You Are a Robot: CAPTCHAs for Agents

31 lukasec 2026-04-19 20:36:21 UTC browser-use.com Llama Share 18

We launched agent-native signup for Browser Use with no email or OAuth. Agents parse obfuscated math problems, and humans sign up the old way.

Six Levels of Dark Mode

25 Akcium 2026-04-19 19:36:21 UTC cssence.com Llama Share 6

The author discusses six levels of dark mode in CSS, starting with a meta tag that allows browsers to follow user color scheme preferences. They then explore CSS color-scheme declarations, light-dark() color functions, and media queries for maximum customization.

I wrote a CHIP-8 emulator in my own programming language

33 pizza_man 2026-04-19 19:36:21 UTC github.com/navid-m Full Share 9

Chip8 Emulator. Contribute to navid-m/chip8emu development by creating an account on GitHub.

Archive of BYTE magazine, starting with issue #1 in 1975

517 DamnInteresting 2026-04-19 10:36:21 UTC archive.org Full Share 130

Foreground p.20 RECYCLING USED ICs [theme Hardware] [author Mikkelsen] p.62 DECIPHERING MYSTERY KEYBOARDS [theme Hardware] [author Heltners] p.72 LIFE...

The seven programming ur-languages (2022)

267 helloplanets 2026-04-19 08:36:21 UTC madhadron.com Llama Share 100

The user explains that programming languages can be grouped into seven fundamental "ur-languages" that share common patterns and characteristics, and that learning a language from the same ur-language is easier than learning one from a different ur-language. The user suggests learning a language from the ALGOL family (such as Python or Java), then learning a language from the Prolog family ...

Game devs explain the tricks involved with letting you pause a game

399 speckx 2026-04-19 04:36:21 UTC kotaku.com Llama Share 221

Game developers use various methods to pause games, including manipulating time, freezing frames, and ignoring pause commands for certain functions. Pausing a game can be a complex process, but most modern game engines support it, and developers can implement it with proper testing and consideration of different pause scenarios.

The RAM shortage could last years

155 omer_k 2026-04-19 07:36:21 UTC theverge.com Llama Share 152

Memory makers will meet only 60 percent of demand by 2027 due to production shortages. New fabrication capacity won't be online until 2027 or 2028, exacerbating the RAM shortage.

Nanopass Framework: Clean Compiler Creation Language

109 NordStreamYacht 2026-04-19 12:36:21 UTC nanopass.org Full Share 25

The Nanopass Framework is an embedded domain-specific language for creating compilers that focuses on creating small passes and many intermediate representations. Nanopass reduces the boilerplate required to create compilers making them easier to understand and maintain.

A. J. Ayer – ‘What I Saw When I Was Dead’ (1988)

55 isomorphy 2026-04-19 20:36:21 UTC philosopher.eu Llama Share 66

Ayer recounts his near-death experience, where he died for four minutes, and upon revival, had vivid memories of a red light and attempting to fix space-time. His experience suggests consciousness may continue after death, but does not necessarily imply a future life.

Notion leaks email addresses of all editors of any public page

308 Tiberium 2026-04-19 15:36:21 UTC twitter.com/weezerosint Full Share 105

Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot. Some privacy related extensions may cause issues on x.com. Please disable them and try again.

SPEAKE(a)R: Turn Speakers to Microphones for Fun and Profit [pdf] (2017)

154 Eridanus2 2026-04-19 09:36:21 UTC usenix.org Llama Share 66

A new type of malware called SPEAKE(a)R can covertly turn headphones, earphones, or simple earbuds connected to a PC into microphones when a standard microphone is not present, muted, taped, or turned off. The malware can record human speech of intelligible quality and eavesdrop from nine meters away, posing a significant cyber security threat.

Ex-CEO, ex-CFO of bankrupt AI company charged with fraud

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Scientific datasets are riddled with copy-paste errors

12 jruohonen 2026-04-19 19:36:21 UTC sciencedetective.org Llama Share 0

A software detected 18 cases of potential data errors in 600 open-access datasets, with 15 cases posted on PubPeer. The true error rate is likely higher than the estimated 3% due to undetectable errors and less lazy methods of data fabrication.

What are skiplists good for?

254 mfiguiere 2026-04-19 03:36:21 UTC antithesis.com Llama Share 61

The user encountered a problem at Antithesis where they needed to efficiently query a large tree data structure in Google BigQuery, but point lookups were slow. They solved this by inventing a "skiptree" data structure, which is a hierarchy of skiplists that allows for efficient querying with a fixed number of JOINs in SQL.

Reverse Engineering ME2's USB with a Heat Gun and a Knife

48 Bawoosette 2026-04-19 16:36:21 UTC github.com/coremaze Llama Share 7

The user, a leader of the Miuchiz Reborn project, successfully reverse engineered the ME2 handheld device's protocol by desoldering its flash chip, decapsulating the microcontroller, and using a digital microscope to identify the chip's type. With the microcontroller's instruction set and datasheet, the user was able to write code to interact with the device over USB, allowing them to read ...

Eliza a Play by Tom Holloway

12 abrax3141 2026-04-19 19:36:21 UTC mtc.com.au Llama Share 7

Director Paige Rattray's film depicts the birth of artificial intelligence through a professor's talk therapy simulation project. The project blurs lines between code and connection, raising questions about its true cost.

3D-Printing a Trombone

11 surprisetalk 2026-04-19 21:36:21 UTC unnamed.website Llama Share 0

The author created a 3D-printed trombone called the PrintBone using PEX pipes and modified files. It plays similar to a metal trombone, but has some limitations due to its design.

C++26: Reflection, Memory Safety, Contracts, and a New Async Model

24 birdculture 2026-04-19 21:36:21 UTC infoq.com Llama Share 2

C++26 introduces reflection, memory safety enhancements, contracts, and a unified concurrency framework. It simplifies evolution and improves performance, safety, and concurrency with no runtime overhead.

Show HN: Prompt-to-Excalidraw demo with Gemma 4 E2B in the browser (3.1GB)

80 teamchong 2026-04-19 11:36:21 UTC teamchong.github.io Full Share 41

Gemma 4 E2B generating Excalidraw diagrams from text prompts, running entirely in desktop Chrome via WebGPU. KV cache compressed 2.4× using TurboQuant's polar+QJL algorithm reimplemented in WGSL compute shaders. Requires Chrome 134+ on desktop — Safari/iOS not supported.

KTaO3-Based Supercurrent Diode

25 PaulHoule 2026-04-19 17:36:21 UTC pubs.acs.org Llama Share 2

Researchers have demonstrated the supercurrent diode effect (SDE) in KTaO3 (KTO) superconducting weak links (WLs) using conductive atomic force microscope (c-AFM) lithography. The SDE polarity can be controlled by varying the WL position, and the rectification efficiency reaches up to 13% under optimal magnetic field conditions.

Blue Origin's rocket reuse achievement marred by upper stage failure

50 rbanffy 2026-04-19 20:36:21 UTC arstechnica.com Llama Share 14

Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket successfully reused a booster but failed to reach its intended orbit due to an upper stage issue. The mission's payload, a cellular broadband satellite, was placed into an inaccurate orbit and will be de-orbited.

Reading Input from an USB RFID Card Reader

33 kevwedotse 2026-04-19 15:36:21 UTC kevwe.com Llama Share 5

You had a cheap RFID reader and wanted to capture its input without affecting other applications. You used the EVIOCGRAB ioctl in C and found a Python solution, but preferred a native approach.

Hot Wiring the Lisp Machine

17 spudlyo 2026-04-19 17:36:21 UTC scheatkode.com Llama Share 0

The user created a static website generator called opd that uses Emacs's Org-mode to generate HTML from Org files without any external dependencies. The generator uses a routing layer to handle different types of content and a two-pass compiler to resolve links and generate URLs, and it has a flexible and composable API that allows users to define custom routes and filters.

Show HN: Shader Lab, like Photoshop but for shaders

131 ragojose 2026-04-19 11:36:21 UTC eng.basement.studio Full Share 38

A powerful toolkit to create, stack, and animate shaders.