Issue No. 113

unshitnews

Thursday, 23 April 2026

A cross-source daily digest

BBC News +4 more

US boards ship carrying Iranian oil, as Trump orders navy to shoot any boat laying mines in strait

Meanwhile, Donald Trump says the US has "total control" over the Strait of Hormuz - and says they will "shoot and kill" any boat laying mines there.

More Top Stories

US News

Technology

Health

BBC News

Why aspirin is becoming a weapon against cancer

The 4,000-year-old drug, most commonly used to treat pain, prevents certain tumours from forming and spreading across the body – findings that are already changing health policies.

Financial

Lifestyle

BBC News

How to consume less plastic

Microplastics gush out of our taps and flake off cookware. They find their way into the yolks of eggs, and into meat and vegetables. But there are things we can do to eat less of them.

Opinion

TV & Movies

Hacker News · Top 30

  1. 01 France confirms data breach at government agency that manages citizens' IDs
  2. 02 Bitwarden CLI Compromised in Ongoing Checkmarx Supply Chain Campaign
  3. 03 'Hairdryer used to trick weather sensor' to win $34,000 Polymarket bet
  4. 04 An update on recent Claude Code quality reports
  5. 05 MeshCore development team splits over trademark dispute and AI-generated code
  6. 06 Incident with Multple GitHub Services
  7. 07 A DIY Watch You Can Actually Wear
  8. 08 I am building a cloud
  9. 09 Show HN: Honker – Postgres NOTIFY/LISTEN Semantics for SQLite
  10. 10 Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price
  11. 11 Your hex editor should color-code bytes
  12. 12 The Ferrari of Espresso Machines Is Fueling a Hot Resale Market
  13. 13 To Protect and Swerve: NYPD Cop Has 547 Speeding Tickets
  14. 14 Palantir Employees Are Starting to Wonder If They're the Bad Guys
  15. 15 Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones
  16. 16 If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?
  17. 17 Writing a C Compiler, in Zig (2025)
  18. 18 Jiga (YC W21) Is Hiring
  19. 19 Investigation uncovers two sophisticated telecom surveillance campaigns
  20. 20 We found a stable Firefox identifier linking all your private Tor identities
  21. 21 A Renaissance gambling dispute spawned probability theory
  22. 22 Arch Linux Now Has a Bit-for-Bit Reproducible Docker Image
  23. 23 5x5 Pixel font for tiny screens
  24. 24 Isopods of the world
  25. 25 Our newsroom AI policy
  26. 26 People Do Not Yearn for Automation
  27. 27 Raylib v6.0
  28. 28 A History of Erasures Learning to Write Like Leylâ Erbil
  29. 29 A True Life Hack: What Physical 'Life Force' Turns Biology's Wheels?
  30. 30 The end of responsive images