Issue No. 113

unshitnews

Thursday, 23 April 2026

A cross-source daily digest

BBC News +6 more

Iran has received first Strait of Hormuz shipping toll, deputy speaker says

More Top Stories

BBC News

Can we predict the next global crisis?

Spotting the events that might lead to a major period of upheaval is notoriously difficult. Could artificial intelligence be the crystal ball we need?

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 I am building a cloud
  2. 02 Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price
  3. 03 Your hex editor should color-code bytes
  4. 04 Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones
  5. 05 Fundamental Theorem of Calculus
  6. 06 Writing a C Compiler, in Zig
  7. 07 We found a stable Firefox identifier linking all your private Tor identities
  8. 08 5x5 Pixel font for tiny screens
  9. 09 Isopods of the world
  10. 10 Our newsroom AI policy
  11. 11 A True Life Hack: What Physical 'Life Force' Turns Biology's Wheels?
  12. 12 Over-editing refers to a model modifying code beyond what is necessary
  13. 13 Arch Linux Now Has a Bit-for-Bit Reproducible Docker Image
  14. 14 Website streamed live directly from a model
  15. 15 An amateur historian's favorite books about the Silk Road
  16. 16 The Onion to Take over InfoWars
  17. 17 Email could have been X.400 times better
  18. 18 MacBook Neo and How the iPad Should Be
  19. 19 Tempest vs. Tempest: The Making and Remaking of Atari's Iconic Video Game
  20. 20 Technical, cognitive, and intent debt
  21. 21 Highlights from Git 2.54
  22. 22 Ping-pong robot beats top-level human players
  23. 23 Parallel agents in Zed
  24. 24 Books are not too expensive
  25. 25 Qwen3.6-27B: Flagship-Level Coding in a 27B Dense Model
  26. 26 Ultraviolet corona discharges on treetops during storms
  27. 27 Scoring Show HN submissions for AI design patterns
  28. 28 OpenAI's response to the Axios developer tool compromise
  29. 29 Borrow-checking without type-checking
  30. 30 The Demonization of Male Ambition – Lisa Britton