Issue No. 113

unshitnews

Thursday, 23 April 2026

A cross-source daily digest

BBC News +4 more

US boards ship carrying Iranian oil, as Iran MP says first Strait of Hormuz toll paid

BBC News +1 more

UK Biobank health data listed for sale in China, government confirms

The UK government says the medical data of 500,000 people was affected but no personally identifiable information has been made available.

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 Surveillance vendors caught abusing access to telcos to track people's locations
  2. 02 I am building a cloud
  3. 03 Show HN: Honker – Postgres NOTIFY/LISTEN Semantics for SQLite
  4. 04 Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price
  5. 05 Your hex editor should color-code bytes
  6. 06 Sneaky spam in conversational replies to blog posts
  7. 07 Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones
  8. 08 Jiga (YC W21) Is Hiring
  9. 09 Writing a C Compiler, in Zig
  10. 10 We found a stable Firefox identifier linking all your private Tor identities
  11. 11 5x5 Pixel font for tiny screens
  12. 12 Isopods of the world
  13. 13 Our newsroom AI policy
  14. 14 A True Life Hack: What Physical 'Life Force' Turns Biology's Wheels?
  15. 15 Arch Linux Now Has a Bit-for-Bit Reproducible Docker Image
  16. 16 The Onion to Take over InfoWars
  17. 17 Highlights from Git 2.54
  18. 18 Over-editing refers to a model modifying code beyond what is necessary
  19. 19 Email could have been X.400 times better
  20. 20 Website streamed live directly from a model
  21. 21 Show HN: Built a daily game where you sort historical events chronologically
  22. 22 An amateur historian's favorite books about the Silk Road
  23. 23 Work with the Garage Door Up
  24. 24 Technical, cognitive, and intent debt
  25. 25 Tempest vs. Tempest: The Making and Remaking of Atari's Iconic Video Game
  26. 26 Ping-pong robot beats top-level human players
  27. 27 Parallel agents in Zed
  28. 28 Qwen3.6-27B: Flagship-Level Coding in a 27B Dense Model
  29. 29 Books are not too expensive
  30. 30 Ultraviolet corona discharges on treetops during storms