DTF:HN for April 14, 2026

Your Daily Tech Feed covering the top 10 stories on Hacker News for April 14, 2026. Featuring: DaVinci Resolve – Photo, Backblaze has stopped backing up your data, A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”, Someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted a backdoor in all of them, Introspective Diffusion Language Models, and more. Stories covered: 1. DaVinci Resolve – Photo https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/photo HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47760529 2. Backblaze has stopped backing up your data https://rareese.com/posts/backblaze/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47762864 3. A new spam policy for “back button hijacking” https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2026/04/back-button-hijacking HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47760764 4. 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/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47755629 5. Introspective Diffusion Language Models https://introspective-diffusion.github.io/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47762641 6. GitHub Stacked PRs https://github.github.com/gh-stack/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47757495 7. Distributed DuckDB Instance https://github.com/citguru/openduck HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47761997 8. Franklin's bad ads for Apple ][ clones and the beloved impersonator they depict https://buttondown.com/suchbadtechads/archive/franklin-ace-1000/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47722629 9. Lean proved this program correct; then I found a bug https://kirancodes.me/posts/log-who-watches-the-watchers.html HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47759709 10. Ransomware Is Growing Three Times Faster Than the Spending Meant to Stop It https://ciphercue.com/blog/ransomware-claims-grew-faster-than-security-spend-2025 HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47762994