4.14.26 | Someone planted backdoors in 30 WordPress plugins, GitHub introduced Stacked PRs, DaVinci Resolve now supports Photo editing

Hacker News Highlights · Apr 14, 2026 · 14m

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 14, 2026.

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(00:00) - Intro

(00:19) - Someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted a backdoor in all of them

(02:11) - GitHub Stacked PRs

(03:33) - DaVinci Resolve – Photo

(04:58) - Nothing Ever Happens: Polymarket bot that always buys No on non-sports markets

(05:53) - US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional

(07:07) - Make tmux pretty and usable (2024)

(08:08) - A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”…