Hacker NewsWednesday, April 15

DaVinci Resolve's Photo page brings Hollywood's advanced color grading tools to still photography for the first time. It offers professional colorists and photographers access to primary color correction, curves, qualifiers, and Power Windows in a node-based workflow that surpasses traditional photo applications.

A long-time Backblaze user discovered the backup service quietly stopped backing up OneDrive, Dropbox, and Git folders without notification. Despite promising unlimited backup of all files since 2015, Backblaze changed their policy and buried the announcement in release notes, breaking their core promise to backup everything and eroding user trust in their service.

Stacked PRs is a GitHub feature that breaks large code changes into small, reviewable pull requests that build on each other in an ordered chain. It includes native GitHub support with stack navigation, a gh stack CLI for terminal management, and AI integration to help create and manage these focused, independently reviewable layers.

Google is expanding its spam policies to explicitly prohibit "back button hijacking," where websites prevent users from using their browser's back button normally. This deceptive practice redirects users to unwanted pages instead of returning them to the previous page, creating user frustration and breaking browser functionality. The policy takes effect June 15, 2026, with potential manual or automated penalties for violating sites.

Chicago music fan Aadam Jacobs has been recording concerts since the 1980s, creating an archive of over 10,000 cassette tapes. Now 59, he's working with Internet Archive volunteers to digitize these recordings before they degrade. About 2,500 tapes have been posted online so far, including rare performances by Nirvana from 1989, Sonic Youth, R.E.M., and other influential artists from before they became mainstream.

Jujutsu (jj) is a distributed version control system that claims to be simpler and more powerful than git while maintaining git compatibility. It combines the best features of git and Mercurial into a cleaner, more cohesive tool with fewer but more powerful commands that work better together.

A Python bot for Polymarket that automatically buys "No" positions on standalone non-sports yes/no markets. Includes safety features requiring multiple environment variables for live trading, a dashboard interface, database persistence, and various operational scripts. Designed for entertainment purposes only with no warranty or liability coverage.

A California resident requested deletion of their data from Flock Safety under CCPA. Flock denied the request, claiming they only process data for customers who own it and directing the person to contact those organizations instead. The person believes Flock's response is legally inaccurate since Flock collects and processes the data directly, and is considering legal action.

A U.S. appeals court ruled unconstitutional a 158-year-old federal ban on home distilling, favoring the Hobby Distillers Association. The court said the ban improperly exercised Congress's tax power and could criminalize virtually any home activity.

This blog post explains how to customize tmux configuration to make it more user-friendly. It covers common modifications like changing the awkward C-b prefix key to C-a, using intuitive split commands with | and - characters, enabling easy config reloads, fast pane switching with Alt-arrow keys, mouse mode for clicking between panes, preventing automatic window renaming, and customizing colors and appearance through the tmux.conf file.