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Hacker News (Mar 2026)

  1. Meta and Google found liable in social media addiction trial

    89 points • comment • mar 25, 2026

  2. Oil nears $110 a barrel after gas field strike

    89 points • comment • mar 18, 2026

  3. Sky Wins Irish Court Order to Unmask 300 Pirate IPTV Users via Revolut Bank

    89 points • comment • mar 29, 2026

  4. Wikipedia bans AI-generated content in its online encyclopedia

    89 points • comment • mar 28, 2026

  5. There is no spoon – A software engineers primer for demystified ML

    89 points • comment • mar 29, 2026

  6. Tennessee grandmother jailed after AI face recognition error links her to fraud

    89 points • comment • mar 13, 2026

  7. Mother of All Grease Fires (1994)

    89 points • comment • mar 10, 2026

  8. Emacs-libgterm: Terminal emulator for Emacs using libghostty-vt

    89 points • comment • mar 29, 2026

  9. Study: 'Security Fatigue' May Weaken Digital Defenses

    89 points • comment • mar 23, 2026

  10. LLMs can unmask pseudonymous users at scale with surprising accuracy

    89 points • comment • mar 04, 2026

  11. GPT-5.4 Thinking and GPT-5.4 Pro

    89 points • comment • mar 05, 2026

  12. ZJIT removes redundant object loads and stores

    88 points • comment • mar 18, 2026

  13. Store birth date in systemd for age verification

    88 points • comment • mar 19, 2026

  14. Human Organ Atlas

    88 points • comment • mar 12, 2026

  15. Buckle Up for Bumpier Skies

    88 points • comment • mar 03, 2026

  16. WebPKI and You

    88 points • comment • mar 09, 2026

  17. Show HN: BreezePDF – Free, in-browser PDF editor

    88 points • comment • mar 29, 2026

  18. Allegations of insider trading over prediction-market bets tied to Iran conflict

    88 points • comment • mar 01, 2026

  19. Show HN: GDSL – 800 line kernel: Lisp subset in 500, C subset in 1300

    88 points • comment • mar 15, 2026

  20. Show HN: Crust – A CLI framework for TypeScript and Bun

    88 points • comment • mar 17, 2026

  21. Show HN: DuckDB community extension for prefiltered HNSW using ACORN-1

    88 points • comment • mar 25, 2026

  22. Stop using grey text (2025)

    88 points • comment • mar 05, 2026

  23. Show HN: Veil – Dark mode PDFs without destroying images, runs in the browser

    88 points • comment • mar 26, 2026

  24. Mr. Chatterbox is a Victorian-era ethically trained model

    88 points • comment • mar 31, 2026

  25. Art Bits from HyperCard

    88 points • comment • mar 06, 2026

  26. Maze Algorithms (1997)

    87 points • comment • mar 31, 2026

  27. Nobody Is Coming to Save Your Career

    87 points • comment • mar 31, 2026

  28. The optimal age to freeze eggs is 19

    87 points • comment • mar 09, 2026

  29. US blindsides states with surprise settlement in Live Nation/Ticketmaster trial

    87 points • comment • mar 09, 2026

  30. In space, no one can hear you kernel panic (2020)

    87 points • comment • mar 13, 2026

  31. Undroidwish – A single-file, batteries-included Tcl/Tk binary for many platforms

    87 points • comment • mar 28, 2026

  32. Packaging a Gleam app into a single executable (2025)

    87 points • comment • mar 02, 2026

  33. Democratic Backsliding Reaches Western Democracies, U.S. Decline "Unprecedented"

    87 points • comment • mar 19, 2026

  34. Iran war wreaking havoc on shipping and air cargo, could create global delays

    87 points • comment • mar 04, 2026

  35. Privacy-preserving age and identity verification via anonymous credentials

    87 points • comment • mar 03, 2026

  36. Show HN: TurboQuant for vector search – 2-4 bit compression

    86 points • comment • mar 29, 2026

  37. Someone needs to go to jail

    86 points • comment • mar 03, 2026

  38. From RGB to L*a*b* color space (2024)

    86 points • comment • mar 04, 2026

  39. Roulette Computers: Hidden Devices That Predict Spins

    86 points • comment • mar 28, 2026

  40. Microsoft Outlook app now showing paid spam/phishing ad's

    86 points • comment • mar 09, 2026

  41. The day I discovered type design

    86 points • comment • mar 19, 2026

  42. Turns out your coffee addiction may be doing your brain a favor

    86 points • comment • mar 22, 2026

  43. What happened to GEM?

    86 points • comment • mar 20, 2026

  44. ICE officers are taking DNA samples from protesters they've arrested

    85 points • comment • mar 19, 2026

  45. I created my first AI-assisted pull request

    85 points • comment • mar 24, 2026

  46. Linux Running in a PDF (2025)

    85 points • comment • mar 31, 2026

  47. Generating All 32-Bit Primes (Part I)

    85 points • comment • mar 15, 2026

  48. Show HN: Playing LongTurn FreeCiv with Friends

    85 points • comment • mar 18, 2026

  49. Cat Itecture: Better Cat Window Boxes (2023)

    85 points • comment • mar 28, 2026

  50. Consider the Greenland Shark (2020)

    85 points • comment • mar 27, 2026

  51. Claude loses its >99% uptime in Q1 2026

    85 points • comment • mar 27, 2026

  52. Tree Search Distillation for Language Models Using PPO

    85 points • comment • mar 15, 2026

  53. Adults Lose Skills to AI. Children Never Build Them

    85 points • comment • mar 28, 2026

  54. Senior European journalist suspended over AI-generated quotes

    84 points • comment • mar 21, 2026

  55. U.S. Built a Blueprint to Avoid Civilian War Casualties. DOJ Scrapped It

    84 points • comment • mar 13, 2026

  56. Are the Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics Beginning to Dissolve?

    84 points • comment • mar 01, 2026

  57. Launch HN: Voltair (YC W26) – Drone and charging network for power utilities

    84 points • comment • mar 19, 2026

  58. Discontinuation and reinitiation of dual-labeled GLP-1 receptor agonists

    84 points • comment • mar 20, 2026

  59. Re-creating the complex cuisine of prehistoric Europeans

    84 points • comment • mar 06, 2026

  60. A data center opened next door. Then came the high-pitched whine

    84 points • comment • mar 18, 2026

  61. BIO – The Bao I/O Co-Processor

    84 points • comment • mar 21, 2026

  62. How important was the Battle of Hastings?

    84 points • comment • mar 04, 2026

  63. William Blake, Remote by the Sea

    84 points • comment • mar 30, 2026

  64. The Impact of AI on Game Dev Jobs. Open to Work Crisis

    84 points • comment • mar 21, 2026

  65. Querying 3B Vectors

    84 points • comment • mar 03, 2026

  66. Show HN: Kula – Lightweight, self-contained Linux server monitoring tool

    84 points • comment • mar 07, 2026

  67. Reverse Engineering Crazy Taxi, Part 2

    84 points • comment • mar 30, 2026

  68. The first airplane fatality

    83 points • comment • mar 09, 2026

  69. Optimizing Recommendation Systems with JDK's Vector API

    83 points • comment • mar 03, 2026

  70. America Is Now a Rogue Superpower

    83 points • comment • mar 30, 2026

  71. FCC has banned the import of all new foreign-made routers here's what you can do

    83 points • comment • mar 24, 2026

  72. To the Polypropylene Makers

    83 points • comment • mar 08, 2026

  73. Pretraining Language Models via Neural Cellular Automata

    83 points • comment • mar 15, 2026

  74. Stdwin: Standard window interface by Guido Van Rossum [pdf]

    83 points • comment • mar 17, 2026

  75. No one is happy with NASA's new idea for private space stations

    83 points • comment • mar 28, 2026

  76. 60 Minutes Havana Syndrome report finds U.S. government tested energy weapon

    83 points • comment • mar 09, 2026

  77. Stanford researchers report first recording of a blue whale's heart rate (2019)

    83 points • comment • mar 13, 2026

  78. Show HN: Tmux-IDE, OSS agent-first terminal IDE

    83 points • comment • mar 18, 2026

  79. ICE agents reveal daily arrest quotas and surveillance app in court testimony

    83 points • comment • mar 13, 2026

  80. OpenBSD on SGI: A Rollercoaster Story

    82 points • comment • mar 05, 2026

  81. Ordered dithering with arbitrary or irregular colour palettes (2023)

    82 points • comment • mar 17, 2026

  82. Our Experience with I-Ready

    82 points • comment • mar 14, 2026

  83. Palantir CEO Makes Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power

    82 points • comment • mar 13, 2026

  84. Apache Otava

    82 points • comment • mar 01, 2026

  85. From 0% to 36% on Day 1 of ARC-AGI-3

    82 points • comment • mar 27, 2026

  86. UMD Scientists Create 'Smart Underwear' to Measure Human Flatulence

    82 points • comment • mar 15, 2026

  87. Czech Man's Stone in Barn's Foundations Is Rare Bronze Age Spearhead Mold

    82 points • comment • mar 16, 2026

  88. We Stopped Using the Mathematics That Works

    82 points • comment • mar 09, 2026

  89. Hisense TVs add unskippable startup ads before live TV

    82 points • comment • mar 10, 2026

  90. Postgres with Builtin File Systems

    81 points • comment • mar 14, 2026

  91. Fyn: An uv fork with new features, bug fixes, stripped telemetry

    81 points • comment • mar 23, 2026

  92. Pentagon Adopts New Limits for Journalists After Court Loss

    81 points • comment • mar 23, 2026

  93. Ask HN: Is Claude down again?

    81 points • comment • mar 11, 2026

  94. Google adds 24-hour wait and mandatory reboot to Android sideloading flow

    81 points • comment • mar 21, 2026

  95. More precise elevation data for GraphHopper routing engine

    81 points • comment • mar 23, 2026

  96. Show HN: Sheet Ninja – Google Sheets as a CRUD Back End for Vibe Coders

    81 points • comment • mar 29, 2026

  97. Microsoft blocks trick to unlock native NVMe driver, but workarounds still exist

    80 points • comment • mar 24, 2026

  98. The “JVG algorithm” only wins on tiny numbers

    80 points • comment • mar 10, 2026

  99. Lent and Lisp

    80 points • comment • mar 18, 2026

  100. Online astroturfing: A problem beyond disinformation (2022)

    80 points • comment • mar 14, 2026