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Hacker News (Mar 2026)

  1. Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder

    677 points • comment • mar 29, 2026

  2. Fedware: Government apps that spy harder than the apps they ban

    673 points • comment • mar 30, 2026

  3. End of "Chat Control": EU parliament stops mass surveillance

    672 points • comment • mar 26, 2026

  4. MoD sources warn Palantir role at heart of government is threat to UK security

    670 points • comment • mar 16, 2026

  5. Claude Code Cheat Sheet

    668 points • comment • mar 23, 2026

  6. Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma

    663 points • comment • mar 06, 2026

  7. The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying

    654 points • comment • mar 05, 2026

  8. Apple discontinues the Mac Pro

    654 points • comment • mar 26, 2026

  9. The future of version control

    654 points • comment • mar 22, 2026

  10. Stop Sloppypasta

    653 points • comment • mar 15, 2026

  11. Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web

    651 points • comment • mar 11, 2026

  12. Hold on to Your Hardware

    645 points • comment • mar 27, 2026

  13. Online age-verification tools for child safety are surveilling adults

    644 points • comment • mar 10, 2026

  14. I decompiled the White House's new app

    642 points • comment • mar 28, 2026

  15. After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes

    639 points • comment • mar 10, 2026

  16. Show HN: I took back Video.js after 16 years and we rewrote it to be 88% smaller

    635 points • comment • mar 24, 2026

  17. Hormuz Minesweeper – Are you tired of winning?

    635 points • comment • mar 22, 2026

  18. How to talk to anyone and why you should

    633 points • comment • mar 02, 2026

  19. France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app

    633 points • comment • mar 20, 2026

  20. Ollama is now powered by MLX on Apple Silicon in preview

    633 points • comment • mar 31, 2026

  21. The MacBook Neo

    631 points • comment • mar 11, 2026

  22. Ask HN: How to be alone?

    630 points • comment • mar 08, 2026

  23. TUI Studio – visual terminal UI design tool

    628 points • comment • mar 13, 2026

  24. Moving from GitHub to Codeberg, for lazy people

    628 points • comment • mar 26, 2026

  25. A sufficiently detailed spec is code

    625 points • comment • mar 19, 2026

  26. Shell Tricks That Make Life Easier (and Save Your Sanity)

    624 points • comment • mar 26, 2026

  27. A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4k Developer Machines

    624 points • comment • mar 05, 2026

  28. Hardening Firefox with Anthropic's Red Team

    622 points • comment • mar 06, 2026

  29. Microscopes can see video on a laserdisc

    622 points • comment • mar 07, 2026

  30. Our commitment to Windows quality

    621 points • comment • mar 20, 2026

  31. Go hard on agents, not on your filesystem

    620 points • comment • mar 28, 2026

  32. /e/OS is a complete, fully “deGoogled” mobile ecosystem

    616 points • comment • mar 02, 2026

  33. An interactive map of Flock Cams

    613 points • comment • mar 04, 2026

  34. Slovenian officials blame Israeli firm Black Cube for trying to manipulate vote

    613 points • comment • mar 25, 2026

  35. Anatomy of the .claude/ folder

    609 points • comment • mar 27, 2026

  36. Where things stand with the Department of War

    608 points • comment • mar 06, 2026

  37. Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world

    605 points • comment • mar 10, 2026

  38. Workers who love ‘synergizing paradigms’ might be bad at their jobs

    602 points • comment • mar 06, 2026

  39. Reports of code's death are greatly exaggerated

    596 points • comment • mar 22, 2026

  40. GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash

    595 points • comment • mar 31, 2026

  41. If you don't opt out by Apr 24 GitHub will train on your private repos

    595 points • comment • mar 27, 2026

  42. The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner

    595 points • comment • mar 27, 2026

  43. “Your frustration is the product”

    594 points • comment • mar 19, 2026

  44. Ars Technica fires reporter after AI controversy involving fabricated quotes

    593 points • comment • mar 03, 2026

  45. Show HN: Channel Surfer – Watch YouTube like it’s cable TV

    592 points • comment • mar 11, 2026

  46. Chrome DevTools MCP (2025)

    592 points • comment • mar 15, 2026

  47. Miscellanea: The War in Iran

    591 points • comment • mar 25, 2026

  48. Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job

    591 points • comment • mar 11, 2026

  49. Project Nomad – Knowledge That Never Goes Offline

    590 points • comment • mar 22, 2026

  50. The gold standard of optimization: A look under the hood of RollerCoaster Tycoon

    589 points • comment • mar 22, 2026

  51. Tinybox – A powerful computer for deep learning

    585 points • comment • mar 21, 2026

  52. GrapheneOS will remain usable by anyone without requiring personal information

    584 points • comment • mar 22, 2026

  53. Nightingale – open-source karaoke app that works with any song on your computer

    578 points • comment • mar 18, 2026

  54. I built a demo of what AI chat will look like when it's “free” and ad-supported

    578 points • comment • mar 01, 2026

  55. LLM Architecture Gallery

    570 points • comment • mar 15, 2026

  56. Switch to Claude without starting over

    569 points • comment • mar 01, 2026

  57. A dot a day keeps the clutter away

    568 points • comment • mar 31, 2026

  58. Building a Procedural Hex Map with Wave Function Collapse

    567 points • comment • mar 09, 2026

  59. Microsoft: Copilot is for entertainment purposes only

    561 points • comment • mar 31, 2026

  60. Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics

    559 points • comment • mar 29, 2026

  61. Show HN: I built a sub-500ms latency voice agent from scratch

    559 points • comment • mar 02, 2026

  62. Every layer of review makes you 10x slower

    559 points • comment • mar 17, 2026

  63. Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft

    557 points • comment • mar 09, 2026

  64. Flighty Airports

    554 points • comment • mar 25, 2026

  65. Mystery jump in oil trading ahead of Trump post draws scrutiny

    553 points • comment • mar 24, 2026

  66. Blocking Internet Archive Won't Stop AI, but Will Erase Web's Historical Record

    549 points • comment • mar 21, 2026

  67. The Wyden Siren Goes Off Again: We’ll Be “Stunned” By What the NSA Is Doing

    548 points • comment • mar 13, 2026

  68. Show HN: Three new Kitten TTS models – smallest less than 25MB

    547 points • comment • mar 19, 2026

  69. TurboQuant: Redefining AI efficiency with extreme compression

    545 points • comment • mar 25, 2026

  70. The “small web” is bigger than you might think

    542 points • comment • mar 16, 2026

  71. Meta acquires Moltbook

    542 points • comment • mar 10, 2026

  72. Vite 8.0 Is Out

    540 points • comment • mar 13, 2026

  73. Good software knows when to stop

    539 points • comment • mar 05, 2026

  74. Decision trees – the unreasonable power of nested decision rules

    538 points • comment • mar 01, 2026

  75. US Court of Appeals: TOS may be updated by email, use can imply consent [pdf]

    537 points • comment • mar 09, 2026

  76. The Cognitive Dark Forest

    533 points • comment • mar 29, 2026

  77. Say No to Palantir in Europe

    532 points • comment • mar 29, 2026

  78. Make macOS consistently bad unironically

    530 points • comment • mar 27, 2026

  79. European Parliament decided that Chat Control 1.0 must stop

    530 points • comment • mar 26, 2026

  80. Agentic Engineering Patterns

    528 points • comment • mar 04, 2026

  81. CBP tapped into the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples’ movements

    525 points • comment • mar 04, 2026

  82. US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February

    524 points • comment • mar 06, 2026

  83. OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation

    523 points • comment • mar 31, 2026

  84. How I write software with LLMs

    522 points • comment • mar 16, 2026

  85. ATMs didn’t kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did

    520 points • comment • mar 12, 2026

  86. FrameBook

    518 points • comment • mar 08, 2026

  87. The American Healthcare Conundrum

    517 points • comment • mar 16, 2026

  88. Why I love FreeBSD

    516 points • comment • mar 16, 2026

  89. I'm losing the SEO battle for my own open source project

    515 points • comment • mar 03, 2026

  90. Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters

    513 points • comment • mar 13, 2026

  91. Meta’s renewed commitment to jemalloc

    511 points • comment • mar 16, 2026

  92. Warranty Void If Regenerated

    509 points • comment • mar 18, 2026

  93. Physics Girl: Super-Kamiokande – Imaging the sun by detecting neutrinos [video]

    507 points • comment • mar 03, 2026

  94. No right to relicense this project

    500 points • comment • mar 05, 2026

  95. CSS is DOOMed

    497 points • comment • mar 28, 2026

  96. Florida judge rules red light camera tickets are unconstitutional

    496 points • comment • mar 09, 2026

  97. ARC-AGI-3

    495 points • comment • mar 25, 2026

  98. How we hacked McKinsey's AI platform

    494 points • comment • mar 11, 2026

  99. If AI writes code, should the session be part of the commit?

    491 points • comment • mar 02, 2026

  100. Meta and YouTube found negligent in landmark social media addiction case

    487 points • comment • mar 25, 2026