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Hacker News (Mar 2026)

  1. Show HN: Nit – I rebuilt Git in Zig to save AI agents 71% on tokens

    19 points • comment • mar 26, 2026

  2. Windows 11 after two decades of macOS: okay, but also awful

    19 points • comment • mar 13, 2026

  3. Heart, head, life, fate

    19 points • comment • mar 13, 2026

  4. A Special AMD Ryzen AM5 Motherboard for Linux / Open-Source Enthusiasts

    19 points • comment • mar 10, 2026

  5. Duranium: A More Reliable PostmarketOS

    19 points • comment • mar 18, 2026

  6. Why refusing AI is a fight for the soul

    19 points • comment • mar 17, 2026

  7. Claude API Error: 529

    19 points • comment • mar 27, 2026

  8. Show HN: A playable version of the Claude Code Terraform destroy incident

    19 points • comment • mar 10, 2026

  9. A lawyer won Anthropic's hackathon – what everyone missed

    19 points • comment • mar 25, 2026

  10. Hawaii dam at risk of 'imminent' failure as catastrophic flooding hits Oahu

    19 points • comment • mar 20, 2026

  11. SQG (SQL to Code Generator) v0.10: Java Streams and List Type Support

    19 points • comment • mar 05, 2026

  12. FCC Prohibits New Approval of Foreign-Made Consumer Routers

    19 points • comment • mar 28, 2026

  13. Matlab Alternatives 2026: Benchmarks, GPU, Browser and Compatibility Compared

    19 points • comment • mar 25, 2026

  14. UK Politicians Continue to Miss the Point in Latest Social Media Ban Proposal

    19 points • comment • mar 30, 2026

  15. CIA Prepares Criminal Referral of Tucker Carlson, as Israel et al. Demand Arrest

    19 points • comment • mar 15, 2026

  16. Tired of AI When will this era end?

    19 points • comment • mar 25, 2026

  17. AI CEOs worry the government will nationalize AI

    19 points • comment • mar 08, 2026

  18. The Reason So Many Autistic Adults Can't Stay Employed

    19 points • comment • mar 02, 2026

  19. Kalshi criminally charged in Arizona for operating illegal gambling business

    18 points • comment • mar 17, 2026

  20. Depleted weapons stockpiles could affect the Iran conflict

    18 points • comment • mar 04, 2026

  21. TreeTrek – A raw Git repository viewer web app

    18 points • comment • mar 28, 2026

  22. The miracle of PowerToys, Microsoft's last great Windows app

    18 points • comment • mar 20, 2026

  23. Explosion at the Valero Oil Refinery in Texas

    18 points • comment • mar 24, 2026

  24. WhatsApp Is Reading Your Messages Now

    18 points • comment • mar 26, 2026

  25. New Research Reassesses the Value of Agents.md Files for AI Coding

    18 points • comment • mar 08, 2026

  26. Why most general-purpose Agents fail and why I'm avoiding LLM "reasoning"

    18 points • comment • mar 08, 2026

  27. Show HN: 2.7KB Zig WASM – live globe showing executions at 300 CF edges

    18 points • comment • mar 29, 2026

  28. Why solid-state batteries keep short-circuiting

    18 points • comment • mar 28, 2026

  29. Airfare Is Just the Beginning

    18 points • comment • mar 28, 2026

  30. RAG vs. Skill vs. MCP vs. RLM

    18 points • comment • mar 02, 2026

  31. Palantir turns poisonous on the campaign trail

    18 points • comment • mar 24, 2026

  32. A Visual Guide to Attention Variants in Modern LLMs

    18 points • comment • mar 22, 2026

  33. Tickets Are Prompts

    18 points • comment • mar 30, 2026

  34. 1997 Kyl–Bingaman Amendment prohibits high res satellite imagery of Israel

    18 points • comment • mar 14, 2026

  35. Microsoft Creative Writer (1993)

    18 points • comment • mar 02, 2026

  36. Video Encoding and Decoding with Vulkan Compute Shaders in FFmpeg

    18 points • comment • mar 17, 2026

  37. Terence Tao – Kepler, Newton, and the true nature of mathematical discovery

    18 points • comment • mar 22, 2026

  38. Global Stocks Sink as Oil Prices Surge

    18 points • comment • mar 09, 2026

  39. Welcome to the Block Universe

    18 points • comment • mar 17, 2026

  40. My Life Got 100x Better When I Stopped Thinking About Google

    18 points • comment • mar 13, 2026

  41. Anthropic considers IPO as soon as October

    18 points • comment • mar 27, 2026

  42. 71% Desk Workers Say Screen-Related Visual Discomfort Is Reducing Productivity

    18 points • comment • mar 08, 2026

  43. Ask HN: What was it like in the era of BBS before the internet?

    18 points • comment • mar 30, 2026

  44. U.S. Government's Ban on Anthropic Looks Like Punishment Attempt, Judge Says

    18 points • comment • mar 24, 2026

  45. Avoiding temptation beats building willpower

    18 points • comment • mar 09, 2026

  46. Sewage-filled Potomac river risks ruining America's birthday

    18 points • comment • mar 08, 2026

  47. Methods in Languages for Systems Programming (2023)

    18 points • comment • mar 16, 2026

  48. Iran tells world to get ready for oil at $200 a barrel

    18 points • comment • mar 11, 2026

  49. OpenAI is shutting down Sora video creation app

    18 points • comment • mar 24, 2026

  50. Live Nation director boasted of gouging ticket buyers, "robbing them blind"

    18 points • comment • mar 13, 2026

  51. Claude Code adjusting down 5hr limits

    18 points • comment • mar 26, 2026

  52. What's new in Linux kernel for PostgreSQL

    18 points • comment • mar 03, 2026

  53. Floating wetlands boost water quality, slash greenhouse emissions

    18 points • comment • mar 20, 2026

  54. MagicAudio – Free Noise, Echo and Background Music Remover

    18 points • comment • mar 24, 2026

  55. Syria's Kurds caution Iran's Kurds against allying with US against Tehran

    18 points • comment • mar 09, 2026

  56. From Braun T3 to Apple's iPod (2024)

    18 points • comment • mar 10, 2026

  57. Cisco source code stolen in Trivy-linked dev environment breach

    18 points • comment • mar 31, 2026

  58. NYU Professors Begin Strike over Pay and Job Protections

    18 points • comment • mar 23, 2026

  59. Weight-loss jab could be made for $3 a month, study finds

    18 points • comment • mar 06, 2026

  60. AI Proteomics Competition 2026 – $13K Prize, Internships and Compute Support

    18 points • comment • mar 23, 2026

  61. Show HN: A list of websites and directories where you can promote your projects

    18 points • comment • mar 27, 2026

  62. Jürgen Habermas, influential German philosopher, dies at 96

    18 points • comment • mar 14, 2026

  63. Device that can extract 1K liters of clean water a day from desert air revealed

    18 points • comment • mar 03, 2026

  64. AI ends online anonymity: the ease of unmasking pseudonymous accounts

    18 points • comment • mar 23, 2026

  65. Downdetector, Speedtest sold to IT service provider Accenture in $1.2B deal

    18 points • comment • mar 03, 2026

  66. The Illusion of Building

    18 points • comment • mar 06, 2026

  67. Show HN: Grafana TUI – Browse Grafana dashboards in the terminal

    18 points • comment • mar 27, 2026

  68. Completing the formal proof of higher-dimensional sphere packing

    18 points • comment • mar 02, 2026

  69. Kill Chain

    18 points • comment • mar 22, 2026

  70. More agent tools and AI tools should be pricing on outcomes (2025)

    17 points • comment • mar 10, 2026

  71. Hungary's Foreign Minister Briefed Russia on EU Meetings in Real Time

    17 points • comment • mar 22, 2026

  72. Artificial Cleverness: The system that knows everything and understands nothing

    17 points • comment • mar 29, 2026

  73. Prairieland Anti-ICE Protesters Convicted of Terrorism for Wearing All Black

    17 points • comment • mar 13, 2026

  74. Zen of AI Coding

    17 points • comment • mar 03, 2026

  75. In vitro neurons learn and exhibit sentience when embodied in a game-world(2022)

    17 points • comment • mar 08, 2026

  76. Anthropic and Alignment (Ben Thompson)

    17 points • comment • mar 02, 2026

  77. Agentic AI and the next intelligence explosion

    17 points • comment • mar 30, 2026

  78. The Shady World of IP Leasing

    17 points • comment • mar 03, 2026

  79. Codex Plugins

    17 points • comment • mar 27, 2026

  80. Aggregated File System (AGFS), a modern tribute to the spirit of Plan 9

    17 points • comment • mar 15, 2026

  81. Gigabyte MZ33-AR1: A Unique AMD EPYC 9005 Motherboard for Open-Source Firmware

    17 points • comment • mar 14, 2026

  82. Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? (1977) [pdf]

    17 points • comment • mar 22, 2026

  83. Turns Out the DOGE Bros Who Killed Humanities Grants Are Sensitive About It

    17 points • comment • mar 17, 2026

  84. Ask HN: Who needs contributors? (March 2026)

    17 points • comment • mar 30, 2026

  85. I was a 10x engineer. Now I'm useless

    17 points • comment • mar 08, 2026

  86. The Cassandra of 'The Machine'

    17 points • comment • mar 26, 2026

  87. Stop the Interviews

    17 points • comment • mar 05, 2026

  88. The Most Accurately Predicted Genocide in History

    17 points • comment • mar 14, 2026

  89. BBC says 'irreversible' trends mean it will not survive without major overhaul

    17 points • comment • mar 05, 2026

  90. Apple Does Fusion

    17 points • comment • mar 04, 2026

  91. NYC ends criminal summonses for cyclists, e-bike riders

    17 points • comment • mar 19, 2026

  92. Antienshittification

    17 points • comment • mar 30, 2026

  93. Ask HN: What do you look for in your first 10 hires?

    17 points • comment • mar 19, 2026

  94. Nvidia's Always-On Chip Detects Faces in Less Than a Millisecond

    17 points • comment • mar 18, 2026

  95. Snowflake lays off documentation staff after they train AI replacement

    17 points • comment • mar 23, 2026

  96. How Russia's new elite hit squad was compromised by Google Translate

    17 points • comment • mar 13, 2026

  97. MIDI 2.0 (and enhanced MIDI 1.0) comes to Windows 11

    17 points • comment • mar 16, 2026

  98. My fireside chat about agentic engineering at the Pragmatic Summit

    17 points • comment • mar 14, 2026

  99. Daniel Ellsberg: The Effect of Top Secret Clearance

    17 points • comment • mar 10, 2026

  100. Package Managers Need to Cool Down

    17 points • comment • mar 25, 2026