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Hacker News (Mar 2026)

  1. The Oil Crisis Is About to Get Physical

    12 points • comment • mar 31, 2026

  2. Asteroid defense mission shifted the orbit of more than its target

    12 points • comment • mar 06, 2026

  3. 25 Years of Eggs

    12 points • comment • mar 20, 2026

  4. I emailed 70 consulting partners. No replies. What it taught me

    12 points • comment • mar 11, 2026

  5. Prediction markets on Deutsche Bahn departure delays

    12 points • comment • mar 03, 2026

  6. OpenAI hit with lawsuit claiming ChatGPT acted as an unlicensed lawyer

    12 points • comment • mar 08, 2026

  7. Conway's Game of Life, in real life

    12 points • comment • mar 19, 2026

  8. EFF Sues for Answers About Medicare's AI Experiment

    12 points • comment • mar 25, 2026

  9. Traditional tales from Cornwall, with maps for stories' locations

    12 points • comment • mar 07, 2026

  10. Semiconductor enthusiast builds DIY 'class 100 cleanroom' in his garden shed

    12 points • comment • mar 19, 2026

  11. UK Companies House security blunder leaves director data exposed

    12 points • comment • mar 15, 2026

  12. Escaping the Ogallala Trap

    12 points • comment • mar 30, 2026

  13. Senators want datacenters to come clean on power consumption

    12 points • comment • mar 30, 2026

  14. To update blobs or not to update blobs

    12 points • comment • mar 03, 2026

  15. Building Liberal Compute

    12 points • comment • mar 18, 2026

  16. GitHub Accounts Compromised

    12 points • comment • mar 11, 2026

  17. Pentagon Refuses to Say If AI Was Used to Bomb Elementary School

    12 points • comment • mar 07, 2026

  18. Why mathematicians hate Good Will Hunting

    12 points • comment • mar 03, 2026

  19. War in Iran exposes US's shift from a global guardian to an arbiter of chaos

    12 points • comment • mar 25, 2026

  20. Next.js 16.2

    12 points • comment • mar 18, 2026

  21. Show HN: OpenMeters – A fast and free audio metering/visualization suite

    12 points • comment • mar 09, 2026

  22. Butterfly-collecting: The history of an insult (2017)

    12 points • comment • mar 29, 2026

  23. Ask HN: Best stack for building a tiny game with an 11-year-old?

    12 points • comment • mar 29, 2026

  24. In March 1993, the FSF received the following letter

    12 points • comment • mar 26, 2026

  25. He suddenly couldn't speak in space. NASA astronaut says his medical scare remai

    12 points • comment • mar 28, 2026

  26. Upcoming Vote on Chat Control: Renew Deal Is Worse Than Rejected Draft Report

    12 points • comment • mar 11, 2026

  27. Shipping Grayscale Photos at Small Scale

    12 points • comment • mar 09, 2026

  28. Show HN: A deterministic middleware to compress LLM prompts by 50-80%

    12 points • comment • mar 21, 2026

  29. Show HN: SupplementDEX – The Evidence-Based Supplement Database

    12 points • comment • mar 14, 2026

  30. China's Technology Long Game

    12 points • comment • mar 20, 2026

  31. Walmart digital price labels coming to every store shelf in U.S. by end of 2026

    12 points • comment • mar 22, 2026

  32. Trump administration to be paid $10B for brokering TikTok deal

    12 points • comment • mar 14, 2026

  33. South Korea's tax office apologizes for leaking seed phrase to seized crypto

    12 points • comment • mar 02, 2026

  34. Clock-accurate FPGA replacement for NES PPU

    12 points • comment • mar 16, 2026

  35. Workers who fall for 'corporate bullshit' may be worse at their jobs

    12 points • comment • mar 26, 2026

  36. Show HN: Timezone App – Visual meeting scheduler for distributed teams

    12 points • comment • mar 29, 2026

  37. Show HN: Online OCR Free – Batch OCR UI for Tesseract, Gemini and OpenRouter

    12 points • comment • mar 03, 2026

  38. An unstoppable mushroom is tearing through North American forests

    12 points • comment • mar 26, 2026

  39. Device that can extract 1k liters of clean water a day from desert

    12 points • comment • mar 10, 2026

  40. Skillfile, the declarative skill manager, now with search for 110K+ skills

    12 points • comment • mar 16, 2026

  41. The JVG algorithm could break RSA-2048 encryption with fewer than 5k qubits

    12 points • comment • mar 04, 2026

  42. Civis Romanus Sum

    12 points • comment • mar 02, 2026

  43. Running Iroh on an ESP32

    12 points • comment • mar 24, 2026

  44. What fork() Actually Copies

    12 points • comment • mar 29, 2026

  45. Nintendo sues the US government over tariffs –seeks 200B refund, interest

    12 points • comment • mar 07, 2026

  46. The US-Israeli strategy against Iran is working. Here is why

    12 points • comment • mar 17, 2026

  47. Reverse Engineering Apple's GPU Energy Model on the M4 Max

    12 points • comment • mar 15, 2026

  48. The unwritten laws of software engineering

    12 points • comment • mar 17, 2026

  49. Another Starlink satellite has inexplicably exploded

    12 points • comment • mar 31, 2026

  50. I built a free interactive platform to learn KDB/q

    12 points • comment • mar 22, 2026

  51. Iran attacks RAF base in Cyprus, an EU country

    12 points • comment • mar 02, 2026

  52. As AI Turns Prevalent, UI Becomes Irrelevant

    12 points • comment • mar 05, 2026

  53. OpenAI Symphony

    12 points • comment • mar 04, 2026

  54. Clawed

    12 points • comment • mar 02, 2026

  55. Brazil publishes a list of companies needing age verification, includes Ubuntu

    12 points • comment • mar 15, 2026

  56. Building Better Country Selects

    12 points • comment • mar 11, 2026

  57. Don't go to the shoe shop to buy plates

    12 points • comment • mar 01, 2026

  58. Specimen Gallery – CC0 transparent specimen PNGs organized by taxonomy

    12 points • comment • mar 09, 2026

  59. Show HN: Modulus – Cross-repository knowledge orchestration for coding agents

    12 points • comment • mar 10, 2026

  60. Iran war heralds era of AI-powered bombing quicker than 'speed of thought'

    12 points • comment • mar 03, 2026

  61. Atlassian, AI sell-off’s worst-hit company, grapples with ‘SaaSpocalypse’

    11 points • comment • mar 20, 2026

  62. The Starving Time in Jamestown

    11 points • comment • mar 13, 2026

  63. Peter Thiel's 'Steroid Olympics' Startup Wants to Sell You the Sketchy Peptides

    11 points • comment • mar 20, 2026

  64. Coke fires worker injured on the job, keeping him would be hard on the company

    11 points • comment • mar 23, 2026

  65. In search of Banksy, Reuters found the artist took on a new identity

    11 points • comment • mar 14, 2026

  66. Show HN: I simulated 1200 Iranian missiles attacking air defences in a browser

    11 points • comment • mar 02, 2026

  67. Single-dose treatment approved for sleeping sickness

    11 points • comment • mar 10, 2026

  68. Traffic Violation! License Plate Reader Mission Creep Is Already Here

    11 points • comment • mar 26, 2026

  69. China: Transition to electric vehicles softens the effect of the Iran war [video]

    11 points • comment • mar 19, 2026

  70. Army approves first new hand grenade since 1968

    11 points • comment • mar 11, 2026

  71. Should hack-back be legal?

    11 points • comment • mar 11, 2026

  72. Driverless Big Rigs Are Coming to American Highways, and Soon

    11 points • comment • mar 24, 2026

  73. Dark money group pays influencers $1.5K for posts attacking Democratic candidate

    11 points • comment • mar 13, 2026

  74. Immersive Dreams May Be the Key to Better Sleep Quality

    11 points • comment • mar 25, 2026

  75. The Comedy of Errors That Was the First-Ever Space Walk

    11 points • comment • mar 29, 2026

  76. U.S. Global War on Terror Has Taken Nearly 1M Lives (2021)

    11 points • comment • mar 10, 2026

  77. Slow is smooth and smooth is fast: What software teams can learn from Navy SEALs

    11 points • comment • mar 11, 2026

  78. AI Slop Is Infiltrating Online Children's Content

    11 points • comment • mar 21, 2026

  79. Ubuntu is planning to comply with Age Verification law

    11 points • comment • mar 04, 2026

  80. Think Twice Before Buying or Using Meta's Ray-Bans

    11 points • comment • mar 10, 2026

  81. Lawyers in landmark social media addiction trial make final appeals to the jury

    11 points • comment • mar 14, 2026

  82. Tesla's Terafab chip fab ambitions ignore its lack of semiconductor experience

    11 points • comment • mar 16, 2026

  83. No one wants to read your AI slop

    11 points • comment • mar 02, 2026

  84. Genes May Control Your Longevity, However Healthily You Live

    11 points • comment • mar 26, 2026

  85. Testing Apple's 2026 16-inch MacBook Pro, M5 Max, and its new performance cores

    11 points • comment • mar 09, 2026

  86. Cascade of A.I. Fakes About War with Iran Causes Chaos Online

    11 points • comment • mar 14, 2026

  87. When it comes to data-ink ratio, optimize rather than maximize

    11 points • comment • mar 21, 2026

  88. Encyclopedia Britannica sues OpenAI over AI training

    11 points • comment • mar 17, 2026

  89. LaGuardia Airport Closed After Plane Collided with Ground Vehicle

    11 points • comment • mar 23, 2026

  90. Java 26 Release Notes

    11 points • comment • mar 17, 2026

  91. Show HN: Flux, a tiny protocol that rethinks email from the ground up

    11 points • comment • mar 08, 2026

  92. Freedom is the only thing that matters. Living freely. Creating freely

    11 points • comment • mar 31, 2026

  93. US Supreme Court's Republicans seized most dangerous power in constitutional law

    11 points • comment • mar 04, 2026

  94. UN warns of record 'climate imbalance' as planetary warming accelerates

    11 points • comment • mar 23, 2026

  95. Ask HN: Do You Enjoy Your Career in Tech Nowadays?

    11 points • comment • mar 05, 2026

  96. After Iraq, Kuwait and UAE may be next to cut oil output on Iran crisis

    11 points • comment • mar 07, 2026

  97. Delta suspends special congressional services amid shutdown

    11 points • comment • mar 24, 2026

  98. Addfox: A new open-source browser extension framework

    11 points • comment • mar 22, 2026

  99. How to have a healthy relationship with caffeine

    11 points • comment • mar 21, 2026

  100. US judge blocks efforts to reshape childhood vaccine policy

    11 points • comment • mar 16, 2026