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Hacker News (Mar 2026)

  1. Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords

    390 points • comment • mar 21, 2026

  2. Samsung Magician disk utility takes 18 steps and two reboots to uninstall

    389 points • comment • mar 29, 2026

  3. A Visual Introduction to Machine Learning (2015)

    389 points • comment • mar 15, 2026

  4. Asian governments roll out 4-day weeks, WFH to solve fuel crisis caused by war

    389 points • comment • mar 12, 2026

  5. Yoghurt delivery women combatting loneliness in Japan

    386 points • comment • mar 07, 2026

  6. OpenClaw is a security nightmare dressed up as a daydream

    385 points • comment • mar 22, 2026

  7. macOS 26 breaks custom DNS settings including .internal

    385 points • comment • mar 19, 2026

  8. A Faster Alternative to Jq

    385 points • comment • mar 27, 2026

  9. Unsloth Studio

    384 points • comment • mar 17, 2026

  10. Lego's 0.002mm specification and its implications for manufacturing (2025)

    382 points • comment • mar 11, 2026

  11. Apple's 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortage

    382 points • comment • mar 08, 2026

  12. Super Micro Shares Plunge 25% After Co-Founder Charged in $2.5B Smuggling Plot

    381 points • comment • mar 20, 2026

  13. Enhancing gut-brain communication reversed cognitive decline in aging mice

    380 points • comment • mar 12, 2026

  14. Bubble Sorted Amen Break

    380 points • comment • mar 12, 2026

  15. Don't become an engineering manager

    379 points • comment • mar 03, 2026

  16. AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is more worrying

    379 points • comment • mar 27, 2026

  17. Big data on the cheapest MacBook

    377 points • comment • mar 12, 2026

  18. Nvidia NemoClaw

    377 points • comment • mar 18, 2026

  19. JPEG Compression

    376 points • comment • mar 14, 2026

  20. Government grant-funded research should not be published in for-profit journals

    376 points • comment • mar 04, 2026

  21. Show HN: I built 48 lightweight SVG backgrounds you can copy/paste

    376 points • comment • mar 18, 2026

  22. South Korea Mandates Solar Panels for Public Parking Lots

    375 points • comment • mar 28, 2026

  23. Britain today generating 90%+ of electricity from renewables

    375 points • comment • mar 28, 2026

  24. My MacBook keyboard is broken and it's insanely expensive to fix

    375 points • comment • mar 29, 2026

  25. GitHub is once again down

    375 points • comment • mar 24, 2026

  26. this css proves me human

    374 points • comment • mar 06, 2026

  27. JSLinux Now Supports x86_64

    373 points • comment • mar 09, 2026

  28. Missile defense is NP-complete

    373 points • comment • mar 24, 2026

  29. Pretext: TypeScript library for multiline text measurement and layout

    373 points • comment • mar 28, 2026

  30. Debian decides not to decide on AI-generated contributions

    372 points • comment • mar 10, 2026

  31. LLM Writing Tropes.md

    372 points • comment • mar 07, 2026

  32. Nvidia PersonaPlex 7B on Apple Silicon: Full-Duplex Speech-to-Speech in Swift

    371 points • comment • mar 05, 2026

  33. You are not your job

    371 points • comment • mar 22, 2026

  34. Honda is killing its EVs

    369 points • comment • mar 15, 2026

  35. Anthropic Cowork feature creates 10GB VM bundle on macOS without warning

    369 points • comment • mar 02, 2026

  36. Show HN: Email.md – Markdown to responsive, email-safe HTML

    368 points • comment • mar 24, 2026

  37. Afroman Wins Civil Trial over Use of Police Raid Footage in His Music Videos

    368 points • comment • mar 19, 2026

  38. Inside the M4 Apple Neural Engine, Part 1: Reverse Engineering

    367 points • comment • mar 01, 2026

  39. UUID package coming to Go standard library

    367 points • comment • mar 07, 2026

  40. Put the zip code first

    367 points • comment • mar 07, 2026

  41. Ripgrep is faster than grep, ag, git grep, ucg, pt, sift (2016)

    364 points • comment • mar 24, 2026

  42. BitNet: Inference framework for 1-bit LLMs

    364 points • comment • mar 11, 2026

  43. Returning to Rails in 2026

    363 points • comment • mar 12, 2026

  44. Open source CAD in the browser (Solvespace)

    362 points • comment • mar 31, 2026

  45. Bored of eating your own dogfood? Try smelling your own farts

    362 points • comment • mar 22, 2026

  46. VitruvianOS – Desktop Linux Inspired by the BeOS

    361 points • comment • mar 25, 2026

  47. Epic Games to cut more than 1k jobs as Fortnite usage falls

    360 points • comment • mar 24, 2026

  48. A decade of Docker containers

    360 points • comment • mar 07, 2026

  49. The Appalling Stupidity of Spotify's AI DJ

    359 points • comment • mar 15, 2026

  50. Professional video editing, right in the browser with WebGPU and WASM

    359 points • comment • mar 21, 2026

  51. John Carmack about open source and anti-AI activists

    358 points • comment • mar 13, 2026

  52. Wander – A tiny, decentralised tool to explore the small web

    357 points • comment • mar 18, 2026

  53. I ported Linux to the PS5 and turned it into a Steam Machine

    356 points • comment • mar 08, 2026

  54. Ensu – Ente’s Local LLM app

    356 points • comment • mar 25, 2026

  55. How kernel anti-cheats work

    356 points • comment • mar 15, 2026

  56. Your phone is an entire computer

    355 points • comment • mar 13, 2026

  57. India's top court angry after junior judge cites fake AI-generated orders

    354 points • comment • mar 03, 2026

  58. WebMCP is available for early preview

    354 points • comment • mar 01, 2026

  59. U.S. science agency moves to restrict foreign scientists from its labs

    354 points • comment • mar 02, 2026

  60. AI Made Writing Code Easier. It Made Being an Engineer Harder

    351 points • comment • mar 01, 2026

  61. The curious case of retro demo scene graphics

    351 points • comment • mar 30, 2026

  62. Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events

    351 points • comment • mar 26, 2026

  63. Universal vaccine against respiratory infections and allergens

    350 points • comment • mar 10, 2026

  64. How the AI Bubble Bursts

    350 points • comment • mar 30, 2026

  65. Rack-mount hydroponics

    349 points • comment • mar 15, 2026

  66. ‘Energy independence feels practical’: Europeans building mini solar farms

    349 points • comment • mar 27, 2026

  67. Cherri – programming language that compiles to an Apple Shortuct

    348 points • comment • mar 27, 2026

  68. Waymo Safety Impact

    348 points • comment • mar 19, 2026

  69. Student beauty and grades under in-person and remote teaching

    345 points • comment • mar 23, 2026

  70. Hammerspoon

    345 points • comment • mar 13, 2026

  71. SSH Secret Menu

    344 points • comment • mar 10, 2026

  72. “Collaboration” is bullshit

    343 points • comment • mar 23, 2026

  73. Baochip-1x: What it is, why I'm doing it now and how it came about

    343 points • comment • mar 11, 2026

  74. HP trialed mandatory 15-minute support call wait times (2025)

    343 points • comment • mar 20, 2026

  75. First in-utero stem cell therapy for fetal spina bifida repair is safe: study

    342 points • comment • mar 02, 2026

  76. Two Years of Emacs Solo

    342 points • comment • mar 10, 2026

  77. Python: The Optimization Ladder

    341 points • comment • mar 10, 2026

  78. Cloud VM benchmarks 2026

    340 points • comment • mar 08, 2026

  79. Miasma: A tool to trap AI web scrapers in an endless poison pit

    340 points • comment • mar 29, 2026

  80. How the Turner twins are mythbusting modern technical apparel

    339 points • comment • mar 17, 2026

  81. Helix: A post-modern text editor

    338 points • comment • mar 06, 2026

  82. Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy

    338 points • comment • mar 25, 2026

  83. LLMs can be exhausting

    338 points • comment • mar 15, 2026

  84. What happens when US economic data becomes unreliable

    337 points • comment • mar 14, 2026

  85. Making Firefox's right-click not suck with about:config

    336 points • comment • mar 04, 2026

  86. False claims in a widely-cited paper

    335 points • comment • mar 26, 2026

  87. DOOM Over DNS

    335 points • comment • mar 23, 2026

  88. AI coding is gambling

    334 points • comment • mar 18, 2026

  89. My Homelab Setup

    334 points • comment • mar 08, 2026

  90. Bird brains (2023)

    334 points • comment • mar 30, 2026

  91. An update on Steam / GOG changes for OpenTTD

    333 points • comment • mar 19, 2026

  92. Quantization from the Ground Up

    333 points • comment • mar 25, 2026

  93. Effort to prevent government officials from engaging in prediction markets

    333 points • comment • mar 07, 2026

  94. Dolphin Progress Release 2603

    333 points • comment • mar 12, 2026

  95. CasNum

    332 points • comment • mar 07, 2026

  96. 90% of Claude-linked output going to GitHub repos w <2 stars

    332 points • comment • mar 25, 2026

  97. Games with loot boxes to get minimum 16 age rating across Europe

    332 points • comment • mar 14, 2026

  98. The Met releases high-def 3D scans of 140 famous art objects

    331 points • comment • mar 12, 2026

  99. Swift 6.3

    329 points • comment • mar 26, 2026

  100. Separating the Wayland compositor and window manager

    329 points • comment • mar 15, 2026