Hacker News Highlights
40 Episodes
4.15.26 | Stop Flock, rare concert recordings on Internet Archive, Claude Code Routines
#446
Today at 10:50 AM
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 15, 2026.
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(00:00) - Intro (00:21) - Stop Flock (01:44) - Rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive (03:11) - Claude Code Routines (04:52) - The dangers of California's legislation to censor 3D printing (06:19) - The Orange Pi 6 Plus (07:50) - Let's talk space toilets (08:59) - A communist Apple II and fourteen years of not knowing what you're testing (11:01) - Turn your best AI prompts into one-click tools in Chrome (12:09) - 5NF and Database Design (13:26) - Fixing...4.14.26 | Someone planted backdoors in 30 WordPress plugins, GitHub introduced Stacked PRs, DaVinci Resolve now supports Photo editing
#445
Yesterday at 10:53 AM
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 14, 2026.
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(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted a backdoor in all of them (02:11) - GitHub Stacked PRs (03:33) - DaVinci Resolve – Photo (04:58) - Nothing Ever Happens: Polymarket bot that always buys No on non-sports markets (05:53) - US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional (07:07) - Make tmux pretty and usable (2024) (08:08) - A new spam policy for “back button hijacking” (09:45) - Android now stops you sharing your location in photos (11:27) - Buil...4.13.26 | Docker pull fails in Spain, Pro Max 5x quota exhausted, Seven countries use mostly renewables
#444
Last Monday at 11:03 AM
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 13, 2026.
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(00:00) - Intro (00:21) - Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block (01:43) - Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage (03:09) - Seven countries now generate nearly all their electricity from renewables (2024) (04:58) - Bring Back Idiomatic Design (2023) (05:53) - DIY Soft Drinks (07:11) - Google removes "Doki Doki Literature Club" from Google Play (08:15) - All elementary functions from a single binary operator (09:44) - The peril of laziness lost (10:48...4.12.26 | Small models reveal vulnerabilities, Pardonned.com is a US pardons database, and top AI benchmarks were surpassed
#443
Last Sunday at 10:47 AM
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 12, 2026.
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(00:00) - Intro (00:24) - Small models also found the vulnerabilities that Mythos found (01:56) - Show HN: Pardonned.com – A searchable database of US Pardons (03:12) - How We Broke Top AI Agent Benchmarks: And What Comes Next (04:22) - Every plane you see in the sky – you can now follow it from the cockpit in 3D (05:23) - Optimal Strategy for Connect 4 (07:03) - Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI (08:33) - Advanced Mac Substitute is an API-level reim...4.11.26 | Artemis II safely splashes down, filing the corners off MacBooks, 1D Chess
#442
Last Saturday at 10:47 AM
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 11, 2026.
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(00:00) - Intro (00:23) - Artemis II safely splashes down (01:37) - Filing the corners off my MacBooks (02:42) - 1D Chess (03:55) - WireGuard makes new Windows release following Microsoft signing resolution (05:25) - Installing every* Firefox extension (06:59) - Industrial design files for Keychron keyboards and mice (08:07) - Chimpanzees in Uganda locked in eight-year 'civil war', say researchers (09:35) - CPU-Z and HWMonitor compromised (10:48) - AI assistance when contributing to the Linux kernel (12:05) - Helium is hard...4.10.26 | Native macOS space switching, NASA's Artemis II fault-tolerant computer, old laptops as cost-effective servers
#441
Last Friday at 10:49 AM
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 10, 2026.
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(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Native Instant Space Switching on macOS (01:29) - How NASA built Artemis II’s fault-tolerant computer (02:43) - Old laptops in a colo as low cost servers (03:55) - Unfolder for Mac – A 3D model unfolding tool for creating papercraft (05:05) - RAM Has a Design Flaw from 1966. I Bypassed It [video] (06:24) - Charcuterie – Visual similarity Unicode explorer (07:27) - I still prefer MCP over skills (08:59) - PicoZ80 – Drop-In Z80 Replacement (10:15) - Research-Driven Agents...4.9.26 | Git commands, Mac OS X ported to Nintendo Wii, LittleSnitch for Linux
#440
Last Thursday at 10:51 AM
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 9, 2026.
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(00:00) - Intro (00:16) - Git commands I run before reading any code (01:24) - I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii (02:45) - LittleSnitch for Linux (04:24) - They're made out of meat (1991) (05:23) - ML promises to be profoundly weird (06:55) - Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator (08:22) - Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies? (09:39) - Understanding the Kalman filter with a simple radar example (10:58) - Muse Spark: Scaling towards...4.8.26 | Project Glasswing secures critical AI software, Lunar Flyby, System Card: Claude Mythos Preview
#439
04/08/2026
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 8, 2026.
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(00:00) - Intro (00:22) - Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era (01:49) - Lunar Flyby (02:53) - System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf] (04:24) - GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks (05:45) - US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire (06:58) - Cambodia unveils statue to honour famous landmine-sniffing rat (08:07) - How to get better at guitar (09:18) - A truck driver spent 20 years making a scale model of every building in NYC (10:33) - Cloudflare targets 2029 for full...4.7.26 | Sam Altman’s potential influence, Claude Code’s engineering limitations, and a cryptography engineer’s quantum computing insights
#438
04/07/2026
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 7, 2026.
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(00:00) - Intro (00:24) - Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted? (01:31) - Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates (03:18) - A cryptography engineer's perspective on quantum computing timelines (04:49) - What being ripped off taught me (06:15) - Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS (07:18) - German police name alleged leaders of GandCrab and REvil ransomware groups (09:03) - Show HN: GovAuctions lets you browse gove...4.6.26 | Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI, Caveman: fewer tokens suffice, Gemma 4 on iPhone
#437
04/06/2026
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 6, 2026.
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(00:00) - Intro (00:21) - Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI (02:11) - Caveman: Why use many token when few token do trick (03:26) - Gemma 4 on iPhone (04:40) - Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't (06:13) - Show HN: I built a tiny LLM to demystify how language models work (07:27) - Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon [video] (08:33) - Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI...4.5.26 | A game building a GPU, Microsoft's numerous 'Copilot' products, Apple approves Nvidia eGPU driver
#436
04/05/2026
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 5, 2026.
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(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Show HN: A game where you build a GPU (01:39) - How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'? (02:57) - Apple approves driver that lets Nvidia eGPUs work with Arm Macs (04:05) - OpenScreen is an open-source alternative to Screen Studio (05:14) - AWS engineer reports PostgreSQL perf halved by Linux 7.0, fix may not be easy (07:01) - German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function (08:24) - Components...4.4.26 | Artemis II crew captures Earth image, Anthropic restricts Claude Code subscriptions with OpenClaw, F-15E jet shot down over Iran
#435
04/04/2026
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 4, 2026.
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(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth (01:43) - Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw (02:36) - F-15E jet shot down over Iran (04:03) - iNaturalist (05:10) - The FAA’s flight restriction for drones is an attempt to criminalize filming ICE (06:35) - OpenClaw privilege escalation vulnerability (08:15) - Delve removed from Y Combinator (08:55) - We replaced RAG with a virtual filesystem for our AI docume...4.3.26 | LinkedIn monitors browser extensions, Google launches Gemma 4 models, former Azure engineer discusses trust issues
#434
04/03/2026
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 3, 2026.
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(00:00) - Intro (00:17) - LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions (01:55) - Google releases Gemma 4 open models (03:07) - Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer (04:11) - Qwen3.6-Plus: Towards real world agents (05:46) - Tailscale's new macOS home (07:10) - Cursor 3 (08:40) - Inside Nepal's Fake Rescue Racket (10:00) - Good ideas do not need lots of lies in order to gain public acceptance (2008) (11:17) - Artemis II's toilet is a moon mission mi...4.2.26 | Artemis II launch updates, EmDash security-focused WordPress successor, DRAM prices harm hobbyist SBC market
#433
04/02/2026
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 2, 2026.
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(00:00) - Intro (00:20) - Artemis II Launch Day Updates (01:05) - EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security (02:38) - DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market (04:07) - Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March (05:23) - SpaceX files to go public (06:50) - Show HN: Git bayesect – Bayesian Git bisection for non-deterministic bugs (08:11) - Weather.com/Retro (09:18) - AI for American-produced cement and concrete (10:35) - A new C++ back end for...4.1.26 | Fake tools and frustration, OpenAI's $852B valuation, visual guide to Claude Code
#432
04/01/2026
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 1, 2026.
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(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode (01:47) - OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation (03:20) - Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide (04:40) - Open source CAD in the browser (Solvespace) (06:14) - A dot a day keeps the clutter away (07:16) - Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz (08:59) - Show HN: 1-Bit Bonsai, the First Commercially Viable 1-Bit...3.31.26 | Axios compromised with malicious NPM versions, turning any device into a router, and government apps spying more than banned counterparts
#431
03/31/2026
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 31, 2026.
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(00:00) - Intro (00:22) - Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan (02:13) - How to turn anything into a router (03:31) - Fedware: Government apps that spy harder than the apps they ban (04:46) - Do your own writing (06:11) - CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font (07:23) - Artemis II is not safe to fly (08:57) - Turning a MacBook into a touchscreen with $1 of hardware (2018) (10:23) - Bird brains (2023) (11:41) - Un...3.30.26 | ChatGPT delays input until Cloudflare reads React state, Copilot inserted an ad into PR, Voyager 1 operates on minimal memory and vintage tape recorder
#430
03/30/2026
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 30, 2026.
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(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state (01:51) - Copilot edited an ad into my PR (02:56) - Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder (04:10) - The Cognitive Dark Forest (05:51) - Pretext: TypeScript library for multiline text measurement and layout (07:15) - Philly courts will ban all smart eyeglasses starting next week (08:25) - C++26 is done: ISO C++ standards meeting Trip Report (09:58...3.29.26 | GitLab founder fights cancer by founding companies, Spanish legislation stored as a Git repo, AI too affirming in personal advice
#429
03/29/2026
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 29, 2026.
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(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies (01:34) - Spanish legislation as a Git repo (02:42) - AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice (03:41) - I decompiled the White House's new app (04:52) - I Built an Open-World Engine for the N64 [video] (06:07) - CSS is DOOMed (07:32) - Further human + AI + proof assistant work on Knuth's "Claude Cycles" problem (08:47) - Linux is an interpreter (10:17) - OpenCiv1 – open-source rewrite of Ci...3.28.26 | Microsoft account controversy, .claude/ folder analysis, macOS usability decline
#428
03/28/2026
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 28, 2026.
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(00:00) - Intro (00:16) - People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account (01:32) - Anatomy of the .claude/ folder (02:56) - Make macOS consistently bad unironically (04:03) - Desk for people who work at home with a cat (04:54) - Go hard on agents, not on your filesystem (06:19) - ‘Energy independence feels practical’: Europeans building mini solar farms (07:37) - Meow.camera (08:04) - Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email (09:30) - LG's new 1Hz display is t...3.27.26 | Seafoam green control rooms, future risks of gambling, Apple discontinues Mac Pro
#427
03/27/2026
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 27, 2026.
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(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Why so many control rooms were seafoam green (2025) (01:38) - We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do (03:08) - Apple discontinues the Mac Pro (04:25) - My minute-by-minute response to the LiteLLM malware attack (05:41) - DOOM Over DNS (06:50) - $500 GPU outperforms Claude Sonnet on coding benchmarks (08:11) - John Bradley, author of xv, has died (09:16) - Show HN: I put an AI agent on a $7/month...3.26.26 | EU privacy scanning, slowing down reflections, Tesla Model 3 computer setup
#426
03/26/2026
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 26, 2026.
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(00:00) - Intro (00:21) - The EU still wants to scan your private messages and photos (01:19) - Thoughts on slowing the fuck down (02:33) - Running Tesla Model 3's computer on my desk using parts from crashed cars (03:50) - Apple randomly closes bug reports unless you "verify" the bug remains unfixed (05:11) - ARC-AGI-3 (06:20) - Supreme Court Sides with Cox in Copyright Fight over Pirated Music (07:40) - 90% of Claude-linked output going to GitHub repos w3.25.26 | Wine 11 improves Linux Windows game performance, farewell to Sora, Litellm on PyPI compromised
#425
03/25/2026
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 25, 2026.
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(00:00) - Intro (00:21) - Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains (01:51) - Goodbye to Sora (03:02) - Tell HN: Litellm 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 on PyPI are compromised (04:40) - Apple Business (06:16) - Show HN: I took back Video.js after 16 years and we rewrote it to be 88% smaller (07:34) - Arm AGI CPU (08:54) - Missile defense is NP-complete (10:19) - Show HN: Gemini can now natively embed video, so I built sub-second...3.24.26 | iPhone 17 Pro demonstrating a 400B LLM, Claude Code Cheat Sheet, Autoresearch revisiting an old research idea
#424
03/24/2026
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 24, 2026.
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(00:00) - Intro (00:18) - iPhone 17 Pro Demonstrated Running a 400B LLM (01:32) - Claude Code Cheat Sheet (02:47) - Autoresearch on an old research idea (04:28) - I built an AI receptionist for a mechanic shop (05:44) - Finding all regex matches has always been O(n²) (07:34) - Trivy under attack again: Widespread GitHub Actions tag compromise secrets (09:10) - How I'm Productive with Claude Code (10:35) - An incoherent Rust (12:00) - Dune3d: A parametric 3D CAD a...3.23.26 | PC Gamer's recommended RSS readers, the future of version control, Project Nomad – offline knowledge
#423
03/23/2026
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 23, 2026.
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(00:00) - Intro (00:20) - PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading (01:35) - The future of version control (02:58) - Project Nomad – Knowledge That Never Goes Offline (04:14) - GrapheneOS will remain usable by anyone without requiring personal information (05:21) - Reports of code's death are greatly exaggerated (06:45) - The gold standard of optimization: A look under the hood of RollerCoaster Tycoon (08:24) - Flash-MoE: Running a 397B Parameter Model on a...3.22.26 | Some things just take time, do not turn child protection into internet access control, Tinybox—a powerful computer for deep learning
#422
03/22/2026
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 22, 2026.
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(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Some things just take time (01:39) - Do Not Turn Child Protection into Internet Access Control (03:22) - Tinybox – A powerful computer for deep learning (04:55) - Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords (06:24) - The three pillars of JavaScript bloat (07:38) - Professional video editing, right in the browser with WebGPU and WASM (08:58) - Grafeo – A fast, lean, embeddable graph database built in Rust (10:25) - Hide macOS Tahoe's Menu Icons (11:30) - Floc...3.21.26 | OpenCode is an open source AI coding agent, Delve offers fake compliance as a service, and France's aircraft carrier was located in real time by Le Monde through a fitness app
#421
03/21/2026
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 21, 2026.
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(00:00) - Intro (00:17) - OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent (01:38) - Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service (02:49) - France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app (04:15) - Our commitment to Windows quality (05:41) - The Los Angeles Aqueduct Is Wild (06:57) - A Japanese glossary of chopsticks faux pas (2022) (08:16) - Ghostling (09:23) - We rewrote our Rust WASM parser in TypeScript and it got faster (11:06) - VisiCalc Reconstructed (12:27) - Entso-E fina...3.20.26 | Astral joins OpenAI, Google reveals 24-hour Android sideload process, new Kitten TTS models introduced
#420
03/20/2026
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 20, 2026.
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(00:00) - Intro (00:23) - Astral to Join OpenAI (01:46) - Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps (03:26) - Show HN: Three new Kitten TTS models – smallest less than 25MB (04:36) - 4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches (05:52) - Return of the Obra Dinn: spherical mapped dithering for a 1bpp first-person game (06:51) - Push events into a running session with channels (08:10) - Waymo Safety Impact (09:36) - ArXiv Declares Independence fro...3.19.26 | Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming, OpenRocket, Austin’s housing surge lowers rents
#419
03/19/2026
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 19, 2026.
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(00:00) - Intro (00:26) - Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming (1989) (02:01) - OpenRocket (03:08) - Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents (04:27) - A sufficiently detailed spec is code (05:53) - Warranty Void If Regenerated (07:13) - Nvidia greenboost: transparently extend GPU VRAM using system RAM/NVMe (08:21) - Nvidia NemoClaw (09:29) - Wander – A tiny, decentralised tool to explore the small web (10:42) - Show HN: I built 48 lightweight SVG backgrounds you can copy/paste (11:44) - Open...3.18.26 | Microsoft's 'unhackable' Xbox One hacked by 'Bliss', A Decade of Slug, Mistral AI releases Forge
#418
03/18/2026
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 18, 2026.
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(00:00) - Intro (00:25) - Microsoft's 'unhackable' Xbox One has been hacked by 'Bliss' (01:56) - A Decade of Slug (03:16) - Mistral AI Releases Forge (04:46) - Have a fucking website (06:06) - Python 3.15's JIT is now back on track (07:26) - Get Shit Done: A meta-prompting, context engineering and spec-driven dev system (08:55) - Honda is killing its EVs (10:20) - Unsloth Studio (11:36) - It Took Me 30 Years to Solve This VFX Problem – Green Screen Problem [video] (12:42...3.17.26 | Polymarket gamblers threaten violence, Kagi Translate now supports LinkedIn Speak, US SEC to eliminate quarterly reports
#417
03/17/2026
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 17, 2026.
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(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story (01:52) - Kagi Translate now supports LinkedIn Speak as an output language (03:04) - US SEC preparing to scrap quarterly reporting requirement (04:04) - Leanstral: Open-source agent for trustworthy coding and formal proof engineering (05:31) - Meta’s renewed commitment to jemalloc (06:45) - Why I love FreeBSD (08:04) - The “small web” is bigger than you might think (09:38) - My Journey to a reliab...3.16.26 | Canada's bill C-22 mandates mass metadata surveillance, the 49MB web page, Chrome DevTools MCP (2025)
#416
03/16/2026
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 16, 2026.
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(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Canada's bill C-22 mandates mass metadata surveillance (01:43) - The 49MB web page (03:02) - Chrome DevTools MCP (2025) (04:15) - LLM Architecture Gallery (05:22) - A Visual Introduction to Machine Learning (2015) (06:24) - Stop Sloppypasta (07:49) - Separating the Wayland compositor and window manager (09:06) - Glassworm is back: A new wave of invisible Unicode attacks hits repositories (10:37) - LLMs can be exhausting (12:09) - How I write software with LLMs (13:36) - OutroCanada's bill...
3.15.26 | Ageless Linux for all ages, Python's optimization techniques, Baochip-1x development journey
#415
03/15/2026
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 15, 2026.
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(00:00) - Intro (00:24) - Ageless Linux – Software for humans of indeterminate age (02:43) - Python: The Optimization Ladder (04:50) - Baochip-1x: What it is, why I'm doing it now and how it came about (06:35) - How kernel anti-cheats work (08:02) - Marketing for Founders (09:15) - Rack-mount hydroponics (10:19) - Show HN: Han – A Korean programming language written in Rust (11:56) - MCP is dead; long live MCP (13:35) - Allow me to get to know you, mistakes and...3.14.26 | Can I run AI locally, 1M context with Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6, Qatar helium shutdown impacts chip supply chain
#414
03/14/2026
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 14, 2026.
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(00:00) - Intro (00:23) - Can I run AI locally? (01:34) - 1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6 (03:07) - Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock (04:29) - Show HN: Channel Surfer – Watch YouTube like it’s cable TV (05:43) - The Wyden Siren Goes Off Again: We’ll Be “Stunned” By What the NSA Is Doing (07:21) - Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort fal...3.13.26 | Reject implementation, Malus Clean Room as a Service, Not the right computer for you
#413
03/13/2026
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 13, 2026.
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(00:00) - Intro (00:15) - Shall I implement it? No (01:40) - Malus – Clean Room as a Service (03:08) - “This is not the computer for you” (04:42) - ATMs didn’t kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did (06:19) - US private credit defaults hit record 9.2% in 2025, Fitch says (07:58) - Willingness to look stupid (09:21) - Big data on the cheapest MacBook (10:46) - Bubble Sorted Amen Break (11:57) - Enhancing gut-brain communication reversed cognitive decline in aging mice (13...3.12.26 | Avoid AI-generated comments, JavaScript time fix took nine years, WebAssembly aims for first-class status
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03/12/2026
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 12, 2026.
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(00:00) - Intro (00:20) - Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans (01:38) - Temporal: The 9-year journey to fix time in JavaScript (03:10) - Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web (04:36) - The MacBook Neo (05:58) - BitNet: Inference framework for 1-bit LLMs (07:31) - I was interviewed by an AI bot for a job (08:51) - Google closes deal to acquire Wiz (10:19) - Show HN: s@: decentralized social networking over static...3.11.26 | Tony Hoare has died, Meta acquires Moltbook, Yann LeCun raises $1B for physical-world AI
#411
03/11/2026
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 11, 2026.
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(00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Tony Hoare has died (01:20) - Meta acquires Moltbook (02:49) - Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world (04:21) - Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns (05:42) - Agents that run while I sleep (07:17) - Debian decides not to decide on AI-generated contributions (08:36) - Cloudflare crawl endpoint (09:48) - U+237C ⍼ Is Azimuth (11:02) - Universal vaccine against respiratory infections and allergens (12:10) - RISC-V Is S...3.10.26 | Ireland closes coal plant, building procedural hex map, questioning legality versus legitimacy with AI and copyleft erosion
#410
03/10/2026
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 10, 2026.
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(00:00) - Intro (00:17) - Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe (2025) (02:06) - Building a Procedural Hex Map with Wave Function Collapse (03:42) - Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft (05:31) - Florida judge rules red light camera tickets are unconstitutional (07:05) - OpenAI is walking away from expanding its Stargate data center with Oracle (08:30) - JSLinux Now Supports x86_64 (09:50) - Two Years of Emacs...3.9.26 | Agent Safehouse offers macOS-native sandboxing, people seek advice on being alone, and microscopes can view video on laserdiscs
#409
03/09/2026
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 9, 2026.
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(00:00) - Intro (00:17) - Agent Safehouse – macOS-native sandboxing for local agents (01:50) - Ask HN: How to be alone? (03:27) - Microscopes can see video on a laserdisc (04:39) - FrameBook (05:40) - My Homelab Setup (06:46) - Show HN: I built a real-time OSINT dashboard pulling 15 live global feeds (07:57) - We should revisit literate programming in the agent era (09:37) - Why can't you tune your guitar? (2019) (11:12) - My “grand vision” for Rust (12:32) - How the Sriracha guys s...3.8.26 | Docker containers' decade, yoghurt delivery women fighting loneliness in Japan, CasNum
#408
03/08/2026
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 8, 2026.
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(00:00) - Intro (00:17) - A decade of Docker containers (01:25) - Yoghurt delivery women combatting loneliness in Japan (02:43) - CasNum (03:40) - Cloud VM benchmarks 2026 (04:58) - Files are the interface humans and agents interact with (06:17) - FLASH radiotherapy's bold approach to cancer treatment (07:20) - Dumping Lego NXT firmware off of an existing brick (2025) (08:33) - Warn about PyPy being unmaintained (09:18) - How to run Qwen 3.5 locally (10:37) - The surprising whimsy of the Time Zone Database (12:00...3.7.26 | Tech employment decline, Firefox security enhancements, 60-year-old's renewed passion with Claude Code
#407
03/07/2026
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 7, 2026.
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(00:00) - Intro (00:16) - Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions (01:44) - Hardening Firefox with Anthropic's Red Team (03:21) - Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion (04:35) - Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma (05:53) - this css proves me human (07:05) - Show HN: Moongate – Ultima Online server emulator in .NET 10 with Lua scripting (08:39) - LLMs work best when the user defines their acceptance criteria first (10:08) - CT S...
