Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 13, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Shall I implement it? No
https://gist.github.com/bretonium/291f4388e2de89a43b25c135b44e41f0
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47357042

Malus – Clean Room as a Service
https://malus.sh
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47350424

“This is not the computer for you”
https://samhenri.gold/blog/20260312-this-is-not-the-computer-for-you/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47359744

ATMs didn’t kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did
https://davidoks.blog/p/why-the-atm-didnt-kill-bank-teller
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47351371

US private credit defaults hit record 9.2% in 2025, Fitch says
https://www.marketscreener.com/news/us-private-credit-defaults-hit-record-9-2-in-2025-fitch-says-ce7e5fd8df8fff2d
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47349806

Willingness to look stupid
https://sharif.io/looking-stupid
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47307124

Big data on the cheapest MacBook
https://duckdb.org/2026/03/11/big-data-on-the-cheapest-macbook
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47349277

Bubble Sorted Amen Break
https://parametricavocado.itch.io/amen-sorting
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47354098

Enhancing gut-brain communication reversed cognitive decline in aging mice
https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2026/03/gut-brain-cognitive-decline.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47353533

Vite 8.0 Is Out
https://vite.dev/blog/announcing-vite8
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47360730

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 12, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#generated
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340079

Temporal: The 9-year journey to fix time in JavaScript
https://bloomberg.github.io/js-blog/post/temporal/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47336989

Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2026/02/making-webassembly-a-first-class-language-on-the-web/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47331811

The MacBook Neo
https://daringfireball.net/2026/03/the_macbook_neo
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47334293

BitNet: Inference framework for 1-bit LLMs
https://github.com/microsoft/BitNet
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47334694

I was interviewed by an AI bot for a job
https://www.theverge.com/featured-video/892850/i-was-interviewed-by-an-ai-bot-for-a-job
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47339164

Google closes deal to acquire Wiz
https://www.wiz.io/blog/google-closes-deal-to-acquire-wiz
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47336476

Show HN: s@: decentralized social networking over static sites
http://satproto.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47344548

Entities enabling scientific fraud at scale (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2420092122
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47335349

Show HN: I built a tool that watches webpages and exposes changes as RSS
https://sitespy.app
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47337607

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 11, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Tony Hoare has died
https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/03/tony-hoare-1934-2026.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47324054

Meta acquires Moltbook
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/10/meta-facebook-moltbook-agent-social-network
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47323900

Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world
https://www.wired.com/story/yann-lecun-raises-dollar1-billion-to-build-ai-that-understands-the-physical-world/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47320600

Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns
https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2026/03/11/running-69-agents.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47332074

Agents that run while I sleep
https://www.claudecodecamp.com/p/i-m-building-agents-that-run-while-i-sleep
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47327559

Debian decides not to decide on AI-generated contributions
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1061544/125f911834966dd0/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47324087

Cloudflare crawl endpoint
https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/post/2026-03-10-br-crawl-endpoint/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47329557

U+237C ⍼ Is Azimuth
https://ionathan.ch/2026/02/16/angzarr.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47329605

Universal vaccine against respiratory infections and allergens
https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2026/02/universal-vaccine.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47329608

RISC-V Is Sloooow
https://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2026/03/10/risc-v-is-sloooow/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47328214

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 10, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe (2025)
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/06/20/ireland-coal-free-ends-coal-power-generation-moneypoint/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47307055

Building a Procedural Hex Map with Wave Function Collapse
https://felixturner.github.io/hex-map-wfc/article/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47311815

Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft
https://writings.hongminhee.org/2026/03/legal-vs-legitimate/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47310160

Florida judge rules red light camera tickets are unconstitutional
https://cbs12.com/news/local/florida-news-judge-rules-red-light-camera-tickets-unconstitutional
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47312090

OpenAI is walking away from expanding its Stargate data center with Oracle
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/09/oracle-is-building-yesterdays-data-centers-with-tomorrows-debt.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47315128

JSLinux Now Supports x86_64
https://bellard.org/jslinux/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47311484

Two Years of Emacs Solo
https://www.rahuljuliato.com/posts/emacs-solo-two-years
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47317616

No, it doesn't cost Anthropic $5k per Claude Code user
https://martinalderson.com/posts/no-it-doesnt-cost-anthropic-5k-per-claude-code-user/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47317132

DARPA’s new X-76
https://www.darpa.mil/news/2026/darpa-new-x-76-speed-of-jet-freedom-of-helicopter
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47311669

Show HN: Remotely use my guitar tuner
https://realtuner.online/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47280654

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 9, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Agent Safehouse – macOS-native sandboxing for local agents
https://agent-safehouse.dev/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47301085

Ask HN: How to be alone?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47296547

Microscopes can see video on a laserdisc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZuR-772cks
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47291876

FrameBook
https://fb.edoo.gg
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47298044

My Homelab Setup
https://bryananthonio.com/blog/my-homelab-setup/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47298743

Show HN: I built a real-time OSINT dashboard pulling 15 live global feeds
https://github.com/BigBodyCobain/Shadowbroker
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47300102

We should revisit literate programming in the agent era
https://silly.business/blog/we-should-revisit-literate-programming-in-the-agent-era/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47300747

Why can't you tune your guitar? (2019)
https://www.ethanhein.com/wp/2019/why-cant-you-tune-your-guitar/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47254896

My “grand vision” for Rust
https://blog.yoshuawuyts.com/a-grand-vision-for-rust/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47256376

How the Sriracha guys screwed over their supplier
https://old.reddit.com/r/KitchenConfidential/comments/1ro61g2/how_the_sriracha_guys_screwed_over_their_supplier/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47304831

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 8, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

A decade of Docker containers
https://cacm.acm.org/research/a-decade-of-docker-containers/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47289311

Yoghurt delivery women combatting loneliness in Japan
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20260302-the-yoghurt-delivery-women-combatting-loneliness-in-japan
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47287344

CasNum
https://github.com/0x0mer/CasNum
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47291292

Cloud VM benchmarks 2026
https://devblog.ecuadors.net/cloud-vm-benchmarks-2026-performance-price-1i1m.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47293119

Files are the interface humans and agents interact with
https://madalitso.me/notes/why-everyone-is-talking-about-filesystems/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47286408

FLASH radiotherapy's bold approach to cancer treatment
https://spectrum.ieee.org/flash-radiotherapy
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47288533

Dumping Lego NXT firmware off of an existing brick (2025)
https://arcanenibble.github.io/dumping-lego-nxt-firmware-off-of-an-existing-brick.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47271988

Warn about PyPy being unmaintained
https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/pull/17643
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47293415

How to run Qwen 3.5 locally
https://unsloth.ai/docs/models/qwen3.5
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47292522

The surprising whimsy of the Time Zone Database
https://muddy.jprs.me/links/2026-03-06-the-surprising-whimsy-of-the-time-zone-database/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47290198

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 7, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions
https://twitter.com/JosephPolitano/status/2029916364664611242
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47278426

Hardening Firefox with Anthropic's Red Team
https://www.anthropic.com/news/mozilla-firefox-security
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47273854

Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47282777

Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma
https://plasma-bigscreen.org
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47282736

this css proves me human
https://will-keleher.com/posts/this-css-makes-me-human/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47281593

Show HN: Moongate – Ultima Online server emulator in .NET 10 with Lua scripting
https://github.com/moongate-community/moongatev2
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47275236

LLMs work best when the user defines their acceptance criteria first
https://blog.katanaquant.com/p/your-llm-doesnt-write-correct-code
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47283337

CT Scans of Health Wearables
https://www.lumafield.com/scan-of-the-month/health-wearables
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47275152

UUID package coming to Go standard library
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/62026
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47283665

A tool that removes censorship from open-weight LLMs
https://github.com/elder-plinius/OBLITERATUS
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47275291

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 6, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Wikipedia was in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise
https://www.wikimediastatus.net
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47263323

Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/judge-orders-government-to-begin-refunding-more-than-130-billion-in-tariffs-fdc1e62c
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47261688

GPT-5.4
https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-4/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47265045

10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips
https://mas.to/@gabrielesvelto/116171750653898304
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47252971

Where things stand with the Department of War
https://www.anthropic.com/news/where-stand-department-war
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47269263

CBP tapped into the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples’ movements
https://www.404media.co/cbp-tapped-into-the-online-advertising-ecosystem-to-track-peoples-movements/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47249387

A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4k Developer Machines
https://grith.ai/blog/clinejection-when-your-ai-tool-installs-another
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47263595

Good software knows when to stop
https://ogirardot.writizzy.com/p/good-software-knows-when-to-stop
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47261561

System76 on Age Verification Laws
https://blog.system76.com/post/system76-on-age-verification/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47270784

The Brand Age
https://paulgraham.com/brandage.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47264756

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 5, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

MacBook Neo
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/03/say-hello-to-macbook-neo/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47247645

Something is afoot in the land of Qwen
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/4/qwen/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47249343

Google Workspace CLI
https://github.com/googleworkspace/cli
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47255881

Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military deal ‘straight up lies’
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/04/anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-calls-openais-messaging-around-military-deal-straight-up-lies-report-says/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47255662

Building a new Flash
https://bill.newgrounds.com/news/post/1607118
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47253177

“It turns out” (2010)
https://jsomers.net/blog/it-turns-out
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47248319

Moss is a pixel canvas where every brush is a tiny program
https://www.moss.town/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47245491

The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying
https://acko.net/blog/the-l-in-llm-stands-for-lying/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47257394

You Just Reveived
https://dylan.gr/1772520728
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47257637

NanoGPT Slowrun: Language Modeling with Limited Data, Infinite Compute
https://qlabs.sh/slowrun
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47251259

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 4, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/03/apple-introduces-macbook-pro-with-all-new-m5-pro-and-m5-max/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47232453

Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable
https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116160393783585567
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47241551

Claude's Cycles [pdf]
https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/papers/claude-cycles.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47230710

Don't become an engineering manager
https://newsletter.manager.dev/p/dont-become-an-engineering-manager
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47232727

GPT‑5.3 Instant
https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-3-instant/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47236169

TikTok will not introduce end-to-end encryption, saying it makes users less safe
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly2m5e5ke4o
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47241817

When AI writes the software, who verifies it?
https://leodemoura.github.io/blog/2026/02/28/when-ai-writes-the-worlds-software.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47234917

Voxile: A ray-traced game made in its own engine and programming language
https://elbowgreasegames.substack.com/p/voxray-games-pushes-major-update
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47239042

Agentic Engineering Patterns
https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-patterns/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47243272

An Interactive Intro to CRDTs (2023)
https://jakelazaroff.com/words/an-interactive-intro-to-crdts/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47237460