top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-03-08

Agent Safehouse – macOS-native sandboxing for local agents

https://agent-safehouse.dev/

5 months ago

Ask HN: Please restrict new accounts from posting

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47300329

5 months ago

Ask HN: How to Be Alone?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47296547

5 months ago

FrameBook

https://fb.edoo.gg

5 months ago

LibreOffice Writer now supports Markdown

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/02/04/libreoffice-26-2-is-here/

5 months ago

Based on its own charter, OpenAI should surrender the race

https://mlumiste.com/general/openai-charter/

5 months ago

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

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/03/apples-512gb-mac-studio-vanishes-a-quiet-acknowledgement-of-the-ram-shortage/

5 months ago

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

https://xcancel.com/theflow0/status/2030011206040256841

5 months ago

My Homelab Setup

https://bryananthonio.com/blog/my-homelab-setup/

5 months ago

Cloud VM benchmarks 2026: performance/price for 44 VM types over 7 providers

https://devblog.ecuadors.net/cloud-vm-benchmarks-2026-performance-price-1i1m.html

5 months ago

"Warn about PyPy being unmaintained"

https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/pull/17643

5 months ago

Show HN: I built a real-time OSINT dashboard pulling 15 live global feeds

https://github.com/BigBodyCobain/Shadowbroker

5 months ago

LibreOffice: Request to the European Commission to adhere to its own guidances

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03/05/cra-guidances/

5 months ago

We should revisit literate programming in the agent era

https://silly.business/blog/we-should-revisit-literate-programming-in-the-agent-era/

5 months ago

PCB devboard the size of a USB-C plug

https://github.com/Dieu-de-l-elec/AngstromIO-devboard

5 months ago

Living Human Brain Cells Play Doom on a CL1

https://corticallabs.com/doom.html

5 months ago

Tested: How Many Times Can a DVD±RW Be Rewritten? Methodology and Results

https://goughlui.com/2026/03/07/tested-how-many-times-can-a-dvd%C2%B1rw-be-rewritten-part-2-methodology-results/

5 months ago

Most of the US economy is in a recession

https://www.businessinsider.com/recession-economy-us-tech-wall-street-strategist-investing-stocks-market-2026-3

5 months ago

Notes on Writing WASM

https://notes.brooklynzelenka.com/Blog/Notes-on-Writing-Wasm

5 months ago

Roblox Is Minting Teen Millionaires

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-06/roblox-s-teen-millionaires-are-disrupting-the-gaming-industry

5 months ago

Flash media longevity testing – 6 years later

https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/1q6xnun/flash_media_longevity_testing_6_years_later/

5 months ago

Oracle may slash up to 30k jobs to fund AI data-centers as US banks retreat

https://www.cio.com/article/4125103/oracle-may-slash-up-to-30000-jobs-to-fund-ai-data-center-expansion-as-us-banks-retreat.html

5 months ago

Claude Struggles to Cope with ChatGPT Exodus

https://www.forbes.com/sites/barrycollins/2026/03/06/claude-struggles-to-cope-with-chatgpt-exodus/

5 months ago

Artificial-life: A simple (300 lines of code) reproduction of Computational Life

https://github.com/Rabrg/artificial-life

5 months ago

Julia Snail – An Emacs Development Environment for Julia Like Clojure's Cider

https://github.com/gcv/julia-snail

5 months ago

How Big Diaper absorbs billions of extra dollars from American parents

https://thehustle.co/originals/how-big-diaper-absorbs-billions-of-extra-dollars-from-american-parents

5 months ago

Ask HN: Most beautiful personal blog UI you have ever seen?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47302553

5 months ago

How we optimized Top K in Postgres

https://www.paradedb.com/blog/optimizing-top-k

5 months ago

Blacksky AppView

https://github.com/blacksky-algorithms/atproto

5 months ago

WSL Manager

https://github.com/bostrot/wsl2-distro-manager

5 months ago

Printf-Tac-Toe

https://github.com/carlini/printf-tac-toe

5 months ago

Google just gave Sundar Pichai a $692M pay package

https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/07/google-just-gave-sundar-pichai-a-692m-pay-package/

5 months ago

Linux Internals: How /proc/self/mem writes to unwritable memory (2021)

https://offlinemark.com/an-obscure-quirk-of-proc/

5 months ago

Pushing and Pulling: Three reactivity algorithms

https://jonathan-frere.com/posts/reactivity-algorithms/

5 months ago

SWE-CI: Evaluating Agent Capabilities in Maintaining Codebases via CI

https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.03823

5 months ago

Swiss vote places right to use cash in country's constitution

https://www.politico.eu/article/switzerland-cash-right-constitution-vote/

5 months ago

I made a programming language with M&Ms

https://mufeedvh.com/posts/i-made-a-programming-language-with-mnms/

5 months ago

They all said Hormuz closure would be brief. What if they were wrong?

https://www.lloydslist.com/LL1156532/They-all-said-Hormuz-closure-would-be-brief-What-if-they-were-wrong

5 months ago

I don't know if my job will still exist in ten years

https://www.seangoedecke.com/will-my-job-still-exist/

5 months ago

Beagle, a source code management system that stores AST trees

https://github.com/gritzko/librdx/tree/master/be

5 months ago

Show HN: Skir – like Protocol Buffer but better

https://skir.build/

5 months ago

Will Claude Code ruin our team?

https://justinjackson.ca/claude-code-ruin

5 months ago

MonoGame: A .NET framework for making cross-platform games

https://github.com/MonoGame/MonoGame

5 months ago

Lil Finder Guy

https://basicappleguy.com/basicappleblog/lil-finder-guy

5 months ago

Segagaga Has Been Translated into English

https://www.thedreamcastjunkyard.co.uk/2026/02/segagaga-has-finally-been-translated.html

5 months ago

What if the Apple ][ had run on Field-Sequential?

https://nicole.express/2026/the-apple-that-wasnt.html

5 months ago

Neural Boids

https://campedersen.com/noid

5 months ago

Invoker Commands API

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Invoker_Commands_API

5 months ago

The New Apple Begins to Emerge

https://parkerortolani.blog/2026/03/07/the-new-apple-finally-begins.html

5 months ago

Sem – Semantic version control. Entity-level diffs on top of Git

https://github.com/ataraxy-labs/sem

5 months ago

To the Polypropylene Makers

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/HQTueNS4mLaGy3BBL/here-s-to-the-polypropylene-makers

5 months ago

Show HN: Curiosity – DIY 6" Newtonian Reflector Telescope

https://curiosity-telescope.vercel.app/

5 months ago

Show HN: Eyot, A programming language where the GPU is just another thread

https://cowleyforniastudios.com/2026/03/08/announcing-eyot/

5 months ago

CLI RSS/Atom feed reader inspired by Taskwarrior, synced using Git

https://github.com/kantord/blogtato

5 months ago

House Committee Passes Child "Safety" Bills That Push National Age Verification

https://reclaimthenet.org/child-safety-bills-age-verification-surveillance-concerns

5 months ago

PeppyOS: A simpler alternative to ROS 2 (now with containers support)

https://peppy.bot/

5 months ago

If It Quacks Like a Package Manager

https://nesbitt.io/2026/03/08/if-it-quacks-like-a-package-manager.html

5 months ago

About memory pressure, lock contention, and Data-oriented Design

https://mnt.io/articles/about-memory-pressure-lock-contention-and-data-oriented-design/

5 months ago

Science Fiction Is Dying. Long Live Post Sci-Fi?

https://www.typebarmagazine.com/science-fiction-is-dying-long-live-post-sci-fi/

5 months ago

Pike: To Exit or Not to Exit

https://tomjohnell.com/pike-solving-the-should-we-stop-here-or-gamble-on-the-next-exit-problem/

5 months ago

AI doesn't replace white collar work

https://www.marble.onl/posts/ai_doesnt_replace_work.html

5 months ago

Full Spectrum and Infrared Photography

https://timstr.website/blog/fullspectrumphotography.html

5 months ago