top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-03-10

Turing Award winner and former Oxford professor Tony Hoare passed away

https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/03/tony-hoare-1934-2026.html

5 months ago

Online age-verification tools for child safety are surveilling adults

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/08/social-media-child-safety-internet-ai-surveillance.html

5 months ago

After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/03/after-outages-amazon-to-make-senior-engineers-sign-off-on-ai-assisted-changes/

5 months ago

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/

5 months ago

Meta hires duo behind Moltbook

https://www.axios.com/2026/03/10/meta-facebook-moltbook-agent-social-network

5 months ago

Cloudflare Crawl Endpoint

https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/post/2026-03-10-br-crawl-endpoint/

5 months ago

I put my whole life into a single database

https://howisfelix.today/

5 months ago

Show HN: How I Topped the HuggingFace Open LLM Leaderboard on Two Gaming GPUs

https://dnhkng.github.io/posts/rys/

5 months ago

You Hired the AI to Write the Tests. Of Course They Pass

https://www.claudecodecamp.com/p/i-m-building-agents-that-run-while-i-sleep

5 months ago

Yann LeCun's AI startup raises $1B in Europe's largest ever seed round

https://www.ft.com/content/e5245ec3-1a58-4eff-ab58-480b6259aaf1

5 months ago

Redox OS has adopted a Certificate of Origin policy and a strict no-LLM policy

https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/redox/-/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md

5 months ago

U+237C ⍼ Is Azimuth

https://ionathan.ch/2026/02/16/angzarr.html

5 months ago

Debian decides not to decide on AI-generated contributions

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1061544/125f911834966dd0/

5 months ago

Universal vaccine against respiratory infections and allergens

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2026/02/universal-vaccine.html

5 months ago

SSH Secret Menu

https://twitter.com/rebane2001/status/2031037389347406054

5 months ago

Two Years of Emacs Solo: 35 Modules, Zero External Packages, and a Full Refactor

https://www.rahuljuliato.com/posts/emacs-solo-two-years

5 months ago

Python: The Optimization Ladder

https://cemrehancavdar.com/2026/03/10/optimization-ladder/

5 months ago

RISC-V Is Sloooow

https://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2026/03/10/risc-v-is-sloooow/

5 months ago

Amazon is holding a mandatory meeting about AI breaking its systems

https://twitter.com/lukolejnik/status/2031257644724342957

5 months ago

Levels of Agentic Engineering

https://www.bassimeledath.com/blog/levels-of-agentic-engineering

5 months ago

Intel Demos Chip to Compute with Encrypted Data

https://spectrum.ieee.org/fhe-intel

5 months ago

Show HN: RunAnwhere – Faster AI Inference on Apple Silicon

https://github.com/RunanywhereAI/rcli

5 months ago

FFmpeg-over-IP – Connect to remote FFmpeg servers

https://github.com/steelbrain/ffmpeg-over-ip

5 months ago

Rebasing in Magit

https://entropicthoughts.com/rebasing-in-magit

5 months ago

Emacs and Vim in the Age of AI

https://batsov.com/articles/2026/03/09/emacs-and-vim-in-the-age-of-ai/

5 months ago

A Survival Guide to a PhD (2016)

http://karpathy.github.io/2016/09/07/phd/

5 months ago

We Tried Paying Artists Royalties on AI-Generated Work – Learnings

https://www.kapwing.com/blog/learnings-from-paying-artists-royalties-for-ai-generated-art/

5 months ago

We are building data breach machines and nobody cares

https://idealloc.me/posts/we-are-building-data-breach-machines-and-nobody-cares/

5 months ago

FreeBSD 14.4-Release Announcement

https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.4R/announce/

5 months ago

LoGeR – 3D reconstruction from extremely long videos (DeepMind, UC Berkeley)

https://loger-project.github.io

5 months ago

5,200 holes carved into a Peruvian mountain left by an ancient economy

https://newatlas.com/environment/5-200-holes-peruvian-mountain/

5 months ago

I built a programming language using Claude Code

https://ankursethi.com/blog/programming-language-claude-code/

5 months ago

Mesh over Bluetooth LE, TCP, or Reticulum

https://github.com/torlando-tech/columba

5 months ago

Ad-tech is fascist tech

https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/10/ice-tech/#foreseeable-outcomes

5 months ago

RFC 454545 – Human Em Dash Standard

https://gist.github.com/bignimbus/a75cc9d703abf0b21a57c0d21a79e2be

5 months ago

Windows: Microsoft broke the only thing that mattered

https://www.yankodesign.com/2026/03/08/microsoft-broke-the-only-thing-that-actually-mattered/

5 months ago

Traffic from Russia to Cloudflare is 60% down from last year

https://radar.cloudflare.com/traffic/ru?dateRange=52w

5 months ago

Hisense TVs add unskippable startup ads before live TV

https://www.guru3d.com/story/hisense-vidaa-tvs-reportedly-add-unskippable-startup-ads-before-live-tv/

5 months ago

New HyperCard discovery: Neuromancer / Count Zero / Mona Lisa Overdrive

https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/neuromancer-count-zero-mona-lisa-overdrive

5 months ago

Ask HN: Remember Fidonet?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47321760

5 months ago

Using Thunderbird for RSS

https://rubenerd.com/using-thunderbird-for-rss/

5 months ago

Amazon holds engineering meeting following AI-related outages

https://www.ft.com/content/7cab4ec7-4712-4137-b602-119a44f771de

5 months ago

Show HN: What was the world listening to? Music charts, 20 countries (1940–2025)

https://88mph.fm/

5 months ago

Tell HN: Apple development certificate server seems down?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47328034

5 months ago

Billion-Parameter Theories

https://www.worldgov.org/complexity.html

5 months ago

Against vibes: When is a generative model useful

https://www.williamjbowman.com/blog/2026/03/05/against-vibes-when-is-a-generative-model-useful/

5 months ago

DOGE member took Social Security data on a thumb drive, whistleblower alleges

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/03/10/social-security-data-breach-doge/

5 months ago

DOGE employee stole Social Security data and put it on a thumb drive

https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/10/doge-employee-stole-social-security-data-and-put-it-on-a-thumb-drive-report-says/

5 months ago

DDR4 Sdram – Initialization, Training and Calibration

https://www.systemverilog.io/design/ddr4-initialization-and-calibration/

5 months ago

You gotta think outside the hypercube

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/you-gotta-think-outside-the-hypercube

5 months ago

PgAdmin 4 9.13 with AI Assistant Panel

https://www.pgadmin.org/docs/pgadmin4/9.13/query_tool.html#ai-assistant-panel

5 months ago

Mother of All Grease Fires

https://milk.com/wall-o-shame/bucket.html

5 months ago

Germany's Solar Boom Eases Power Costs as Gas Price Jumps

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-06/germany-s-solar-boom-eases-power-costs-as-gas-price-jumps

5 months ago

It looks like the “JVG algorithm” only wins on tiny numbers

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9615

5 months ago

Launch HN: Didit (YC W26) – Stripe for Identity Verification

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47324296

5 months ago

Show HN: DD Photos – open-source photo album site generator (Go and SvelteKit)

https://github.com/dougdonohoe/ddphotos

5 months ago

Foreign-funded lobby groups outside EU are pushing ChatControl with propaganda

https://digitalcourage.social/@echo_pbreyer/116205371224315359

5 months ago

EQT eyes potential $6B sale of Linux pioneer SUSE, sources say

https://www.reuters.com/business/eqt-eyes-potential-6-billion-sale-linux-pioneer-suse-sources-say-2026-03-09

5 months ago

Show HN: I Was Here – Draw on street view, others can find your drawings

https://washere.live

5 months ago

Throwing away 18 months of code and starting over

https://tompiagg.io/posts/we-threw-away-1-5-years-of-code

5 months ago

The Enterprise Context Layer

https://andychen32.substack.com/p/the-enterprise-context-layer

5 months ago

Surpassing vLLM with a Generated Inference Stack

https://infinity.inc/case-studies/qwen3-optimization

5 months ago

OpenTelemetry for Rust Developers

https://signoz.io/blog/opentelemetry-rust/

5 months ago