top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-03-11

Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#generated

5 months ago

Temporal: The 9-Year Journey to Fix Time in JavaScript

https://bloomberg.github.io/js-blog/post/temporal/

5 months ago

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

5 months ago

Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2026/02/making-webassembly-a-first-class-language-on-the-web/

5 months ago

The MacBook Neo

https://daringfireball.net/2026/03/the_macbook_neo

5 months ago

Whistleblower: DOGE member took Social Security data to new job

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/03/10/social-security-data-breach-doge-2/

5 months ago

Show HN: Channel Surfer – Watch YouTube like it’s cable TV

https://channelsurfer.tv

5 months ago

AI Agent Hacks McKinsey

https://codewall.ai/blog/how-we-hacked-mckinseys-ai-platform

5 months ago

Wired headphone sales are exploding. What's with the Bluetooth backlash?

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260310-wired-headphones-are-better-than-bluetooth

5 months ago

I Was Interviewed by an AI Bot for a Job

https://schwarztech.net/snippets/i-was-interviewed-by-an-ai-bot-for-a-job

5 months ago

The dead Internet is not a theory anymore

https://www.adriankrebs.ch/blog/dead-internet/

5 months ago

Zig – Type Resolution Redesign and Language Changes

https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-03-10

5 months ago

Lego's 0.002 mm Specification and Its Implications for Manufacturing

https://www.thewave.engineer/articles.html/productivity/legos-0002mm-specification-and-its-implications-for-manufacturing-r120/

5 months ago

Microsoft BitNet: 100B Param 1-Bit model for local CPUs

https://github.com/microsoft/BitNet

5 months ago

Baochip-1x: What It Is, Why I'm Doing It Now and How It Came About

https://www.crowdsupply.com/baochip/dabao/updates/what-it-is-why-im-doing-it-now-and-how-it-came-about

5 months ago

Wiz Joins Google

https://www.wiz.io/blog/google-closes-deal-to-acquire-wiz

5 months ago

Show HN: I built a tool that watches webpages and exposes changes as RSS

https://sitespy.app

5 months ago

The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient and growing

https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2420092122

5 months ago

Britain is ejecting hereditary nobles from Parliament after 700 years

https://apnews.com/article/uk-house-of-lords-hereditary-peers-expelled-535df8781dd01e8970acda1dca99d3d4

5 months ago

Many SWE-bench-Passing PRs would not be merged

https://metr.org/notes/2026-03-10-many-swe-bench-passing-prs-would-not-be-merged-into-main/

5 months ago

Faster Asin() Was Hiding in Plain Sight

https://16bpp.net/blog/post/faster-asin-was-hiding-in-plain-sight/

5 months ago

Writing my own text editor, and daily-driving it

https://blog.jsbarretto.com/post/text-editor

5 months ago

Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AI

https://www.reuters.com/business/meta-acquires-ai-agent-social-network-moltbook-2026-03-10/

5 months ago

Personal Computer by Perplexity

https://www.perplexity.ai/personal-computer-waitlist

5 months ago

Swiss e-voting can't count 2,048 ballots after USB keys fail to decrypt them

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/11/swiss_evote_usb_snafu/

5 months ago

Bus travel from Lima to Rio de Janeiro

https://kenschutte.com/lima-to-rio-by-bus/

5 months ago

X is selling existing users' handles

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340754

5 months ago

//go:fix inline and the source-level inliner

https://go.dev/blog/inliner

5 months ago

I'm glad the Anthropic fight is happening now

https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/dow-anthropic

5 months ago

The $2 per hour worker behind the OnlyFans boom

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq571g9gd4lo

5 months ago

Show HN: Klaus – OpenClaw on a VM, batteries included

https://klausai.com/

5 months ago

Show HN: Open-source browser for AI agents

https://github.com/theredsix/agent-browser-protocol

5 months ago

Why Mathematica does not simplify Sinh[ArcCosh[x]]

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/03/10/sinh-arccosh/

5 months ago

An unappetizing shrub became different vegetables

https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/many-of-the-tastiest-vegetables-are

5 months ago

Where Some See Strings, She Sees a Space-Time Made of Fractals

https://www.quantamagazine.org/where-some-see-strings-she-sees-a-space-time-made-of-fractals-20260311/

5 months ago

Kona EV Hacking

http://techno-fandom.org/~hobbit/cars/ev/

5 months ago

A Recursive Algorithm to Render Signed Distance Fields

https://pointersgonewild.com/2026-03-06-a-recursive-algorithm-to-render-signed-distance-fields/

5 months ago

Why the Global Elite Gave Up on Spelling and Grammar

https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/jeffrey-epstein-files-bad-grammar-spelling-trump-ellison-dorsey-gates-thiel-cbfe9fb1

5 months ago

Show HN: Vanilla JavaScript refinery simulator built to explain job to my kids

https://fuelingcuriosity.com/game.html

5 months ago

Show HN: A context-aware permission guard for Claude Code

https://github.com/manuelschipper/nah/

5 months ago

What Every Computer Scientist Should Know about Floating-Point Arithmetic [pdf]

https://www.itu.dk/~sestoft/bachelor/IEEE754_article.pdf

5 months ago

C++26: The Oxford Variadic Comma

https://www.sandordargo.com/blog/2026/03/11/cpp26-oxford-variadic-comma

5 months ago

TADA: Fast, Reliable Speech Generation Through Text-Acoustic Synchronization

https://www.hume.ai/blog/opensource-tada

5 months ago

New 'negative light' technology hides data transfers in plain sight

https://www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/news/2026/03/New-negative-light-technology-hides-data-transfers-in-plain-sight

5 months ago

Examples for the tcpdump and dig man pages

https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/03/10/examples-for-the-tcpdump-and-dig-man-pages/

5 months ago

Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/hisense-tvs-force-owners-to-watch-intrusive-ads-when-switching-inputs-visiting-the-home-screen-or-even-changing-channels-practice-infuriates-consumers-brand-denies-wrongdoing

5 months ago

Ask HN: Is Claude Down Again?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47336163

5 months ago

Iran warns US tech firms cold become targets as war expands

https://www.wired.me/story/war-on-big-tech-iran-names-israeli-linked-us-firms-as-potential-targets

5 months ago

Where does engineering go? Retreat findings and insights [pdf]

https://www.thoughtworks.com/content/dam/thoughtworks/documents/report/tw_future%20_of_software_development_retreat_%20key_takeaways.pdf

5 months ago

UK MPs give ministers powers to restrict Internet for under 18s

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/mps-give-ministers-powers-to-restrict-entire-internet/

5 months ago

Show HN: Autoresearch_at_home – SETI_at_home but for LLM training

https://www.ensue-network.ai/autoresearch

5 months ago

Standardizing Source Maps

https://bloomberg.github.io/js-blog/post/standardizing-source-maps/

5 months ago