top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-03-12

Show HN: Nix on Windows –- proof-of-concept demo

https://github.com/nix-windows/nix-windows-demo

7 months ago

Enabling Efficient Sparse Computations Using Linear Algebra Aware Compilers

https://www.osti.gov/biblio/3013883

7 months ago

Apple Releases New Versions of iOS for Older iPhones

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/03/11/apple-ios-16-7-15-release/

7 months ago

Does MAGA Want American Science to Win?

https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/does-maga-actually-want-american-science-to-win

7 months ago

Trump class 'battleship' revives Navy's railgun project

https://www.twz.com/sea/navy-is-firing-its-railgun-again-after-abandoning-it-for-years

7 months ago

US fuel tanker aircraft crashes in Iraq – what we know and don't know

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c4gqjyk0vx3t

7 months ago

Spacedrive v3: The local-first data engine

https://spacedrive.com/blog/spacedrive-v3-launch

7 months ago

How long does it take to get last liquid drops from kitchen containers?

https://www.brown.edu/news/2026-03-04/kitchen-fluid-dynamics

7 months ago

Live Nation Executives Brag About "Robbing" Ticket Buyers in Slack DMs

https://pitchfork.com/news/live-nation-executives-brag-about-robbing-ticket-buyers-in-slack-dms/

7 months ago

Daily multivitamin use may slow biological aging: COSMOS trial results

https://www.massgeneralbrigham.org/en/about/newsroom/press-releases/daily-multivitamin-use-may-slow-aging

7 months ago

DOGE Operative Accused of Planning to Take Social Security Data Is Named

https://www.wired.com/story/john-solly-doge-operative-accused-social-security-data-leidos/

7 months ago

Pi-Autoresearch

https://github.com/davebcn87/pi-autoresearch

7 months ago

The AI coding divide: craft lovers vs. result chasers

https://blog.lmorchard.com/2026/03/11/grief-and-the-ai-split/

7 months ago

Windows 11 after two decades of macOS: okay, but also awful

https://rakhim.exotext.com/windows-11-experience

7 months ago

For ~2 weeks, Chinese fighter jets stopped buzzing Taiwan. No one knows why

https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/12/asia/china-taiwan-buzzing-mystery-intl-hnk

7 months ago

Qodo Outperforms Claude in Code Review Benchmarkdead

https://www.qodo.ai/blog/qodo-outperforms-claude-in-code-review-benchmark/

7 months ago

Magit and Majutsu: discoverable version-control

https://lwn.net/Articles/1060024/

7 months ago

Live Nation employee mocks customers as 'so stupid' in internal messages

https://apnews.com/article/livenation-antitrust-ticketmaster-states-6248ab6f799468eda2447ed16d73515a

7 months ago

I Hacked My Laundry Card. Here's What I Learned

https://hanzilla.co/blog/laundry-card-hack/

7 months ago

Diels-grabsch2: Self Hashing C Program (2019)

https://www.ioccc.org/2019/diels-grabsch2/

7 months ago