top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-03-12

Shall I implement it? No

https://gist.github.com/bretonium/291f4388e2de89a43b25c135b44e41f0

5 months ago

Malus – Clean Room as a Service

https://malus.sh

5 months ago

AI error jails innocent grandmother for months in North Dakota fraud case

https://www.grandforksherald.com/news/north-dakota/ai-error-jails-innocent-grandmother-for-months-in-north-dakota-fraud-case

5 months ago

ATMs didn't kill bank Teller jobs, but the iPhone did

https://davidoks.blog/p/why-the-atm-didnt-kill-bank-teller

5 months ago

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

5 months ago

Asia rolls out 4-day weeks, WFH to solve fuel crisis caused by Iran war

https://fortune.com/2026/03/11/iran-war-fuel-crisis-asia-work-from-home-closed-schools-price-caps/

5 months ago

Show HN: s@: decentralized social networking over static sites

http://satproto.org/

5 months ago

Big Data on the Cheapest MacBook

https://duckdb.org/2026/03/11/big-data-on-the-cheapest-macbook

5 months ago

Reversing memory loss via gut-brain communication

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2026/03/gut-brain-cognitive-decline.html

5 months ago

Bubble Sorted Amen Break

https://parametricavocado.itch.io/amen-sorting

5 months ago

Returning to Rails in 2026

https://www.markround.com/blog/2026/03/05/returning-to-rails-in-2026/

5 months ago

Dolphin Progress Release 2603

https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2026/03/12/dolphin-progress-report-release-2603/

5 months ago

The Met Releases High-Def 3D Scans of 140 Famous Art Objects

https://www.openculture.com/2026/03/the-met-releases-high-definition-3d-scans-of-140-famous-art-objects.html

5 months ago

Executing programs inside transformers with exponentially faster inference

https://www.percepta.ai/blog/can-llms-be-computers

5 months ago

Kotlin creator's new language: a formal way to talk to LLMs instead of English

https://codespeak.dev/

5 months ago

An old photo of a large BBS

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2022/01/26/swcbbs/

5 months ago

Home Assistant waters my plants

https://finnian.io/blog/home-assistant-waters-my-plants/

5 months ago

Italian prosecutors seek trial for Amazon, 4 execs in alleged $1.4B tax evasion

https://www.reuters.com/world/italian-prosecutors-seek-trial-amazon-four-execs-over-alleged-14-bln-tax-evasion-2026-03-12/

5 months ago

Iran-Backed Hackers Claim Wiper Attack on Medtech Firm Stryker

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/03/iran-backed-hackers-claim-wiper-attack-on-medtech-firm-stryker/

5 months ago

3D-Knitting: The Ultimate Guide

https://www.oliver-charles.com/pages/3d-knitting

5 months ago

The AI coding divide: craft lovers vs. result chasers

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

5 months ago

ICE/DHS gets hacked, all Contractors exposed

https://micahflee.github.io/ice-contracts/

5 months ago

Avoiding Trigonometry (2013)

https://iquilezles.org/articles/noacos/

5 months ago

Coders Coded Their Job Away. Why Are So Many of Them Happy About It?

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/magazine/ai-coding-programming-jobs-claude-chatgpt.html

5 months ago

Show HN: Axe A 12MB binary that replaces your AI framework

https://github.com/jrswab/axe

5 months ago

Claude now creates interactive charts, diagrams and visualizations

https://claude.com/blog/claude-builds-visuals

5 months ago

1B identity records exposed in ID verification data leak

https://www.aol.com/articles/1-billion-identity-records-exposed-152505381.html

5 months ago

US banks' exposure to private credit hits $300B

https://alternativecreditinvestor.com/2025/10/22/us-banks-exposure-to-private-credit-hits-300bn/

5 months ago

Suburban school district uses license plate readers to verify student residency

https://www.nbcchicago.com/consumer/suburban-school-district-uses-license-plate-readers-to-verify-student-residency/3906703/

5 months ago

Apple's MacBook Neo makes repairs easier and cheaper than other MacBooks

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/03/more-modular-design-makes-macbook-neo-easier-to-fix-than-other-apple-laptops/

5 months ago

White House plan to break up iconic U.S. climate lab moves forward

https://www.science.org/content/article/white-house-plan-break-iconic-u-s-climate-lab-moves-forward

5 months ago

Are LLMs not getting better?

https://entropicthoughts.com/no-swe-bench-improvement

5 months ago

US- and Greek-owned tankers ablaze after Iran claims 'underwater drone' strike

https://www.lloydslist.com/LL1156592/US--and-Greek-owned-tankers-ablaze-after-Iran-claims-underwater-drone-strike-in-Iraqi-waters

5 months ago

Electric motor scaling laws and inertia in robot actuators

https://robot-daycare.com/posts/actuation_series_1/

5 months ago

The Isolation Trap: Erlang

https://causality.blog/essays/the-isolation-trap/

5 months ago

Long Overlooked as Crucial to Life, Fungi Start to Get Their Due

https://e360.yale.edu/features/fungi-kingdom

5 months ago

Show HN: OneCLI – Vault for AI Agents in Rust

https://github.com/onecli/onecli

5 months ago

Document poisoning in RAG systems: How attackers corrupt AI's sources

https://aminrj.com/posts/rag-document-poisoning/

5 months ago

WolfIP: Lightweight TCP/IP stack with no dynamic memory allocations

https://github.com/wolfssl/wolfip

5 months ago

Show HN: We analyzed 1,573 Claude Code sessions to see how AI agents work

https://github.com/obsessiondb/rudel

5 months ago

Colon cancer now leading cause of cancer deaths under 50 in US

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/12/colon-cancer-leading-deaths

5 months ago

Runners Are Discovering It's Surprisingly Easy to Churn Butter on Their Runs

https://www.runnersworld.com/news/a70683169/how-to-make-butter-while-running/

5 months ago

U.S. Navy Turns Down Hormuz Escort Requests Because of High Risk

https://maritime-executive.com/article/u-s-navy-turns-down-strait-of-hormuz-escort-requests-because-of-high-risk

5 months ago

Bringing Chrome to ARM64 Linux Devices

https://blog.chromium.org/2026/03/bringing-chrome-to-arm64-linux-devices.html

5 months ago

Amazon Employees Say AI Is Just Increasing Workload

https://gizmodo.com/amazon-employees-say-ai-is-just-increasing-workload-a-new-study-confirms-their-suspicions-2000732794

5 months ago

Show HN: Understudy – Teach a desktop agent by demonstrating a task once

https://github.com/understudy-ai/understudy

5 months ago

Atlassian CEO: AI doesn't replace people here, but we're firing them anyway

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Atlassian-CEO-AI-doesn-t-replace-people-here-but-we-re-firing-them-anyway-11208758.html

5 months ago

SBCL: A Sanely-Bootstrappable Common Lisp (2008) [pdf]

https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/2336/1/sbcl.pdf

5 months ago

On The Need For Understanding

https://blog.information-superhighway.net/on-the-need-for-understanding

5 months ago

Food costs set to spike as urea prices nearly doubles due to war in Iran

https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/urea

5 months ago

Apple releases iOS 15.8.7 to fix Coruna exploit for iPhone 6S from 2015

https://support.apple.com/en-us/126632

5 months ago

Reliable Software in the LLM Era

https://quint-lang.org/posts/llm_era

5 months ago

Reviewing Large Changes with Jujutsu

https://ben.gesoff.uk/posts/reviewing-large-changes-with-jj/

5 months ago

How much of HN is AI?

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/how-much-of-hn-is-ai

5 months ago

The Road Not Taken: A World Where IPv4 Evolved

https://owl.billpg.com/ipv4x/

5 months ago

Bandit: A 32bit baremetal computer that runs Color Forth [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HK0uAKkt0AE

5 months ago

Human Organ Atlas

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adz2240

5 months ago

First 6 days of Iran war cost $11.3B

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/first-6-days-iran-war-cost-11-billion-pentagon-tells-senators-rcna263060

5 months ago

Another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI"

https://bsky.app/profile/404media.co/post/3mgupw4v3ak2j

5 months ago

Why Are Viral Capsids Icosahedral?

https://www.asimov.press/p/viral-capsids

5 months ago

Emacs internals: Tagged pointers vs. C++ std:variant and LLVM (Part 3)

https://thecloudlet.github.io/blog/project/emacs-03/

5 months ago