top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-03-14

Ageless Linux. We are legally required to ask how old you are. We won't

https://agelesslinux.org/

5 months ago

Show HN: Hacker News archive (47M+ items, 11.6GB) as Parquet, updated every 5m

https://huggingface.co/datasets/open-index/hacker-news

5 months ago

JPEG Compression

https://www.sophielwang.com/blog/jpeg

5 months ago

What happens when US economic data becomes unreliable

https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/what-happens-when-us-economic-data-becomes-unreliable

5 months ago

Games with loot boxes to get minimum 16 age rating across Europe

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cge84xqjg5lo

5 months ago

Allow me to get to know you, mistakes and all

https://sebi.io/posts/2026-03-14-allow-me-to-get-to-know-you-mistakes-and-all/

5 months ago

MCP Is Dead; Long Live MCP

https://chrlschn.dev/blog/2026/03/mcp-is-dead-long-live-mcp/

5 months ago

RAM kits are now sold with one fake RAM stick alongside a real one

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ram/fake-ram-bundled-with-real-ram-to-create-a-performance-illusion-for-amd-users-1-1-value-pack-offers-desperate-psychological-relief-as-the-memory-shortage-worsens

5 months ago

XML Is a Cheap DSL

https://unplannedobsolescence.com/blog/xml-cheap-dsl/

5 months ago

Montana Leads the Nation with Groundbreaking Right to Compute Act

https://www.westernmt.news/2025/04/21/montana-leads-the-nation-with-groundbreaking-right-to-compute-act/

5 months ago

Head of FCC threatens broadcaster licenses over critical coverage of Iran war

https://twitter.com/BrendanCarrFCC/status/2032855414233047172

5 months ago

Claude Doubles Usage Limits During Off-Peak Hours (March 13–27, 2026)

https://support.claude.com/en/articles/14063676-claude-march-2026-usage-promotion

5 months ago

Gimp 3.2 Released

https://www.gimp.org/news/2026/03/14/gimp-3-2-released/

5 months ago

Marketing for Founders

https://github.com/EdoStra/Marketing-for-Founders

5 months ago

Show HN: Han – A Korean programming language written in Rust

https://github.com/xodn348/han

5 months ago

Bumblebee queens breathe underwater to survive drowning

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/bumblebee-queens-breathe-underwater-to-survive-drowning-revealing-how-they-can-live-submerged-for-a-week-180988330/

5 months ago

Airbus is preparing two uncrewed combat aircraft

https://www.airbus.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2026-03-airbus-is-preparing-two-uncrewed-combat-aircraft-from-kratos-for-first-flight-with-a-european

5 months ago

2026 tech layoffs reach 45,000 in March

https://technode.global/2026/03/09/2026-tech-layoffs-reach-45000-in-march-more-than-9200-due-to-ai-and-automation-rationalfx/

5 months ago

Changes to OpenTTD Distribution on Steam

https://www.openttd.org/news/2026/03/14/steam-changes

5 months ago

An Ode to Bzip

https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/an-ode-to-bzip/

5 months ago

Starlink Militarization and Its Impact on Global Strategic Stability

https://interpret.csis.org/translations/starlink-militarization-and-its-impact-on-global-strategic-stability/

5 months ago

Claude Code's binary reveals silent A/B tests on core features

https://backnotprop.com/blog/do-not-ab-test-my-workflow/

5 months ago

NMAP in the Movies

https://nmap.org/movies/

5 months ago

Anthropic invests $100M into the Claude Partner Network

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-partner-network

5 months ago

Sunsetting Jazzband

https://jazzband.co/news/2026/03/14/sunsetting-jazzband

5 months ago

(Media over QUIC) on a Boat

https://moq.dev/blog/on-a-boat/

5 months ago

An investigation of the forces behind the age-verification bills

https://lwn.net/Articles/1062779/

5 months ago

Philosoph Jürgen Habermas Gestorben

https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/philosoph-juergen-habermas-mit-96-jahren-gestorben-a-8be73ac7-e722-4543-8344-4515c4040363

5 months ago

SBCL Fibers – Lightweight Cooperative Threads

https://atgreen.github.io/repl-yell/posts/sbcl-fibers/

5 months ago

Show HN: GitAgent – An open standard that turns any Git repo into an AI agent

https://www.gitagent.sh/

5 months ago

Megadev: A Development Kit for the Sega Mega Drive and Mega CD Hardware

https://github.com/drojaazu/megadev

5 months ago

Book: The Emerging Science of Machine Learning Benchmarks

https://mlbenchmarks.org/00-preface.html

5 months ago

Show HN: Ichinichi – One note per day, E2E encrypted, local-first

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47379898

5 months ago

AI Didn't Simplify Software Engineering: It Just Made Bad Engineering Easier

https://robenglander.com/writing/ai-did-not-simplify/

5 months ago

UBI Is Your Productivity Dividend – The Only Way to All Share What We All Built

https://scottsantens.substack.com/p/universal-basic-income-is-your-productivity

5 months ago

Fedora 44 on the Raspberry Pi 5

https://nullr0ute.com/2026/03/fedora-44-on-the-raspberry-pi-5/

5 months ago

Hostile Volume – A game about adjusting volume with intentionally bad UI

https://hostilevolume.com/

5 months ago

Library of Short Stories

https://www.libraryofshortstories.com/

5 months ago

It's time to move your docs into a repo – especially because of AI

https://www.dein.fr/posts/2026-03-13-its-time-to-move-your-docs-in-the-repo

5 months ago

Mathematics Distillation Challenge – Equational Theories

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/03/13/mathematics-distillation-challenge-equational-theories/

5 months ago

Meta planning layoffs as AI costs mount

https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/meta-planning-sweeping-layoffs-ai-costs-mount-2026-03-14/

5 months ago

The Sound of Contamination: Headphones Contain Ing Hormone-Disrupting Chemicals

https://arnika.org/en/news/the-sound-of-contamination-all-analysed-headphones-on-the-central-european-market-found-to-contain-hormone-disrupting-chemicals

5 months ago

Postgres with Builtin File Systems

https://db9.ai/

5 months ago

Online astroturfing: A problem beyond disinformation

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01914537221108467

5 months ago

A Tiny Camera Revealed a Hidden Passage in the Great Pyramid

https://modernengineeringmarvels.com/2026/03/13/a-tiny-camera-revealed-a-hidden-passage-in-the-great-pyramid/

5 months ago

Israel is running critically low on interceptors, US officials say

https://www.semafor.com/article/03/14/2026/israel-is-running-critically-low-on-interceptors-us-officials-say

5 months ago

Our Experience with I-Ready

https://moultano.wordpress.com/2026/03/12/our-experience-with-i-ready/

5 months ago

Learning Creative Coding

https://stigmollerhansen.dk/resume/learning-creative-coding/

5 months ago

Jared Kushner Solicits Funds for His Firm While Working as Mideast Envoy

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/business/jared-kushner-affinity-mideast-funds.html

5 months ago

Torturing Rustc by Emulating HKTs

https://www.harudagondi.space/blog/torturing-rustc-by-emulating-hkts/

5 months ago

Optimizing Content for Agents

https://cra.mr/optimizing-content-for-agents/

5 months ago

AI Gets Wrong Woman Jailed for Six Months, Life Ruined

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzS7dmCUzcQ

5 months ago

Age Verification Lobbying: Dark Money, Model Legislation, Institutional Capture

https://tboteproject.com

5 months ago

$2B nonprofit grants traced to find who's behind age verification bills

https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1rshc1f/i_traced_2_billion_in_nonprofit_grants_and_45/

5 months ago

Autoresearch Hub

http://autoresearchhub.com/

5 months ago

Show HN: Learn Arabic with spaced repetition and comprehensible input

https://abjadpro.com

5 months ago

Show HN: Fatal Core Dump – a debugging murder mystery played with GDB

https://www.robopenguins.com/fatal_core_dump/

5 months ago

The most SHAMELESS structural manipulation of a index I've ever seen

https://substack.com/@georgenoble/note/c-226667679

5 months ago

Meta is reportedly laying off up to 20 percent of its staff

https://www.theverge.com/business/895026/meta-laying-off-20-percent

5 months ago

Show HN: I built an interactive 3D three-body problem simulator in the browser

https://structuredlabs.github.io/threebodyproblem/

5 months ago

The Washington Post Is Using Reader Data to Set Subscription Prices

https://washingtonian.com/2026/03/12/the-washington-post-is-using-reader-data-to-set-subscription-prices-how-does-that-work/

5 months ago

Ask HN: Have you successfully treated forward head posture ("nerd neck")?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47376169

5 months ago