top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-03-15

Canada's Bill C-22 Mandates Mass Metadata Surveillance of Canadians

https://www.parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/45-1/bill/C-22/first-reading

5 months ago

The 49MB Web Page

https://thatshubham.com/blog/news-audit

5 months ago

OpenRocket

https://openrocket.info/

5 months ago

Stop Sloppypasta

https://stopsloppypasta.ai/

5 months ago

Let your Coding Agent debug the browser session with Chrome DevTools MCP

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/chrome-devtools-mcp-debug-your-browser-session

5 months ago

LLM Architecture Gallery

https://sebastianraschka.com/llm-architecture-gallery/

5 months ago

Nvidia greenboost: transparently extend GPU VRAM using system RAM/NVMe

https://gitlab.com/IsolatedOctopi/nvidia_greenboost

5 months ago

$96 3D-printed rocket that recalculates its mid-air trajectory using a $5 sensor

https://github.com/novatic14/MANPADS-System-Launcher-and-Rocket

5 months ago

Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47388646

5 months ago

Nasdaq's Shame

https://keubiko.substack.com/p/nasdaqs-shame

5 months ago

A Visual Introduction to Machine Learning

https://r2d3.us/visual-intro-to-machine-learning-part-1/

5 months ago

Honda is killing its EVs – and any chance of competing in the future

https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/14/honda-is-killing-its-evs-and-any-chance-of-competing-in-the-future/

5 months ago

The Appalling Stupidity of Spotify's AI DJ

https://www.charlespetzold.com/blog/2026/02/The-Appalling-Stupidity-of-Spotifys-AI-DJ.html

5 months ago

How Kernel Anti-Cheats Work: A Deep Dive into Modern Game Protection

https://s4dbrd.github.io/posts/how-kernel-anti-cheats-work/

5 months ago

Rack-Mount Hydroponics

https://sa.lj.am/rack-mount-hydroponics/

5 months ago

LLMs can be exhausting

https://tomjohnell.com/llms-can-be-absolutely-exhausting/

5 months ago

Separating the Wayland Compositor and Window Manager

https://isaacfreund.com/blog/river-window-management/

5 months ago

Office.eu launches as Europe's sovereign office platform

https://office.eu/media/pressrelease-20260304

5 months ago

Glassworm Is Back: A New Wave of Invisible Unicode Attacks Hits Repositories

https://www.aikido.dev/blog/glassworm-returns-unicode-attack-github-npm-vscode

5 months ago

100 hour gap between a vibecoded prototype and a working product

https://kanfa.macbudkowski.com/vibecoding-cryptosaurus

5 months ago

Animated 'Firefly' Reboot in Development from Nathan Fillion, 20th TV

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/animated-firefly-reboot-in-development-nathan-fillion-1236533089/

5 months ago

The enshittification of Amazon paperback books

https://www.alexerhardt.com/en/enshittification-amazon-paperback-books/

5 months ago

I'm 60 years old. Claude Code killed a passion

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47386813

5 months ago

Write up of my homebrew CPU build

https://willwarren.com/2026/03/12/building-my-own-cpu-part-3-from-simulation-to-hardware/

5 months ago

A Theory of the World as run by large adult children

https://tomclancy.info/harold-and-george.html

5 months ago

What makes Intel Optane stand out (2023)

https://blog.zuthof.nl/2023/06/02/what-makes-intel-optane-stand-out/

5 months ago

A most elegant TCP hole punching algorithm

https://robertsdotpm.github.io/cryptography/tcp_hole_punching.html

5 months ago

Grandparents are glued to their phones, families are worried [video]

https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0n61dg3/grandparents-are-glued-to-their-phones-families-are-worried

5 months ago

The Linux Programming Interface as a university course text

https://man7.org/tlpi/academic/index.html

5 months ago

Pentagon expands oversight of Stars and Stripes, limits content

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2026-03-13/pentagon-modernization-plan-stars-and-stripes-21051529.html

5 months ago

Learning athletic humanoid tennis skills from imperfect human motion data

https://zzk273.github.io/LATENT/

5 months ago

Treasure hunter freed from jail after refusing to turn over shipwreck gold

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg4g7kn99q3o

5 months ago

Hollywood Enters Oscars Weekend in Existential Crisis

https://www.theculturenewspaper.com/hollywood-enters-oscars-weekend-in-existential-crisis/

5 months ago

LotusNotes

https://computer.rip/2026-03-14-lotusnotes.html

5 months ago

The bureaucracy blocking the chance at a cure

https://www.writingruxandrabio.com/p/the-bureaucracy-blocking-the-chance

5 months ago

Six ingenious ways how Canon DSLRs used to illuminate their autofocus points

https://exclusivearchitecture.com/03-technical-articles-CSDS-00-table-of-contents.html

5 months ago

In Memoriam: John W. Addison, my PhD advisor

https://billwadge.com/2026/03/15/in-memoriam-john-w-addison-jr-my-phd-advisor/

5 months ago

SpaceX IPO Scandal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rS3fTbC7TE

5 months ago

Show HN: Signet – Autonomous wildfire tracking from satellite and weather data

https://signet.watch

5 months ago

Cert Authorities Check for DNSSEC from Today

https://www.grepular.com/Cert_Authorities_Check_for_DNSSEC_From_Today

5 months ago

Kangina

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangina

5 months ago

Leviathan

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3207/3207-h/3207-h.htm

5 months ago

FCC chairman threatens TV broadcast licenses over news coverage

https://fortune.com/2026/03/14/fcc-brendan-carr-tv-broadcast-licenses-news-coverage-us-war-iran-trump/

5 months ago

Palantir defends its role in the kill chain: "We are proud of that"

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Palantir-defends-its-role-in-the-kill-chain-We-are-very-very-proud-of-that-11211275.html

5 months ago

Ask HN: What breaks first when your team grows from 10 to 50 people?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47386284

5 months ago

IBM, sonic delay lines, and the history of the 80×24 display

https://www.righto.com/2019/11/ibm-sonic-delay-lines-and-history-of.html

5 months ago

A new Bigfoot documentary helps explain our conspiracy-minded era

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-new-bigfoot-documentary-helps-explain-our-conspiracy-minded-era/ar-AA1Yv6px

5 months ago

Jeff Bezos Upended the Washington Post

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/business/media/washington-post-jeff-bezos-layoffs.html

5 months ago

Show HN: What if your synthesizer was powered by APL (or a dumb K clone)?

https://octetta.github.io/k-synth/

5 months ago

Pretraining Language Models via Neural Cellular Automata

https://hanseungwook.github.io/blog/nca-pre-pre-training/

5 months ago

Excel incorrectly assumes that the year 1900 is a leap year

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/microsoft-365-apps/excel/wrongly-assumes-1900-is-leap-year

5 months ago

Show HN: GDSL – 800 line kernel: Lisp subset in 500, C subset in 1300

https://firthemouse.github.io/

5 months ago

Tree Search Distillation for Language Models Using PPO

https://ayushtambde.com/blog/tree-search-distillation-for-language-models-using-ppo/

5 months ago

Generating All 32-Bit Primes (Part I)

https://hnlyman.github.io/pages/prime32_I.html

5 months ago

Codegen Is Not Productivity

https://www.antifound.com/posts/codegen-is-not-productivity/

5 months ago

UMD Scientists Create 'Smart Underwear' to Measure Human Flatulence

https://cbmg.umd.edu/news-events/news/brantley-hall-umd-scientists-create-smart-underwear-measure-human-flatulence

5 months ago