top 10 hacker news stories for 2026-03-16

Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story

https://www.timesofisrael.com/gamblers-trying-to-win-a-bet-on-polymarket-are-vowing-to-kill-me-if-i-dont-rewrite-an-iran-missile-story/

5 months ago

Palestinian boy, 12, describes how Israeli forces killed his family in car

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c70n2x7p22do

5 months ago

Mistral Releases Leanstral

https://mistral.ai/news/leanstral

5 months ago

Corruption erodes social trust more in democracies than in autocracies

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/political-science/articles/10.3389/fpos.2026.1779810/full

5 months ago

MoD sources warn Palantir role at heart of government is threat to UK security

https://www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-technologies-uk-mod-sources-government-data-insights-security-state-secrets

5 months ago

Kevin Boone: The "small web" is bigger than you might think

https://kevinboone.me/small_web_is_big.html

5 months ago

"How I write software with LLMs"

https://www.stavros.io/posts/how-i-write-software-with-llms/

5 months ago

I Love FreeBSD

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2026/03/16/why-i-love-freebsd/

5 months ago

US commercial insurers pay 254% of Medicare for the same hospital procedures

https://github.com/rexrodeo/american-healthcare-conundrum

5 months ago

★ 221 Python MIT

Jemalloc Un-Abandoned by Meta

https://engineering.fb.com/2026/03/02/data-infrastructure/investing-in-infrastructure-metas-renewed-commitment-to-jemalloc/

5 months ago