top 50% 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

US Job Market Visualizer – Andrej Karpathy

https://karpathy.ai/jobs/

5 months ago

Return of the Obra Dinn: spherical mapped dithering for a 1bpp first-person game

https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=40832.msg1363742#msg1363742

5 months ago

Give Django your time and money, not your tokens

https://www.better-simple.com/django/2026/03/16/give-django-your-time-and-money/

5 months ago

My Journey to a reliable and enjoyable locally hosted voice assistant

https://community.home-assistant.io/t/my-journey-to-a-reliable-and-enjoyable-locally-hosted-voice-assistant/944860

5 months ago

Show HN: Claude Code skills that build complete Godot games

https://github.com/htdt/godogen

5 months ago

Starlink Mini as a Failover

https://www.jackpearce.co.uk/posts/starlink-failover/

5 months ago

AirPods Max 2

https://www.apple.com/airpods-max/

5 months ago

Obsession with growth is destroying nature, 150 countries warn

https://www.politico.eu/article/obsession-with-growth-destroying-nature-150-countries-warn/

5 months ago

FSF Threatens Anthropic over Infringed Copyright: Share Your LLMs Freel

https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/2026-anthropic-settlement

5 months ago

Lazycut: A simple terminal video trimmer using FFmpeg

https://github.com/emin-ozata/lazycut

5 months ago

'Pokémon Go' players unknowingly trained delivery robots with 30B images

https://www.popsci.com/technology/pokemon-go-delivery-robots-crowdsourcing/

5 months ago

Beyond Meat CEO 'It's Just Not the Moment for Plant-Based Meat' After Rebrand

https://plantbasednews.org/news/alternative-protein/beyond-meat-not-the-moment-rebrand/

5 months ago

Ask HN: What is it like being in a CS major program these days?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47397190

5 months ago

The Math That Explains Why Bell Curves Are Everywhere

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-math-that-explains-why-bell-curves-are-everywhere-20260316/

5 months ago

Nvidia Launches Vera CPU, Purpose-Built for Agentic AI

https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-launches-vera-cpu-purpose-built-for-agentic-ai

5 months ago

Cannabinoids remove plaque-forming Alzheimer's proteins from brain cells

https://www.salk.edu/news-release/cannabinoids-remove-plaque-forming-alzheimers-proteins-from-brain-cells/

5 months ago

What Is Agentic Engineering?

https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-patterns/what-is-agentic-engineering/

5 months ago

Speed at the Cost of Quality. Study of Use of Cursor AI in Open Source Projects

https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.04427

5 months ago

Teens sue xAI over Grok's pornographic images of them

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgk2lzmm22eo

5 months ago

Just Put It on a Map

https://progressandpoverty.substack.com/p/just-put-it-on-a-map

5 months ago

The return-to-the-office trend backfires

https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/5775420-remote-first-productivity-growth/

5 months ago

MCP Server Is Eating Your Context Window. There's a Simpler Way

https://www.apideck.com/blog/mcp-server-eating-context-window-cli-alternative

5 months ago

Using calculus to do number theory

https://hidden-phenomena.com/articles/hensels

5 months ago

Even Faster Asin() Was Staring Right at Me

https://16bpp.net/blog/post/even-faster-asin-was-staring-right-at-me/

5 months ago

Mistral Small 4

https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-small-4

5 months ago

Comparing Python Type Checkers: Typing Spec Conformance

https://pyrefly.org/blog/typing-conformance-comparison/

5 months ago

Federal Right to Privacy Act – Draft legislation

https://righttoprivacyact.github.io

5 months ago

I may 'hire' AI instead of a graduate student

https://www.science.org/content/article/why-i-may-hire-ai-instead-graduate-student

5 months ago

How the Xbox One Was Finally Hacked After 12 Yearsdead

https://thecybersecguru.com/news/xbox-one-hacked-boot-rom-exploit-bliss/

5 months ago

Scientists discover a surprising way to quiet the anxious mind (2025)

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/10/251027023816.htm

5 months ago

Language Model Teams as Distrbuted Systems

https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.12229

5 months ago

AI tools are making me lose interest in CS fundamentals

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47394291

5 months ago

Building a Reader for the Smallest Hard Drive

https://www.willwhang.dev/Reading-MK4001MTD/

5 months ago

385TB video game archive saved by fans; torrents being generated

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/385tb-video-game-archive-saved-by-fans-myrient-has-been-100-percent-backed-up-and-validated-torrents-being-generated

5 months ago

Toward automated verification of unreviewed AI-generated code

https://peterlavigne.com/writing/verifying-ai-generated-code

5 months ago

Cuba's national electric grid collapses, leaving millions without power

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/cubas-national-electric-grid-collapses-says-grid-operator-2026-03-16/

5 months ago

Czech Man's Stone in Barn's Foundations Is Rare Bronze Age Spearhead Mold

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-czech-man-used-this-stone-in-his-barns-foundations-it-turned-out-to-be-rare-bronze-age-spearhead-mold-180988339/

5 months ago

Show HN: Hackerbrief – Top posts on Hacker News summarized daily

https://hackerbrief.vercel.app/

5 months ago

Launch HN: Voygr (YC W26) – A better maps API for agents and AI apps

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47401042

5 months ago