top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-03-17

Kagi Translate now supports LinkedIn Speak as an output language

https://translate.kagi.com/?from=en&to=LinkedIn+speak

5 months ago

1465 upvotes – 345 comments

Reddit User Uncovers Who Is Behind Meta's $2B Lobbying for Age Verification Tech

https://www.gadgetreview.com/reddit-user-uncovers-who-is-behind-metas-2b-lobbying-for-invasive-age-verification-tech

5 months ago

907 upvotes – 22 comments

Microsoft's 'unhackable' Xbox One has been hacked by 'Bliss'

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/console-gaming/microsofts-unhackable-xbox-one-has-been-hacked-by-bliss-the-2013-console-finally-fell-to-voltage-glitching-allowing-the-loading-of-unsigned-code-at-every-level

5 months ago

801 upvotes – 295 comments

Kagi Small Web

https://kagi.com/smallweb/

5 months ago

795 upvotes – 211 comments

US SEC preparing to scrap quarterly reporting requirement

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/us-sec-preparing-eliminate-quarterly-reporting-requirement-wsj-says-2026-03-16/

5 months ago

756 upvotes – 468 comments

Slug Text Rendering Algorithm Dedicated to Public Domain

https://terathon.com/blog/decade-slug.html

5 months ago

754 upvotes – 80 comments

Mistral AI Releases Forge

https://mistral.ai/news/forge

5 months ago

732 upvotes – 194 comments

Every layer of review makes you 10x slower

https://apenwarr.ca/log/20260316

5 months ago

573 upvotes – 316 comments

Python 3.15's JIT is now back on track

https://fidget-spinner.github.io/posts/jit-on-track.html

5 months ago

483 upvotes – 308 comments

Get Shit Done: A Meta-Prompting, Context Engineering and Spec-Driven Dev System

https://github.com/gsd-build/get-shit-done

5 months ago

472 upvotes – 256 comments

FFmpeg 8.1

https://ffmpeg.org/index.html#pr8.1

5 months ago

437 upvotes – 65 comments

The Los Angeles Aqueduct Is Wild

https://practical.engineering/blog/2026/3/17/the-los-angeles-aqueduct-is-wild

5 months ago

410 upvotes – 208 comments

Unsloth Studio

https://unsloth.ai/docs/new/studio

5 months ago

387 upvotes – 82 comments

How the Turner Twins Are Mythbusting Modern Gear

https://www.carryology.com/insights/how-the-turner-twins-are-mythbusting-modern-gear/

5 months ago

344 upvotes – 179 comments

If you thought the code writing speed was your problem; you have bigger problems

https://andrewmurphy.io/blog/if-you-thought-the-speed-of-writing-code-was-your-problem-you-have-bigger-problems

5 months ago

335 upvotes – 213 comments

Meta, TikTok let harmful content rise after evidence outrage drove engagement

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqj9kgxqjwjo

5 months ago

331 upvotes – 195 comments

Show HN: Sub-millisecond VM sandboxes using CoW memory forking

https://github.com/adammiribyan/zeroboot

5 months ago

308 upvotes – 72 comments

Ryugu asteroid samples contain all DNA and RNA building blocks

https://phys.org/news/2026-03-ryugu-asteroid-samples-dna-rna.html

5 months ago

306 upvotes – 167 comments

Mamba-3

https://www.together.ai/blog/mamba-3

5 months ago

300 upvotes – 55 comments

Illinois Introducing Operating System Account Age Bill

https://www.ilga.gov/Legislation/BillStatus?DocTypeID=HB&DocNum=5511

5 months ago

290 upvotes – 451 comments
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