top 50% 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

Java 26 is here, and with it a solid foundation for the future

https://hanno.codes/2026/03/17/java-26-is-here/

5 months ago

275 upvotes – 337 comments

Why Node.js needs a virtual file system

https://blog.platformatic.dev/why-nodejs-needs-a-virtual-file-system

5 months ago

274 upvotes – 252 comments

GPT‑5.4 Mini and Nano

https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-4-mini-and-nano

5 months ago

248 upvotes – 145 comments

Meta Horizon Worlds on Meta Quest is being discontinued

https://communityforums.atmeta.com/blog/AnnouncementsBlog/updates-to-your-meta-quest-experience-in-2026/1369435

5 months ago

239 upvotes – 264 comments

VisiCalc Reconstructed

https://zserge.com/posts/visicalc/

5 months ago

231 upvotes – 80 comments

OpenSUSE Kalpa

https://kalpadesktop.org/

5 months ago

213 upvotes – 109 comments

Silicon Valley's "Pronatalists" Killed WFH. The Strait of Hormuz Brought It Back

https://www.governance.fyi/p/silicon-valleys-pronatalists-killed

5 months ago

206 upvotes – 302 comments

Why AI systems don't learn – On autonomous learning from cognitive science

https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.15381

5 months ago

205 upvotes – 117 comments

A proposal to classify happiness as a psychiatric disorder

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1376114/

5 months ago

194 upvotes – 103 comments

Monkey Island for Commodore 64 Ground Up

https://pixeldust.se/monkey-island-project

5 months ago

185 upvotes – 73 comments

Flash-KMeans: Fast and Memory-Efficient Exact K-Means

https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.09229

5 months ago

184 upvotes – 14 comments

Drawvg Filter for FFmpeg

https://ayosec.github.io/ffmpeg-drawvg/

5 months ago

184 upvotes – 30 comments

Reverse-engineering Viktor and making it Open Source

https://matijacniacki.com/blog/openviktor

5 months ago

181 upvotes – 82 comments

Building a Shell

https://healeycodes.com/building-a-shell

5 months ago

180 upvotes – 39 comments

Edge.js: Running Node Apps Inside a WebAssembly Sandbox

https://wasmer.io/posts/edgejs-safe-nodejs-using-wasm-sandbox

5 months ago

172 upvotes – 45 comments

Video Encoding and Decoding with Vulkan Compute Shaders in FFmpeg

https://www.khronos.org/blog/video-encoding-and-decoding-with-vulkan-compute-shaders-in-ffmpeg

5 months ago

164 upvotes – 60 comments

'The Secret Agent': Exploring a Vibrant, yet Violent Brazil (2025)

https://theasc.com/articles/the-secret-agent-cinematography

5 months ago

161 upvotes – 82 comments

Regex Blaster

https://mdp.github.io/regex-blaster/

5 months ago

155 upvotes – 56 comments

Show HN: Pgit – A Git-like CLI backed by PostgreSQL

https://oseifert.ch/blog/building-pgit

5 months ago

126 upvotes – 61 comments

Jepsen: MariaDB Galera Cluster 12.1.2

https://jepsen.io/analyses/mariadb-galera-cluster-12.1.2

5 months ago

117 upvotes – 16 comments

Warranty Void If Regenerated

https://nearzero.software/p/warranty-void-if-regenerated

5 months ago

112 upvotes – 1 comments

Show HN: Antfly: Distributed, Multimodal Search and Memory and Graphs in Go

https://github.com/antflydb/antfly

5 months ago

107 upvotes – 42 comments

The paddle wheel aircraft carriers of Lake Michigan

https://signoregalilei.com/2026/03/08/the-paddle-wheel-aircraft-carriers-of-lake-michigan/

5 months ago

103 upvotes – 9 comments

I love my dumb watches

https://gary.onl/a-post-about-watches/

5 months ago

97 upvotes – 91 comments

Show HN: Crust – A CLI framework for TypeScript and Bun

https://github.com/chenxin-yan/crust

5 months ago

95 upvotes – 41 comments

Stdwin: Standard window interface by Guido Van Rossum [pdf]

https://ir.cwi.nl/pub/5998/5998D.pdf

5 months ago

85 upvotes – 56 comments

Show HN: Horizon – GPU-accelerated infinite-canvas terminal in Rust

https://github.com/peters/horizon

5 months ago

84 upvotes – 33 comments

Ordered Dithering with Arbitrary or Irregular Colour Palettes (2023)

https://matejlou.blog/2023/12/06/ordered-dithering-for-arbitrary-or-irregular-palettes/

5 months ago

83 upvotes – 13 comments

The seven hour explosion nobody could explain

https://phys.org/news/2026-03-hour-explosion.html

5 months ago

82 upvotes – 14 comments

AI still doesn't work well, businesses are faking it, and a reckoning is coming

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/17/ai_businesses_faking_it_reckoning_coming_codestrap/

5 months ago

81 upvotes – 27 comments
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