top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-03-20

OpenCode – The open source AI coding agent

https://opencode.ai/

5 months ago

1269 upvotes – 621 comments

I'm OK being left behind, thanks

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/03/im-ok-being-left-behind-thanks/

5 months ago

996 upvotes – 765 comments

ArXiv Declares Independence from Cornell

https://www.science.org/content/article/arxiv-pioneering-preprint-server-declares-independence-cornell

5 months ago

810 upvotes – 276 comments

Chuck Norris Has Died

https://variety.com/2026/film/news/chuck-norris-dead-walker-texas-ranger-dies-1236694953/

5 months ago

760 upvotes – 468 comments

France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/03/20/stravaleaks-france-s-aircraft-carrier-located-in-real-time-by-le-monde-through-fitness-app_6751640_4.html

5 months ago

649 upvotes – 532 comments

Our Commitment to Windows Quality

https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2026/03/20/our-commitment-to-windows-quality/

5 months ago

646 upvotes – 1196 comments

A Japanese Glossary of Chopsticks Faux Pas

https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-data/h01362/

5 months ago

492 upvotes – 391 comments

Claude Code: Channels

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/channels

5 months ago

399 upvotes – 243 comments

Super Micro Shares Plunge 25% After Co-Founder Charged in $2.5B Smuggling Plot

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/2026/03/20/super-micro-shares-plunge-25-after-co-founder-charged-in-25-billion-ai-chip-smuggling-plot/

5 months ago

387 upvotes – 178 comments

HP realizes that mandatory 15-minute support call wait times isn't good support

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/02/misguided-hp-customer-support-approach-included-forced-15-minute-call-wait-times/

5 months ago

348 upvotes – 238 comments

Ghostling

https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostling

5 months ago

332 upvotes – 70 comments

Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years

https://omar.yt/posts/wayland-set-the-linux-desktop-back-by-10-years

5 months ago

328 upvotes – 481 comments

The hottest new phone is Tin Can, a 'landline' for kids

https://www.businessinsider.com/tin-can-landline-kids-cellphone-cell-alternative-how-2025-9

5 months ago

310 upvotes – 252 comments

Full Disclosure: A Third (and Fourth) Azure Sign-In Log Bypass Found

https://trustedsec.com/blog/full-disclosure-a-third-and-fourth-azure-sign-in-log-bypass-found

5 months ago

295 upvotes – 101 comments

We rewrote our Rust WASM Parser in TypeScript – and it got 3x Faster

https://www.openui.com/blog/rust-wasm-parser

5 months ago

293 upvotes – 213 comments

Oregon School Cell Phone Ban: 'Engaged Students, Joyful Teachers'

https://portlandtribune.com/2026/03/18/oregon-school-cell-phone-ban-engaged-students-joyful-teachers/

5 months ago

278 upvotes – 234 comments

Cursor Composer 2 is just Kimi K2.5 with RL

https://twitter.com/fynnso/status/2034706304875602030

5 months ago

276 upvotes – 169 comments

Drugwars for the TI-82/83/83 Calculators

https://gist.github.com/mattmanning/1002653/b7a1e88479a10eaae3bd5298b8b2c86e16fb4404

5 months ago

275 upvotes – 76 comments

Attention Residuals

https://github.com/MoonshotAI/Attention-Residuals

5 months ago

239 upvotes – 34 comments

Java Is Fast. Your Code Might Not Be

https://jvogel.me/posts/2026/java-is-fast-your-code-might-not-be/

5 months ago

228 upvotes – 249 comments

Entso-E final report on Iberian 2025 blackout

https://www.entsoe.eu/publications/blackout/28-april-2025-iberian-blackout/

5 months ago

223 upvotes – 112 comments

Molly Guard

https://bookofjoe2.blogspot.com/2026/02/molly-guard.html

5 months ago

221 upvotes – 94 comments

Can you get root with only a cigarette lighter? (2024)

https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/dram-emfi.html

5 months ago

203 upvotes – 41 comments

Show HN: Sonar – A tiny CLI to see and kill whatever's running on localhost

https://github.com/RasKrebs/sonar

5 months ago

203 upvotes – 79 comments

BYD's bet on EVs is paying off as drivers ditch gas amid rising oil prices

https://electrek.co/2026/03/20/byd-ev-demand-surges-drivers-ditch-gas-amid-rising-oil-prices/

5 months ago

191 upvotes – 298 comments

Overcoming the Friendship Recession

https://joeprevite.com/friendship-recession/

5 months ago

175 upvotes – 137 comments

Germany Mandates ODF for Public Administration

https://linuxiac.com/germany-mandates-odf-for-public-administration/

5 months ago

173 upvotes – 31 comments

MacBook M5 Pro and Qwen3.5 = Local AI Security System

https://www.sharpai.org/benchmark/

5 months ago

172 upvotes – 152 comments

BIO: The Bao I/O Coprocessor

https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/2026/bio-the-bao-i-o-coprocessor/

5 months ago

172 upvotes – 47 comments

Linux Applications Programming by Example: The Fundamental APIs (2nd Edition)

https://github.com/arnoldrobbins/LinuxByExample-2e

5 months ago

169 upvotes – 19 comments

Boomloom: Think with your hands

https://www.theboomloom.com

5 months ago

166 upvotes – 17 comments

The Soul of a Pedicab Driver

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/pedicab.html

5 months ago

161 upvotes – 43 comments

Having Kids (2019)

https://paulgraham.com/kids.html

5 months ago

158 upvotes – 297 comments

Tell HN: H&R Block tax software installs a TLS backdoor

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47457162

5 months ago

155 upvotes – 15 comments

You can run a DNS server (2025)

https://simonsafar.com/2025/running_dns/

5 months ago

147 upvotes – 95 comments

The Social Smolnet

https://ploum.net/2026-03-20-social-smolnet.html

5 months ago

146 upvotes – 15 comments

Show HN: We built a terminal-only Bluesky / AT Proto client written in Fortran

https://github.com/FormerLab/fortransky

5 months ago

145 upvotes – 84 comments

The way CTRL-C in Postgres CLI cancels queries is incredibly hack-y

https://neon.com/blog/ctrl-c-in-psql-gives-me-the-heebie-jeebies

5 months ago

139 upvotes – 49 comments

90% of crypto's Illinois primary spending failed to achieve its objective

https://www.mollywhite.net/micro/entry/202603172318

5 months ago

136 upvotes – 114 comments

Pompeii's battle scars linked to an ancient 'machine gun'

https://phys.org/news/2026-03-pompeii-scars-linked-ancient-machine.html

5 months ago

114 upvotes – 46 comments

How the world’s first electric grid was built

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/how-the-worlds-first-electric-grid-was-built/

5 months ago

112 upvotes – 34 comments

Fermented foods shaped human biology

https://press.asimov.com/articles/culture-shift

5 months ago

112 upvotes – 61 comments

The bespoke software revolution? I'm not buying it

https://world.hey.com/jason/the-bespoke-software-revolution-i-m-not-buying-it-4bfad9ec

5 months ago

111 upvotes – 86 comments

Schizophrenia study finds new biomarker, drug candidate to treat symptoms

https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2026/03/schizophrenia-study-finds-new-biomarker-drug-candidate-to-treat-cognitive-symptoms

5 months ago

111 upvotes – 54 comments

FSFE supporters affected: Payment provider Nexi cancelled us

https://fsfe.org/news/2026/news-20260316-01.en.html

5 months ago

109 upvotes – 27 comments

I Quit Editing Photos

https://jamesbaker.uk/i-quit-editing-photos/

5 months ago

107 upvotes – 151 comments

General Motors Is Assisting with the Restoration of a Rare EV1

https://evinfo.net/2026/03/general-motors-is-assisting-with-the-restoration-of-an-1996-ev1/

5 months ago

106 upvotes – 134 comments

Trivy ecosystem supply chain briefly compromised

https://github.com/aquasecurity/trivy/security/advisories/GHSA-69fq-xp46-6x23

5 months ago

102 upvotes – 37 comments

A 6502 disassembler with a TUI: A modern take on Regenerator

https://github.com/ricardoquesada/regenerator2000

5 months ago

92 upvotes – 11 comments

KiCad 10.0.0 Release

https://www.kicad.org/blog/2026/03/Version-10.0.0-Released/

5 months ago

89 upvotes – 17 comments

The Reason Windows Hate Is Exploding: It's the End of Personal Computing [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7a89ZYcTo8

5 months ago

88 upvotes – 130 comments

What Happened to Gem?

https://dfarq.homeip.net/whatever-happened-to-gem/

5 months ago

86 upvotes – 84 comments

Heart Attack and Stroke Risk Jumps When People Stop Taking GLP-1s

https://nautil.us/whiplash-heart-attack-and-stroke-risk-jumps-when-people-stop-taking-glp-1s-1279029

5 months ago

86 upvotes – 122 comments

Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines

https://www.theverge.com/tech/896490/google-replace-news-headlines-in-search-canary-coal-mine-experiment

5 months ago

80 upvotes – 16 comments

AI (2014)

https://blog.samaltman.com/ai

5 months ago

80 upvotes – 71 comments

How the Iran war threatens global food supply

https://www.npr.org/2026/03/20/nx-s1-5750812/how-the-iran-war-threatens-global-food-supply

5 months ago

70 upvotes – 5 comments

Tony Hoare and His Imprint on Computer Science

https://cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/tony-hoare-and-his-imprint-on-computer-science/

5 months ago

68 upvotes – 4 comments
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