top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-03-21

Some Things Just Take Time

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/3/20/some-things-just-take-time/

5 months ago

Do Not Turn Child Protection into Internet Access Control

https://news.dyne.org/child-protection-is-not-access-control/

5 months ago

Tinybox- offline AI device 120B parameters

https://tinygrad.org/#tinybox

5 months ago

Blocking Internet Archive Won't Stop AI, but Will Erase Web's Historical Record

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/blocking-internet-archive-wont-stop-ai-it-will-erase-webs-historical-record

5 months ago

Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords

https://pbxscience.com/ubuntu-26-04-ends-46-years-of-silent-sudo-passwords/

5 months ago

Professional video editing, right in the browser with WebGPU and WASM

https://tooscut.app/

5 months ago

Floci – A free, open-source local AWS emulator

https://github.com/hectorvent/floci

5 months ago

404 Deno CEO not found

https://dbushell.com/2026/03/20/denos-decline-and-layoffs/

5 months ago

Hide macOS Tahoe's Menu Icons

https://512pixels.net/2026/03/hide-macos-tahoes-menu-icons-with-this-one-simple-trick/

5 months ago

Mayor of Paris removed parking spaces, "drastically" reduced the number of cars

https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/21/travel/paris-transformation-anne-hidalgo-mayor

5 months ago

FFmpeg 101 (2024)

https://blogs.igalia.com/llepage/ffmpeg-101/

5 months ago

Grafeo – A fast, lean, embeddable graph database built in Rust

https://grafeo.dev/

5 months ago

No evidence cannabis helps anxiety, depression, or PTSD

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/03/260319044656.htm

5 months ago

Algorithm Visualizer

https://algorithm-visualizer.org/

5 months ago

Why western carmakers' retreat from electric risks dooming them to irrelevance

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/mar/21/west-carmakers-retreat-electric-vehicle-risks-irrelevance-iran-war-evs-china

5 months ago

Passengers who refuse to use headphones can now be kicked off United flights

https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/21/travel/travel-news-happiest-countries

5 months ago

Thinking Fast, Slow, and Artificial: How AI Is Reshaping Human Reasoning

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6097646

5 months ago

How to Attract AI Bots to Your Open Source Project

https://nesbitt.io/2026/03/21/how-to-attract-ai-bots-to-your-open-source-project.html

5 months ago

Looking at Unity made me understand the point of C++ coroutines

https://mropert.github.io/2026/03/20/unity_cpp_coroutines/

5 months ago

Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yljdgwppzo

5 months ago

Show HN: Atomic – self-hosted, semantically-connected personal knowledge base

https://github.com/kenforthewin/atomic

5 months ago

How BYD Got EV Chargers to Work Almost as Fast as Gas Pumps

https://www.wired.com/story/how-byds-ev-charger-got-even-faster-and-it-might-not-matter-as-much-as-you-think/

5 months ago

Show HN: Termcraft – terminal-first 2D sandbox survival in Rust

https://github.com/pagel-s/termcraft

5 months ago

Major leap towards reanimation after death as mammal's brain preserved

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2520204-major-leap-towards-reanimation-after-death-as-mammals-brain-preserved/

5 months ago

Common Lisp Development Tooling

https://www.creativetension.co/posts/common-lisp-development-tooling

5 months ago

Ju Ci (锔瓷): The Ancient Art of Repairing Porcelain

https://thesublimeblog.org/2025/03/13/ju-ci-the-ancient-art-of-repairing-porcelain/

5 months ago

Apple Announces New Mac Sales Record Following MacBook Neo Launch

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/03/20/apple-shares-mac-sales-achievement/

5 months ago

Former FBI Director Robert Mueller Has Died

https://apnews.com/article/robert-mueller-fbi-director-trump-russia-investigation-7aca939dc25d4652815376f73e0f9aaf

5 months ago

Google adds 24-hour wait and mandatory reboot to Android sideloading flowdead

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/08/elevating-android-security.html

5 months ago

Atuin v18.13 – better search, a PTY proxy, and AI for your shell

https://blog.atuin.sh/atuin-v18-13/

5 months ago

Senior European journalist suspended over AI-generated quotes

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/20/mediahuis-suspends-senior-journalist-over-ai-generated-quotes

5 months ago

MSA: Memory Sparse Attention

https://github.com/EverMind-AI/MSA

5 months ago

Attempts to post the latest Trivy security incident have been marked [dead]

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=github.com%2Faquasecurity

5 months ago

BIO – The Bao I/O Co-Processor

https://www.crowdsupply.com/baochip/dabao/updates/bio-the-bao-i-o-co-processor

5 months ago

Departure Mono Font

https://departuremono.com/

5 months ago

The Impact of AI on Game Dev Jobs. Open to Work Crisis

https://darkounity.com/blog-post?id=the-impact-of-ai-on-game-dev-jobs-open-to-work-crisis--1774128585922

5 months ago

Hawaii's worst flooding in 20 years threatens dam, prompts evacuations

https://www.nbcnews.com/weather/floods/hawaii-worst-flooding-in-20-years-rcna264573

5 months ago

An Aural Companion for Decades, CBS News Radio Crackles to a Close

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/21/business/media/cbs-news-radio-appraisal.html

5 months ago

The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/last-testaments-richard-ii-and-henry-iv

5 months ago

Ozempic Is About to Go Generic for Billions of People

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/health/ozempic-wegovy-generic-india-china-canada.html

5 months ago

Fun with CSF firmware (RK3588 GPU firmware)

https://icecream95.gitlab.io/fun-with-csf-firmware.html

5 months ago

How Ford burned $12B in Brazil (2021)

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/how-ford-burned-12-billion-brazil-2021-05-20/

5 months ago

No Semicolons Needed

https://terts.dev/blog/no-semicolons-needed/

5 months ago

Italy, Belgium set to lose gas supply after biggest LNG plant bombed

https://www.politico.eu/article/italy-belgium-lose-gas-supply-world-biggest-lng-plant-bombed/

5 months ago