top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-03-26

We Haven't Seen the Worst of What Gambling and Prediction Markets Will Do

https://www.derekthompson.org/p/we-havent-seen-the-worst-of-what

5 months ago

908 upvotes – 698 comments

End of "Chat Control": EU Parliament Stops Mass Surveillance in Voting Thriller

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/end-of-chat-control-eu-parliament-stops-mass-surveillance-in-voting-thriller-paving-the-way-for-genuine-child-protection/

5 months ago

682 upvotes – 311 comments

Apple discontinues the Mac Pro with no plans for future hardware

https://9to5mac.com/2026/03/26/apple-discontinues-the-mac-pro/

5 months ago

665 upvotes – 648 comments

Shell Tricks That Make Life Easier (and Save Your Sanity)

https://blog.hofstede.it/shell-tricks-that-actually-make-life-easier-and-save-your-sanity/

5 months ago

646 upvotes – 280 comments

Moving from GitHub to Codeberg, for lazy people

https://unterwaditzer.net/2025/codeberg.html

5 months ago

638 upvotes – 351 comments

European Parliament decided that Chat Control 1.0 must stop

https://bsky.app/profile/tuta.com/post/3mhxkfowv322c

5 months ago

559 upvotes – 25 comments

$500 GPU outperforms Claude Sonnet on coding benchmarks

https://github.com/itigges22/ATLAS

5 months ago

486 upvotes – 285 comments

Judge blocks Pentagon effort to 'punish' Anthropic with supply chain risk label

https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/26/business/anthropic-pentagon-injunction-supply-chain-risk

5 months ago

445 upvotes – 233 comments

My minute-by-minute response to the LiteLLM malware attack

https://futuresearch.ai/blog/litellm-attack-transcript/

5 months ago

441 upvotes – 158 comments

Olympic Committee Announces a Broad Ban of Transgender Athletes in Womens Events

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/world/olympics/ioc-transgender-athletes-ban.html

5 months ago

360 upvotes – 843 comments

False claims in a widely-cited paper. No corrections. No consequences

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/03/24/false-claims-in-a-published-no-corrections-no-consequences-welcome-to-the-business-school/?unapproved=2412259&moderation-hash=80fae7fdc82aee50eb3cb14cd8c0b080#comment-2412259

5 months ago

341 upvotes – 169 comments

Show HN: I put an AI agent on a $7/month VPS with IRC as its transport layer

https://georgelarson.me/writing/2026-03-23-nullclaw-doorman/

5 months ago

340 upvotes – 97 comments

Swift 6.3 Released

https://www.swift.org/blog/swift-6.3-released/

5 months ago

340 upvotes – 229 comments

Clojure: The Documentary, official trailer [video]

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

5 months ago

319 upvotes – 90 comments

New York City hospitals drop Palantir as controversial AI firm expands in UK

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/26/new-york-hospitals-palantir-ai

5 months ago

314 upvotes – 145 comments

John Bradley, author of xv, has passed away

https://gab.com/markofafreeman/posts/116290669616400528

5 months ago

310 upvotes – 90 comments

Landmark L.A. jury verdict finds Instagram, YouTube were designed to addict kids

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-03-25/social-media-lawsuit-trial-meta-google-verdict

5 months ago

304 upvotes – 3 comments

We Rewrote JSONata with AI in a Day, Saved $500K/Year

https://www.reco.ai/blog/we-rewrote-jsonata-with-ai

5 months ago

275 upvotes – 257 comments

Data is everywhere. The government is buying it without a warrant

https://www.npr.org/2026/03/25/nx-s1-5752369/ice-surveillance-data-brokers-congress-anthropic

5 months ago

273 upvotes – 81 comments

CERN to host Europe's flagship open access publishing platform

https://home.cern/news/news/cern/cern-host-europes-flagship-open-access-publishing-platform

5 months ago

255 upvotes – 25 comments
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