top 50% 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

Obsolete Sounds

https://citiesandmemory.com/obsolete-sounds/

5 months ago

248 upvotes – 50 comments

Marriage over, €100k down; AI users whose lives were wrecked by delusion

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/mar/26/ai-chatbot-users-lives-wrecked-by-delusion

5 months ago

220 upvotes – 275 comments

LibreOffice and the Art of Overreacting

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03/25/libreoffice-and-the-art-of-overreacting/

5 months ago

215 upvotes – 144 comments

Deploytarot.com – tarot card reading for deployments

https://deploytarot.com/setup

5 months ago

206 upvotes – 68 comments

OpenTelemetry Profiles Enters Public Alpha

https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2026/profiles-alpha/

5 months ago

205 upvotes – 30 comments

Show HN: Turbolite – a SQLite VFS serving sub-250ms cold JOIN queries from S3

https://github.com/russellromney/turbolite

5 months ago

185 upvotes – 47 comments

Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/03/newly-purchased-vizio-tvs-now-require-walmart-accounts-to-use-smart-features/

5 months ago

182 upvotes – 177 comments

Cory Doctorow: Interoperability Can Save the Open Web

https://spectrum.ieee.org/doctorow-interoperability

5 months ago

177 upvotes – 60 comments

Order Granting Preliminary Injunction – Anthropic vs. U.S. Department of War [pdf]

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.465515/gov.uscourts.cand.465515.134.0.pdf

5 months ago

174 upvotes – 46 comments

Intel Announces Arc Pro B70 and Arc Pro B65 GPUs

https://www.techpowerup.com/347703/intel-announces-arc-pro-b70-and-arc-pro-b65-gpus-maxes-out-xe2-battlemage-architecture

5 months ago

158 upvotes – 110 comments

A Verilog to Factorio Compiler and Simulator (Working RISC-V CPU)

https://github.com/ben-j-c/verilog2factorio

5 months ago

154 upvotes – 22 comments

Colibri – chat platform built on the AT Protocol for communities big and small

https://colibri.social/

5 months ago

147 upvotes – 103 comments

An unstoppable mushroom is tearing through North American forests

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260325-an-unstoppable-mushroom-is-tearing-through-north-american-forests

5 months ago

144 upvotes – 84 comments

The RISE RISC-V Runners: free, native RISC-V CI on GitHub

https://riseproject.dev/2026/03/24/announcing-the-rise-risc-v-runners-free-native-risc-v-ci-on-github/

5 months ago

143 upvotes – 43 comments

Building FireStriker: Making Civic Tech Free

https://firestriker.org/blog/building-firestriker-why-im-making-civic-tech-free

5 months ago

139 upvotes – 27 comments

Stripe Projects: Provision and manage services from the CLI

https://projects.dev/

5 months ago

137 upvotes – 31 comments

French e, è, é, ê, ë – what's the difference?

https://jakubmarian.com/french-e-e-e-e-e-whats-the-difference/

5 months ago

131 upvotes – 156 comments

Iran oil revenue soars as it's the only exporter out of Hormuz

https://financialpost.com/commodities/energy/oil-gas/iran-oil-revenue-soars-hormuz

5 months ago

127 upvotes – 127 comments

In Math, Rigor Is Vital. But Are Digitized Proofs Taking It Too Far?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/in-math-rigor-is-vital-but-are-digitized-proofs-taking-it-too-far-20260325/

5 months ago

125 upvotes – 107 comments

Using FireWire on a Raspberry Pi

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/firewire-on-a-raspberry-pi/

5 months ago

119 upvotes – 57 comments

Anthropic Subprocessor Changes

https://trust.anthropic.com

5 months ago

114 upvotes – 49 comments

Chicago artist creates tourism posters for city's neighborhoods

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/25/chicago-neighborhood-posters/

5 months ago

112 upvotes – 60 comments

Building a Blog with Elixir and Phoenix

https://jola.dev/posts/building-a-blog-with-elixir-and-phoenix

5 months ago

107 upvotes – 13 comments

I'll buy your electronics to feed our robot

https://www.dayworkx.com/

5 months ago

102 upvotes – 41 comments

When Do We Become Adults, Really?

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/when-do-we-become-adults-really

5 months ago

100 upvotes – 141 comments

Show HN: Veil – Dark mode PDFs without destroying images, runs in the browser

https://veil.simoneamico.com/

5 months ago

100 upvotes – 28 comments

Improving Composer through real-time RL

https://cursor.com/blog/real-time-rl-for-composer

5 months ago

98 upvotes – 34 comments

Show HN: Fio: 3D World editor/game engine – inspired by Radiant and Hammer

https://github.com/ViciousSquid/Fio

5 months ago

96 upvotes – 12 comments

Trust Signals as Sparklines for Hacker News

https://hn-trustspark.com/

5 months ago

82 upvotes – 46 comments

The ANSI art "telecomics" of the 1992 election

https://breakintochat.com/blog/2026/03/25/don-lokke-and-mack-the-mouse/

5 months ago

77 upvotes – 12 comments

Spring Boot Done Right: Lessons from a 400-Module Codebase

https://medium.com/all-things-software/spring-boot-done-right-lessons-from-a-400-module-codebase-e636c3c34149

5 months ago

75 upvotes – 94 comments

Creating West Coast Buddhism (2024)

https://letter.palladiummag.com/p/creating-west-coast-buddhism

5 months ago

72 upvotes – 62 comments

Show HN: Robust LLM Extractor for Websites in TypeScript

https://github.com/lightfeed/extractor

5 months ago

72 upvotes – 50 comments

Chroma Context-1: Training a Self-Editing Search Agent

https://www.trychroma.com/research/context-1

5 months ago

71 upvotes – 9 comments

Zero Days: Electric Motorcycles Are a Security Nightmare

https://persephonekarnstein.github.io/post/zero-days/

5 months ago

69 upvotes – 17 comments

The Little Book of C

https://little-book-of.github.io/c/books/en-US/book.html

5 months ago

68 upvotes – 22 comments

Meta and YouTube Found Negligent in Social-Media Addiction Trial

https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/meta-and-youtube-found-negligent-in-social-media-addiction-trial-35b2830d

5 months ago

68 upvotes – 7 comments
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