top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-03-28

Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies

https://sytse.com/cancer/

2 months ago

1400 upvotes – 255 comments

I put all 8,642 Spanish laws in Git – every reform is a commit

https://github.com/EnriqueLop/legalize-es

2 months ago

824 upvotes – 233 comments

AI chatbots are "Yes-Men" that reinforce bad relationship decisions, study finds

https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2026/03/ai-advice-sycophantic-models-research

2 months ago

790 upvotes – 616 comments

I decompiled the White House's new app

https://thereallo.dev/blog/decompiling-the-white-house-app

2 months ago

667 upvotes – 259 comments

Don't YOLO your file system

https://jai.scs.stanford.edu/

2 months ago

635 upvotes – 330 comments

CSS is DOOMed

https://nielsleenheer.com/articles/2026/css-is-doomed-rendering-doom-in-3d-with-css/

2 months ago

504 upvotes – 112 comments

I Built an Open-World Engine for the N64 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXxmIw9axWw

2 months ago

461 upvotes – 94 comments

Britain today generating 90%+ of electricity from renewables

https://grid.iamkate.com/

2 months ago

413 upvotes – 299 comments

South Korea Mandates Solar Panels for Public Parking Lots

https://www.reutersconnect.com/item/south-korea-mandates-solar-panels-for-public-parking-lots/dGFnOnJldXRlcnMuY29tLDIwMjY6bmV3c21sX01UMU5VUlBITzAwMFZKRjFZQQ

2 months ago

396 upvotes – 223 comments

Pretext

https://github.com/chenglou/pretext

2 months ago

391 upvotes – 70 comments

Show HN: Git bayesect – Bayesian Git bisection for non-deterministic bugs

https://github.com/hauntsaninja/git_bayesect

2 months ago

336 upvotes – 44 comments

CERN uses tiny AI models burned into silicon for real-time LHC data filtering

https://theopenreader.org/Journalism:CERN_Uses_Tiny_AI_Models_Burned_into_Silicon_for_Real-Time_LHC_Data_Filtering

2 months ago

334 upvotes – 152 comments

Cocoa-Way – Native macOS Wayland compositor for running Linux apps seamlessly

https://github.com/J-x-Z/cocoa-way

2 months ago

331 upvotes – 111 comments

AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition crams 208MB of cache into a single chip

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/03/amds-ryzen-9-9950x3d2-dual-edition-crams-208mb-of-cache-into-a-single-chip/

2 months ago

311 upvotes – 171 comments

Folk are getting dangerously attached to AI that always tells them they're right

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/27/sycophantic_ai_risks/

2 months ago

287 upvotes – 224 comments

Further human + AI + proof assistant work on Knuth's "Claude Cycles" problem

https://twitter.com/BoWang87/status/2037648937453232504

2 months ago

260 upvotes – 187 comments

Linux Is an Interpreter

https://astrid.tech/2026/03/28/0/linux-is-an-interpreter/

2 months ago

241 upvotes – 55 comments

Audio tapes reveal mass rule-breaking in Milgram's obedience experiments

https://www.psypost.org/audio-tapes-reveal-mass-rule-breaking-in-milgram-s-obedience-experiments-2026-03-26/

2 months ago

227 upvotes – 133 comments

The first 40 months of the AI era

https://lzon.ca/posts/other/thoughts-ai-era/

2 months ago

216 upvotes – 144 comments

OpenCiv1 – open-source rewrite of Civ1

https://github.com/rajko-horvat/OpenCiv1

2 months ago

197 upvotes – 73 comments
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