top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-03-28

Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies

https://sytse.com/cancer/

5 months ago

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

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

5 months ago

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

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

5 months ago

I decompiled the White House's new app

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

5 months ago

Don't YOLO your file system

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

5 months ago

CSS is DOOMed

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

5 months ago

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

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

5 months ago

Britain today generating 90%+ of electricity from renewables

https://grid.iamkate.com/

5 months ago

South Korea Mandates Solar Panels for Public Parking Lots

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

5 months ago

Pretext

https://github.com/chenglou/pretext

5 months ago

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

https://github.com/hauntsaninja/git_bayesect

5 months ago

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

5 months ago

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

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

5 months ago

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/

5 months ago

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

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

5 months ago

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

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

5 months ago

Linux Is an Interpreter

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

5 months ago

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/

5 months ago

The first 40 months of the AI era

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

5 months ago

TruffleRuby

https://chrisseaton.com/truffleruby/

5 months ago

OpenCiv1 – open-source rewrite of Civ1

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

5 months ago

Private equity turned vulnerable elderly people into human ATMs

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/mar/28/the-great-care-home-cash-grab-how-private-equity-turned-vulnerable-elderly-people-into-human-atms

5 months ago

The revenge of the data scientist

https://hamel.dev/blog/posts/revenge/

5 months ago

Fear and denial in Silicon Valley over social media addiction trial

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c86e3eglv2go

5 months ago

From 300KB to 69KB per Token: How LLM Architectures Solve the KV Cache Problem

https://news.future-shock.ai/the-weight-of-remembering/

5 months ago

Google just gave Android power users a sideloading win

https://www.androidauthority.com/android-sideload-carry-over-3652845/

5 months ago

What major works of literature were written after age of 85? 75? 65?

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/03/25/what-major-works-of-literature-were-written-after-age-of-85-75-65/

5 months ago

Teenage Engineering's PO-32 acoustic modem and synth implementation

https://github.com/ericlewis/libpo32

5 months ago

Gaza toddler released from Israeli custody with 'cigarette burn' wounds

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-toddler-released-israeli-custody-cigarette-burn-wounds

5 months ago

Treason in the Futures Markets

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/treason-in-the-futures-markets

5 months ago

Seeing Like a Spreadsheet

https://davidoks.blog/p/how-the-spreadsheet-reshaped-america

5 months ago

Sealing Paper Packaging Without Adhesives

https://www.fraunhofer.de/en/press/research-news/2026/march-2026/sealing-paper-packaging-without-adhesives.html

5 months ago

Bring Back MiniDV with This Raspberry Pi FireWire Hat

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/minidv-with-raspberry-pi-firewire-hat/

5 months ago

Show HN: QuickBEAM – run JavaScript as supervised Erlang/OTP processes

https://github.com/elixir-volt/quickbeam

5 months ago

Wikipedia bans AI-generated content in its online encyclopedia

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/27/wikipedia-bans-ai

5 months ago

Adults Lose Skills to AI. Children Never Build Them

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-algorithmic-mind/202603/adults-lose-skills-to-ai-children-never-build-them

5 months ago

From Proxmox to FreeBSD and Sylve in Our Office Lab

https://www.iptechnics.com/blogs/from-proxmox-to-freebsd-and-sylve-in-our-office-lab

5 months ago

ICAO issued new power bank restriction on flight

https://www.icao.int/news/new-power-bank-restrictions-will-safeguard-international-aviation

5 months ago

No one is happy with NASA's new idea for private space stations

https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/03/what-happens-next-with-nasas-plan-to-replace-the-iss-source-it-could-get-ugly/

5 months ago

Undroidwish – a single-file, batteries-included Tcl/Tk binary for many platforms

https://androwish.org/home/wiki?name=undroidwish

5 months ago

Cat Itecture: Better Cat Window Boxes

https://gwern.net/catitecture

5 months ago

Microsoft Set for Worst Quarter Since 2008

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/microsoft-set-worst-quarter-since-103556906.html

5 months ago

Roulette Computers: Hidden Devices That Predict Spins

https://www.roulette-computers.com/

5 months ago

rpg.actor Game Jam

https://rpg.actor/jam

5 months ago

Sylve – Proxmox Alternative by FreeBSD

https://sylve.io/

5 months ago

Canadian man says U.S. border officers made him give DNA sample

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/us-border-dna-canadian-man-cbp-cross-larson-dingell-raskin-9.7144472

5 months ago