top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-03-29

ChatGPT Won't Let You Type Until Cloudflare Reads Your React State

https://www.buchodi.com/chatgpt-wont-let-you-type-until-cloudflare-reads-your-react-state-i-decrypted-the-program-that-does-it/

4 months ago

LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47561489

4 months ago

Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder

https://techfixated.com/a-1977-time-capsule-voyager-1-runs-on-69-kb-of-memory-and-an-8-track-tape-recorder-4/

4 months ago

Say No to Palantir in Europe

https://action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-03-palantir-petition-EN

4 months ago

Overestimation of microplastics potentially caused by scientists' gloves

https://news.umich.edu/nitrile-and-latex-gloves-may-cause-overestimation-of-microplastics-u-m-study-reveals/

4 months ago

The Cognitive Dark Forest

https://ryelang.org/blog/posts/cognitive-dark-forest/

4 months ago

Police used AI facial recognition to wrongly arrest TN woman for crimes in ND

https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/29/us/angela-lipps-ai-facial-recognition

4 months ago

Neovim 0.12.0

https://github.com/neovim/neovim/releases/tag/v0.12.0

4 months ago

Samsung Magician disk utility takes 18 steps and two reboots to uninstall

https://chalmovsky.com/2026/03/29/samsung-magician.html

4 months ago

My MacBook Keyboard Is Broken and It's Insanely Expensive to Fix

https://tobiasberg.net/posts/my-macbook-keyboard-is-broken-and-its-insanely-expensive-to-fix/

4 months ago

Miasma: A tool to trap AI web scrapers in an endless poison pit

https://github.com/austin-weeks/miasma

4 months ago

Full network of clitoral nerves mapped out for first time

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/mar/29/full-network-clitoral-nerves-mapped-out-first-time-women-pelvic-surgery

4 months ago

C++26 is done ISO C++ standards meeting, Trip Report

https://herbsutter.com/2026/03/29/c26-is-done-trip-report-march-2026-iso-c-standards-meeting-london-croydon-uk/

4 months ago

Coding Agents Could Make Free Software Matter Again

https://www.gjlondon.com/blog/ai-agents-could-make-free-software-matter-again/

4 months ago

Claude Code runs Git reset –hard origin/main against project repo every 10 mins

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/40710

4 months ago

The bot situation on the internet is worse than you could imagine

https://gladeart.com/blog/the-bot-situation-on-the-internet-is-actually-worse-than-you-could-imagine-heres-why

4 months ago

Alzheimer's disease mortality among taxi and ambulance drivers (2024)

https://www.bmj.com/content/387/bmj-2024-082194

5 months ago

ESP32-S31: 320MHz 2C RV32IMAFCP+CLIC, 512KB SRAM, GbE, 802.11ax, 61 GPIO

https://www.espressif.com/en/news/ESP32_S31_Release

4 months ago

What if AI doesn't need more RAM but better math?

https://adlrocha.substack.com/p/adlrocha-what-if-ai-doesnt-need-more

4 months ago

Chess in SQL

https://www.dbpro.app/blog/chess-in-pure-sql

4 months ago