top 50% 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/

2 months ago

984 upvotes – 615 comments

LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

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

2 months ago

794 upvotes – 453 comments

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/

2 months ago

686 upvotes – 258 comments

Say No to Palantir in Europe

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

2 months ago

606 upvotes – 174 comments

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/

2 months ago

581 upvotes – 265 comments

The Cognitive Dark Forest

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

2 months ago

570 upvotes – 273 comments

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

2 months ago

443 upvotes – 204 comments

Neovim 0.12.0

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

2 months ago

406 upvotes – 262 comments

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

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

2 months ago

400 upvotes – 237 comments

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/

2 months ago

382 upvotes – 536 comments

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

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

2 months ago

345 upvotes – 247 comments

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

2 months ago

318 upvotes – 162 comments

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/

2 months ago

313 upvotes – 425 comments

Coding Agents Could Make Free Software Matter Again

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

2 months ago

270 upvotes – 306 comments

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

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

2 months ago

251 upvotes – 194 comments

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

2 months ago

238 upvotes – 166 comments

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

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

2 months ago

229 upvotes – 137 comments

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

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

2 months ago

202 upvotes – 141 comments

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

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

2 months ago

189 upvotes – 103 comments

Chess in SQL

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

2 months ago

186 upvotes – 47 comments

What Category Theory Teaches Us About DataFrames

https://mchav.github.io/what-category-theory-teaches-us-about-dataframes/

2 months ago

185 upvotes – 65 comments

Windows 95 defenses against installers that overwrite a file with an older one

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260324-00/?p=112159

2 months ago

167 upvotes – 97 comments

The road signs that teach travellers about France

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20260327-the-road-signs-that-teach-travellers-about-france

2 months ago

153 upvotes – 72 comments

Build123d: A Python CAD programming library

https://github.com/gumyr/build123d

2 months ago

152 upvotes – 63 comments

Significant progress made on Xbox 360 recompilation

https://readonlymemo.com/rexglue-xbox-360-recompilation-interview/

2 months ago

150 upvotes – 35 comments

Midnight train from GA: A view of America from the tracks as airports struggle

https://isp.netscape.com/news/story/0001/20260329/e4d8ea591b3b036142c2bf2dee7dff5a

2 months ago

148 upvotes – 139 comments

A Recipe for Steganogravy

https://theo.lol/python/ai/steganography/seo/recipes/2026/03/27/a-recipe-for-steganogravy.html

2 months ago

137 upvotes – 30 comments

The "Vibe Coding" Wall of Shame

https://crackr.dev/vibe-coding-failures

2 months ago

131 upvotes – 79 comments

Netscape News Feed Straight Out of the Late 00s

https://isp.netscape.com/

2 months ago

126 upvotes – 26 comments

TSA lines are so out of control that travelers are hiring line-sitters

https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2026/03/28/tsa-line-sitters/

2 months ago

115 upvotes – 140 comments

The True Shape of Io's Steeple Mountain

https://www.weareinquisitive.com/news/hidden-in-the-shadow

2 months ago

108 upvotes – 2 comments

Solar is winning the energy race

https://www.dw.com/en/solar-is-winning-the-energy-race/a-76517556

2 months ago

107 upvotes – 141 comments

AyaFlow: A high-performance, eBPF-based network traffic analyzer written in Rust

https://github.com/DavidHavoc/ayaFlow

2 months ago

102 upvotes – 8 comments

More on Version Control

https://bramcohen.com/p/more-on-version-control

2 months ago

101 upvotes – 40 comments

The rise and fall of IBM's 4 Pi aerospace computers: an illustrated history

https://www.righto.com/2026/03/ibm-4-pi-computer-history.html

2 months ago

100 upvotes – 25 comments

There is No Spoon. A software engineers primer for demystified ML

https://github.com/dreddnafious/thereisnospoon

2 months ago

98 upvotes – 32 comments

Show HN: Free, in-browser PDF editor

https://breezepdf.com/?v=3

2 months ago

96 upvotes – 45 comments

Kyushu Railway Company Train Varieties

https://www.jrkyushu.co.jp/english/train/index.html

2 months ago

96 upvotes – 15 comments

Sky Wins Irish Court Order to Unmask 300 Pirate IPTV Users via Revolut Bank

https://torrentfreak.com/sky-wins-irish-court-order-to-unmask-300-pirate-iptv-users-via-revolut-bank/

2 months ago

91 upvotes – 55 comments

Show HN: Home Maker: Declare Your Dev Tools in a Makefile

https://thottingal.in/blog/2026/03/29/home-maker/

2 months ago

91 upvotes – 66 comments

Emacs-libgterm: Terminal emulator for Emacs using libghostty-vt

https://github.com/rwc9u/emacs-libgterm

2 months ago

91 upvotes – 30 comments

Lat.md: Agent Lattice: a knowledge graph for your codebase, written in Markdown

https://github.com/1st1/lat.md

2 months ago

90 upvotes – 61 comments

Show HN: TurboQuant for vector search – 2-4 bit compression

https://github.com/RyanCodrai/py-turboquant

2 months ago

89 upvotes – 6 comments

Show HN: Sheet Ninja – Google Sheets as a CRUD Back End for Vibe Coders

https://sheetninja.io

2 months ago

85 upvotes – 75 comments

Stop Publishing Garbage Data, It's Embarrassing

https://successfulsoftware.net/2026/03/29/stop-publishing-garbage-data-its-embarrassing/

2 months ago

84 upvotes – 64 comments

First Western Digital, now Sony: The tech giant suspends SD card sales

https://mashable.com/article/sony-sd-card-sales-suspended-memory-shortage

2 months ago

83 upvotes – 69 comments

OpenYak – An open-source Cowork that runs any model and owns your filesystem

https://github.com/openyak/desktop

2 months ago

80 upvotes – 38 comments

Show HN: Crazierl – An Erlang Operating System

https://crazierl.org/demo/

2 months ago

72 upvotes – 14 comments

An Introduction to Writing Systems and Unicode

https://r12a.github.io/scripts/tutorial/part2

2 months ago

69 upvotes – 13 comments

Digitizing photos from the 1998 Game Boy Camera

https://swiftrocks.com/digitizing-photos-from-the-1998-game-boy-camera

2 months ago

68 upvotes – 15 comments
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