Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2026-03-11

  1. Tony Hoare has died blog.computationalcomplexity.org - 216 comments 1686 points
  2. Online age-verification tools for child safety are surveilling adults www.cnbc.com - 316 comments 599 points
  3. After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes arstechnica.com - 425 comments 531 points
  4. Meta acquires Moltbook www.axios.com - 312 comments 468 points
  5. I put my whole life into a single database howisfelix.today - 208 comments 440 points
  6. Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world www.wired.com - 353 comments 420 points
  7. Yann LeCun’s AI startup raises $1B in Europe’s largest ever seed round www.ft.com - 2 comments 409 points
  8. Redox OS has adopted a Certificate of Origin policy and a strict no-LLM policy gitlab.redox-os.org - 391 comments 383 points
  9. Show HN: How I topped the HuggingFace open LLM leaderboard on two gaming GPUs dnhkng.github.io - 99 comments 376 points
  10. Debian decides not to decide on AI-generated contributions lwn.net - 238 comments 313 points
  11. Agents that run while I sleep www.claudecodecamp.com - 283 comments 295 points
  12. Amazon is holding a mandatory meeting about AI breaking its systems twitter.com - 10 comments 285 points
  13. U+237C ⍼ Is Azimuth ionathan.ch - 23 comments 249 points
  14. Intel Demos Chip to Compute with Encrypted Data spectrum.ieee.org - 105 comments 238 points
  15. Cloudflare crawl endpoint developers.cloudflare.com - 98 comments 234 points
  16. RISC-V Is Sloooow marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl - 196 comments 203 points
  17. Launch HN: RunAnywhere - YC W26 – Faster AI Inference on Apple Silicon github.com - 124 comments 203 points
  18. Rebasing in Magit entropicthoughts.com - 132 comments 200 points
  19. Universal vaccine against respiratory infections and allergens med.stanford.edu - 69 comments 198 points
  20. FFmpeg-over-IP – Connect to remote FFmpeg servers github.com - 54 comments 164 points
  21. FreeBSD 14.4-Release Announcement www.freebsd.org - 65 comments 147 points
  22. Zig – Type Resolution Redesign and Language Changes ziglang.org - 48 comments 145 points
  23. Levels of Agentic Engineering www.bassimeledath.com - 73 comments 144 points
  24. LoGeR – 3D reconstruction from extremely long videos - DeepMind, UC Berkeley loger-project.github.io - 27 comments 137 points
  25. Traffic from Russia to Cloudflare is 60% down from last year radar.cloudflare.com - 73 comments 122 points
  26. RFC 454545 – Human Em Dash Standard gist.github.com - 112 comments 117 points
  27. Ask HN: Remember Fidonet? news.ycombinator.com - 66 comments 116 points
  28. I built a programming language using Claude Code ankursethi.com - 160 comments 115 points
  29. We are building data breach machines and nobody cares idealloc.me - 42 comments 114 points
  30. Ad-tech is fascist tech pluralistic.net - 56 comments 109 points