Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2026-03-17

  1. Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story www.timesofisrael.com - 925 comments 1440 points
  2. Palestinian boy, 12, describes how Israeli forces killed his family in car www.bbc.com - 298 comments 1048 points
  3. Corruption erodes social trust more in democracies than in autocracies www.frontiersin.org - 363 comments 693 points
  4. MoD sources warn Palantir role at heart of government is threat to UK security www.thenerve.news - 256 comments 619 points
  5. US SEC preparing to scrap quarterly reporting requirement www.reuters.com - 279 comments 525 points
  6. US Job Market Visualizer karpathy.ai - 333 comments 454 points
  7. Leanstral: Open-source agent for trustworthy coding and formal proof engineering mistral.ai - 88 comments 427 points
  8. Meta’s renewed commitment to jemalloc engineering.fb.com - 176 comments 404 points
  9. Why I love FreeBSD it-notes.dragas.net - 196 comments 402 points
  10. The “small web” is bigger than you might think kevinboone.me - 162 comments 377 points
  11. My Journey to a reliable and enjoyable locally hosted voice assistant - 2025 community.home-assistant.io - 103 comments 359 points
  12. The American Healthcare Conundrum github.com - 269 comments 315 points
  13. Kagi Translate now supports LinkedIn Speak as an output language translate.kagi.com - 49 comments 297 points
  14. Obsession with growth is destroying nature, 150 countries warn www.politico.eu - 206 comments 271 points
  15. AirPods Max 2 www.apple.com - 444 comments 262 points
  16. Starlink Mini as a failover www.jackpearce.co.uk - 184 comments 240 points
  17. Show HN: Claude Code skills that build complete Godot games github.com - 137 comments 232 points
  18. ‘Pokémon Go’ players unknowingly trained delivery robots with 30B images www.popsci.com - 92 comments 191 points
  19. Lazycut: A simple terminal video trimmer using FFmpeg github.com - 56 comments 187 points
  20. Ask HN: What is it like being in a CS major program these days? news.ycombinator.com - 174 comments 176 points
  21. Nvidia Launches Vera CPU, Purpose-Built for Agentic AI nvidianews.nvidia.com - 86 comments 153 points
  22. Apideck CLI – An AI-agent interface with much lower context consumption than MCP www.apideck.com - 108 comments 128 points
  23. Every layer of review makes you 10x slower apenwarr.ca - 55 comments 124 points
  24. The return-to-the-office trend backfires thehill.com - 95 comments 118 points
  25. Beyond has dropped “meat” from its name and expanded its high-protein drink line plantbasednews.org - 189 comments 109 points
  26. Even faster asin- was staring right at me 16bpp.net - 52 comments 109 points
  27. Comparing Python Type Checkers: Typing Spec Conformance pyrefly.org - 45 comments 105 points
  28. Speed at the cost of quality: Study of use of Cursor AI in open source projects - 2025 arxiv.org - 58 comments 103 points
  29. MM120, a pharmaceutical form of LSD, shown to reduce anxiety symptoms - 2025 www.sciencedaily.com - 84 comments 91 points
  30. Language model teams as distributed systems arxiv.org - 39 comments 89 points