Hacker News top 30 - 2026-03-18
- Reddit User Uncovers Who Is Behind Meta’s $2B Lobbying for Age Verification Tech www.gadgetreview.com - 20 comments 854 points
- Kagi Small Web kagi.com - 198 comments 736 points
- Microsoft’s ‘unhackable’ Xbox One has been hacked by ‘Bliss’ www.tomshardware.com - 220 comments 628 points
- A Decade of Slug terathon.com - 47 comments 539 points
- FFmpeg 8.1 ffmpeg.org - 57 comments 376 points
- Python 3.15’s JIT is now back on track fidget-spinner.github.io - 164 comments 342 points
- If you thought code writing speed was your problem you have bigger problems andrewmurphy.io - 206 comments 306 points
- Get Shit Done: A meta-prompting, context engineering and spec-driven dev system github.com - 143 comments 292 points
- Mistral AI Releases Forge mistral.ai - 49 comments 288 points
- Meta and TikTok let harmful content rise to drove engagement, say whistleblowers www.bbc.com - 162 comments 262 points
- Illinois Introducing Operating System Account Age Bill www.ilga.gov - 398 comments 261 points
- Unsloth Studio unsloth.ai - 50 comments 250 points
- Node.js needs a virtual file system blog.platformatic.dev - 218 comments 249 points
- Java 26 is here hanno.codes - 188 comments 225 points
- GPT‑5.4 Mini and Nano openai.com - 135 comments 220 points
- Ryugu asteroid samples contain all DNA and RNA building blocks phys.org - 122 comments 220 points
- Have a Fucking Website www.otherstrangeness.com - 93 comments 199 points
- Meta Horizon Worlds on Meta Quest is being discontinued communityforums.atmeta.com - 207 comments 195 points
- Silicon Valley’s “Pronatalists” Killed WFH. The Strait of Hormuz Brought It Back www.governance.fyi - 275 comments 193 points
- OpenSUSE Kalpa kalpadesktop.org - 87 comments 191 points
- A proposal to classify happiness as a psychiatric disorder - 1992 pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov - 99 comments 176 points
- Reverse-engineering Viktor and making it open source matijacniacki.com - 70 comments 166 points
- Building a Shell healeycodes.com - 39 comments 157 points
- ‘The Secret Agent’: Exploring a Vibrant, yet Violent Brazil - 2025 theasc.com - 68 comments 143 points
- Edge.js: Run Node apps inside a WebAssembly sandbox wasmer.io - 36 comments 126 points
- Show HN: Sub-millisecond VM sandboxes using CoW memory forking github.com - 24 comments 122 points
- Warranty Void If Regenerated nearzero.software - 22 comments 94 points
- Show HN: Antfly: Distributed, Multimodal Search and Memory and Graphs in Go github.com - 36 comments 85 points
- Why AI systems don’t learn – On autonomous learning from cognitive science arxiv.org - 26 comments 84 points
- The pleasures of poor product design www.inconspicuous.info - 25 comments 74 points
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