Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2026-03-18

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