Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2026-03-29

  1. Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies sytse.com - 194 comments 895 points
  2. Spanish legislation as a Git repo github.com - 217 comments 715 points
  3. AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice news.stanford.edu - 451 comments 600 points
  4. I decompiled the White House’s new app thereallo.dev - 183 comments 475 points
  5. Britain today generating 90%+ of electricity from renewables grid.iamkate.com - 269 comments 388 points
  6. I Built an Open-World Engine for the N64 - video www.youtube.com - 65 comments 379 points
  7. CERN uses ultra-compact AI models on FPGAs for real-time LHC data filtering theopenreader.org - 139 comments 309 points
  8. Cocoa-Way – Native macOS Wayland compositor for running Linux apps seamlessly github.com - 100 comments 307 points
  9. CSS is DOOMed nielsleenheer.com - 65 comments 273 points
  10. South Korea Mandates Solar Panels for Public Parking Lots www.reutersconnect.com - 148 comments 269 points
  11. Folk are getting dangerously attached to AI that always tells them they’re right www.theregister.com - 210 comments 265 points
  12. Further human + AI + proof assistant work on Knuth’s “Claude Cycles” problem twitter.com - 123 comments 190 points
  13. Linux is an interpreter astrid.tech - 41 comments 188 points
  14. The first 40 months of the AI era lzon.ca - 86 comments 162 points
  15. Private equity turned vulnerable elderly people into human ATMs www.theguardian.com - 91 comments 143 points
  16. Treason in the Futures Markets paulkrugman.substack.com - 60 comments 131 points
  17. OpenCiv1 – open-source rewrite of Civ1 github.com - 36 comments 128 points
  18. Alzheimer’s disease mortality among taxi and ambulance drivers - 2024 www.bmj.com - 54 comments 95 points
  19. Adults Lose Skills to AI. Children Never Build Them www.psychologytoday.com - 74 comments 90 points
  20. No one is happy with NASA’s new idea for private space stations arstechnica.com - 83 comments 83 points
  21. Gaza toddler returned with alleged torture wounds after Israeli detention www.independent.co.uk - 42 comments 83 points
  22. Wikipedia bans AI-generated content in its online encyclopedia www.theguardian.com - 18 comments 79 points
  23. Google just gave Android power users a sideloading win www.androidauthority.com - 92 comments 76 points
  24. Microsoft Set for Worst Quarter Since 2008 finance.yahoo.com - 47 comments 76 points
  25. rpg.actor Game Jam rpg.actor - 6 comments 73 points
  26. Undroidwish – a single-file, batteries-included Tcl/Tk binary for many platforms androwish.org - 3 comments 72 points
  27. ICAO issued new power bank restriction on flight www.icao.int - 123 comments 71 points
  28. The risk of AI isn’t making us lazy, but making “lazy” look productive news.ycombinator.com - 68 comments 65 points
  29. Goldman Sachs now reckons that oil could take out the 2008 record of $147 www.ft.com - 73 comments 63 points
  30. Canadian man says U.S. border officers made him give DNA sample www.cbc.ca - 30 comments 63 points