Top Hacker News Stories – March 8, 2026

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   Dave Farber, 'Grandfather of the Internet', dies at 91 (nytimes.com)

   15 pointsby rmason7d ago2 comments
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   70% of Australian teens are getting around the social media ban (twitter.com)

   15 pointsby delichon7d ago8 comments
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   California sues websites hosting 3D printed gun files (tomshardware.com)

   15 pointsby pseudolus7d ago6 comments
4. 124.
   Schedule tasks in a loop in Claude Code (twitter.com)

   14 pointsby jonator7d ago1 comments
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   Art Crimes: The Writing on the Wall (graffiti.org)

   14 pointsby themaxdavitt7d ago3 comments
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   Drone strikes raise doubts over Gulf as AI superpower (theguardian.com)

   14 pointsby mooreds7d ago0 comments
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   Show HN: Joha – a free browser-based drawing playground with preset shape tools (joha-app.pages.dev)

   13 pointsby smlee7d ago2 comments
8. 128.
   2,847 Amazon Prime Video engineers laid off (twitter.com)

   13 pointsby huijzer7d ago5 comments
9. 129.
   Perfect Green Screen Keys (github.com)

   13 pointsby jermaustin17d ago0 comments
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    The Misconception That Air Supremacy Has Been Achieved over Iran (twz.com)

    13 pointsby JumpCrisscross7d ago2 comments
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    Alabama set to execute man who didn't kill anyone (nbcnews.com)

    13 pointsby Jimmc4147d ago6 comments
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    Tesla opens its first Megacharger station to Semi customers in California (electrek.co)

    13 pointsby mattas7d ago0 comments
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    Explosion reported outside US embassy in Oslo, police say (bbc.com)

    12 pointsby petethomas8d ago0 comments
14. 134.
    Symbolic derivatives and the rust rewrite of RE (iev.ee)

    12 pointsby todsacerdoti7d ago1 comments
15. 135.
    GNU and the AI Reimplementations (antirez.com)

    12 pointsby surprisetalk7d ago2 comments
16. 136.
    China is quietly upstaging America with its open models (2025) (economist.com)

    12 pointsby mooreds7d ago3 comments
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    Show HN: Flux, a tiny protocol that rethinks email from the ground up (github.com)

    12 pointsby wokki207d ago8 comments
18. 138.
    OpenAI might end up on the right side of history (news.ycombinator.com)

    12 pointsby shoman30037d ago11 comments
19. 139.
    Lindsey Graham's Quest to Sell Trump on Striking Iran (wsj.com)

    12 pointsby hn_acker7d ago2 comments
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    Push for $40 smartphones builds momentum, but still faces cost hurdles (techcrunch.com)

    11 pointsby jnord8d ago0 comments
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    Trump says not mulling a draft executive order to seize control over elections (pbs.org)

    11 pointsby pabs37d ago3 comments
22. 142.
    

    Show HN: I wrote down every expensive hardware development mistake I've seen (thehardesthardwarelessons.com)

    11 pointsby hans8637d ago2 comments
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    Sam Altman's greed and dishonesty are finally catching up to him (garymarcus.substack.com)

    11 pointsby Anon847d ago2 comments
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    US Considers Idea of Special Operation to Seize Iran's Uranium (fortune.com)

    11 pointsby geox7d ago0 comments
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    Microsoft releases urgent Office patch. Russian-state hackers pounce (arstechnica.com)

    11 pointsby joozio7d ago0 comments
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    Show HN: WhatsApp Clone – No Setup or Signup (positive-intentions.com)

    11 pointsby Screen87747d ago11 comments
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    Detection Is Not Protection: What WAF Detection Mode Does (and Doesn't) (blog.ebbypeter.com)

    11 pointsby shadowAuror7d ago8 comments
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    Show HN: OxiMedia – Pure Rust Reconstruction of FFmpeg and OpenCV (github.com)

    11 pointsby kitasan7d ago11 comments
29. 149.
    CorridorKey: Open-source tool for high-quality green screen keying [video] (youtube.com)

    11 pointsby akhdanfadh7d ago1 comments
30. 150.
    Anthropic's Claude may have helped bomb elementary school in Iran (twitter.com)

    10 pointsby timedude7d ago1 comments