Top Hacker News Stories – March 12, 2026

1. 91.
   The Bitter Lesson Has No Utility Function (gfrm.in)

   20 pointsby slygent3d ago13 comments
2. 92.
   

   Show HN: LogClaw – Open-source AI SRE that auto-creates tickets from logs (logclaw.ai)

   19 pointsby Robelkidin3d ago34 comments
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   Show HN: Slop or not – can you tell AI writing from human in everyday contexts? (slop-or-not.space)

   19 pointsby eigen-vector3d ago20 comments
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   DOGE Operative Accused of Planning to Take Social Security Data Is Named (wired.com)

   19 pointsby afavour3d ago1 comments
5. 95.
   Lf-lean: The frontier of verified software engineering (theorem.dev)

   18 pointsby alpaylan3d ago5 comments
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   50 Years of Thinking Different (apple.com)

   17 pointsby tosh3d ago4 comments
7. 97.
   

   Custom programming languages make agents good (blog.firetiger.com)

   17 pointsby matsur3d ago8 comments
8. 98.
   

   Alex Karp: "People are likely gonna have less good, and less interesting jobs" (newrepublic.com)

   17 pointsby DGAP3d ago4 comments
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   Show HN: I built an SDK that scrambles HTML so scrapers get garbage (obscrd.dev)

   16 pointsby larsmosr3d ago38 comments
10. 100.
    

    Linux Page Faults, MMAP, and userfaultfd for fast sandbox boot times (shayon.dev)

    16 pointsby shayonj3d ago3 comments
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    Vite 8.0 is out! (vite.dev)

    16 pointsby rk063d ago2 comments
12. 102.
    AI is great at writing code. It's terrible at making decisions (untangle.work)

    16 pointsby kdbgng3d ago4 comments
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    Show HN: Global Maritime Chokepoints (ryanshook.org)

    16 pointsby RyanShook3d ago5 comments
14. 104.
    If computers are the future, why are computer users permanently illiterate? (lapcatsoftware.com)

    15 pointsby robenkleene3d ago1 comments
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    I wrote Gitleaks, now I'm maintaining Betterleaks (aikido.dev)

    15 pointsby zricethezav3d ago3 comments
16. 106.
    Ask HN: How do you cope with the broken rythm of agentic coding? (news.ycombinator.com)

    15 pointsby pauletienney3d ago9 comments
17. 107.
    

    Lies I was told about collaborative editing, Part 2: Why we don't use Yjs (moment.dev)

    15 pointsby antics3d ago3 comments
18. 108.
    

    CPU fraud, next round: Chuwi CoreBook Plus also affected (notebookcheck.net)

    14 pointsby bpierre3d ago1 comments
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    Grand jury subpoena for Signal user data in the United States District Court (signal.org)

    14 pointsby nobody99993d ago0 comments
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    DirectX: Bringing Console-Level Developer Tools to Windows (devblogs.microsoft.com)

    14 pointsby haunter3d ago1 comments
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    How long does it take to get last liquid drops from kitchen containers? (brown.edu)

    14 pointsby hhs3d ago4 comments
22. 112.
    Meta delays rollout of new AI model after performance concerns (nytimes.com)

    14 pointsby wibbily3d ago3 comments
23. 113.
    AI is supercharging fake work (news.ycombinator.com)

    13 pointsby rxm2333d ago10 comments
24. 114.
    Unlike Past U.S. Conflicts, Iran Attack Is Opposed by Most Americans (nytimes.com)

    13 pointsby duxup3d ago6 comments
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    I built a system that turns tax law from 100 regions into executable rules (getsphere.com)

    13 pointsby abowcut3d ago0 comments
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    Apple to celebrate 50 years of thinking different (apple.com)

    12 pointsby meetpateltech3d ago4 comments
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    Show HN: PipeStep – Step-through debugger for GitHub Actions workflows (github.com)

    12 pointsby photobombastic3d ago9 comments
28. 118.
    Show HN: Stratum – SQL that branches and beats DuckDB on 35/46 1T benchmarks (datahike.io)

    12 pointsby whilo3d ago3 comments
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    Pi-Autoresearch (github.com)

    12 pointsby tin7in3d ago1 comments
30. 120.
    Golden Sets: Regression Engineering for Probabilistic Systems (heavythoughtcloud.com)

    12 pointsby ryan-s3d ago5 comments