Top Hacker News Stories – March 15, 2026

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   Cannabinoids remove plaque-forming Alzheimer's proteins from brain cells (2016) (salk.edu)

   91 pointsby anjel5h ago53 comments
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   Palantir defends its role in the kill chain: "We are proud of that" (heise.de)

   89 pointsby botanical13h ago56 comments
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   IBM, sonic delay lines, and the history of the 80×24 display (2019) (righto.com)

   85 pointsby rbanffy18h ago31 comments
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   UMD Scientists Create 'Smart Underwear' to Measure Human Flatulence (cbmg.umd.edu)

   82 pointsby ohjeez14h ago53 comments
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   Generating All 32-Bit Primes (Part I) (hnlyman.github.io)

   80 pointsby hnlyman18h ago29 comments
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   Show HN: What if your synthesizer was powered by APL (or a dumb K clone)? (octetta.github.io)

   78 pointsby octetta16h ago28 comments
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   Codegen is not productivity (antifound.com)

   74 pointsby donutshop15h ago96 comments
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   Excel incorrectly assumes that the year 1900 is a leap year (learn.microsoft.com)

   67 pointsby susam6h ago23 comments
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   The Linux Programming Interface as a university course text (man7.org)

   64 pointsby teleforce6h ago6 comments
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    How I write software with LLMs (stavros.io)

    64 pointsby indigodaddy4h ago14 comments
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    Show HN: GDSL – 800 line kernel: Lisp subset in 500, C subset in 1300 (firthemouse.github.io)

    62 pointsby FirTheMouse14h ago16 comments
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    SuperTux 0.7.0 (github.com)

    61 pointsby pentagrama12h ago15 comments
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    The low-tech brilliance of Iranian design (thelastfarm.substack.com)

    61 pointsby greenie_beans11h ago7 comments
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    Small U.S. town, big company. Can it weather the tariff Blizzard? (Digi-Key) (2025) (npr.org)

    59 pointsby upofadown16h ago40 comments
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    Show HN: Lux – Drop-in Redis replacement in Rust. 5.6x faster, ~1MB Docker image (github.com)

    58 pointsby mattyhogan8h ago27 comments
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    A new Bigfoot documentary helps explain our conspiracy-minded era (msn.com)

    58 pointsby zdw7h ago45 comments
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    Federal Right to Privacy Act – Draft legislation (righttoprivacyact.github.io)

    57 pointsby pilingual3h ago33 comments
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    AI tools are making me lose interest in CS fundamentals (news.ycombinator.com)

    55 pointsby Tim256593h ago45 comments
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    The Official DR DOS Website (dr-dos.com)

    45 pointsby Tomte14h ago14 comments
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    PSA: Top Google Result for Claude Code Is Malicious (onemillionwords.substack.com)

    44 pointsby rahulyc17h ago12 comments
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    Apple's MacBook Pro 14 cannot handle the M5 Max (notebookcheck.net)

    41 pointsby virgildotcodes22h ago11 comments
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    NetBlocks says Iran blackout enters day 16 as arrests target Starlink users (iranintl.com)

    41 pointsby ukblewis16h ago19 comments
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    Show HN: Free OpenAI API Access with ChatGPT Account (github.com)

    39 pointsby EvanZhouDev8h ago16 comments
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    Tech companies defeat bill as AI drains local water supplies (theolympus.net)

    38 pointsby laurex12h ago23 comments
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    How North Korean IT Workers Infiltrated Western Tech Companies (nbcnews.com)

    33 pointsby squiggy2217h ago2 comments
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    White House administration set to be paid $10B for brokering TikTok deal (theguardian.com)

    33 pointsby Jimmc4145h ago14 comments
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    The Webpage Has Instructions. The Agent Has Your Credentials (openguard.sh)

    32 pointsby everlier15h ago22 comments
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    Honda is killing its EVs – and any chance of competing in the future (techcrunch.com)

    31 pointsby sylvainkalache16h ago31 comments
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    Ukraine strike on Russian chip plant sparks revolt among pro-war bloggers (english.nv.ua)

    24 pointsby gnabgib10h ago1 comments
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    AI generates nude images that outrank real photographs in sexual appeal (psypost.org)

    24 pointsby geox6h ago4 comments