Top Hacker News Stories – March 18, 2026

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    SSH has no Host header (blog.exe.dev)
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    No space, no power, no support – what life is like for Indian IT workers (theconversation.com)
  3. 3.
    AI – Assassinating Intelligence (yashgarg.dev)
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    Commandments of AI (Mindfulness) (news.ycombinator.com)
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    Real or Slop? – Programming Languages Papers Edition (slop.zackg.me)
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    Spite Driven Development (notes.zachmanson.com)
  7. 7.
    Meta's Omnilingual MT for 1,600 Languages (ai.meta.com)
  8. 8.
    Show HN: Hat v0.7.0 – Fast, local automatic file compression and conversion (github.com)
  9. 9.
    New iPhone app covering retro CPUs (apps.apple.com)
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    Knowledge workers managing AI show collapsed productivity, not just a plateau (news.ycombinator.com)
  11. 11.
    Ask HN: I built a geometric reasoning engine – what should I test it on? (news.ycombinator.com)
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    Show HN: Libfyaml 1.0.0-alpha1, a modern YAML library for C (github.com)
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    Show HN: Paste your YAML to calculate and optimize GitHub Actions costs (news.ycombinator.com)
  14. 14.
    Superpowers (github.com)
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    OTel-Native by Design – Back Ends That Export to Any Observability Stack (signoz.io)
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    Why investors won't know what to make of AI for a while (economist.com)
  17. 17.
    Z AI Character Card Wiki (zaicc.net)
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    Cognitive overload: When processing information becomes a problem (2022) (mayoclinichealthsystem.org)
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    The Healing Power of Social Friction (noemamag.com)
  20. 20.
    Switzerland Built an Alternative to BGP (theregister.com)
  21. 21.
    Show HN: N0x – LLM inference, agents, RAG, Python exec in browser, no back end (n0xth.vercel.app)