Top Hacker News Stories – March 28, 2026

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    Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies
    Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies (sytse.com)
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    Spanish legislation as a Git repo
    Spanish legislation as a Git repo (github.com)
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    AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice (news.stanford.edu)
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    I decompiled the White House's new app
    I decompiled the White House's new app (thereallo.dev)
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    CSS is DOOMed
    CSS is DOOMed (nielsleenheer.com)
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    I Built an Open-World Engine for the N64 [video] (youtube.com)
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    Britain today generating 90%+ of electricity from renewables
    Britain today generating 90%+ of electricity from renewables (grid.iamkate.com)
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    South Korea Mandates Solar Panels for Public Parking Lots (reutersconnect.com)
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    CERN uses ultra-compact AI models on FPGAs for real-time LHC data filtering
    CERN uses ultra-compact AI models on FPGAs for real-time LHC data filtering (theopenreader.org)
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    Cocoa-Way – Native macOS Wayland compositor for running Linux apps seamlessly
    Cocoa-Way – Native macOS Wayland compositor for running Linux apps seamlessly (github.com)
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    Pretext: TypeScript library for multiline text measurement and layout
    Pretext: TypeScript library for multiline text measurement and layout (github.com)
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    Folk are getting dangerously attached to AI that always tells them they're right
    Folk are getting dangerously attached to AI that always tells them they're right (theregister.com)
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    Further human + AI + proof assistant work on Knuth's "Claude Cycles" problem (twitter.com)
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    Linux is an interpreter (astrid.tech)
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    Alzheimer's disease mortality among taxi and ambulance drivers (2024) (bmj.com)
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    The first 40 months of the AI era (lzon.ca)
  17. 17.
    OpenCiv1 – open-source rewrite of Civ1
    OpenCiv1 – open-source rewrite of Civ1 (github.com)
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    Private equity turned vulnerable elderly people into human ATMs
    Private equity turned vulnerable elderly people into human ATMs (theguardian.com)
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    Android’s new sideload settings will carry over to new devices
    Android’s new sideload settings will carry over to new devices (androidauthority.com)
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    Treason in the Futures Markets
    Treason in the Futures Markets (paulkrugman.substack.com)
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    Gaza toddler returned with alleged torture wounds after Israeli detention
    Gaza toddler returned with alleged torture wounds after Israeli detention (independent.co.uk)
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    A laser-based process that enables adhesive-free paper packaging (fraunhofer.de)
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    Wikipedia bans AI-generated content in its online encyclopedia
    Wikipedia bans AI-generated content in its online encyclopedia (theguardian.com)
  24. 24.
    Adults Lose Skills to AI. Children Never Build Them
    Adults Lose Skills to AI. Children Never Build Them (psychologytoday.com)
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    Show HN: QuickBEAM – run JavaScript as supervised Erlang/OTP processes
    Show HN: QuickBEAM – run JavaScript as supervised Erlang/OTP processes (github.com)
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    ICAO issued new power bank restriction on flight
    ICAO issued new power bank restriction on flight (icao.int)
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    No one is happy with NASA's new idea for private space stations
    No one is happy with NASA's new idea for private space stations (arstechnica.com)
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    Undroidwish – A single-file, batteries-included Tcl/Tk binary for many platforms (androwish.org)
  29. 29.
    Cat Itecture: Better Cat Window Boxes (2023)
    Cat Itecture: Better Cat Window Boxes (2023) (gwern.net)
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    Microsoft Set for Worst Quarter Since 2008 (finance.yahoo.com)