Top Hacker News Stories – March 31, 2026

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   GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash (theregister.com)

   76 pointsby _____k1h ago32 comments
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   Google's 200M-parameter time-series foundation model with 16k context (github.com)

   53 pointsby codepawl1h ago25 comments
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   Sony halts memory card shipments due to NAND shortage (techzine.eu)

   25 pointsby methuselah_in1h ago7 comments
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   Show HN: Raincast – Describe an app, get a native desktop app (open source) (github.com)

   10 pointsby tito7771h ago14 comments
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   Cape Town Seeks to Emulate India's High-End Outsourcing Push (bloomberg.com)

   5 pointsby alephnerd1h ago0 comments
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   China factories log fastest growth in a year as war risks loom large (reuters.com)

   4 pointsby defrost1h ago0 comments
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   Scientists uncovered the nutrients bees were missing – Colonies surged 15-fold (sciencedaily.com)

   4 pointsby apparent20m ago0 comments
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   Seeds of doubt:The dark side of an Italian energy giant's green jet fuel promise (politico.eu)

   3 pointsby leonidasrup1h ago0 comments
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   How the Apple II created the core of personal computing (theverge.com)

   3 pointsby rbanffy25m ago0 comments
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    Vaping likely to cause cancer, new Australian review of evidence finds (rnz.co.nz)

    3 pointsby abawany15m ago0 comments
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    Securing Elliptic Curve Cryptocurrencies Against Quantum Vulnerabilities [pdf] (quantumai.google)

    2 pointsby nstj1h ago0 comments
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    Vector Databases Explained in 3 Levels of Difficulty (machinelearningmastery.com)

    2 pointsby eigenBasis1h ago0 comments
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    Scientists say we've been looking in the wrong place for human origins (sciencedaily.com)

    2 pointsby DeathArrow1h ago0 comments
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    Gone (Almost) Phishin' (ma.tt)

    2 pointsby luu1h ago0 comments
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    Spacecraft Heat Shields Could Violently "Burst" in Alien Atmospheres (universetoday.com)

    2 pointsby gostsamo1h ago1 comments
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    PyTorch Primer (bitwise.land)

    2 pointsby jackomelon1h ago0 comments
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    Pgit: I Imported the Linux Kernel into PostgreSQL (oseifert.ch)

    2 pointsby ImGajeed761h ago0 comments
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    Office, Messaging and Verbs (2015) (ben-evans.com)

    2 pointsby simonebrunozzi1h ago0 comments
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    We Used to Think Everybody Heard a Voice Inside Their Heads – But We Were Wrong (sciencealert.com)

    2 pointsby Anon841h ago1 comments
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    Sandflare – I built a sandbox that launches AI agent VMs in ~300ms (news.ycombinator.com)

    2 pointsby ajaysheoran23231h ago2 comments
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    A group of flamingoes is called a 'flamboyance' (themarginalian.org)

    2 pointsby sparshselim48m ago0 comments
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    Hand-Drawn Style in PowerPoint (pptcrafter.wordpress.com)

    2 pointsby teleforce46m ago0 comments
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    Claude Code v2.1.88 Sourcemap (unpkg.com)

    2 pointsby PashKatel23m ago0 comments
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    Good CTE Bad CTE (boringsql.com)

    2 pointsby x59121m ago0 comments
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    Shor's algorithm is possible with as few as 10k reconfigurable atomic qubits (arxiv.org)

    2 pointsby ipnon13m ago0 comments
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    2026 has been the most pivotal year in my career and it's only March (nullprogram.com)

    2 pointsby x59112m ago0 comments
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    Freedom is the only thing that matters. Living freely. Creating freely (news.ycombinator.com)

    2 pointsby kaizenb8m ago1 comments
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    YouTube chat logs reveal employees aimed for "viewer addiction" and scrapped (dexerto.com)

    2 pointsby latein8m ago1 comments
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    Read-Only vs. Action AI: Why Most Odoo AI Tools Stop at the Report (odooclaw.ai)

    1 pointsby oktra_dev1h ago0 comments
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    Run virtualized iOS with Private Cloud Compute drivers (github.com)

    1 pointsby goranmoomin1h ago0 comments