Top Hacker News Stories - Mar 8-14, 2026

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   Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans (news.ycombinator.com)

   4229 points by usefulposter 24d ago 1668 comments
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   Tony Hoare has died (blog.computationalcomplexity.org)

   2043 points by speckx 26d ago 268 comments
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   Shall I implement it? No (gist.github.com)

   1563 points by breton 23d ago 564 comments
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   Can I run AI locally? (canirun.ai)

   1520 points by ricardbejarano 23d ago 354 comments
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   Malus – Clean Room as a Service (malus.sh)

   1433 points by microflash 24d ago 531 comments
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   Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act (github.com)

   1358 points by shaicoleman 23d ago 1052 comments
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   1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6 (claude.com)

   1220 points by meetpateltech 23d ago 520 comments
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   Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe (2025) (pv-magazine.com)

   1022 points by robin_reala 27d ago 666 comments
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   “This is not the computer for you” (samhenri.gold)

   1011 points by MBCook 23d ago 380 comments
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    Ageless Linux – Software for humans of indeterminate age (agelesslinux.org)

    837 points by nateb2022 21d ago 628 comments
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    Agent Safehouse – macOS-native sandboxing for local agents (agent-safehouse.dev)

    823 points by atombender 27d ago 178 comments
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    Temporal: The 9-year journey to fix time in JavaScript (bloomberg.github.io)

    790 points by robpalmer 25d ago 266 comments
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    Willingness to look stupid (sharif.io)

    764 points by Samin100 27d ago 255 comments
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    Innocent woman jailed after being misidentified using AI facial recognition (grandforksherald.com)

    758 points by rectang 23d ago 393 comments
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    Ask HN: Please restrict new accounts from posting (news.ycombinator.com)

    721 points by Oras 27d ago 515 comments
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    Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns (geohot.github.io)

    720 points by ppew 25d ago 455 comments
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    Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock (tomshardware.com)

    705 points by johnbarron 23d ago 639 comments
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    Ask HN: How to be alone? (news.ycombinator.com)

    691 points by sillysaurusx 28d ago 565 comments
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    Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web (hacks.mozilla.org)

    664 points by mikece 25d ago 271 comments
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    Online age-verification tools for child safety are surveilling adults (cnbc.com)

    660 points by bilsbie 26d ago 346 comments
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    After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes (arstechnica.com)

    659 points by ndr42 26d ago 485 comments
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    TUI Studio – visual terminal UI design tool (tui.studio)

    640 points by mipselaer 23d ago 289 comments
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    The MacBook Neo (daringfireball.net)

    639 points by etothet 25d ago 1052 comments
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    Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job (washingtonpost.com)

    624 points by raldi 25d ago 279 comments
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    Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world (wired.com)

    612 points by helloplanets 26d ago 507 comments
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    Show HN: Channel Surfer – Watch YouTube like it’s cable TV (channelsurfer.tv)

    604 points by kilroy123 25d ago 179 comments
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    Building a Procedural Hex Map with Wave Function Collapse (felixturner.github.io)

    580 points by imadr 27d ago 86 comments
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    Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft (writings.hongminhee.org)

    569 points by dahlia 27d ago 599 comments
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    The Wyden Siren Goes Off Again: We’ll Be “Stunned” By What the NSA Is Doing (techdirt.com)

    561 points by cf100clunk 23d ago 173 comments
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    Vite 8.0 Is Out (vite.dev)

    560 points by kothariji 23d ago 202 comments