Top Hacker News Stories - Mar 8-14, 2026

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   Faster asin() was hiding in plain sight (16bpp.net)

   263 points by def-pri-pub 25d ago 130 comments
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   PCB devboard the size of a USB-C plug (github.com)

   262 points by zachlatta 28d ago 69 comments
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   Living human brain cells play DOOM on a CL1 [video] (youtube.com)

   257 points by kevinak 28d ago 275 comments
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   Claude March 2026 usage promotion (support.claude.com)

   255 points by weldu 21d ago 148 comments
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   Tested: How Many Times Can a DVD±RW Be Rewritten? Methodology and Results (goughlui.com)

   253 points by giuliomagnifico 28d ago 89 comments
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   Okmain: How to pick an OK main colour of an image (dgroshev.com)

   253 points by dgroshev 27d ago 47 comments
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   The engine of Germany's wealth is blocking its future (europeancorrespondent.com)

   248 points by mariuz 27d ago 337 comments
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   3D-Knitting: The Ultimate Guide (oliver-charles.com)

   248 points by ChadNauseam 24d ago 88 comments
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   GIMP 3.2 released (gimp.org)

   247 points by F3nd0 22d ago 87 comments
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    Grief and the AI split (blog.lmorchard.com)

    245 points by avernet 23d ago 381 comments
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    Intel Demos Chip to Compute with Encrypted Data (spectrum.ieee.org)

    244 points by sohkamyung 26d ago 121 comments
12. 132.
    The unlikely story of Teardown Multiplayer (blog.voxagon.se)

    242 points by lairv 23d ago 65 comments
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    The death of social media is the renaissance of RSS (2025) (smartlab.at)

    241 points by jruohonen 27d ago 170 comments
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    Launch HN: RunAnywhere (YC W26) – Faster AI Inference on Apple Silicon (github.com)

    240 points by sanchitmonga22 26d ago 153 comments
15. 135.
    DHS Contracts Explorer – Hacked data from the Office of Industry Partnership (micahflee.github.io)

    240 points by peq42 24d ago 47 comments
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    Most of the US economy is in a recession (businessinsider.com)

    236 points by wslh 27d ago 247 comments
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    FFmpeg-over-IP – Connect to remote FFmpeg servers (github.com)

    235 points by steelbrain 26d ago 68 comments
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    Marketing for Founders (github.com)

    234 points by jimsojim 22d ago 114 comments
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    Source code of Swedish e-government services has been leaked (darkwebinformer.com)

    233 points by tavro 23d ago 246 comments
20. 140.
    Writing my own text editor, and daily-driving it (blog.jsbarretto.com)

    230 points by todsacerdoti 25d ago 114 comments
21. 141.
    Coding after coders: The end of computer programming as we know it? (nytimes.com)

    229 points by angst 24d ago 438 comments
22. 142.
    DARPA’s new X-76 (darpa.mil)

    229 points by newer_vienna 27d ago 221 comments
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    Avoiding Trigonometry (2013) (iquilezles.org)

    229 points by WithinReason 24d ago 87 comments
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    Notes on writing Rust-based Wasm (notes.brooklynzelenka.com)

    228 points by vinhnx 28d ago 111 comments
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    Show HN: Axe – A 12MB binary that replaces your AI framework (github.com)

    227 points by jrswab 24d ago 128 comments
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    Jolla on track to ship new phone with Sailfish OS, user-replaceable battery (liliputing.com)

    226 points by heresie-dabord 27d ago 150 comments
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    Claude now creates interactive charts, diagrams and visualizations (claude.com)

    226 points by adocomplete 24d ago 115 comments
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    1B identity records exposed in ID verification data leak (aol.com)

    225 points by robtherobber 24d ago 60 comments
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    Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AI (reuters.com)

    224 points by jp0d 24d ago 305 comments
30. 150.
    Rebasing in Magit (entropicthoughts.com)

    224 points by ibobev 26d ago 139 comments