Top Hacker News Stories - Mar 15-21, 2026

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   Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story (timesofisrael.com)

   1606 points by defly 20d ago 1055 comments
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   Astral to Join OpenAI (astral.sh)

   1489 points by ibraheemdev 17d ago 901 comments
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   Kagi Translate now supports LinkedIn Speak as an output language (translate.kagi.com)

   1469 points by smitec 19d ago 345 comments
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   OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent (opencode.ai)

   1274 points by rbanffy 15d ago 620 comments
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   Palestinian boy, 12, describes how Israeli forces killed his family in car (bbc.com)

   1256 points by tartoran 19d ago 419 comments
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   Afroman found not liable in defamation case (nypost.com)

   1250 points by antonymoose 17d ago 739 comments
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   Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps (arstechnica.com)

   1196 points by 0xedb 17d ago 1262 comments
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   Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming (1989) (cs.unc.edu)

   1020 points by vismit2000 18d ago 449 comments
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   Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act: Dangerous backdoor surveillance risks remain (michaelgeist.ca)

   1005 points by opengrass 20d ago 335 comments
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    I'm OK being left behind, thanks (shkspr.mobi)

    1000 points by coinfused 16d ago 765 comments
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    Have a fucking website (otherstrangeness.com)

    948 points by asukachikaru 18d ago 525 comments
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    Reddit User Uncovers Who Is Behind Meta's $2B Lobbying for Age Verification Tech (gadgetreview.com)

    907 points by doener 19d ago 22 comments
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    The 49MB web page (thatshubham.com)

    857 points by kermatt 20d ago 375 comments
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    Some things just take time (lucumr.pocoo.org)

    853 points by vaylian 15d ago 273 comments
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    Do Not Turn Child Protection into Internet Access Control (news.dyne.org)

    839 points by smartmic 14d ago 450 comments
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    Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service (deepdelver.substack.com)

    836 points by freddykruger 16d ago 296 comments
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    Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents (pew.org)

    815 points by matthest 17d ago 999 comments
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    ArXiv declares independence from Cornell (science.org)

    811 points by bookstore-romeo 16d ago 277 comments
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    Microsoft's 'unhackable' Xbox One has been hacked by 'Bliss' (tomshardware.com)

    802 points by crtasm 19d ago 292 comments
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    Kagi Small Web (kagi.com)

    795 points by trueduke 19d ago 210 comments
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    Leanstral: Open-source agent for trustworthy coding and formal proof engineering (mistral.ai)

    783 points by Poudlardo 19d ago 192 comments
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    Chuck Norris has died (variety.com)

    760 points by mp3il 16d ago 468 comments
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    A Decade of Slug (terathon.com)

    760 points by mwkaufma 18d ago 80 comments
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    US SEC preparing to scrap quarterly reporting requirement (reuters.com)

    757 points by djoldman 19d ago 471 comments
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    Corruption erodes social trust more in democracies than in autocracies (frontiersin.org)

    745 points by PaulHoule 20d ago 388 comments
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    Mistral AI Releases Forge (mistral.ai)

    733 points by pember 18d ago 194 comments
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    OpenRocket (openrocket.info)

    696 points by zeristor 21d ago 124 comments
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    MoD sources warn Palantir role at heart of government is threat to UK security (thenerve.news)

    679 points by vrganj 20d ago 293 comments
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    Stop Sloppypasta (stopsloppypasta.ai)

    667 points by namnnumbr 21d ago 259 comments
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    A sufficiently detailed spec is code (haskellforall.com)

    652 points by signa11 17d ago 335 comments