Top Hacker News Stories - Mar 15-21, 2026

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   France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app (lemonde.fr)

   649 points by MrDresden 16d ago 533 comments
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   Our commitment to Windows quality (blogs.windows.com)

   648 points by hadrien01 16d ago 1202 comments
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   “Your frustration is the product” (daringfireball.net)

   606 points by llm_nerd 17d ago 333 comments
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   Chrome DevTools MCP (2025) (developer.chrome.com)

   604 points by xnx 21d ago 234 comments
5. 35.
   Tinybox – A powerful computer for deep learning (tinygrad.org)

   601 points by albelfio 14d ago 341 comments
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   Nightingale – open-source karaoke app that works with any song on your computer (nightingale.cafe)

   592 points by rzzzzru 18d ago 162 comments
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   LLM Architecture Gallery (sebastianraschka.com)

   586 points by tzury 21d ago 41 comments
8. 38.
   Every layer of review makes you 10x slower (apenwarr.ca)

   577 points by greyface- 19d ago 315 comments
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   Blocking Internet Archive Won't Stop AI, but Will Erase Web's Historical Record (eff.org)

   573 points by pabs3 15d ago 163 comments
10. 40.
    The “small web” is bigger than you might think (kevinboone.me)

    561 points by speckx 20d ago 241 comments
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    Show HN: Three new Kitten TTS models – smallest less than 25MB (github.com)

    561 points by rohan_joshi 17d ago 182 comments
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    How I write software with LLMs (stavros.io)

    544 points by indigodaddy 20d ago 529 comments
13. 43.
    Why I love FreeBSD (it-notes.dragas.net)

    530 points by enz 20d ago 262 comments
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    The American Healthcare Conundrum (github.com)

    523 points by rexroad 20d ago 656 comments
15. 45.
    

    Warranty Void If Regenerated (nearzero.software)

    520 points by Stwerner 17d ago 321 comments
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    Meta’s renewed commitment to jemalloc (engineering.fb.com)

    515 points by hahahacorn 20d ago 239 comments
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    FBI is buying location data to track US citizens, director confirms (techcrunch.com)

    509 points by jbegley 17d ago 187 comments
18. 48.
    US Job Market Visualizer (karpathy.ai)

    503 points by andygcook 20d ago 360 comments
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    A Japanese glossary of chopsticks faux pas (2022) (nippon.com)

    493 points by cainxinth 15d ago 392 comments
20. 50.
    The three pillars of JavaScript bloat (43081j.com)

    489 points by onlyspaceghost 14d ago 272 comments
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    Despite doubts, federal cyber experts approved Microsoft cloud service (propublica.org)

    487 points by hn_acker 18d ago 225 comments
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    Anthropic takes legal action against OpenCode (github.com)

    483 points by _squared_ 17d ago 398 comments
23. 53.
    Python 3.15's JIT is now back on track (fidget-spinner.github.io)

    483 points by guidoiaquinti 19d ago 310 comments
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    Get Shit Done: A meta-prompting, context engineering and spec-driven dev system (github.com)

    473 points by stefankuehnel 18d ago 254 comments
25. 55.
    Return of the Obra Dinn: spherical mapped dithering for a 1bpp first-person game (forums.tigsource.com)

    472 points by PaulHoule 19d ago 59 comments
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    4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches (bbc.com)

    465 points by mosura 17d ago 874 comments
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    Nvidia greenboost: transparently extend GPU VRAM using system RAM/NVMe (gitlab.com)

    463 points by mmastrac 21d ago 136 comments
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    $96 3D-printed rocket that recalculates its mid-air trajectory using a $5 sensor (github.com)

    452 points by ZacnyLos 21d ago 531 comments
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    Give Django your time and money, not your tokens (better-simple.com)

    442 points by dcreager 20d ago 171 comments
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    Walmart: ChatGPT checkout converted 3x worse than website (searchengineland.com)

    439 points by speckx 17d ago 280 comments