Top Hacker News Stories - Mar 15-21, 2026

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   The pleasures of poor product design (inconspicuous.info)

   269 points by NaOH 18d ago 100 comments
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   Snowflake AI Escapes Sandbox and Executes Malware (promptarmor.com)

   269 points by ozgune 18d ago 83 comments
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   OpenAI Has New Focus (on the IPO) (om.co)

   266 points by aamederen 18d ago 255 comments
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   Mozilla to launch free built-in VPN in upcoming Firefox 149 (cyberinsider.com)

   265 points by adrianwaj 17d ago 163 comments
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   Show HN: Duplicate 3 layers in a 24B LLM, logical deduction .22→.76. No training (github.com)

   265 points by xlayn 17d ago 81 comments
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   Juggalo makeup blocks facial recognition technology (2019) (consequence.net)

   263 points by speckx 17d ago 155 comments
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   FSF statement on copyright infringement lawsuit Bartz v. Anthropic (fsf.org)

   263 points by m463 20d ago 132 comments
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   The 100 hour gap between a vibecoded prototype and a working product (kanfa.macbudkowski.com)

   262 points by kiwieater 21d ago 331 comments
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   Finding all regex matches has always been O(n²) (iev.ee)

   260 points by lalitmaganti 17d ago 70 comments
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    Mayor of Paris removed parking spaces, reduced the number of cars (cnn.com)

    257 points by heresie-dabord 15d ago 381 comments
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    Bombadil: Property-based testing for web UIs (github.com)

    257 points by Klaster_1 17d ago 106 comments
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    Animated 'Firefly' Reboot in Development from Nathan Fillion, 20th TV (hollywoodreporter.com)

    254 points by Amorymeltzer 21d ago 95 comments
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    The emergence of print-on-demand Amazon paperback books (alexerhardt.com)

    252 points by aerhardt 21d ago 191 comments
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    Electronics for Kids, 2nd Edition (nostarch.com)

    252 points by 0x54MUR41 17d ago 60 comments
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    FFmpeg 101 (2024) (blogs.igalia.com)

    249 points by vinhnx 15d ago 9 comments
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    GPT‑5.4 Mini and Nano (openai.com)

    248 points by meetpateltech 19d ago 145 comments
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    Noq: n0's new QUIC implementation in Rust (iroh.computer)

    248 points by od0 17d ago 38 comments
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    Grafeo – A fast, lean, embeddable graph database built in Rust (grafeo.dev)

    245 points by 0x1997 15d ago 97 comments
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    I'm 60 years old. Claude Code killed a passion (news.ycombinator.com)

    244 points by fred1268 21d ago 193 comments
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    The truth that haunts the Ramones: 'They sold more T-shirts than records' (english.elpais.com)

    243 points by c420 14d ago 223 comments
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    Attention Residuals (github.com)

    241 points by GaggiX 16d ago 34 comments
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    Meta Horizon Worlds on Meta Quest is being discontinued (communityforums.atmeta.com)

    240 points by par 19d ago 264 comments
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    Write up of my homebrew CPU build (willwarren.com)

    238 points by wwarren 21d ago 50 comments
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    Scaling Karpathy's Autoresearch: What Happens When the Agent Gets a GPU Cluster (blog.skypilot.co)

    237 points by hopechong 17d ago 94 comments
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    The worst volume control UI in the world (2017) (uxdesign.cc)

    234 points by andsoitis 18d ago 117 comments
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    My first patch to the Linux kernel (pooladkhay.com)

    234 points by pooladkhay 17d ago 56 comments
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    Lazycut: A simple terminal video trimmer using FFmpeg (github.com)

    233 points by masterpos 20d ago 65 comments
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    Study finds no evidence cannabis helps anxiety, depression, or PTSD (sciencedaily.com)

    232 points by nothrowaways 14d ago 228 comments
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    Harold and George Destroy the World (tomclancy.info)

    231 points by tclancy 21d ago 311 comments
30. 150.
    VisiCalc Reconstructed (zserge.com)

    231 points by ingve 19d ago 80 comments