Hacker News on Wednesday, 11 March 2026

Stories posted this day, by points. Rank history starts with the October 2026 rebuild.

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

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

4026 points by usefulposter 7 months ago | 1509 comments

Hacker News guidelines section stating users should not post AI-generated or AI-edited comments, as HN is for human conversation.

hacker-news community-guidelines ai-generated-content moderation

Screenshot of bloomberg.github.io: Temporal: The 9-year journey to fix time in JavaScript

Temporal: The 9-year journey to fix time in JavaScript (bloomberg.github.io)

742 points by robpalmer 7 months ago | 236 comments

A Bloomberg JS Blog post by Jason Williams recounting the nine-year effort to standardize the Temporal date/time API in JavaScript through TC39.

javascript temporal-api tc39 bloomberg

Screenshot of hacks.mozilla.org: Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web

Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web (hacks.mozilla.org)

613 points by mikece 7 months ago | 223 comments

Mozilla Hacks article by Ryan Hunt on why WebAssembly remains a second-class language on the web and how to make it first-class.

webassembly mozilla web-platform javascript

Screenshot of daringfireball.net: The MacBook Neo

The MacBook Neo (daringfireball.net)

603 points by etothet 7 months ago | 947 comments

John Gruber's Daring Fireball piece on Apple's MacBook Neo, tracing how iPhone A-series chip performance foreshadowed it.

macbook-neo apple apple-silicon laptops

Screenshot of geohot.github.io: Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns

Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns (geohot.github.io)

601 points by ppew 7 months ago | 402 comments

A blog post by geohot arguing that social media fear about falling behind on AI agents is nonsense and urging people to focus on creating value for others.

ai-agents ai-hype geohot social-media

Screenshot of channelsurfer.tv: Show HN: Channel Surfer – Watch YouTube like it’s cable TV

Show HN: Channel Surfer – Watch YouTube like it’s cable TV (channelsurfer.tv)

569 points by kilroy123 7 months ago | 167 comments

Channel Surfer is a browser-based web app that presents your YouTube subscriptions as cable-TV-style channels, imported locally via a bookmarklet without accounts.

youtube cable-tv bookmarklet browser-app

Screenshot of washingtonpost.com: Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job

Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job (washingtonpost.com)

483 points by raldi 7 months ago | 195 comments

Washington Post exclusive reporting a whistleblower's claim that a former DOGE engineer took Social Security data on a thumb drive to a new job, now under inspector general investigation.

doge social-security-administration data-breach whistleblower

Screenshot of codewall.ai: How we hacked McKinsey's AI platform

How we hacked McKinsey's AI platform (codewall.ai)

420 points by mycroft_4221 7 months ago | 168 comments

CodeWall blog post describing how its autonomous offensive agent found vulnerabilities in McKinsey's internal AI platform Lilli.

mckinsey lilli ai-security penetration-testing

Screenshot of theverge.com: I was interviewed by an AI bot for a job

I was interviewed by an AI bot for a job (theverge.com)

381 points by speckx 7 months ago | 385 comments

A Verge video feature in which reporter Hayden Field tries three AI interviewer platforms for real and mock jobs, shown here via a SchwarzTech snippet post.

ai-interviews hiring job-interviews recruiting

Screenshot of bbc.com: Wired headphone sales are exploding

Wired headphone sales are exploding (bbc.com)

380 points by billybuckwheat 7 months ago | 636 comments

BBC Future article by Thomas Germain on rising wired headphone sales and the backlash against Bluetooth audio.

wired-headphones bluetooth audio consumer-electronics

Screenshot of ziglang.org: Zig – Type Resolution Redesign and Language Changes

Zig – Type Resolution Redesign and Language Changes (ziglang.org)

376 points by Retro_Dev 7 months ago | 210 comments

Zig devlog entry by Matthew Lugg describing a merged 30,000-line PR redesigning the Zig compiler's type resolution, with related language changes.

zig compilers type-resolution language-design

Screenshot of github.com: BitNet: Inference framework for 1-bit LLMs

BitNet: Inference framework for 1-bit LLMs (github.com)

357 points by redm 7 months ago | 163 comments

GitHub repository for Microsoft's BitNet, the official inference framework for 1-bit large language models.

bitnet 1-bit-llm quantization llm-inference

Screenshot of thewave.engineer: Lego's 0.002mm specification and its implications for manufacturing (2025)

Lego's 0.002mm specification and its implications for manufacturing (2025)(thewave.engineer)

337 points by scrlk 7 months ago | 288 comments

An article on The Wave engineering site about LEGO's 0.002mm manufacturing tolerance specification and what it means for manufacturing practices.

lego manufacturing injection-molding tolerances

Screenshot of crowdsupply.com: Baochip-1x: What it is, why I'm doing it now and how it came about

Baochip-1x: What it is, why I'm doing it now and how it came about (crowdsupply.com)

326 points by timhh 7 months ago | 71 comments

A Crowd Supply project update by Andrew 'bunnie' Huang explaining the Baochip-1x RISC-V microcontroller with mostly open RTL, why he is launching it now, and its origins.

baochip risc-v microcontroller open-hardware

Screenshot of wiz.io: Google closes deal to acquire Wiz