Hacker News on Thursday, 12 March 2026

Shall I implement it? No(gist.github.com)

1446 points by breton 7 months ago | 521 comments

A GitHub Gist showing a terminal screenshot where an AI coding assistant proposes a plan and asks "Shall I implement it?" and the user answers "No".

Malus – Clean Room as a Service(malus.sh)

1356 points by microflash 7 months ago | 497 comments

Landing page for Malus, a satirical "Clean Room as a Service" offering AI robots that recreate open source projects to strip license obligations like attribution and copyleft.

Innocent woman jailed after being misidentified using AI facial recognition(grandforksherald.com)

616 points by rectang 7 months ago | 316 comments

Grand Forks Herald news article on Angela Lipps, jailed nearly six months after Fargo police misidentified her via AI facial recognition in a bank fraud case.

ATMs didn’t kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did(davidoks.blog)

502 points by colinprince 7 months ago | 527 comments

Substack essay by David Oks arguing that ATMs did not eliminate bank teller jobs but smartphone mobile banking did, exploring how automation replaces labor.

US private credit defaults hit record 9.2% in 2025, Fitch says(marketscreener.com)

413 points by JumpCrisscross 7 months ago | 442 comments

MarketScreener news article reporting Fitch's finding that US private credit default rates reached a record 9.2% in 2025.

Show HN: s@: decentralized social networking over static sites(satproto.org)

387 points by remywang 7 months ago | 186 comments

Project page for s@ (satproto), a protocol for decentralized social networking hosted on static sites, with quick-start instructions using GitHub Pages.

Bubble Sorted Amen Break(parametricavocado.itch.io)

371 points by eieio 7 months ago | 115 comments

An itch.io web toy built in Godot by Vee that sorts slices of the Amen break drum loop with bubble sort, playing the audio as it sorts.

Enhancing gut-brain communication reversed cognitive decline in aging mice(med.stanford.edu)

368 points by mustaphah 7 months ago | 176 comments

Stanford Medicine news article reporting that enhancing gut-brain communication reversed cognitive decline in aging mice.

Big data on the cheapest MacBook(duckdb.org)

360 points by bcye 7 months ago | 283 comments

DuckDB blog post benchmarking database workloads on Apple's entry-level MacBook Neo to test its suitability for big data analysis.

Returning to Rails in 2026(markround.com)

351 points by stanislavb 7 months ago | 221 comments

A personal blog post by Mark Dastmalchi-Round about returning to Ruby on Rails in 2026 for a side project.

Asia rolls out 4-day weeks, WFH to solve fuel crisis caused by Iran war(fortune.com)

348 points by speckx 7 months ago | 265 comments

Fortune article on Asian governments adopting four-day weeks, work-from-home, and other emergency measures to address a fuel crisis caused by the Iran war.

The Met releases high-def 3D scans of 140 famous art objects(openculture.com)

323 points by coloneltcb 7 months ago | 68 comments

Open Culture article reporting that the Metropolitan Museum of Art released high-definition 3D scans of 140 famous art objects, including sarcophagi, paintings and sculptures.

Dolphin Progress Release 2603(dolphin-emu.org)

311 points by BitPirate 7 months ago | 53 comments

Executing programs inside transformers with exponentially faster inference(percepta.ai)

291 points by u1hcw9nx 7 months ago | 113 comments

Home Assistant waters my plants(finnian.io)

277 points by finniananderson 7 months ago | 135 comments

An old photo of a large BBS (2022)(rachelbythebay.com)

262 points by xbryanx 7 months ago | 170 comments

Kotlin creator's new language: talk to LLMs in specs, not English(codespeak.dev)

255 points by souvlakee 7 months ago | 218 comments

Italian prosecutors seek trial for Amazon, 4 execs in alleged $1.4B tax evasion(reuters.com)

223 points by amarcheschi 7 months ago | 58 comments

DHS Contracts Explorer – Hacked data from the Office of Industry Partnership(micahflee.github.io)

221 points by peq42 7 months ago | 44 comments

US banks' exposure to private credit hits $300B (2025)(alternativecreditinvestor.com)

210 points by JumpCrisscross 7 months ago | 142 comments

3D-Knitting: The Ultimate Guide(oliver-charles.com)

202 points by ChadNauseam 7 months ago | 75 comments

Show HN: Axe – A 12MB binary that replaces your AI framework(github.com)

191 points by jrswab 7 months ago | 105 comments

Avoiding Trigonometry (2013)(iquilezles.org)

191 points by WithinReason 7 months ago | 56 comments

Coding after coders: The end of computer programming as we know it?(nytimes.com)

191 points by angst 7 months ago | 326 comments

Iran-backed hackers claim wiper attack on medtech firm Stryker(krebsonsecurity.com)

178 points by 2bluesc 7 months ago | 104 comments

Grief and the AI split(blog.lmorchard.com)

175 points by avernet 7 months ago | 286 comments

1B identity records exposed in ID verification data leak(aol.com)

173 points by robtherobber 7 months ago | 40 comments

Suburban school district uses license plate readers to verify student residency(nbcchicago.com)

151 points by josephcsible 7 months ago | 176 comments

Are LLM merge rates not getting better?(entropicthoughts.com)

150 points by 4diii 7 months ago | 135 comments

Show HN: OneCLI – Vault for AI Agents in Rust(github.com)

144 points by guyb3 7 months ago | 41 comments

Claude now creates interactive charts, diagrams and visualizations(claude.com)

143 points by adocomplete 7 months ago | 87 comments

Document poisoning in RAG systems: How attackers corrupt AI's sources(aminrj.com)

142 points by aminerj 7 months ago | 56 comments

WolfIP: Lightweight TCP/IP stack with no dynamic memory allocations(github.com)

135 points by 789c789c789c 7 months ago | 24 comments

Apple's MacBook Neo makes repairs easier and cheaper than other MacBooks(arstechnica.com)

135 points by GeekyBear 7 months ago | 76 comments

Long overlooked as crucial to life, fungi start to get their due(e360.yale.edu)

133 points by speckx 7 months ago | 41 comments

The Isolation Trap: Erlang(causality.blog)

130 points by enz 7 months ago | 56 comments

Show HN: Rudel – Claude Code Session Analytics(github.com)

118 points by keks0r 7 months ago | 72 comments

White House plan to break up iconic U.S. climate lab moves forward(science.org)

117 points by robtherobber 7 months ago | 73 comments

Electric motor scaling laws and inertia in robot actuators(robot-daycare.com)

113 points by o4c 7 months ago | 20 comments

Bringing Chrome to ARM64 Linux Devices(blog.chromium.org)

113 points by ingve 7 months ago | 56 comments

US- and Greek-owned tankers ablaze after Iran claims 'underwater drone' strike(lloydslist.com)

110 points by everybodyknows 7 months ago | 102 comments

Runners who churn butter on their runs(runnersworld.com)

109 points by randycupertino 7 months ago | 63 comments

On The Need For Understanding(blog.information-superhighway.net)

103 points by zdw 7 months ago | 42 comments

SBCL: A Sanely-Bootstrappable Common Lisp (2008) [pdf](research.gold.ac.uk)

102 points by pabs3 7 months ago | 68 comments

Colon cancer now leading cause of cancer deaths under 50 in US(theguardian.com)

102 points by stevenwoo 7 months ago | 108 comments

U.S. Navy Turns Down Hormuz Escort Requests Because of High Risk(maritime-executive.com)

93 points by mytailorisrich 7 months ago | 64 comments

Show HN: Understudy – Teach a desktop agent by demonstrating a task once(github.com)

92 points by bayes-song 7 months ago | 38 comments

Atlassian CEO: AI doesn't replace people here, but we're firing them anyway(heise.de)

92 points by layer8 7 months ago | 29 comments

Urea prices(tradingeconomics.com)

86 points by burnt-resistor 7 months ago | 67 comments

Reviewing Large Changes with Jujutsu(ben.gesoff.uk)

86 points by bengesoff 7 months ago | 9 comments

Reliable Software in the LLM Era(quint-lang.org)

82 points by mempirate 7 months ago | 26 comments

Human Organ Atlas(science.org)

79 points by bookofjoe 7 months ago | 4 comments

How much of HN is AI?(lcamtuf.substack.com)

79 points by surprisetalk 7 months ago | 37 comments

Bandit: A 32bit baremetal computer that runs Color Forth [video](youtube.com)

76 points by surprisetalk 7 months ago | 7 comments

Apple releases iOS 15.8.7 to fix Coruna exploit for iPhone 6S from 2015(support.apple.com)

75 points by seam_carver 7 months ago | 29 comments

The Road Not Taken: A World Where IPv4 Evolved(owl.billpg.com)

67 points by billpg 7 months ago | 129 comments

Launch HN: IonRouter (YC W26) – High-throughput, low-cost inference(ionrouter.io)

64 points by vshah1016 7 months ago | 25 comments

Why Are Viral Capsids Icosahedral?(asimov.press)

60 points by surprisetalk 7 months ago | 11 comments

Efficient sparse computations using linear algebra aware compilers (2025)(osti.gov)

58 points by matt_d 7 months ago | 7 comments

WireGuard Is Two Things(proxylity.com)

51 points by mlhpdx 7 months ago | 14 comments