Hacker News on Saturday, 14 March 2026

Ageless Linux – Software for humans of indeterminate age(agelesslinux.org)

737 points by nateb2022 7 months ago | 488 comments

Homepage of Ageless Linux, a Debian-based OS that refuses to ask user ages, positioned as a protest against state age-verification laws for operating systems.

JPEG Compression(sophielwang.com)

376 points by vinhnx 7 months ago | 102 comments

A personal blog post explaining how JPEG image compression works by exploiting human perceptual bias through a change of basis before encoding.

Show HN: Hacker News archive (47M+ items, 11.6GB) as Parquet, updated every 5m(huggingface.co)

357 points by tamnd 7 months ago | 144 comments

Hugging Face dataset page for a complete Hacker News archive of every item since 2006 in Parquet format, updated every 5 minutes.

Allow me to get to know you, mistakes and all(sebi.io)

287 points by sebi_io 7 months ago | 140 comments

What happens when US economic data becomes unreliable(mitsloan.mit.edu)

280 points by inaros 7 months ago | 270 comments

Games with loot boxes to get minimum 16 age rating across Europe(bbc.com)

272 points by gostsamo 7 months ago | 174 comments

Montana passes Right to Compute act (2025)(westernmt.news)

261 points by bilsbie 7 months ago | 229 comments

RAM kits are now sold with one fake RAM stick alongside a real one(tomshardware.com)

236 points by edward 7 months ago | 153 comments

XML is a cheap DSL(unplannedobsolescence.com)

231 points by y1n0 7 months ago | 239 comments

MCP is dead; long live MCP(chrlschn.dev)

223 points by CharlieDigital 7 months ago | 180 comments

Claude March 2026 usage promotion(support.claude.com)

208 points by weldu 7 months ago | 131 comments

Show HN: Han – A Korean programming language written in Rust(github.com)

201 points by xodn348 7 months ago | 109 comments

Marketing for Founders(github.com)

196 points by jimsojim 7 months ago | 89 comments

GIMP 3.2 released(gimp.org)

184 points by F3nd0 7 months ago | 49 comments

Bumblebee queens breathe underwater to survive drowning(smithsonianmag.com)

179 points by 1659447091 7 months ago | 40 comments

Airbus is preparing two uncrewed combat aircraft(airbus.com)

162 points by phasnox 7 months ago | 103 comments

An ode to bzip(purplesyringa.moe)

158 points by signa11 7 months ago | 82 comments

Starlink militarization and its impact on global strategic stability (2023)(interpret.csis.org)

149 points by msuniverse2026 7 months ago | 193 comments

Changes to OpenTTD Distribution on Steam(openttd.org)

147 points by canpan 7 months ago | 95 comments

Launching the Claude Partner Network(anthropic.com)

145 points by gmays 7 months ago | 79 comments

On a Boat(moq.dev)

145 points by mmcclure 7 months ago | 24 comments

Nmap in the movies (2008)(nmap.org)

136 points by homebrewer 7 months ago | 18 comments

SBCL Fibers – Lightweight Cooperative Threads(atgreen.github.io)

136 points by anonzzzies 7 months ago | 27 comments

Sunsetting Jazzband(jazzband.co)

133 points by mooreds 7 months ago | 45 comments

Philosoph Jürgen Habermas Gestorben(spiegel.de)

131 points by sebastian_z 7 months ago | 45 comments

Please Do Not A/B Test My Workflow(backnotprop.com)

128 points by ramoz 7 months ago | 143 comments

Book: The Emerging Science of Machine Learning Benchmarks(mlbenchmarks.org)

127 points by jxmorris12 7 months ago | 11 comments

2026 tech layoffs reach 45,000 in March(technode.global)

126 points by ninadwrites 7 months ago | 99 comments

An investigation of the forces behind the age-verification bills(old.reddit.com)

125 points by pabs3 7 months ago | 20 comments

Megadev: A Development Kit for the Sega Mega Drive and Mega CD Hardware(github.com)

119 points by XzetaU8 7 months ago | 7 comments

Fedora 44 on the Raspberry Pi 5(nullr0ute.com)

106 points by jandeboevrie 7 months ago | 33 comments

Show HN: GitAgent – An open standard that turns any Git repo into an AI agent(gitagent.sh)

105 points by sivasurend 7 months ago | 15 comments

Show HN: Ichinichi – One note per day, E2E encrypted, local-first

103 points by katspaugh 7 months ago | 38 comments

Hostile Volume – A game about adjusting volume with intentionally bad UI(hostilevolume.com)

101 points by Velocifyer 7 months ago | 64 comments

Mathematics Distillation Challenge – Equational Theories(terrytao.wordpress.com)

94 points by picafrost 7 months ago | 5 comments

Hazardous substances found in all headphones tested by ToxFREE project(arnika.org)

91 points by microflash 7 months ago | 58 comments

UBI as a productivity dividend(scottsantens.substack.com)

89 points by 2noame 7 months ago | 175 comments

Library of Short Stories(libraryofshortstories.com)

88 points by debo_ 7 months ago | 4 comments

It's time to move your docs in the repo(dein.fr)

85 points by gregdoesit 7 months ago | 57 comments

A Tiny Camera Revealed a Hidden Passage in the Great Pyramid(modernengineeringmarvels.com)

77 points by Brajeshwar 7 months ago | 40 comments

Online astroturfing: A problem beyond disinformation (2022)(journals.sagepub.com)

73 points by xyzal 7 months ago | 42 comments

AI didn't simplify software engineering: It just made bad engineering easier(robenglander.com)

73 points by birdculture 7 months ago | 43 comments

Our Experience with I-Ready(moultano.wordpress.com)

72 points by barry-cotter 7 months ago | 26 comments

Learning Creative Coding(stigmollerhansen.dk)

64 points by ammerfest 7 months ago | 23 comments

Postgres with Builtin File Systems(db9.ai)

63 points by ngaut 7 months ago | 20 comments

Autoresearch Hub(autoresearchhub.com)

60 points by EvgeniyZh 7 months ago | 24 comments

Optimizing Content for Agents(cra.mr)

59 points by vinhnx 7 months ago | 22 comments

Show HN: Learn Arabic with spaced repetition and comprehensible input(abjadpro.com)

58 points by adangit 7 months ago | 12 comments

Torturing Rustc by Emulating HKTs(harudagondi.space)

56 points by g0xA52A2A 7 months ago | 6 comments

Head of FCC threatens broadcaster licenses over critical coverage of Iran war(twitter.com)

56 points by theahura 7 months ago | 14 comments

Show HN: Fatal Core Dump – A debugging murder mystery played with GDB(robopenguins.com)

56 points by axlan 7 months ago | 1 comments

Show HN: I built an interactive 3D three-body problem simulator in the browser(structuredlabs.github.io)

45 points by amrutha_ 7 months ago | 16 comments

Show HN: GrobPaint: Somewhere Between MS Paint and Paint.net(github.com)

43 points by __grob 7 months ago | 8 comments

Age Verification Lobbying: Dark Money, Model Legislation, Institutional Capture(tboteproject.com)

42 points by mefengl 7 months ago | 5 comments

A Preview of Coalton 0.2(coalton-lang.github.io)

35 points by varjag 7 months ago | 2 comments

Jared Kushner Solicits Funds for His Firm While Working as Mideast Envoy(nytimes.com)

34 points by johnbarron 7 months ago | 5 comments

How Lego builds a new Lego set(theverge.com)

32 points by Michelangelo11 7 months ago | 8 comments

Digg.com Closing Due to Spam(digg.com)

31 points by napolux 7 months ago | 7 comments

AI Gets Wrong Woman Jailed for Six Months, Life Ruined(youtube.com)

30 points by vaxman 7 months ago | 2 comments

The Forth Language [Byte Magazine Volume 05 Number 08](archive.org)

30 points by AlexeyBrin 7 months ago | 2 comments