Hacker News on Sunday, 15 March 2026

Canada's bill C-22 mandates mass metadata surveillance(michaelgeist.ca)

958 points by opengrass 7 months ago | 303 comments

Michael Geist analysis of Canada's Bill C-22, a revived lawful access bill that changes warrantless access rules but retains backdoor surveillance and metadata risks.

The 49MB web page(thatshubham.com)

756 points by kermatt 7 months ago | 331 comments

Blog post auditing news publisher websites, noting a New York Times page made 422 requests and loaded 49MB, criticizing ad-driven page bloat.

OpenRocket(openrocket.info)

669 points by zeristor 7 months ago | 114 comments

Homepage of OpenRocket, a free, fully featured model rocket simulator for designing and simulating rockets, with downloads for Linux and other OSes.

Stop Sloppypasta(stopsloppypasta.ai)

584 points by namnnumbr 7 months ago | 228 comments

A single-page site defining "sloppypasta", verbatim unread LLM output pasted at others, explaining why it is rude and proposing rules for sharing AI text.

Chrome DevTools MCP (2025)(developer.chrome.com)

563 points by xnx 7 months ago | 221 comments

Chrome for Developers blog post explaining how the Chrome DevTools MCP server lets coding agents connect to and debug a running browser session.

LLM Architecture Gallery(sebastianraschka.com)

459 points by tzury 7 months ago | 34 comments

Sebastian Raschka's gallery of architecture diagrams and fact sheets for open-weight LLMs such as Llama, OLMo, Qwen, and DeepSeek.

Nvidia greenboost: transparently extend GPU VRAM using system RAM/NVMe(gitlab.com)

449 points by mmastrac 7 months ago | 126 comments

GitLab repository for nvidia_greenboost, a project to transparently extend Nvidia GPU VRAM using system RAM and NVMe storage.

A Visual Introduction to Machine Learning (2015)(r2d3.us)

374 points by vismit2000 7 months ago | 31 comments

R2D3's interactive scrolling essay introducing machine learning concepts by building a decision tree to classify homes in New York versus San Francisco.

$96 3D-printed rocket that recalculates its mid-air trajectory using a $5 sensor(github.com)

366 points by ZacnyLos 7 months ago | 332 comments

GitHub repository with CAD files, firmware, and simulation for a low-cost 3D-printed guided rocket and launcher system.

Honda is killing its EVs(techcrunch.com)

340 points by sylvainkalache 7 months ago | 752 comments

TechCrunch article arguing that Honda's decision to cancel its electric vehicles undermines its ability to compete in the future auto market.

The Appalling Stupidity of Spotify's AI DJ(charlespetzold.com)

334 points by ingve 7 months ago | 261 comments

Charles Petzold blog post criticizing Spotify's AI DJ music search feature for behaving stupidly and questioning who is responsible for AI failures.

How kernel anti-cheats work(s4dbrd.github.io)

325 points by davikr 7 months ago | 280 comments

A long blog post explaining how modern kernel-level anti-cheat systems like BattlEye operate on Windows, covering kernel callbacks and memory scanning.

Rack-mount hydroponics(sa.lj.am)

322 points by cdrnsf 7 months ago | 87 comments

A personal blog post describing how the author grew lettuce hydroponically inside a spare server rack cabinet.

Separating the Wayland compositor and window manager(isaacfreund.com)

317 points by dpassens 7 months ago | 174 comments

Blog post by Isaac Freund explaining how river 0.4.0 separates the Wayland compositor from the window manager via the river-window-management-v1 protocol.

Nasdaq's Shame(keubiko.substack.com)

316 points by imichael 7 months ago | 102 comments

Glassworm is back: A new wave of invisible Unicode attacks hits repositories(aikido.dev)

283 points by robinhouston 7 months ago | 169 comments

LLMs can be exhausting(tomjohnell.com)

256 points by tjohnell 7 months ago | 171 comments

Office.eu launches as Europe's sovereign office platform(office.eu)

247 points by campuscodi 7 months ago | 131 comments

Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?

241 points by svara 7 months ago | 406 comments

Write up of my homebrew CPU build(willwarren.com)

224 points by wwarren 7 months ago | 48 comments

The 100 hour gap between a vibecoded prototype and a working product(kanfa.macbudkowski.com)

219 points by kiwieater 7 months ago | 291 comments

What makes Intel Optane stand out (2023)(blog.zuthof.nl)

213 points by walterbell 7 months ago | 149 comments

A most elegant TCP hole punching algorithm(robertsdotpm.github.io)

199 points by Uptrenda 7 months ago | 80 comments

A Theory of the World as run by large adult children(tomclancy.info)

193 points by tclancy 7 months ago | 203 comments

The emergence of print-on-demand Amazon paperback books(alexerhardt.com)

182 points by aerhardt 7 months ago | 143 comments

Grandparents are glued to their phones [video](bbc.com)

181 points by tartoran 7 months ago | 118 comments

Animated 'Firefly' Reboot in Development from Nathan Fillion, 20th TV(hollywoodreporter.com)

168 points by Amorymeltzer 7 months ago | 44 comments

LotusNotes(computer.rip)

167 points by TMWNN 7 months ago | 93 comments

Learning athletic humanoid tennis skills from imperfect human motion data(zzk273.github.io)

164 points by danielmorozoff 7 months ago | 36 comments

Treasure hunter freed from jail after refusing to turn over shipwreck gold(bbc.com)

160 points by tartoran 7 months ago | 221 comments

Pentagon expands oversight of Stars and Stripes, limits content(stripes.com)

146 points by geox 7 months ago | 63 comments

The bureaucracy blocking the chance at a cure(writingruxandrabio.com)

132 points by item 7 months ago | 157 comments

Hollywood Enters Oscars Weekend in Existential Crisis(theculturenewspaper.com)

130 points by RickJWagner 7 months ago | 416 comments

The Linux Programming Interface as a university course text(man7.org)

123 points by teleforce 7 months ago | 20 comments

In Memoriam: John W. Addison, my PhD advisor(billwadge.com)

122 points by herodotus 7 months ago | 4 comments

Six ingenious ways how Canon DSLRs used to illuminate their autofocus points(exclusivearchitecture.com)

116 points by ExAr 7 months ago | 40 comments

Show HN: Signet – Autonomous wildfire tracking from satellite and weather data(signet.watch)

105 points by mapldx 7 months ago | 31 comments

FCC chairman threatens TV broadcast licenses over news coverage(fortune.com)

100 points by geox 7 months ago | 2 comments

Leviathan (1651)(gutenberg.org)

98 points by mrwh 7 months ago | 40 comments

Cert Authorities Check for DNSSEC from Today(grepular.com)

95 points by zdw 7 months ago | 217 comments

Kangina(en.wikipedia.org)

83 points by thunderbong 7 months ago | 5 comments

Pretraining Language Models via Neural Cellular Automata(hanseungwook.github.io)

83 points by shmublu 7 months ago | 16 comments

IBM, sonic delay lines, and the history of the 80×24 display (2019)(righto.com)

79 points by rbanffy 7 months ago | 26 comments

Generating All 32-Bit Primes (Part I)(hnlyman.github.io)

76 points by hnlyman 7 months ago | 22 comments

Show HN: What if your synthesizer was powered by APL (or a dumb K clone)?(octetta.github.io)

74 points by octetta 7 months ago | 28 comments

A new Bigfoot documentary helps explain our conspiracy-minded era(msn.com)

74 points by zdw 7 months ago | 79 comments

Tree Search Distillation for Language Models Using PPO(ayushtambde.com)

74 points by at2005 7 months ago | 7 comments

UMD Scientists Create 'Smart Underwear' to Measure Human Flatulence(cbmg.umd.edu)

71 points by ohjeez 7 months ago | 44 comments

I'm 60 years old. Claude Code killed a passion

69 points by fred1268 7 months ago | 34 comments

Codegen is not productivity(antifound.com)

66 points by donutshop 7 months ago | 56 comments

How the Eon Team Produced a Virtual Embodied Fly(eon.systems)

66 points by LopRabbit 7 months ago | 19 comments

Show HN: GDSL – 800 line kernel: Lisp subset in 500, C subset in 1300(firthemouse.github.io)

61 points by FirTheMouse 7 months ago | 15 comments

Jeff Bezos wants Washington Post’s newsroom budget halved, productivity doubled(nytimes.com)

61 points by y1n0 7 months ago | 44 comments

Federal Surveillance Tech Becomes Mandatory in New Cars by 2027(gadgetreview.com)

59 points by functionmouse 7 months ago | 30 comments

Excel incorrectly assumes that the year 1900 is a leap year(learn.microsoft.com)

57 points by susam 7 months ago | 20 comments

Ask HN: What breaks first when your team grows from 10 to 50 people?

51 points by hariprasadr 7 months ago | 38 comments

Show HN: Lux – Drop-in Redis replacement in Rust. 5.6x faster, ~1MB Docker image(github.com)

47 points by mattyhogan 7 months ago | 11 comments

Review: Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra(wired.com)

46 points by joozio 7 months ago | 37 comments

Palantir defends its role in the kill chain: "We are proud of that"(heise.de)

45 points by botanical 7 months ago | 19 comments

SpiceCrypt: A Python library for decrypting LTspice encrypted model files(github.com)

44 points by luu 7 months ago | 10 comments