Hacker News on Tuesday, 17 March 2026

Kagi Translate now supports LinkedIn Speak as an output language(translate.kagi.com)

1253 points by smitec 7 months ago | 293 comments

Kagi Translate's web interface set to translate English text into "LinkedIn speak" as a novelty output language.

Microsoft's 'unhackable' Xbox One has been hacked by 'Bliss'(tomshardware.com)

756 points by crtasm 7 months ago | 279 comments

Tom's Hardware article on the 'Bliss' hack, which uses voltage glitching to break the Xbox One's security and run unsigned code at every level.

Reddit User Uncovers Who Is Behind Meta's $2B Lobbying for Age Verification Tech(gadgetreview.com)

754 points by doener 7 months ago | 376 comments

Gadget Review article on a Reddit researcher's findings that Meta funds a $2B lobbying push for app-store age verification laws targeting Apple and Google.

Kagi Small Web(kagi.com)

737 points by trueduke 7 months ago | 198 comments

Kagi Small Web feed showing a random personal blog post, here a work-in-progress write-up on Spectre/Meltdown side channels and shared memory probe arrays.

A Decade of Slug(terathon.com)

714 points by mwkaufma 7 months ago | 69 comments

Eric Lengyel's retrospective blog post on ten years of the Slug Algorithm for rendering fonts directly from Bézier curves on the GPU and its licensing history.

US SEC preparing to scrap quarterly reporting requirement(reuters.com)

695 points by djoldman 7 months ago | 411 comments

Reuters article reporting that the US SEC is preparing to eliminate the quarterly reporting requirement for public companies, citing the WSJ.

Mistral AI Releases Forge(mistral.ai)

681 points by pember 7 months ago | 173 comments

Mistral AI announcement page introducing Forge, a new product offering from the French AI company.

Python 3.15's JIT is now back on track(fidget-spinner.github.io)

463 points by guidoiaquinti 7 months ago | 279 comments

Ken Jin's blog post reporting that CPython 3.15's JIT compiler is back on track, with benchmark charts comparing JIT and interpreter performance.

Every layer of review makes you 10x slower(apenwarr.ca)

456 points by greyface- 7 months ago | 272 comments

Blog post on apenwarr arguing that each added layer of review in an organization slows work down by roughly an order of magnitude.

Get Shit Done: A meta-prompting, context engineering and spec-driven dev system(github.com)

430 points by stefankuehnel 7 months ago | 237 comments

GitHub repository for Get Shit Done, an MIT-licensed meta-prompting, context engineering and spec-driven development system for Claude Code.

The Los Angeles Aqueduct Is Wild(practical.engineering)

397 points by michaefe 7 months ago | 197 comments

A Practical Engineering blog post and embedded video explaining the engineering and history of the Los Angeles Aqueduct.

FFmpeg 8.1(ffmpeg.org)

364 points by gyan 7 months ago | 53 comments

The FFmpeg project homepage news entry announcing the release of FFmpeg version 8.1.

Unsloth Studio(unsloth.ai)

364 points by brainless 7 months ago | 67 comments

Announcement page for Unsloth Studio (Beta), an open-source no-code web UI for training, running, and exporting open AI models locally.

How the Turner twins are mythbusting modern technical apparel(carryology.com)

319 points by greedo 7 months ago | 163 comments

Carryology article about the Turner twins, adventurers who test vintage versus modern expedition clothing to challenge assumptions about technical apparel.

Ryugu asteroid samples contain all DNA and RNA building blocks(phys.org)

289 points by bookofjoe 7 months ago | 152 comments

Show HN: Sub-millisecond VM sandboxes using CoW memory forking(github.com)

286 points by adammiribyan 7 months ago | 65 comments

Mamba-3(together.ai)

278 points by matt_d 7 months ago | 50 comments

Node.js needs a virtual file system(blog.platformatic.dev)

246 points by voctor 7 months ago | 215 comments

Illinois Introducing Operating System Account Age Bill(ilga.gov)

243 points by terminalbraid 7 months ago | 352 comments

Meta and TikTok let harmful content rise to drove engagement, say whistleblowers(bbc.com)

237 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 7 months ago | 151 comments

VisiCalc Reconstructed(zserge.com)

227 points by ingve 7 months ago | 79 comments

If you thought the code writing speed was your problem; you have bigger problems(andrewmurphy.io)

216 points by mooreds 7 months ago | 139 comments

Java 26 is here(hanno.codes)

207 points by mfiguiere 7 months ago | 168 comments

OpenSUSE Kalpa(kalpadesktop.org)

189 points by ogogmad 7 months ago | 83 comments

GPT‑5.4 Mini and Nano(openai.com)

187 points by meetpateltech 7 months ago | 110 comments

Meta Horizon Worlds on Meta Quest is being discontinued(communityforums.atmeta.com)

177 points by par 7 months ago | 182 comments

Flash-KMeans: Fast and Memory-Efficient Exact K-Means(arxiv.org)

176 points by matt_d 7 months ago | 14 comments

Drawvg Filter for FFmpeg(ayosec.github.io)

163 points by nolta 7 months ago | 26 comments

Monkey Island for Commodore 64 Ground Up(pixeldust.se)

160 points by aresant 7 months ago | 60 comments

Reverse-engineering Viktor and making it open source(matijacniacki.com)

159 points by zggf 7 months ago | 68 comments

Video Encoding and Decoding with Vulkan Compute Shaders in FFmpeg(khronos.org)

158 points by y1n0 7 months ago | 54 comments

Why AI systems don't learn – On autonomous learning from cognitive science(arxiv.org)

156 points by aanet 7 months ago | 94 comments

Building a Shell(healeycodes.com)

144 points by ingve 7 months ago | 34 comments

Regex Blaster(mdp.github.io)

140 points by mdp 7 months ago | 52 comments

Edge.js: Run Node apps inside a WebAssembly sandbox(wasmer.io)

139 points by syrusakbary 7 months ago | 37 comments

A proposal to classify happiness as a psychiatric disorder (1992)(pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

139 points by wjSgoWPm5bWAhXB 7 months ago | 89 comments

'The Secret Agent': Exploring a Vibrant, yet Violent Brazil (2025)(theasc.com)

138 points by tambourine_man 7 months ago | 68 comments

Silicon Valley's "Pronatalists" Killed WFH. The Strait of Hormuz Brought It Back(governance.fyi)

127 points by bigbobbeeper 7 months ago | 147 comments

Show HN: Pgit – A Git-like CLI backed by PostgreSQL(oseifert.ch)

95 points by ImGajeed76 7 months ago | 43 comments

The paddle wheel aircraft carriers of Lake Michigan(signoregalilei.com)

88 points by surprisetalk 7 months ago | 8 comments

Jepsen: MariaDB Galera Cluster 12.1.2(jepsen.io)

78 points by aphyr 7 months ago | 8 comments

Show HN: Antfly: Distributed, Multimodal Search and Memory and Graphs in Go(github.com)

75 points by kingcauchy 7 months ago | 27 comments

Show HN: Crust – A CLI framework for TypeScript and Bun(github.com)

70 points by jellyotsiro 7 months ago | 29 comments

The seven hour explosion nobody could explain(phys.org)

70 points by mellosouls 7 months ago | 8 comments

Ordered dithering with arbitrary or irregular colour palettes (2023)(matejlou.blog)

69 points by surprisetalk 7 months ago | 11 comments

Stdwin: Standard window interface by Guido Van Rossum [pdf](ir.cwi.nl)

68 points by ivanbelenky 7 months ago | 41 comments

Padel Chess – tactical simulator for padel(padelchess.me)

66 points by AlexGerasim 7 months ago | 38 comments

Warranty Void If Regenerated(nearzero.software)

65 points by Stwerner 7 months ago | 12 comments

I love my dumb watches(gary.onl)

61 points by abnercoimbre 7 months ago | 57 comments

How we give every user SQL access to a shared ClickHouse cluster(trigger.dev)

56 points by eallam 7 months ago | 61 comments

Show HN: March Madness Bracket Challenge for AI Agents Only(bracketmadness.ai)

56 points by bwade818 7 months ago | 32 comments

Show HN: Horizon – GPU-accelerated infinite-canvas terminal in Rust(github.com)

54 points by petersunde 7 months ago | 21 comments

A Journey Through Infertility(pudding.cool)

52 points by tchanukvadze 7 months ago | 37 comments

Launch HN: Kita (YC W26) – Automate credit review in emerging markets

47 points by rheamalhotra1 7 months ago | 14 comments

Grace Hopper's Revenge(thefuriousopposites.com)

46 points by ashirviskas 7 months ago | 38 comments

Show HN: An open-source safety net for home hemodialysis(safehemo.com)

41 points by qweliantanner 7 months ago | 6 comments

The LCA problem revisited [pdf](www3.cs.stonybrook.edu)

32 points by remywang 7 months ago | 7 comments

DOGE Didn't Cut Government Waste. It Was Government Waste(techdirt.com)

30 points by hn_acker 7 months ago | 0 comments

A Fuzzer for the Toy Optimizer(bernsteinbear.com)

29 points by surprisetalk 7 months ago | 5 comments

Show HN: I fixed FFmpeg's subtitle conversion (the bug from 2014)(connollydavid.github.io)

27 points by slartibardfast0 7 months ago | 6 comments