Hacker News on Thursday, 19 March 2026

Astral to Join OpenAI(astral.sh)

1417 points by ibraheemdev 7 months ago | 862 comments

Astral founder Charlie Marsh announces the company has agreed to join OpenAI's Codex team, citing the growth of its Python tools Ruff, uv, and ty.

Afroman found not liable in defamation case(nypost.com)

1095 points by antonymoose 7 months ago | 628 comments

New York Post news article reporting that rapper Afroman was found not liable in an Ohio defamation lawsuit brought by sheriff's deputies who raided his home.

Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps(arstechnica.com)

1092 points by 0xedb 7 months ago | 1150 comments

Android Developers Blog post on Android developer verification, explaining Google's policy and a 24-hour process to sideload apps from unverified developers.

Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents(pew.org)

743 points by matthest 7 months ago | 900 comments

Pew article analyzing how Austin added 120,000 homes from 2015 to 2024 amid policy reforms, and how that construction surge lowered rents.

Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service(deepdelver.substack.com)

715 points by freddykruger 7 months ago | 238 comments

A Substack investigation alleging that compliance startup Delve falsely convinced hundreds of customers they were compliant and then lied when exposed.

A sufficiently detailed spec is code(haskellforall.com)

535 points by signa11 7 months ago | 291 comments

A Haskell for all blog post, built around a comic strip, arguing that a specification detailed enough to generate a program is effectively code itself.

Show HN: Three new Kitten TTS models – smallest less than 25MB(github.com)

510 points by rohan_joshi 7 months ago | 169 comments

GitHub repository for KittenTTS, an open-source series of tiny text-to-speech models (80M, 40M, 14M parameters) designed to run on-device without a GPU.

“Your frustration is the product”(daringfireball.net)

492 points by llm_nerd 7 months ago | 300 comments

A Daring Fireball post by John Gruber linking Shubham Bose's essay on news sites like the NYT loading 49MB and hundreds of requests, criticizing ad-laden web bloat.

4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches(bbc.com)

428 points by mosura 7 months ago | 794 comments

BBC News article reporting that 4Chan mocked a £520,000 fine from UK regulator Ofcom for breaching online safety rules.

Walmart: ChatGPT checkout converted 3x worse than website(searchengineland.com)

401 points by speckx 7 months ago | 261 comments

Search Engine Land article reporting Walmart found ChatGPT in-chat checkout converted about 3x worse than its website after testing 200,000 items.

Afroman Wins Civil Trial over Use of Police Raid Footage in His Music Videos(nytimes.com)

368 points by pseudolus 7 months ago | 65 comments

New York Times article on Afroman winning a civil trial brought by police officers over his use of raid footage in music videos; page showed a captcha.

Anthropic takes legal action against OpenCode(github.com)

339 points by _squared_ 7 months ago | 274 comments

A merged GitHub pull request in the OpenCode repository removing Anthropic references, prompt files, and provider hints in response to legal requests from Anthropic.

macOS 26 breaks custom DNS settings including .internal(gist.github.com)

324 points by adamamyl 7 months ago | 165 comments

GitHub Gist bug report describing how a macOS 26.3.1 update breaks /etc/resolver/ supplemental DNS configuration for custom TLDs like .internal.

Waymo Safety Impact(waymo.com)

322 points by xnx 7 months ago | 334 comments

The linked URL is Waymo's safety impact page, but the captured screenshot shows an X (Twitter) post that is still loading behind a login and sign-up banner.

An update on Steam / GOG changes for OpenTTD(openttd.org)

306 points by jandeboevrie 7 months ago | 205 comments

Conway's Game of Life, in real life(lcamtuf.substack.com)

303 points by surprisetalk 7 months ago | 82 comments

Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers(github.com)

299 points by modinfo 7 months ago | 169 comments

Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland(bsky.app)

257 points by mariuz 7 months ago | 258 comments

Cook: A simple CLI for orchestrating Claude Code(rjcorwin.github.io)

252 points by staticvar 7 months ago | 72 comments

Juggalo makeup blocks facial recognition technology (2019)(consequence.net)

248 points by speckx 7 months ago | 145 comments

Finding all regex matches has always been O(n²)(iev.ee)

246 points by lalitmaganti 7 months ago | 63 comments

Bombadil: Property-based testing for web UIs(github.com)

237 points by Klaster_1 7 months ago | 91 comments

Noq: n0's new QUIC implementation in Rust(iroh.computer)

233 points by od0 7 months ago | 35 comments

Electronics for Kids, 2nd Edition(nostarch.com)

233 points by 0x54MUR41 7 months ago | 48 comments

OpenBSD: PF queues break the 4 Gbps barrier(undeadly.org)

210 points by defrost 7 months ago | 60 comments

Scaling Karpathy's Autoresearch: What Happens When the Agent Gets a GPU Cluster(blog.skypilot.co)

207 points by hopechong 7 months ago | 88 comments

My first patch to the Linux kernel(pooladkhay.com)

205 points by pooladkhay 7 months ago | 45 comments

Mozilla to launch free built-in VPN in upcoming Firefox 149(cyberinsider.com)

196 points by adrianwaj 7 months ago | 127 comments

An unsolicited guide to being a researcher [pdf](emerge-lab.github.io)

195 points by sebg 7 months ago | 23 comments

Iran war energy shock sparks global push to reduce fossil fuel dependence(reuters.com)

194 points by geox 7 months ago | 231 comments

2% of ICML papers desk rejected because the authors used LLM in their reviews(blog.icml.cc)

169 points by sergdigon 7 months ago | 139 comments

How Invisalign became the biggest user of 3D printers(wired.com)

167 points by mikhael 7 months ago | 118 comments

NanoGPT Slowrun: 10x Data Efficiency with Infinite Compute(qlabs.sh)

153 points by sdpmas 7 months ago | 36 comments

Tesla: Failure of the FSD's degradation detection system [pdf](static.nhtsa.gov)

152 points by doener 7 months ago | 80 comments

Autoresearch for SAT Solvers(github.com)

152 points by chaisan 7 months ago | 30 comments

What 81,000 people want from AI(anthropic.com)

150 points by dsr12 7 months ago | 124 comments

OpenAI to Acquire Astral(openai.com)

150 points by meetpateltech 7 months ago | 74 comments

Be intentional about how AI changes your codebase(aicode.swerdlow.dev)

146 points by benswerd 7 months ago | 76 comments

Books of the Century by Le Monde(standardebooks.org)

144 points by zlu 7 months ago | 80 comments

Bombarding gamblers with offers greatly increases betting and gambling harm(bristol.ac.uk)

141 points by hhs 7 months ago | 104 comments

Fujifilm X RAW STUDIO webapp clone(github.com)

135 points by notcodingtoday 7 months ago | 48 comments

Clockwise acquired by Salesforce(getclockwise.com)

131 points by nigelgutzmann 7 months ago | 68 comments

A Review of Dice that came with The White Castle (2025)(boardgamegeek.com)

128 points by doener 7 months ago | 38 comments

Qite.js – Frontend framework for people who hate React and love HTML(qitejs.qount25.dev)

121 points by usrbinenv 7 months ago | 130 comments

From Oscilloscope to Wireshark: A UDP Story (2022)(mattkeeter.com)

114 points by ofrzeta 7 months ago | 26 comments

How to defer US taxes(taylor.town)

113 points by surprisetalk 7 months ago | 105 comments

World Happiness Report 2026(worldhappiness.report)

107 points by ChrisArchitect 7 months ago | 71 comments

The Shape of Inequalities(andreinc.net)

105 points by nomemory 7 months ago | 17 comments

A rogue AI led to a serious security incident at Meta(theverge.com)

103 points by mikece 7 months ago | 74 comments

Eniac, the First General-Purpose Digital Computer, Turns 80(spectrum.ieee.org)

101 points by baruchel 7 months ago | 40 comments

How many branches can your CPU predict?(lemire.me)

96 points by ibobev 7 months ago | 23 comments

I turned Markdown into a protocol for generative UI(fabian-kuebler.com)

93 points by FabianCarbonara 7 months ago | 40 comments

Prompt Injecting Contributing.md(glama.ai)

92 points by statements 7 months ago | 30 comments

EsoLang-Bench: Evaluating Genuine Reasoning in LLMs via Esoteric Languages(esolang-bench.vercel.app)

85 points by matt_d 7 months ago | 46 comments

Launch HN: Voltair (YC W26) – Drone and charging network for power utilities

76 points by wweissbluth 7 months ago | 27 comments

Ask HN: How do you deal with people who trust LLMs?

75 points by basilikum 7 months ago | 89 comments

Xiaomi launches next-gen SU7 with 902 km range and Lidar, still undercuts Tesla(electrek.co)

71 points by breve 7 months ago | 40 comments

I Reverse-Engineered the TiinyAI Pocket Lab from Marketing Photos(bay41.com)

71 points by davidklemke 7 months ago | 22 comments

Ramtrack.eu – RAM Price Intelligence(ramtrack.eu)

71 points by nu11r0ut3 7 months ago | 20 comments

Consensus Board Game(matklad.github.io)

65 points by surprisetalk 7 months ago | 9 comments