Hacker News on Saturday, 21 March 2026

Some things just take time(lucumr.pocoo.org)

788 points by vaylian 7 months ago | 250 comments

Blog essay by Armin Ronacher arguing that some valuable things, like mature trees or established software and communities, can only be achieved through time.

Do Not Turn Child Protection into Internet Access Control(news.dyne.org)

745 points by smartmic 7 months ago | 383 comments

A Dyne.org Think & Do Tank opinion piece by Jaromil arguing against using child-protection laws to impose age verification and internet access control.

Tinybox – A powerful computer for deep learning(tinygrad.org)

562 points by albelfio 7 months ago | 325 comments

Product section of the tinygrad website describing the tinybox, a computer built for deep learning workloads; the page rendered blank when captured.

Blocking Internet Archive Won't Stop AI, but Will Erase Web's Historical Record(eff.org)

475 points by pabs3 7 months ago | 131 comments

EFF Deeplinks article arguing that publishers blocking the Internet Archive to stop AI scraping won't work and will instead erase the web's historical record.

Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords(pbxscience.com)

374 points by akersten 7 months ago | 373 comments

News article reporting that Ubuntu 26.04 changes sudo to show password feedback (asterisks), ending decades of silent password entry.

Professional video editing, right in the browser with WebGPU and WASM(tooscut.app)

338 points by mohebifar 7 months ago | 120 comments

Landing page for Tooscut, an open-source browser-based non-linear video editor using WebGPU compositing, keyframe animation, and real-time preview.

Floci – A free, open-source local AWS emulator(github.com)

254 points by shaicoleman 7 months ago | 86 comments

Hide macOS Tahoe's Menu Icons(512pixels.net)

241 points by soheilpro 7 months ago | 96 comments

404 Deno CEO not found(dbushell.com)

233 points by WhyNotHugo 7 months ago | 166 comments

Grafeo – A fast, lean, embeddable graph database built in Rust(grafeo.dev)

233 points by 0x1997 7 months ago | 79 comments

Mayor of Paris removed parking spaces, reduced the number of cars(cnn.com)

211 points by heresie-dabord 7 months ago | 299 comments

FFmpeg 101 (2024)(blogs.igalia.com)

205 points by vinhnx 7 months ago | 8 comments

Study finds no evidence cannabis helps anxiety, depression, or PTSD(sciencedaily.com)

177 points by nothrowaways 7 months ago | 160 comments

Algorithm Visualizer(algorithm-visualizer.org)

174 points by vinhnx 7 months ago | 9 comments

Thinking Fast, Slow, and Artificial: How AI Is Reshaping Human Reasoning(papers.ssrn.com)

170 points by Anon84 7 months ago | 97 comments

Looking at Unity made me understand the point of C++ coroutines(mropert.github.io)

166 points by ingve 7 months ago | 139 comments

Passengers who refuse to use headphones can now be kicked off United flights(cnn.com)

157 points by edward 7 months ago | 150 comments

Western carmakers' retreat from electric risks dooming them to irrelevance(theguardian.com)

145 points by n1b0m 7 months ago | 253 comments

How to attract AI bots to your open source project(nesbitt.io)

129 points by zdw 7 months ago | 21 comments

Show HN: Termcraft – Terminal-first 2D sandbox survival in Rust(github.com)

118 points by sebosch 7 months ago | 22 comments

Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia(bbc.com)

106 points by alephnerd 7 months ago | 256 comments

A pig's brain has been frozen with its cellular activity locked in place(newscientist.com)

98 points by Brajeshwar 7 months ago | 138 comments

Show HN: Atomic – Self-hosted, semantically-connected personal knowledge base(github.com)

98 points by kenforthewin 7 months ago | 16 comments

Ju Ci: The Art of Repairing Porcelain(thesublimeblog.org)

96 points by lawrenceyan 7 months ago | 10 comments

Common Lisp Development Tooling(creativetension.co)

94 points by 0bytematt 7 months ago | 20 comments

MSA: Memory Sparse Attention(github.com)

80 points by chaosprint 7 months ago | 6 comments

How BYD got EV chargers to work almost as fast as gas pumps(wired.com)

80 points by Brajeshwar 7 months ago | 121 comments

BIO – The Bao I/O Co-Processor(crowdsupply.com)

79 points by hasheddan 7 months ago | 21 comments

Senior European journalist suspended over AI-generated quotes(theguardian.com)

77 points by Brajeshwar 7 months ago | 56 comments

Atuin v18.13 – better search, a PTY proxy, and AI for your shell(blog.atuin.sh)

76 points by cenanozen 7 months ago | 69 comments

An Aural Companion for Decades, CBS News Radio Crackles to a Close(nytimes.com)

71 points by tintinnabula 7 months ago | 17 comments

The Impact of AI on Game Dev Jobs. Open to Work Crisis(darkounity.com)

68 points by hacker_13 7 months ago | 49 comments

The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV(historytoday.com)

68 points by Petiver 7 months ago | 13 comments

Attempts to post the latest Trivy security incident have been marked [dead](news.ycombinator.com)

61 points by JoshuaDavid 7 months ago | 10 comments

Hawaii's worst flooding in 20 years threatens dam, prompts evacuations(nbcnews.com)

60 points by geox 7 months ago | 30 comments

Google adds 24-hour wait and mandatory reboot to Android sideloading flow(android-developers.googleblog.com)

59 points by dfordp11 7 months ago | 18 comments

Fun with CSF firmware (RK3588 GPU firmware)(icecream95.gitlab.io)

58 points by M95D 7 months ago | 0 comments

How Ford burned $12B in Brazil (2021)(reuters.com)

54 points by kaycebasques 7 months ago | 29 comments

Show HN: Joonote – A note-taking app on your lock screen and notification panel(joonote.com)

43 points by kilgarenone 7 months ago | 31 comments

No Semicolons Needed(terts.dev)

42 points by karakoram 7 months ago | 46 comments

Former FBI Director Robert Mueller Has Died(apnews.com)

42 points by WarOnPrivacy 7 months ago | 22 comments

Revert "userdb: add birthDate field to JSON user records(github.com)

41 points by smartmic 7 months ago | 32 comments

Man pleads guilty to $8M AI-generated music scheme(therecord.media)

41 points by nstj 7 months ago | 37 comments

purl: a curl-esque CLI for making HTTP requests that require payment(purl.dev)

41 points by bpierre 7 months ago | 14 comments

Intel Device Modeling Language for virtual platforms(github.com)

38 points by transpute 7 months ago | 1 comments

Italy, Belgium set to lose gas supply after biggest LNG plant bombed(politico.eu)

37 points by leonidasrup 7 months ago | 35 comments

Apple Announces New Mac Sales Record Following MacBook Neo Launch(macrumors.com)

33 points by akyuu 7 months ago | 31 comments

Ask ChatGPT to pick a number from 1-10000, it generally selects from 7200-7500(old.reddit.com)

33 points by mellosouls 7 months ago | 38 comments

AI Team OS – Turn Claude Code into a Self-Managing AI Team(github.com)

31 points by cronus1141 7 months ago | 8 comments

Just make it hard to fail(nekolucifer.substack.com)

25 points by andai 7 months ago | 17 comments

Show HN: I ran a language model on a PS2(github.com)

22 points by xaskasdf 7 months ago | 7 comments

Woman in Labor at Florida Hospital Brought in Zoom Court for Refusing C-Section(propublica.org)

17 points by Jimmc414 7 months ago | 6 comments

Why Some Men Struggle to Keep Up with Friendships(theatlantic.com)

17 points by paulpauper 7 months ago | 7 comments

A Chess Playing Machine – Shannon (1950) [pdf](paradise.caltech.edu)

15 points by kristianp 7 months ago | 2 comments

The final switch: Goldsboro, 1961(blog.nuclearsecrecy.com)

15 points by 1970-01-01 7 months ago | 3 comments

Traces of Evil(tracesofevil.com)

14 points by jacquesm 7 months ago | 1 comments

Seam carving with forward energy(pictolab.io)

14 points by ChadNauseam 7 months ago | 2 comments

SSH Certificates and Git Signing(codon.org.uk)

13 points by zdw 7 months ago | 0 comments

Ant Chat(baothiento.com)

13 points by noleary 7 months ago | 7 comments

Show HN: A deterministic middleware to compress LLM prompts by 50-80%(github.com)

12 points by rosspeili 7 months ago | 4 comments