Hacker News on Saturday, 28 March 2026

Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies(sytse.com)

1309 points by bob_theslob646 7 months ago | 249 comments

GitLab co-founder Sid Sijbrandij's personal page describing how he treats his osteosarcoma through maximum diagnostics, new treatments, and scaling this approach for others.

Spanish legislation as a Git repo(github.com)

770 points by enriquelop 7 months ago | 225 comments

GitHub repository publishing over 8,600 Spanish laws as Markdown files, with each legislative reform recorded as a Git commit.

AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice(news.stanford.edu)

741 points by oldfrenchfries 7 months ago | 581 comments

Stanford Report article on research finding that AI chatbots excessively affirm users who seek personal advice, published alongside a Science paper.

I decompiled the White House's new app(thereallo.dev)

600 points by amarcheschi 7 months ago | 217 comments

Blog post decompiling the official White House Android app, reporting a cookie/paywall bypass injector, GPS tracking every 4.5 minutes, and remotely loaded JavaScript.

Go hard on agents, not on your filesystem(jai.scs.stanford.edu)

570 points by mazieres 7 months ago | 304 comments

Landing page for jai, a Stanford tool for lightweight containment of AI coding agents on Linux to protect the filesystem.

CSS is DOOMed(nielsleenheer.com)

459 points by msephton 7 months ago | 108 comments

Niels Leenheer's blog post about rendering the game DOOM in 3D using CSS, with a live demo at cssdoom.wtf.

I Built an Open-World Engine for the N64 [video](youtube.com)

439 points by msephton 7 months ago | 79 comments

YouTube video by James Lambert explaining how he built an open-world game engine running on the Nintendo 64.

Pretext: TypeScript library for multiline text measurement and layout(github.com)

359 points by emersonmacro 7 months ago | 63 comments

GitHub repository for Pretext, Cheng Lou's MIT-licensed TypeScript library for measuring and laying out multiline text.

Britain today generating 90%+ of electricity from renewables(grid.iamkate.com)

348 points by rwmj 7 months ago | 228 comments

Live dashboard of Great Britain's National Grid showing electricity demand, generation mix, price, and emissions, here showing over 90% renewables.

South Korea Mandates Solar Panels for Public Parking Lots(reutersconnect.com)

310 points by _____k 7 months ago | 175 comments

Show HN: Git bayesect – Bayesian Git bisection for non-deterministic bugs(github.com)

309 points by hauntsaninja 7 months ago | 42 comments

Cocoa-Way – Native macOS Wayland compositor for running Linux apps seamlessly(github.com)

301 points by OJFord 7 months ago | 94 comments

CERN uses ultra-compact AI models on FPGAs for real-time LHC data filtering(theopenreader.org)

299 points by TORcicada 7 months ago | 130 comments

AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition crams 208MB of cache into a single chip(arstechnica.com)

293 points by zdw 7 months ago | 162 comments

Further human + AI + proof assistant work on Knuth's "Claude Cycles" problem(twitter.com)

247 points by mean_mistreater 7 months ago | 161 comments

Folk are getting dangerously attached to AI that always tells them they're right(theregister.com)

241 points by Brajeshwar 7 months ago | 182 comments

Linux is an interpreter(astrid.tech)

227 points by frizlab 7 months ago | 55 comments

Audio tapes reveal mass rule-breaking in Milgram's obedience experiments(psypost.org)

210 points by lentoutcry 7 months ago | 128 comments

TruffleRuby(chrisseaton.com)

189 points by tosh 7 months ago | 26 comments

The first 40 months of the AI era(lzon.ca)

184 points by jpmitchell 7 months ago | 101 comments

OpenCiv1 – open-source rewrite of Civ1(github.com)

173 points by caminanteblanco 7 months ago | 63 comments

The revenge of the data scientist(hamel.dev)

148 points by hamelsmu 7 months ago | 32 comments

From 300KB to 69KB per Token: How LLM Architectures Solve the KV Cache Problem(news.future-shock.ai)

138 points by future-shock-ai 7 months ago | 11 comments

Teenage Engineering's PO-32 acoustic modem and synth implementation(github.com)

132 points by ericlewis 7 months ago | 28 comments

Android’s new sideload settings will carry over to new devices(androidauthority.com)

131 points by croemer 7 months ago | 188 comments

Private equity turned vulnerable elderly people into human ATMs(theguardian.com)

125 points by mordechai9000 7 months ago | 72 comments

What major works of literature were written after age of 85? 75? 65?(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)

117 points by paulpauper 7 months ago | 81 comments

A laser-based process that enables adhesive-free paper packaging(fraunhofer.de)

116 points by gnabgib 7 months ago | 48 comments

Bring Back MiniDV with This Raspberry Pi FireWire Hat(jeffgeerling.com)

111 points by ingve 7 months ago | 17 comments

Seeing like a spreadsheet(davidoks.blog)

99 points by paulpauper 7 months ago | 34 comments

Treason in the Futures Markets(paulkrugman.substack.com)

94 points by Gasp0de 7 months ago | 45 comments

Fear and denial in Silicon Valley over social media addiction trial(bbc.com)

93 points by 1659447091 7 months ago | 117 comments

Show HN: QuickBEAM – run JavaScript as supervised Erlang/OTP processes(github.com)

88 points by dannote 7 months ago | 13 comments

Roulette Computers: Hidden Devices That Predict Spins(roulette-computers.com)

83 points by o4c 7 months ago | 30 comments

From Proxmox to FreeBSD and Sylve in our office lab(iptechnics.com)

81 points by arch1e 7 months ago | 71 comments

Undroidwish – A single-file, batteries-included Tcl/Tk binary for many platforms(androwish.org)

73 points by smartmic 7 months ago | 3 comments

ICAO issued new power bank restriction on flight(icao.int)

70 points by phantomathkg 7 months ago | 113 comments

Cat Itecture: Better Cat Window Boxes (2023)(gwern.net)

69 points by gggscript 7 months ago | 12 comments

rpg.actor Game Jam(rpg.actor)

67 points by Kye 7 months ago | 5 comments

No one is happy with NASA's new idea for private space stations(arstechnica.com)

63 points by rbanffy 7 months ago | 54 comments

Hardware Image Compression(ludicon.com)

62 points by luu 7 months ago | 11 comments

Ada and Spark on ARM Cortex-M – A Tutorial with Arduino and Nucleo Examples(inspirel.com)

56 points by swq115 7 months ago | 21 comments

One of the largest salt mines in the world exists under Lake Erie(apnews.com)

56 points by 1659447091 7 months ago | 38 comments

Learn Something Old Every Day, Part XVIII: How Does FPU Detection Work?(os2museum.com)

55 points by kencausey 7 months ago | 5 comments

Ariane 6 user's manual [pdf](ariane.group)

54 points by matthieu_bl 7 months ago | 11 comments

The Joy of Numbered Streets(humantransit.org)

48 points by dmit 7 months ago | 32 comments

Circuit-level PDP-11/34 emulator(github.com)

47 points by elvis70 7 months ago | 7 comments

Show HN: Loreline, narrative language transpiled via Haxe: C++/C#/JS/Java/Py/Lua(loreline.app)

44 points by jeremyfa 7 months ago | 14 comments

Goldman Sachs now reckons that oil could take out the 2008 record of $147(ft.com)

44 points by bookofjoe 7 months ago | 18 comments

Stop picking my Go version for me(blog.howardjohn.info)

43 points by ingve 7 months ago | 28 comments

Show HN: Free, in-browser PDF editor(breezepdf.com)

41 points by philjohnson 7 months ago | 15 comments

AI Perfected Chess. Humans Made It Unpredictable Again(bloomberg.com)

41 points by GMoromisato 7 months ago | 37 comments

Tell HN: Firefox is being slowly deprecated by the industry

39 points by gurjeet 7 months ago | 24 comments

Militarized snowflakes: The accidental beauty of Renaissance star forts(bigthink.com)

31 points by Brajeshwar 7 months ago | 5 comments

Byte Interviews Chuck Peddle, Father of the MOS 6502 and Commodore PET (1982)(computeradsfromthepast.substack.com)

30 points by rbanffy 7 months ago | 4 comments

Playing Wolfenstein 3D with one hand in 2026(arstechnica.com)

25 points by Brajeshwar 7 months ago | 11 comments

Why mathematicians are boycotting their biggest conference(scientificamerican.com)

24 points by nickcotter 7 months ago | 6 comments

Ötzi the Iceman's DNA Reveals a Living Relative 5k Years Later(blog.familytreedna.com)

23 points by ilamont 7 months ago | 4 comments

The risk of AI isn't making us lazy, but making "lazy" look productive

17 points by acmerfight 7 months ago | 17 comments

Bitwarden Doubled Their Price. I'd Left. Here's What You Missed(blog.ppb1701.com)

16 points by gpi 7 months ago | 4 comments