Hacker News on Sunday, 29 March 2026

ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state(buchodi.com)

922 points by alberto-m 7 months ago | 596 comments

A blog post reverse-engineering the encrypted Cloudflare program that inspects ChatGPT's React state before allowing users to type.

LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs

706 points by hrncode 7 months ago | 403 comments

Hacker News discussion thread with screenshots showing LinkedIn consuming 2.4 GB of RAM across two browser tabs.

Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder(techfixated.com)

656 points by speckx 7 months ago | 241 comments

Tech Fixated article about Voyager 1, launched in 1977, still operating with 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder for data storage.

Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics(news.umich.edu)

537 points by giuliomagnifico 7 months ago | 242 comments

University of Michigan news release on a study finding nitrile and latex gloves can contaminate samples and cause overestimation of microplastics.

The Cognitive Dark Forest(ryelang.org)

487 points by kaycebasques 7 months ago | 220 comments

A Rye language blog essay arguing that the open web, with AI systems harvesting content, is turning into a cognitive "dark forest" where people hide their ideas.

Say No to Palantir in Europe(action.wemove.eu)

440 points by Betelbuddy 7 months ago | 89 comments

A WeMove Europe petition page campaigning against the use of Palantir's surveillance and data analytics technology by governments in Europe.

Samsung Magician disk utility takes 18 steps and two reboots to uninstall(chalmovsky.com)

386 points by chalmovsky 7 months ago | 211 comments

A blog post ranting about Samsung's Magician SSD utility and documenting the 18-step process, including two Recovery Mode reboots, needed to uninstall it.

Police used AI facial recognition to wrongly arrest TN woman for crimes in ND(cnn.com)

379 points by ourmandave 7 months ago | 163 comments

CNN news article about a Tennessee woman, Angela Lipps, wrongly arrested via AI facial recognition for crimes in North Dakota, a state she says she never visited.

Neovim 0.12.0(github.com)

347 points by pawelgrzybek 7 months ago | 192 comments

GitHub release page for Neovim v0.12.0, showing build info (Release build, LuaJIT 2.1).

My MacBook keyboard is broken and it's insanely expensive to fix(tobiasberg.net)

334 points by TobiasBerg 7 months ago | 418 comments

A personal blog post about a MacBook Pro's right arrow key getting stuck and the high cost of repairing the keyboard.

Miasma: A tool to trap AI web scrapers in an endless poison pit(github.com)

304 points by LucidLynx 7 months ago | 220 comments

C++26 is done: ISO C++ standards meeting Trip Report(herbsutter.com)

303 points by pjmlp 7 months ago | 344 comments

Full network of clitoral nerves mapped out for first time(theguardian.com)

260 points by onei 7 months ago | 94 comments

Coding agents could make free software matter again(gjlondon.com)

245 points by rogueleaderr 7 months ago | 251 comments

Claude Code runs Git reset –hard origin/main against project repo every 10 mins(github.com)

242 points by mthwsjc_ 7 months ago | 174 comments

Alzheimer's disease mortality among taxi and ambulance drivers (2024)(bmj.com)

201 points by bookofjoe 7 months ago | 131 comments

ESP32-S31: Dual-Core RISC-V SoC with Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.4, and Advanced HMI(espressif.com)

195 points by topspin 7 months ago | 112 comments

What category theory teaches us about dataframes(mchav.github.io)

176 points by mchav 7 months ago | 60 comments

Chess in SQL(dbpro.app)

172 points by upmostly 7 months ago | 42 comments

The bot situation on the internet is worse than you could imagine(gladeart.com)

159 points by ohjeez 7 months ago | 105 comments

What if AI doesn't need more RAM but better math?(adlrocha.substack.com)

140 points by adlrocha 7 months ago | 75 comments

Significant progress made on Xbox 360 recompilation(readonlymemo.com)

139 points by tetrisgm 7 months ago | 27 comments

The road signs that teach travellers about France(bbc.com)

139 points by 1659447091 7 months ago | 59 comments

Midnight train from GA: A view of America from the tracks as airports struggle(apnews.com)

134 points by walterbell 7 months ago | 120 comments

A Recipe for Steganogravy(theo.lol)

130 points by tbrockman 7 months ago | 29 comments

Windows 95 defenses against installers that overwrite a file with an older one(devblogs.microsoft.com)

129 points by michelangelo 7 months ago | 60 comments

Build123d: A Python CAD programming library(github.com)

129 points by Ivoah 7 months ago | 49 comments

The True Shape of Io's Steeple Mountain(weareinquisitive.com)

99 points by carlosjobim 7 months ago | 2 comments

The "Vibe Coding" Wall of Shame(crackr.dev)

92 points by wa5ina 7 months ago | 46 comments

AyaFlow: A high-performance, eBPF-based network traffic analyzer written in Rust(github.com)

91 points by tanelpoder 7 months ago | 5 comments

Show HN: TurboQuant for vector search – 2-4 bit compression(github.com)

86 points by justsomeguy1996 7 months ago | 5 comments

Netscape News Feed Straight Out of the Late 00s(isp.netscape.com)

85 points by mistyvales 7 months ago | 18 comments

The rise and fall of IBM's 4 Pi aerospace computers: an illustrated history(righto.com)

83 points by zdw 7 months ago | 24 comments

Kyushu Railway Company Train Varieties(jrkyushu.co.jp)

82 points by NaOH 7 months ago | 11 comments

There is No Spoon. A software engineers primer for demystified ML(github.com)

81 points by jmatthews 7 months ago | 18 comments

OpenYak – An open-source Cowork that runs any model and owns your filesystem(github.com)

78 points by wangzhangwu 7 months ago | 28 comments

Show HN: Home Maker: Declare Your Dev Tools in a Makefile(thottingal.in)

78 points by sthottingal 7 months ago | 46 comments

More on Version Control(bramcohen.com)

74 points by velmu 7 months ago | 26 comments

Emacs-libgterm: Terminal emulator for Emacs using libghostty-vt(github.com)

74 points by signa11 7 months ago | 20 comments

Lat.md: Agent Lattice: a knowledge graph for your codebase, written in Markdown(github.com)

72 points by doppp 7 months ago | 36 comments

TSA lines are so out of control that travelers are hiring line-sitters(washingtonpost.com)

68 points by bookofjoe 7 months ago | 92 comments

Twice this week, I have come across embarassingly bad data(successfulsoftware.net)

64 points by hermitcrab 7 months ago | 51 comments

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

61 points by philjohnson 7 months ago | 35 comments

Sky Wins Irish Court Order to Unmask 300 Pirate IPTV Users via Revolut Bank(torrentfreak.com)

60 points by nixass 7 months ago | 29 comments

Solar is winning the energy race(dw.com)

59 points by doener 7 months ago | 55 comments

Digitizing photos from the 1998 Game Boy Camera(swiftrocks.com)

58 points by rockbruno 7 months ago | 11 comments

Show HN: Sheet Ninja – Google Sheets as a CRUD Back End for Vibe Coders(sheetninja.io)

57 points by sxa001 7 months ago | 66 comments

An Introduction to Writing Systems and Unicode(r12a.github.io)

56 points by mariuz 7 months ago | 11 comments

First Western Digital, now Sony: The tech giant suspends SD card sales(mashable.com)

52 points by _tk_ 7 months ago | 36 comments

Vector Meson Dominance(johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)

50 points by chmaynard 7 months ago | 6 comments

Show HN: Crazierl – An Erlang Operating System(crazierl.org)

50 points by toast0 7 months ago | 11 comments

Oscar Reutersvärd (2021)(escherinhetpaleis.nl)

48 points by layer8 7 months ago | 4 comments

Working on Products People Hate(seangoedecke.com)

46 points by herbertl 7 months ago | 38 comments

Free stuff makes us irrational(thehustle.co)

46 points by Anon84 7 months ago | 37 comments

App that shows real-time lightning on Earth is showing bombings in Middle East(maps.blitzortung.org)

44 points by 0ut0flin3 7 months ago | 7 comments

The road to electric – in charts and data [UK](rac.co.uk)

40 points by zeristor 7 months ago | 37 comments

Patriot Crisis: US Embezzles Switzerland's Fighter Jet Funds(clashreport.com)

37 points by vrganj 7 months ago | 3 comments

DoesItAgeVerify: The age verification status of Open Source Operating Systems(github.com)

37 points by pkaeding 7 months ago | 36 comments

Show HN: Public transit systems as data – lines, stations, railcars, and history(publictransit.systems)

36 points by qwertykb 7 months ago | 12 comments

Shipment of KitKat bars stolen en route from Italy to Poland(apnews.com)

33 points by petethomas 7 months ago | 12 comments