Friday, 20 March 2026

New best story on Hacker News: OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent

OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent
531 by rbanffy | 239 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service

Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service
534 by freddykruger | 186 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Chuck Norris has died

Chuck Norris has died
528 by mp3il | 333 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: Three new Kitten TTS models – smallest less than 25MB

Show HN: Three new Kitten TTS models – smallest less than 25MB
439 by rohan_joshi | 162 comments on Hacker News.
Kitten TTS ( https://ift.tt/MbvNAFU ) is an open-source series of tiny and expressive text-to-speech models for on-device applications. We had a thread last year here: https://ift.tt/LExbUqP . Today we're releasing three new models with 80M, 40M and 14M parameters. The largest model (80M) has the highest quality. The 14M variant reaches new SOTA in expressivity among similar sized models, despite being <25MB in size. This release is a major upgrade from the previous one and supports English text-to-speech applications in eight voices: four male and four female. Here's a short demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge3u5qblqZA . Most models are quantized to int8 + fp16, and they use ONNX for runtime. Our models are designed to run anywhere eg. raspberry pi, low-end smartphones, wearables, browsers etc. No GPU required! This release aims to bridge the gap between on-device and cloud models for tts applications. Multi-lingual model release is coming soon. On-device AI is bottlenecked by one thing: a lack of tiny models that actually perform. Our goal is to open-source more models to run production-ready voice agents and apps entirely on-device. We would love your feedback!

Thursday, 19 March 2026

New best story on Hacker News: “Your frustration is the product”

“Your frustration is the product”
494 by llm_nerd | 300 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps

Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps
513 by 0xedb | 602 comments on Hacker News.
https://ift.tt/MSbNu20...

New best story on Hacker News: Warranty Void If Regenerated

Warranty Void If Regenerated
487 by Stwerner | 297 comments on Hacker News.
As an experiment I started asking Claude to explain things to me with a fiction story and it ended up being really good, so I started seeing how far I could take it and what it would take to polish it enough to share publicly. Over the last couple months, I've been building world bibles, writing and visual style guides, and other documents for this project… think the fiction equivalent of all the markdown files we use for agentic development now. After that, this was about two weeks of additional polish work to cut out a lot of fluff and a lot of the LLM-isms. Happy to answer any questions about the process too if that would be interesting to anybody.

Sunday, 8 March 2026

New best story on Hacker News: FrameBook

FrameBook
354 by todsacerdoti | 64 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: A decade of Docker containers

A decade of Docker containers
351 by zacwest | 248 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Please restrict new accounts from posting

Ask HN: Please restrict new accounts from posting
351 by Oras | 258 comments on Hacker News.
I don’t know if I’m the only one, but I see lots of clearly AI generated posts recently in HN and mostly coming from new accounts (green), it is more noticeable in the Show HN section. I wish the team can either restrict new accounts from posting or at least offer a default filtering where I can only see posts from accounts with certain criteria. I don’t want to see HN becoming twitter, which is full of bots and noise, as this would be a really sad day.

Friday, 6 March 2026

New best story on Hacker News: Good software knows when to stop

Good software knows when to stop
530 by ssaboum | 265 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions

Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions
607 by enraged_camel | 407 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4k Developer Machines

A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4k Developer Machines
598 by edf13 | 185 comments on Hacker News.
Original report: https://ift.tt/bJx7aWp

New best story on Hacker News: Where things stand with the Department of War

Where things stand with the Department of War
598 by surprisetalk | 737 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: System76 on Age Verification Laws

System76 on Age Verification Laws
644 by LorenDB | 429 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: 10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips

10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips
653 by marvinborner | 323 comments on Hacker News.


Sunday, 1 March 2026

New best story on Hacker News: Switch to Claude without starting over

Switch to Claude without starting over
531 by doener | 250 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: MCP server that reduces Claude Code context consumption by 98%

MCP server that reduces Claude Code context consumption by 98%
538 by mksglu | 101 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Obsidian Sync now has a headless client

Obsidian Sync now has a headless client
565 by adilmoujahid | 203 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

Ghostty – Terminal Emulator
581 by oli5679 | 251 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk

We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk
664 by golfer | 353 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Microgpt

Microgpt
651 by tambourine_man | 111 comments on Hacker News.


Thursday, 26 February 2026

Sunday, 22 February 2026

New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: Llama 3.1 70B on a single RTX 3090 via NVMe-to-GPU bypassing the CPU

Show HN: Llama 3.1 70B on a single RTX 3090 via NVMe-to-GPU bypassing the CPU
358 by xaskasdf | 93 comments on Hacker News.
Hi everyone, I'm kinda involved in some retrogaming and with some experiments I ran into the following question: "It would be possible to run transformer models bypassing the cpu/ram, connecting the gpu to the nvme?" This is the result of that question itself and some weekend vibecoding (it has the linked library repository in the readme as well), it seems to work, even on consumer gpus, it should work better on professional ones tho

New best story on Hacker News: How Taalas “prints” LLM onto a chip?

How Taalas “prints” LLM onto a chip?
365 by beAroundHere | 215 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents

Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents
376 by Cyphase | 844 comments on Hacker News.
https://ift.tt/R2nXAyL Related: https://ift.tt/e6tZF8n

New best story on Hacker News: Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras

Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras
445 by latexr | 263 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution

How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution
613 by vinhnx | 378 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Wikipedia deprecates Archive.today, starts removing archive links

Wikipedia deprecates Archive.today, starts removing archive links
582 by nobody9999 | 354 comments on Hacker News.
Related: Archive.today is directing a DDoS attack against my blog - https://ift.tt/e9T146H - Feb 2026 (168 comments) Ask HN: Weird archive.today behavior? - https://ift.tt/74vLUC0 - Jan 2026 (69 comments)

Tuesday, 17 February 2026

New best story on Hacker News: Thank HN: You helped save 33k lives

Thank HN: You helped save 33k lives
433 by chaseadam17 | 54 comments on Hacker News.
13 years ago, we launched Watsi.org with a Show HN [1]. For nearly a year, this community drove so much traffic that we couldn’t list patients fast enough. Then pg saw us on HN, wrote us our first big check, and accepted us as the first YC nonprofit (W13). The next few years were a whirlwind. I was a young, naive founder with just enough experience to know I wanted Watsi to be more efficient, transparent, and innovative than most nonprofits. We spent 24/7 talking to users and coding. We did things that don’t scale. We tried our best to be walking, talking pg essays. Over the years we learned that product/market fit is different for nonprofits. Not many people wake up and think, "I'd love to donate to a nonprofit today" with the same oomph that they think, "I'd love a coffee" or "I'd like to make more money." No matter how much effort we put into fundraising, donations grew linearly, while requests for care grew exponentially. I felt caught in the middle. After investing everything I had, I eventually burned out and transitioned to the board. I made a classic founder mistake and intertwined my self-worth with Watsi's success. I believed that if I could somehow help every patient, I was a good person, but if I let down some patients, which became inevitable, I was a bad person. This was exacerbated by seeing our for-profit YC batch mates raise massive rounds. I felt like a failure for not scaling Watsi faster, but eventually we accepted reality and set Watsi on more of a slow, steady, and sustainable trajectory. Now that I have perspective, I'm incredibly proud of what the org has accomplished and grateful to everyone who has done a tour of duty to support us. Watsi donors have donated over $20M to fund 33,241 surgeries, and we have a good shot of helping patients for a long time to come. In a world of fast growth and fast crashes, here's a huge thank you to the HN users who have stuck by Watsi, or any other important cause, even when it's not on the front page. I believe it embodies the best of humanity. Thanks HN! [1] https://ift.tt/hGer2AC

New best story on Hacker News: CBS didn't air Rep. James Talarico interview out of fear of FCC

CBS didn't air Rep. James Talarico interview out of fear of FCC
428 by theahura | 202 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Claude Sonnet 4.6

Claude Sonnet 4.6
415 by adocomplete | 352 comments on Hacker News.
https://ift.tt/KGfcsqE [pdf] https://ift.tt/bW9tNvk [video]

New best story on Hacker News: Rise of the Triforce

Rise of the Triforce
397 by max-m | 61 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: What your Bluetooth devices reveal

What your Bluetooth devices reveal
428 by ssgodderidge | 160 comments on Hacker News.


Sunday, 8 February 2026

New best story on Hacker News: I am happier writing code by hand

I am happier writing code by hand
345 by lazyfolder | 274 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Vouch

Vouch
364 by chwtutha | 145 comments on Hacker News.
https://ift.tt/nRE2zpc https://ift.tt/JuYBKjP https://ift.tt/vblq5oK

New best story on Hacker News: DoNotNotify is now Open Source

DoNotNotify is now Open Source
353 by awaaz | 47 comments on Hacker News.
A month ago, I submitted my app "DoNotNotify" to control Android notifications on Show HN [0], and it trended on the front page for a day. I was happy, but the most upvoted comments on the thread were asking for the app to be open sourced, since it dealt with system-wide notifications. My promises weren't good enough, and the community wanted more! Why didn't I open source it in the first place? Linux has been by primary driver for more than a decade. I genuinely believe in the philosophy, and have always wanted to give back to the community. The primary reason, probably, was because I was ashamed that I had 90% vibe-coded the app. More than 2 decades of writing software, and my first contribution to FOSS would be AI-generated code? Would it withstand even the most minimal of scrutiny? Would by (unknown) name forever be tarnished? I exaggerate, but only slightly :) So, yesterday, after a fair bit of trepidation, I changed the github repo visibility to public and put up a announcement on the app's website [1]. I have also submitted the app to F-Droid [2]. As before, I welcome the community's feedback and suggestions! [0] https://ift.tt/xQwaIiR [1] https://ift.tt/8kV6duQ [2] https://ift.tt/5YLGCEi -- Anuj Jain

Saturday, 31 January 2026

New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: I trained a 9M speech model to fix my Mandarin tones

Show HN: I trained a 9M speech model to fix my Mandarin tones
442 by simedw | 133 comments on Hacker News.
Built this because tones are killing my spoken Mandarin and I can't reliably hear my own mistakes. It's a 9M Conformer-CTC model trained on ~300h (AISHELL + Primewords), quantized to INT8 (11 MB), runs 100% in-browser via ONNX Runtime Web. Grades per-syllable pronunciation + tones with Viterbi forced alignment. Try it here: https://ift.tt/tJyZ6aq

New best story on Hacker News: Mobile carriers can get your GPS location

Mobile carriers can get your GPS location
476 by cbeuw | 318 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Finland to end "uncontrolled human experiment" with ban on youth social media

Finland to end "uncontrolled human experiment" with ban on youth social media
457 by Teever | 332 comments on Hacker News.


Saturday, 24 January 2026

New best story on Hacker News: MS confirms it will give the FBI your Windows PC data encryption key if asked

MS confirms it will give the FBI your Windows PC data encryption key if asked
388 by blacktulip | 258 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Doing gigabit Ethernet over my British phone wires

Doing gigabit Ethernet over my British phone wires
388 by user5994461 | 213 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Capital One to acquire Brex for $5.15B

Capital One to acquire Brex for $5.15B
380 by personjerry | 350 comments on Hacker News.
Archive link: https://ift.tt/sjm7c6F Capitol One statement: https://ift.tt/HYrM0Nc... Brex statement: https://ift.tt/7uSYGRb...

New best story on Hacker News: Gas Town's agent patterns, design bottlenecks, and vibecoding at scale

Gas Town's agent patterns, design bottlenecks, and vibecoding at scale
381 by pavel_lishin | 399 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Proton spam and the AI consent problem

Proton spam and the AI consent problem
526 by dbushell | 389 comments on Hacker News.


Thursday, 22 January 2026

New best story on Hacker News: Qwen3-TTS family is now open sourced: Voice design, clone, and generation

Qwen3-TTS family is now open sourced: Voice design, clone, and generation
513 by Palmik | 163 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: In Europe, wind and solar overtake fossil fuels

In Europe, wind and solar overtake fossil fuels
512 by speckx | 524 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC

Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC
500 by cannoneyed | 137 comments on Hacker News.
Hey HN! I wanted to share something I built over the last few weeks: isometric.nyc is a massive isometric pixel art map of NYC, built with nano banana and coding agents. I didn't write a single line of code. Of course no-code doesn't mean no-engineering. This project took a lot more manual labor than I'd hoped! I wrote a deep dive on the workflow and some thoughts about the future of AI coding and creativity: https://ift.tt/tkhrevW

New best story on Hacker News: GPTZero finds 100 new hallucinations in NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers

GPTZero finds 100 new hallucinations in NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers
481 by segmenta | 258 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Claude's new constitution

Claude's new constitution
442 by meetpateltech | 439 comments on Hacker News.
https://ift.tt/Z0QcGS2

Wednesday, 21 January 2026

New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: ChartGPU – WebGPU-powered charting library (1M points at 60fps)

Show HN: ChartGPU – WebGPU-powered charting library (1M points at 60fps)
443 by huntergemmer | 138 comments on Hacker News.
Creator here. I built ChartGPU because I kept hitting the same wall: charting libraries that claim to be "fast" but choke past 100K data points. The core insight: Canvas2D is fundamentally CPU-bound. Even WebGL chart libraries still do most computation on the CPU. So I moved everything to the GPU via WebGPU: - LTTB downsampling runs as a compute shader - Hit-testing for tooltips/hover is GPU-accelerated - Rendering uses instanced draws (one draw call per series) The result: 1M points at 60fps with smooth zoom/pan. Live demo: https://chartgpu.github.io/ChartGPU/examples/million-points/ Currently supports line, area, bar, scatter, pie, and candlestick charts. MIT licensed, available on npm: `npm install chartgpu` Happy to answer questions about WebGPU internals or architecture decisions.

New best story on Hacker News: Nvidia Stock Crash Prediction

Nvidia Stock Crash Prediction
438 by todsacerdoti | 362 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: California is free of drought for the first time in 25 years

California is free of drought for the first time in 25 years
441 by thnaks | 237 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: A 26,000-year astronomical monument hidden in plain sight (2019)

A 26,000-year astronomical monument hidden in plain sight (2019)
477 by mkmk | 92 comments on Hacker News.


Wednesday, 7 January 2026

New best story on Hacker News: US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes

US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes
437 by kpw94 | 451 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Sugar industry influenced researchers and blamed fat for CVD (2016)

Sugar industry influenced researchers and blamed fat for CVD (2016)
492 by aldarion | 311 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team

Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team
432 by kevlened | 245 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: 65% of Hacker News posts have negative sentiment, and they outperform

65% of Hacker News posts have negative sentiment, and they outperform
473 by 7777777phil | 445 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far

Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far
504 by tbassetto | 684 comments on Hacker News.