Hacker News 100

Mozilla to launch free built-in VPN in upcoming Firefox 149 Link: https://cyberinsider.com/mozilla-to-launch-free-built-in-… Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47434567

What 81,000 people want from AI Link: https://www.anthropic.com/features/81k-interviews Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47435156

Autoresearch for SAT Solvers Link: https://github.com/iliazintchenko/agent-sat Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47433265

The math that explains why bell curves are everywhere Link: https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-math-that-explains-why… Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47401489

Cook: A simple CLI for orchestrating Claude Code Link: https://rjcorwin.github.io/cook/ Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47434024

A sufficiently detailed spec is code Link: https://haskellforall.com/2026/03/a-sufficiently-detailed… Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47434047

Book: The Emerging Science of Machine Learning Benchmarks Link: https://mlbenchmarks.org/00-preface.html Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47380714

Trevor Milton is raising funds for a new jet he claims will transform flying Link: https://www.wsj.com/business/trevor-milton-pardon-nikola-… Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47425176

2025 Turing award given for quantum information science Link: https://awards.acm.org/about/2025-turing Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47423694

Measuring progress toward AGI: A cognitive framework Link: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research… Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47424458

Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents Link: https://www.pew.org/en/research-and-analysis/articles/202… Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47433058

Nvidia greenboost: transparently extend GPU VRAM using system RAM/NVMe Link: https://gitlab.com/IsolatedOctopi/nvidia_greenboost Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47388658

Warranty Void If Regenerated Link: https://nearzero.software/p/warranty-void-if-regenerated Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47431237

OpenAI Has New Focus (on the IPO) Link: https://om.co/2026/03/17/openai-has-new-focus-on-the-ipo/ Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47423976

Using calculus to do number theory Link: https://hidden-phenomena.com/articles/hensels Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47399330

Show HN: I built 48 lightweight SVG backgrounds you can copy/paste Link: https://www.svgbackgrounds.com/set/free-svg-backgrounds-a… Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47427299

Show HN: Will my flight have Starlink? Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47428650

Silicon Valley's "Pronatalists" Killed WFH. The Strait of Hormuz Brought It Back Link: https://www.governance.fyi/p/silicon-valleys-pronatalists… Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47412023

Sci-Fi Short Film “There Is No Antimemetics Division” [video] Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v8AsTHfAG0 Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47363133

Speed at the cost of quality: Study of use of Cursor AI in open source projects (2025) Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.04427 Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47401734