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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 29, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies (01:34) - Spanish legislation as a Git repo (02:42) - AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice (03:41) - I decompiled the White House's new app (04:52) - I Built an Open-World Engine for the N64 [video] (06:07) - CSS is DOOMed (07:32) - Further human + AI + proof assistant work on Knuth's "Claude Cycles" problem (08:47) - Linux is an interpreter (10:17) - OpenCiv1 – open-source rewrite of Civ1 (11:42) - Alzheimer's disease mortality among taxi and ambulance drivers (2024) (13:12) - Outro Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companieshttps://sytse.com/cancer/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47556729Spanish legislation as a Git repohttps://github.com/EnriqueLop/legalize-eshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47553798AI overly affirms users asking for personal advicehttps://news.stanford.edu/stories/2026/03/ai-advice-sycophantic-models-researchhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47554773I decompiled the White House's new apphttps://thereallo.dev/blog/decompiling-the-white-house-apphttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47555556I Built an Open-World Engine for the N64 [video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXxmIw9axWwhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47553717CSS is DOOMedhttps://nielsleenheer.com/articles/2026/css-is-doomed-rendering-doom-in-3d-with-css/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47557960Further human + AI + proof assistant work on Knuth's "Claude Cycles" problemhttps://twitter.com/BoWang87/status/2037648937453232504https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47557166Linux is an interpreterhttps://astrid.tech/2026/03/28/0/linux-is-an-interpreter/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47556359OpenCiv1 – open-source rewrite of Civ1https://github.com/rajko-horvat/OpenCiv1https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47557064Alzheimer's disease mortality among taxi and ambulance drivers (2024)https://www.bmj.com/content/387/bmj-2024-082194https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47559481 What is Hacker News Highlights? Daily overview of the Top 10 Hacker News posts. Post and comment summarization by AI.