Top 10 Hacker News — Top Stories — March 16, 2026

With 142 points, 'The small web is bigger than you might think' argued that federated and indie sites still thrive beneath the platform giants, provoking 53 commenters to argue scale versus soul.

A PDF retreating from engineering's big-data dogma scored 49 points and 18 comments, resonating with those tired of building for scale at the cost of craft.

One developer's journey to a reliable, locally hosted voice assistant racked up 223 points and 74 comments—a DIY manifesto against always-online smart speakers.

The paper 'Language Model Teams as Distributed Systems' earned 29 points and just 4 comments, a niche dive into orchestrating multiple LLMs like microservices.

Voygr (YC W26) launched a better maps API for AI agents, scoring 42 upvotes and 21 comments—proof that every startup is now optimizing for bot consumption.

'Why I love FreeBSD' drew 250 points and 101 comments, a passionate defense of the BSD heritage against Linux's dominance in the server room.

Apideck CLI promised AI-agent interfaces with lower context consumption than the Model Context Protocol, igniting 90 upvotes and 84 comments in a standards war.

Chamber (YC W26) pitched an AI teammate for GPU infrastructure, but only mustered 14 points and 3 comments—a crowded space where novelty didn't land.

A Polymarket gambler threatened to kill the author over an Iran missile story—1,022 points and 653 comments made this the day's dominant story, revealing prediction markets' dark underbelly.

With 142 points, 'The small web is bigger than you might think' argued that federated and indie sites still thrive beneath the platform giants, provoking 53 commenters to argue scale versus soul.

A PDF retreating from engineering's big-data dogma scored 49 points and 18 comments, resonating with those tired of building for scale at the cost of craft.

One developer's journey to a reliable, locally hosted voice assistant racked up 223 points and 74 comments—a DIY manifesto against always-online smart speakers.

The paper 'Language Model Teams as Distributed Systems' earned 29 points and just 4 comments, a niche dive into orchestrating multiple LLMs like microservices.

Voygr (YC W26) launched a better maps API for AI agents, scoring 42 upvotes and 21 comments—proof that every startup is now optimizing for bot consumption.

'Why I love FreeBSD' drew 250 points and 101 comments, a passionate defense of the BSD heritage against Linux's dominance in the server room.

Apideck CLI promised AI-agent interfaces with lower context consumption than the Model Context Protocol, igniting 90 upvotes and 84 comments in a standards war.

Chamber (YC W26) pitched an AI teammate for GPU infrastructure, but only mustered 14 points and 3 comments—a crowded space where novelty didn't land.

A Polymarket gambler threatened to kill the author over an Iran missile story—1,022 points and 653 comments made this the day's dominant story, revealing prediction markets' dark underbelly.