3.11.26 | Tony Hoare has died, Meta acquires Moltbook, Yann LeCun raises $1B for physical-world AI

Hacker News Highlights · Mar 11, 2026 · 13m

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 11, 2026.

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(00:00) - Intro

(00:18) - Tony Hoare has died

(01:20) - Meta acquires Moltbook

(02:49) - Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world

(04:21) - Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns

(05:42) - Agents that run while I sleep

(07:17) - Debian decides not to decide on AI-generated contributions

(08:36) - Cloudflare crawl endpoint

(09:48) - U+237C ⍼ Is Azimuth

(11:02) - Universal vaccine against…