DTF:HN for March 17, 2026

Your Daily Tech Feed covering the top 10 stories on Hacker News for March 17, 2026. Featuring: Kagi Small Web, Kagi Translate now supports LinkedIn Speak as an output language, Building a Shell, Reddit User Uncovers Who Is Behind Meta's $2B Lobbying for Age Verification Tech, Grace Hopper's Revenge, and more. Stories covered: 1. Kagi Small Web https://kagi.com/smallweb/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47410542 2. Kagi Translate now supports LinkedIn Speak as an output language https://translate.kagi.com/?from=en&to=LinkedIn+speak HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47408703 3. Building a Shell https://healeycodes.com/building-a-shell HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47410532 4. Reddit User Uncovers Who Is Behind Meta's $2B Lobbying for Age Verification Tech https://www.gadgetreview.com/reddit-user-uncovers-who-is-behind-metas-2b-lobbying-for-invasive-age-verification-tech HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47410870 5. Grace Hopper's Revenge https://www.thefuriousopposites.com/p/grace-hoppers-revenge HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47410349 6. Leanstral: Open-source agent for trustworthy coding and formal proof engineering https://mistral.ai/news/leanstral HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47404796 7. The unlikely story of Teardown Multiplayer https://blog.voxagon.se/2026/03/13/teardown-multiplayer.html HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47366435 8. Reverse-engineering Viktor and making it Open Source https://matijacniacki.com/blog/openviktor HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47409885 9. What CI looks like at a 100-person team (PostHog) https://www.mendral.com/blog/ci-at-scale HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47352578 10. Meta’s renewed commitment to jemalloc https://engineering.fb.com/2026/03/02/data-infrastructure/investing-in-infrastructure-metas-renewed-commitment-to-jemalloc/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47402640