DTF:HN for March 29, 2026

Your Daily Tech Feed covering the top 10 stories on Hacker News for March 29, 2026. Featuring: Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies, Technology: The (nearly) perfect USB cable tester does exist, AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice, CSS is DOOMed, Alzheimer's disease mortality among taxi and ambulance drivers (2024), and more. Stories covered: 1. Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies https://sytse.com/cancer/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47556729 2. Technology: The (nearly) perfect USB cable tester does exist https://blog.literarily-starved.com/2026/02/technology-the-nearly-perfect-usb-cable-tester-does-exist/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47524778 3. AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2026/03/ai-advice-sycophantic-models-research HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47554773 4. CSS is DOOMed https://nielsleenheer.com/articles/2026/css-is-doomed-rendering-doom-in-3d-with-css/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47557960 5. Alzheimer's disease mortality among taxi and ambulance drivers (2024) https://www.bmj.com/content/387/bmj-2024-082194 HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47559481 6. I turned my Kindle into my own personal newspaper https://manualdousuario.net/en/how-to-kindle-personal-newspaper/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47541969 7. Show HN: Public transit systems as data – lines, stations, railcars, and history https://publictransit.systems HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47561132 8. OpenBSD on Motorola 88000 Processors http://miod.online.fr/software/openbsd/stories/m88k1.html HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47543186 9. A Verilog to Factorio Compiler and Simulator (Working RISC-V CPU) https://github.com/ben-j-c/verilog2factorio HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47528853 10. Nonfiction Publishing, Under Threat, Is More Important https://newrepublic.com/article/207659/non-fiction-publishing-threat-important-ever HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47523138