DTF:HN for March 8, 2026

Your Daily Tech Feed covering the top 10 stories on Hacker News for March 8, 2026. Featuring: SWE-CI: Evaluating Agent Capabilities in Maintaining Codebases via CI, Cloud VM benchmarks 2026, Show HN: Curiosity – DIY 6" Newtonian Reflector Telescope, Notes on Writing WASM, Warn about PyPy being unmaintained, and more. Stories covered: 1. SWE-CI: Evaluating Agent Capabilities in Maintaining Codebases via CI https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.03823 HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47295537 2. Cloud VM benchmarks 2026 https://devblog.ecuadors.net/cloud-vm-benchmarks-2026-performance-price-1i1m.html HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47293119 3. Show HN: Curiosity – DIY 6" Newtonian Reflector Telescope https://curiosity-telescope.vercel.app/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47295279 4. Notes on Writing WASM https://notes.brooklynzelenka.com/Blog/Notes-on-Writing-Wasm HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47295837 5. Warn about PyPy being unmaintained https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/pull/17643 HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47293415 6. How to run Qwen 3.5 locally https://unsloth.ai/docs/models/qwen3.5 HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47292522 7. Rijksmuseum researchers discover new painting by Rembrandt van Rijn https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/press/press-releases/rijksmuseum-researchers-discover-new-painting-by-rembrandt-van-rijn HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47249139 8. From RGB to L*a*b* color space (2024) https://kaizoudou.com/from-rgb-to-lab-color-space/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47245061 9. CasNum https://github.com/0x0mer/CasNum HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47291292 10. A decade of Docker containers https://cacm.acm.org/research/a-decade-of-docker-containers/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47289311