Polymarket Gamblers Threaten a Journalist, a Love Letter to FreeBSD, and Meta Revives jemalloc

Kai and Maya cover the top stories from Hacker News for Monday, March 16, 2026: - Polymarket gamblers send death threats to a Times of Israel journalist over an Iran missile report with $14M wagered on the outcome - A sysadmin's 20-year love letter to FreeBSD sparks warm community discussion about stability versus ecosystem - Meta recommits to jemalloc after abandoning the memory allocator, focusing on huge-page support and ARM64 optimization - A detailed guide to building a fully local voice assistant replacing Google Home using llama.cpp and Home Assistant - The small web grows to 32,000 sites with 1,251 daily updates, far bigger than expected - Using Starlink Mini as a $6/month backup internet connection with automatic failover