Tony Hoare Remembered, LeCun’s $1B World-Model Bet, and Cloudflare’s New Web Data Grab

Kai and Maya cover the top stories from Hacker News for Tuesday, March 10, 2026: - Tony Hoare's death prompted a wave of tributes to the pioneer behind quicksort, Hoare logic, and some of the most quoted lines in software engineering. - Yann LeCun raised more than $1 billion for a new startup betting that AI needs physical world models, not just bigger language models. - Cloudflare launched a new crawl endpoint, raising eyebrows because it now sits even more directly between web publishers and large-scale data collection. - A popular post on autonomous coding agents argued that the real challenge is not generation but verification, with stronger upfront specs and automated checks. - Debian's debate over AI-generated contributions ended in a non-decision, showing how unresolved the governance, copyright, and reviewer-burden questions still are. - A Fedora developer showed how painful current RISC-V hardware can be for real package builds, with native performance still far from its long-term promise. - RunAnywhere's Launch HN pitched fast local voice AI on Apple Silicon, drawing interest for on-device privacy and skepticism over install friction and proprietary pieces.