Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 15, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:24) - Ageless Linux – Software for humans of indeterminate age (02:43) - Python: The Optimization Ladder (04:50) - Baochip-1x: What it is, why I'm doing it now and how it came about (06:35) - How kernel anti-cheats work (08:02) - Marketing for Founders (09:15) - Rack-mount hydroponics (10:19) - Show HN: Han – A Korean programming language written in Rust (11:56) - MCP is dead; long live MCP (13:35) - Allow me to get to know you, mistakes and all (14:44) - Launching the Claude Partner Network (16:04) - Outro Ageless Linux – Software for humans of indeterminate agehttps://agelesslinux.org/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47381791Python: The Optimization Ladderhttps://cemrehancavdar.com/2026/03/10/optimization-ladder/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47327703Baochip-1x: What it is, why I'm doing it now and how it came abouthttps://www.crowdsupply.com/baochip/dabao/updates/what-it-is-why-im-doing-it-now-and-how-it-came-abouthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47339219How kernel anti-cheats workhttps://s4dbrd.github.io/posts/how-kernel-anti-cheats-work/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47382791Marketing for Foundershttps://github.com/EdoStra/Marketing-for-Foundershttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47380295Rack-mount hydroponicshttps://sa.lj.am/rack-mount-hydroponics/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47384352Show HN: Han – A Korean programming language written in Rusthttps://github.com/xodn348/hanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47381382MCP is dead; long live MCPhttps://chrlschn.dev/blog/2026/03/mcp-is-dead-long-live-mcp/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47380270Allow me to get to know you, mistakes and allhttps://sebi.io/posts/2026-03-14-allow-me-to-get-to-know-you-mistakes-and-all/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47381736Launching the Claude Partner Networkhttps://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-partner-networkhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47381340

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 14, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:23) - Can I run AI locally? (01:34) - 1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6 (03:07) - Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock (04:29) - Show HN: Channel Surfer – Watch YouTube like it’s cable TV (05:43) - The Wyden Siren Goes Off Again: We’ll Be “Stunned” By What the NSA Is Doing (07:21) - Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters (08:37) - Your phone is an entire computer (09:54) - Mouser: An open source alternative to Logi-Plus mouse software (11:17) - Hammerspoon (12:17) - Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine (13:39) - Outro Can I run AI locally?https://www.canirun.ai/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=473637541M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6https://claude.com/blog/1m-context-gahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47367129Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clockhttps://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/qatar-helium-shutdown-puts-chip-supply-chain-on-a-two-week-clockhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47363584Show HN: Channel Surfer – Watch YouTube like it’s cable TVhttps://channelsurfer.tvhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47336100The Wyden Siren Goes Off Again: We’ll Be “Stunned” By What the NSA Is Doinghttps://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/12/the-wyden-siren-goes-off-again-well-be-stunned-by-what-the-nsa-is-doing-under-section-702/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47366374Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort faltershttps://www.ft.com/content/e5fbc6c2-d5a6-4b97-a105-6a96ea849de5https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47366666Your phone is an entire computerhttps://medhir.com/blog/your-phone-is-an-entire-computerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47367568Mouser: An open source alternative to Logi-Plus mouse softwarehttps://github.com/TomBadash/MouseControlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47368033Hammerspoonhttps://github.com/Hammerspoon/hammerspoonhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47367932Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machinehttps://www.macrumors.com/2026/03/13/macbook-neo-runs-windows-11-vm/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47364729

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 13, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:15) - Shall I implement it? No (01:40) - Malus – Clean Room as a Service (03:08) - “This is not the computer for you” (04:42) - ATMs didn’t kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did (06:19) - US private credit defaults hit record 9.2% in 2025, Fitch says (07:58) - Willingness to look stupid (09:21) - Big data on the cheapest MacBook (10:46) - Bubble Sorted Amen Break (11:57) - Enhancing gut-brain communication reversed cognitive decline in aging mice (13:13) - Vite 8.0 Is Out (14:14) - Outro Shall I implement it? Nohttps://gist.github.com/bretonium/291f4388e2de89a43b25c135b44e41f0https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47357042Malus – Clean Room as a Servicehttps://malus.shhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47350424“This is not the computer for you”https://samhenri.gold/blog/20260312-this-is-not-the-computer-for-you/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47359744ATMs didn’t kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone didhttps://davidoks.blog/p/why-the-atm-didnt-kill-bank-tellerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47351371US private credit defaults hit record 9.2% in 2025, Fitch sayshttps://www.marketscreener.com/news/us-private-credit-defaults-hit-record-9-2-in-2025-fitch-says-ce7e5fd8df8fff2dhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47349806Willingness to look stupidhttps://sharif.io/looking-stupidhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47307124Big data on the cheapest MacBookhttps://duckdb.org/2026/03/11/big-data-on-the-cheapest-macbookhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47349277Bubble Sorted Amen Breakhttps://parametricavocado.itch.io/amen-sortinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47354098Enhancing gut-brain communication reversed cognitive decline in aging micehttps://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2026/03/gut-brain-cognitive-decline.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47353533Vite 8.0 Is Outhttps://vite.dev/blog/announcing-vite8https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47360730

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 12, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:20) - Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans (01:38) - Temporal: The 9-year journey to fix time in JavaScript (03:10) - Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web (04:36) - The MacBook Neo (05:58) - BitNet: Inference framework for 1-bit LLMs (07:31) - I was interviewed by an AI bot for a job (08:51) - Google closes deal to acquire Wiz (10:19) - Show HN: s@: decentralized social networking over static sites (11:43) - Entities enabling scientific fraud at scale (2025) (12:50) - Show HN: I built a tool that watches webpages and exposes changes as RSS (14:13) - Outro Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humanshttps://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#generatedhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340079Temporal: The 9-year journey to fix time in JavaScripthttps://bloomberg.github.io/js-blog/post/temporal/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47336989Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Webhttps://hacks.mozilla.org/2026/02/making-webassembly-a-first-class-language-on-the-web/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47331811The MacBook Neohttps://daringfireball.net/2026/03/the_macbook_neohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47334293BitNet: Inference framework for 1-bit LLMshttps://github.com/microsoft/BitNethttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47334694I was interviewed by an AI bot for a jobhttps://www.theverge.com/featured-video/892850/i-was-interviewed-by-an-ai-bot-for-a-jobhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47339164Google closes deal to acquire Wizhttps://www.wiz.io/blog/google-closes-deal-to-acquire-wizhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47336476Show HN: s@: decentralized social networking over static siteshttp://satproto.org/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47344548Entities enabling scientific fraud at scale (2025)https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2420092122https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47335349Show HN: I built a tool that watches webpages and exposes changes as RSShttps://sitespy.apphttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47337607

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 11, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Tony Hoare has died (01:20) - Meta acquires Moltbook (02:49) - Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world (04:21) - Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns (05:42) - Agents that run while I sleep (07:17) - Debian decides not to decide on AI-generated contributions (08:36) - Cloudflare crawl endpoint (09:48) - U+237C ⍼ Is Azimuth (11:02) - Universal vaccine against respiratory infections and allergens (12:10) - RISC-V Is Sloooow (13:30) - Outro Tony Hoare has diedhttps://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/03/tony-hoare-1934-2026.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47324054Meta acquires Moltbookhttps://www.axios.com/2026/03/10/meta-facebook-moltbook-agent-social-networkhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47323900Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical worldhttps://www.wired.com/story/yann-lecun-raises-dollar1-billion-to-build-ai-that-understands-the-physical-world/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47320600Create value for others and don’t worry about the returnshttps://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2026/03/11/running-69-agents.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47332074Agents that run while I sleephttps://www.claudecodecamp.com/p/i-m-building-agents-that-run-while-i-sleephttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47327559Debian decides not to decide on AI-generated contributionshttps://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1061544/125f911834966dd0/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47324087Cloudflare crawl endpointhttps://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/post/2026-03-10-br-crawl-endpoint/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47329557U+237C ⍼ Is Azimuthhttps://ionathan.ch/2026/02/16/angzarr.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47329605Universal vaccine against respiratory infections and allergenshttps://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2026/02/universal-vaccine.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47329608RISC-V Is Sloooowhttps://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2026/03/10/risc-v-is-sloooow/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47328214

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 10, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:17) - Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe (2025) (02:06) - Building a Procedural Hex Map with Wave Function Collapse (03:42) - Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft (05:31) - Florida judge rules red light camera tickets are unconstitutional (07:05) - OpenAI is walking away from expanding its Stargate data center with Oracle (08:30) - JSLinux Now Supports x86_64 (09:50) - Two Years of Emacs Solo (11:09) - No, it doesn't cost Anthropic $5k per Claude Code user (12:51) - DARPA’s new X-76 (14:05) - Show HN: Remotely use my guitar tuner (15:05) - Outro Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe (2025)https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/06/20/ireland-coal-free-ends-coal-power-generation-moneypoint/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47307055Building a Procedural Hex Map with Wave Function Collapsehttps://felixturner.github.io/hex-map-wfc/article/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47311815Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copylefthttps://writings.hongminhee.org/2026/03/legal-vs-legitimate/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47310160Florida judge rules red light camera tickets are unconstitutionalhttps://cbs12.com/news/local/florida-news-judge-rules-red-light-camera-tickets-unconstitutionalhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47312090OpenAI is walking away from expanding its Stargate data center with Oraclehttps://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/09/oracle-is-building-yesterdays-data-centers-with-tomorrows-debt.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47315128JSLinux Now Supports x86_64https://bellard.org/jslinux/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47311484Two Years of Emacs Solohttps://www.rahuljuliato.com/posts/emacs-solo-two-yearshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47317616No, it doesn't cost Anthropic $5k per Claude Code userhttps://martinalderson.com/posts/no-it-doesnt-cost-anthropic-5k-per-claude-code-user/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47317132DARPA’s new X-76https://www.darpa.mil/news/2026/darpa-new-x-76-speed-of-jet-freedom-of-helicopterhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47311669Show HN: Remotely use my guitar tunerhttps://realtuner.online/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47280654

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 9, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:17) - Agent Safehouse – macOS-native sandboxing for local agents (01:50) - Ask HN: How to be alone? (03:27) - Microscopes can see video on a laserdisc (04:39) - FrameBook (05:40) - My Homelab Setup (06:46) - Show HN: I built a real-time OSINT dashboard pulling 15 live global feeds (07:57) - We should revisit literate programming in the agent era (09:37) - Why can't you tune your guitar? (2019) (11:12) - My “grand vision” for Rust (12:32) - How the Sriracha guys screwed over their supplier (13:43) - Outro Agent Safehouse – macOS-native sandboxing for local agentshttps://agent-safehouse.dev/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47301085Ask HN: How to be alone?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47296547Microscopes can see video on a laserdischttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZuR-772ckshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47291876FrameBookhttps://fb.edoo.gghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47298044My Homelab Setuphttps://bryananthonio.com/blog/my-homelab-setup/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47298743Show HN: I built a real-time OSINT dashboard pulling 15 live global feedshttps://github.com/BigBodyCobain/Shadowbrokerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47300102We should revisit literate programming in the agent erahttps://silly.business/blog/we-should-revisit-literate-programming-in-the-agent-era/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47300747Why can't you tune your guitar? (2019)https://www.ethanhein.com/wp/2019/why-cant-you-tune-your-guitar/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47254896My “grand vision” for Rusthttps://blog.yoshuawuyts.com/a-grand-vision-for-rust/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47256376How the Sriracha guys screwed over their supplierhttps://old.reddit.com/r/KitchenConfidential/comments/1ro61g2/how_the_sriracha_guys_screwed_over_their_supplier/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47304831

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 8, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:17) - A decade of Docker containers (01:25) - Yoghurt delivery women combatting loneliness in Japan (02:43) - CasNum (03:40) - Cloud VM benchmarks 2026 (04:58) - Files are the interface humans and agents interact with (06:17) - FLASH radiotherapy's bold approach to cancer treatment (07:20) - Dumping Lego NXT firmware off of an existing brick (2025) (08:33) - Warn about PyPy being unmaintained (09:18) - How to run Qwen 3.5 locally (10:37) - The surprising whimsy of the Time Zone Database (12:00) - Outro A decade of Docker containershttps://cacm.acm.org/research/a-decade-of-docker-containers/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47289311Yoghurt delivery women combatting loneliness in Japanhttps://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20260302-the-yoghurt-delivery-women-combatting-loneliness-in-japanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47287344CasNumhttps://github.com/0x0mer/CasNumhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47291292Cloud VM benchmarks 2026https://devblog.ecuadors.net/cloud-vm-benchmarks-2026-performance-price-1i1m.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47293119Files are the interface humans and agents interact withhttps://madalitso.me/notes/why-everyone-is-talking-about-filesystems/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47286408FLASH radiotherapy's bold approach to cancer treatmenthttps://spectrum.ieee.org/flash-radiotherapyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47288533Dumping Lego NXT firmware off of an existing brick (2025)https://arcanenibble.github.io/dumping-lego-nxt-firmware-off-of-an-existing-brick.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47271988Warn about PyPy being unmaintainedhttps://github.com/astral-sh/uv/pull/17643https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47293415How to run Qwen 3.5 locallyhttps://unsloth.ai/docs/models/qwen3.5https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47292522The surprising whimsy of the Time Zone Databasehttps://muddy.jprs.me/links/2026-03-06-the-surprising-whimsy-of-the-time-zone-database/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47290198

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 7, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:16) - Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions (01:44) - Hardening Firefox with Anthropic's Red Team (03:21) - Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion (04:35) - Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma (05:53) - this css proves me human (07:05) - Show HN: Moongate – Ultima Online server emulator in .NET 10 with Lua scripting (08:39) - LLMs work best when the user defines their acceptance criteria first (10:08) - CT Scans of Health Wearables (11:30) - UUID package coming to Go standard library (12:46) - A tool that removes censorship from open-weight LLMs (14:09) - Outro Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessionshttps://twitter.com/JosephPolitano/status/2029916364664611242https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47278426Hardening Firefox with Anthropic's Red Teamhttps://www.anthropic.com/news/mozilla-firefox-securityhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47273854Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passionhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47282777Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasmahttps://plasma-bigscreen.orghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47282736this css proves me humanhttps://will-keleher.com/posts/this-css-makes-me-human/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47281593Show HN: Moongate – Ultima Online server emulator in .NET 10 with Lua scriptinghttps://github.com/moongate-community/moongatev2https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47275236LLMs work best when the user defines their acceptance criteria firsthttps://blog.katanaquant.com/p/your-llm-doesnt-write-correct-codehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47283337CT Scans of Health Wearableshttps://www.lumafield.com/scan-of-the-month/health-wearableshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47275152UUID package coming to Go standard libraryhttps://github.com/golang/go/issues/62026https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47283665A tool that removes censorship from open-weight LLMshttps://github.com/elder-plinius/OBLITERATUShttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47275291

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 6, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:21) - Wikipedia was in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise (01:48) - Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs (03:24) - GPT-5.4 (04:54) - 10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips (06:23) - Where things stand with the Department of War (07:57) - CBP tapped into the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples’ movements (09:23) - A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4k Developer Machines (10:29) - Good software knows when to stop (11:50) - System76 on Age Verification Laws (13:24) - The Brand Age (14:55) - Outro Wikipedia was in read-only mode following mass admin account compromisehttps://www.wikimediastatus.nethttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47263323Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffshttps://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/judge-orders-government-to-begin-refunding-more-than-130-billion-in-tariffs-fdc1e62chttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47261688GPT-5.4https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-4/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4726504510% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflipshttps://mas.to/@gabrielesvelto/116171750653898304https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47252971Where things stand with the Department of Warhttps://www.anthropic.com/news/where-stand-department-warhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47269263CBP tapped into the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples’ movementshttps://www.404media.co/cbp-tapped-into-the-online-advertising-ecosystem-to-track-peoples-movements/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47249387A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4k Developer Machineshttps://grith.ai/blog/clinejection-when-your-ai-tool-installs-anotherhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47263595Good software knows when to stophttps://ogirardot.writizzy.com/p/good-software-knows-when-to-stophttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47261561System76 on Age Verification Lawshttps://blog.system76.com/post/system76-on-age-verification/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47270784The Brand Agehttps://paulgraham.com/brandage.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47264756

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 5, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - MacBook Neo (01:59) - Something is afoot in the land of Qwen (03:23) - Google Workspace CLI (04:40) - Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military deal ‘straight up lies’ (06:28) - Building a new Flash (07:38) - “It turns out” (2010) (08:58) - Moss is a pixel canvas where every brush is a tiny program (10:00) - The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying (11:36) - You Just Reveived (12:40) - NanoGPT Slowrun: Language Modeling with Limited Data, Infinite Compute (14:02) - Outro MacBook Neohttps://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/03/say-hello-to-macbook-neo/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47247645Something is afoot in the land of Qwenhttps://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/4/qwen/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47249343Google Workspace CLIhttps://github.com/googleworkspace/clihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47255881Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military deal ‘straight up lies’https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/04/anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-calls-openais-messaging-around-military-deal-straight-up-lies-report-says/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47255662Building a new Flashhttps://bill.newgrounds.com/news/post/1607118https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47253177“It turns out” (2010)https://jsomers.net/blog/it-turns-outhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47248319Moss is a pixel canvas where every brush is a tiny programhttps://www.moss.town/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47245491The L in "LLM" Stands for Lyinghttps://acko.net/blog/the-l-in-llm-stands-for-lying/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47257394You Just Reveivedhttps://dylan.gr/1772520728https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47257637NanoGPT Slowrun: Language Modeling with Limited Data, Infinite Computehttps://qlabs.sh/slowrunhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47251259

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 4, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:23) - MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max (02:07) - Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable (03:26) - Claude's Cycles [pdf] (04:58) - Don't become an engineering manager (06:24) - GPT‑5.3 Instant (07:40) - TikTok will not introduce end-to-end encryption, saying it makes users less safe (09:11) - When AI writes the software, who verifies it? (10:54) - Voxile: A ray-traced game made in its own engine and programming language (12:02) - Agentic Engineering Patterns (13:17) - An Interactive Intro to CRDTs (2023) (14:31) - Outro MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Maxhttps://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/03/apple-introduces-macbook-pro-with-all-new-m5-pro-and-m5-max/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47232453Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockablehttps://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116160393783585567https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47241551Claude's Cycles [pdf]https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/papers/claude-cycles.pdfhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47230710Don't become an engineering managerhttps://newsletter.manager.dev/p/dont-become-an-engineering-managerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47232727GPT‑5.3 Instanthttps://openai.com/index/gpt-5-3-instant/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47236169TikTok will not introduce end-to-end encryption, saying it makes users less safehttps://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly2m5e5ke4ohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47241817When AI writes the software, who verifies it?https://leodemoura.github.io/blog/2026/02/28/when-ai-writes-the-worlds-software.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47234917Voxile: A ray-traced game made in its own engine and programming languagehttps://elbowgreasegames.substack.com/p/voxray-games-pushes-major-updatehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47239042Agentic Engineering Patternshttps://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-patterns/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47243272An Interactive Intro to CRDTs (2023)https://jakelazaroff.com/words/an-interactive-intro-to-crdts/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47237460

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 3, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns (01:09) - “Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server (02:35) - British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time (04:01) - Show HN: I built a sub-500ms latency voice agent from scratch (05:22) - New iPad Air, powered by M4 (06:45) - Inside the M4 Apple Neural Engine, Part 1: Reverse Engineering (08:08) - Ars Technica fires reporter after AI controversy involving fabricated quotes (09:43) - First in-utero stem cell therapy for fetal spina bifida repair is safe: study (10:44) - iPhone 17e (12:06) - Show HN: Govbase – Follow a bill from source text to news bias to social posts (13:14) - Outro Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concernshttps://www.svd.se/a/K8nrV4/metas-ai-smart-glasses-and-data-privacy-concerns-workers-say-we-see-everythinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47225130“Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord serverhttps://www.windowslatest.com/2026/03/02/microsoft-gets-tired-of-microslop-bans-the-word-on-its-discord-then-locks-the-server-after-backlash/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47216047British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight timehttps://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-adopting-year-round-daylight-time-9.7111657https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47223620Show HN: I built a sub-500ms latency voice agent from scratchhttps://www.ntik.me/posts/voice-agenthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47224295New iPad Air, powered by M4https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/03/apple-introduces-the-new-ipad-air-powered-by-m4/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47218175Inside the M4 Apple Neural Engine, Part 1: Reverse Engineeringhttps://maderix.substack.com/p/inside-the-m4-apple-neural-enginehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47208573Ars Technica fires reporter after AI controversy involving fabricated quoteshttps://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ars-technica-fires-reporter-ai-quoteshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47226608First in-utero stem cell therapy for fetal spina bifida repair is safe: studyhttps://health.ucdavis.edu/news/headlines/first-ever-in-utero-stem-cell-therapy-for-fetal-spina-bifida-repair-is-safe-study-finds/2026/02https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47218743iPhone 17ehttps://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/03/apple-introduces-iphone-17e/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47218084Show HN: Govbase – Follow a bill from source text to news bias to social postshttps://govbase.comhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47220809

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 2, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:22) - Ghostty – Terminal Emulator (01:35) - Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS Foundation (03:12) - Decision trees – the unreasonable power of nested decision rules (04:29) - When does MCP make sense vs CLI? (06:20) - WebMCP is available for early preview (07:30) - Microgpt explained interactively (08:31) - If AI writes code, should the session be part of the commit? (09:52) - Everett shuts down Flock camera network after judge rules footage public record (11:17) - Flightradar24 for Ships (12:35) - Tove Jansson's criticized illustrations of The Hobbit (2023) (14:11) - Outro Ghostty – Terminal Emulatorhttps://ghostty.org/docshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47206009Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS Foundationhttps://motorolanews.com/motorola-three-new-b2b-solutions-at-mwc-2026/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47214645Decision trees – the unreasonable power of nested decision ruleshttps://mlu-explain.github.io/decision-tree/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47204964When does MCP make sense vs CLI?https://ejholmes.github.io/2026/02/28/mcp-is-dead-long-live-the-cli.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47208398WebMCP is available for early previewhttps://developer.chrome.com/blog/webmcp-epphttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47211249Microgpt explained interactivelyhttps://growingswe.com/blog/microgpthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47205208If AI writes code, should the session be part of the commit?https://github.com/mandel-macaque/mementohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47212355Everett shuts down Flock camera network after judge rules footage public recordhttps://www.wltx.com/article/news/nation-world/281-53d8693e-77a4-42ad-86e4-3426a30d25aehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47213764Flightradar24 for Shipshttps://atlas.flexport.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47205637Tove Jansson's criticized illustrations of The Hobbit (2023)https://tovejansson.com/hobbit-tolkien/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47182284

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Mar 1, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Microgpt (01:42) - We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk (03:15) - The happiest I've ever been (04:13) - Obsidian Sync now has a headless client (05:25) - MCP server that reduces Claude Code context consumption by 98% (06:50) - Qwen3.5 122B and 35B models offer Sonnet 4.5 performance on local computers (08:14) - Our Agreement with the Department of War (09:31) - Woxi: Wolfram Mathematica Reimplementation in Rust (10:56) - The Windows 95 user interface: A case study in usability engineering (1996) (12:38) - Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in Israeli strike, ending 36-year rule (13:54) - Outro Microgpthttp://karpathy.github.io/2026/02/12/microgpt/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47202708We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain riskhttps://twitter.com/OpenAI/status/2027846016423321831https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47200420The happiest I've ever beenhttps://ben-mini.com/2026/the-happiest-ive-ever-beenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47161759Obsidian Sync now has a headless clienthttps://help.obsidian.md/sync/headlesshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47197267MCP server that reduces Claude Code context consumption by 98%https://mksg.lu/blog/context-modehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47193064Qwen3.5 122B and 35B models offer Sonnet 4.5 performance on local computershttps://venturebeat.com/technology/alibabas-new-open-source-qwen3-5-medium-models-offer-sonnet-4-5-performancehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47199781Our Agreement with the Department of Warhttps://openai.com/index/our-agreement-with-the-department-of-warhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47199948Woxi: Wolfram Mathematica Reimplementation in Rusthttps://github.com/ad-si/Woxihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47155526The Windows 95 user interface: A case study in usability engineering (1996)https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/238386.238611https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47200904Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in Israeli strike, ending 36-year rulehttps://www.npr.org/2026/02/28/1123499337/iran-israel-ayatollah-ali-khamenei-killedhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47200879

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 28, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:16) - We Will Not Be Divided (01:30) - Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (02:53) - OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network (04:15) - A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification (05:55) - OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation (07:37) - A better streams API is possible for JavaScript (09:00) - Can you reverse engineer our neural network? (10:36) - Croatia declared free of landmines after 31 years (11:36) - NASA announces overhaul of Artemis program amid safety concerns, delays (13:07) - A Chinese official’s use of ChatGPT revealed an intimidation operation (13:54) - Outro We Will Not Be Dividedhttps://notdivided.orghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47188473Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegsethhttps://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-comments-secretary-warhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47188697OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified networkhttps://twitter.com/sama/status/2027578652477821175https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47189650A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verificationhttps://www.pcgamer.com/software/operating-systems/a-new-california-law-says-all-operating-systems-including-linux-need-to-have-some-form-of-age-verification-at-account-setup/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47181208OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuationhttps://techcrunch.com/2026/02/27/openai-raises-110b-in-one-of-the-largest-private-funding-rounds-in-history/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47181211A better streams API is possible for JavaScripthttps://blog.cloudflare.com/a-better-web-streams-api/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47180569Can you reverse engineer our neural network?https://blog.janestreet.com/can-you-reverse-engineer-our-neural-network/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47146487Croatia declared free of landmines after 31 yearshttps://glashrvatske.hrt.hr/en/domestic/croatia-declared-free-of-landmines-after-31-years-12593533https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47189535NASA announces overhaul of Artemis program amid safety concerns, delayshttps://www.cbsnews.com/news/nasa-artemis-moon-program-overhaul/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47182483A Chinese official’s use of ChatGPT revealed an intimidation operationhttps://www.cnn.com/2026/02/25/politics/chatgpt-china-intimidation-operationhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47181944

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 27, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War (01:41) - Layoffs at Block (03:03) - What Claude Code chooses (04:25) - AirSnitch: Demystifying and breaking client isolation in Wi-Fi networks [pdf] (05:58) - What does " 2>&1 " mean? (07:13) - I baked a pie every day for a year (08:31) - The Hunt for Dark Breakfast (09:45) - BuildKit: Docker's Hidden Gem That Can Build Almost Anything (11:08) - OsmAnd’s Faster Offline Navigation (2025) (12:34) - Outro Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of Warhttps://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-department-of-warhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47173121Layoffs at Blockhttps://twitter.com/jack/status/2027129697092731343https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47172119What Claude Code chooseshttps://amplifying.ai/research/claude-code-pickshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47169757AirSnitch: Demystifying and breaking client isolation in Wi-Fi networks [pdf]https://www.ndss-symposium.org/wp-content/uploads/2026-f1282-paper.pdfhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47167763What does " 2>&1 " mean?https://stackoverflow.com/questions/818255/what-does-21-meanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47171233I baked a pie every day for a yearhttps://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/feb/22/a-new-start-after-60-i-baked-a-pie-every-day-for-a-year-and-it-changed-my-lifehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47128645The Hunt for Dark Breakfasthttps://moultano.wordpress.com/2026/02/22/the-hunt-for-dark-breakfast/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47176257BuildKit: Docker's Hidden Gem That Can Build Almost Anythinghttps://tuananh.net/2026/02/25/buildkit-docker-hidden-gem/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47166264OsmAnd’s Faster Offline Navigation (2025)https://osmand.net/blog/fast-routing/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47170157

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 26, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025) (01:38) - Never buy a .online domain (03:19) - Google API keys weren't secrets, but then Gemini changed the rules (05:00) - Jimi Hendrix was a systems engineer (06:06) - Bus stop balancing is fast, cheap, and effective (07:37) - Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown (08:32) - Tech companies shouldn't be bullied into doing surveillance (09:47) - Large-Scale Online Deanonymization with LLMs (11:19) - RAM now represents 35 percent of bill of materials for HP PCs (12:50) - The Om Programming Language (14:04) - Outro Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025)https://therecord.media/denmark-digital-agency-microsoft-digital-independencehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47149701Never buy a .online domainhttps://www.0xsid.com/blog/online-tld-is-painhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47151233Google API keys weren't secrets, but then Gemini changed the ruleshttps://trufflesecurity.com/blog/google-api-keys-werent-secrets-but-then-gemini-changed-the-ruleshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47156925Jimi Hendrix was a systems engineerhttps://spectrum.ieee.org/jimi-hendrix-systems-engineerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47157224Bus stop balancing is fast, cheap, and effectivehttps://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-united-states-needs-fewer-bus-stops/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47153798Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdownhttps://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2026/01/21/notepad-and-paint-updates-begin-rolling-out-to-windows-insiders/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47154399Tech companies shouldn't be bullied into doing surveillancehttps://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/tech-companies-shouldnt-be-bullied-doing-surveillancehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47160226Large-Scale Online Deanonymization with LLMshttps://simonlermen.substack.com/p/large-scale-online-deanonymizationhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47139716RAM now represents 35 percent of bill of materials for HP PCshttps://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/02/ram-now-represents-35-percent-of-bill-of-materials-for-hp-pcs/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47161160The Om Programming Languagehttps://www.om-language.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47154971

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 25, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:23) - I'm helping my dog vibe code games (01:57) - Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston (03:23) - I pitched a roller coaster to Disneyland at age 10 in 1978 (04:37) - Amazon accused of widespread scheme to inflate prices across the economy (06:08) - Pi – A minimal terminal coding harness (07:35) - Nearby Glasses (09:02) - We installed a single turnstile to feel secure (10:28) - Anthropic Drops Flagship Safety Pledge (12:05) - Hacking an old Kindle to display bus arrival times (13:14) - Show HN: Moonshine Open-Weights STT models – higher accuracy than WhisperLargev3 (14:33) - Outro I'm helping my dog vibe code gameshttps://www.calebleak.com/posts/dog-game/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47139675Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houstonhttps://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/02/apple-accelerates-us-manufacturing-with-mac-mini-production/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47143152I pitched a roller coaster to Disneyland at age 10 in 1978https://wordglyph.xyz/one-piece-at-a-timehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47136604Amazon accused of widespread scheme to inflate prices across the economyhttps://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/amazon-busted-for-widespread-pricehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47145907Pi – A minimal terminal coding harnesshttps://pi.devhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47143754Nearby Glasseshttps://github.com/yjeanrenaud/yj_nearbyglasseshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47140042We installed a single turnstile to feel securehttps://idiallo.com/blog/installed-single-turnstile-for-security-theaterhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47114678Anthropic Drops Flagship Safety Pledgehttps://time.com/7380854/exclusive-anthropic-drops-flagship-safety-pledge/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47145963Hacking an old Kindle to display bus arrival timeshttps://www.mariannefeng.com/portfolio/kindle/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47141797Show HN: Moonshine Open-Weights STT models – higher accuracy than WhisperLargev3https://github.com/moonshine-ai/moonshinehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47143755

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 24, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:21) - The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection (01:51) - Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI (03:22) - FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook, so AI built one for me (05:00) - Terence Tao, at 8 years old (1984) [pdf] (06:16) - Show HN: PgDog – Scale Postgres without changing the app (07:53) - Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements (09:28) - Blood test boosts Alzheimer's diagnosis accuracy to 94.5%, clinical study shows (10:46) - A simple web we own (12:25) - “Car Wash” test with 53 models (14:03) - Hetzner Prices increase 30-40% (15:12) - Outro The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protectionhttps://spectrum.ieee.org/age-verificationhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47122715Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AIhttps://ladybird.org/posts/adopting-rust/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47120899FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook, so AI built one for mehttps://vladimir.varank.in/notes/2026/02/freebsd-brcmfmac/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47129361Terence Tao, at 8 years old (1984) [pdf]https://gwern.net/doc/iq/high/smpy/1984-clements.pdfhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47123689Show HN: PgDog – Scale Postgres without changing the apphttps://github.com/pgdogdev/pgdoghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47123631Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancementshttps://serverhost.com/blog/firefox-148-launches-with-exciting-ai-kill-switch-feature-and-more-enhancements/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47133313Blood test boosts Alzheimer's diagnosis accuracy to 94.5%, clinical study showshttps://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-02-blood-boosts-alzheimer-diagnosis-accuracy.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47132388A simple web we ownhttps://rsdoiel.github.io/blog/2026/02/21/a_simple_web_we_own.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47124149“Car Wash” test with 53 modelshttps://opper.ai/blog/car-wash-testhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47128138Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%https://docs.hetzner.com/general/infrastructure-and-availability/price-adjustment/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47120145