Weekly news | 2026-03-04
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- Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025)
- New accounts on HN more likely to use em-dashes
- Amazon accused of widespread scheme to inflate prices across the economy
- Following 35% growth, solar has passed hydro on US grid
- How to fold the Blade Runner origami unicorn (1996)
- US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives
- Bus stop balancing is fast, cheap, and effective
- Cell Service for the Fairly Paranoid
- Japanese Death Poems
- Anthropic Drops Flagship Safety Pledge
- Show HN: A real-time strategy game that AI agents can play
- Aesthetics of single threading
- Turing Completeness of GNU find
- Launch HN: TeamOut (YC W22) – AI agent for planning company retreats
- Optophone
- Jimi Hendrix was a systems engineer
- GNU Texmacs
- Large-Scale Online Deanonymization with LLMs
- The Om Programming Language
- The Misuses of the University
- First Website (1992)
- How will OpenAI compete?
- RAM now represents 35 percent of bill of materials for HP PCs
- Artist who “paints” portraits on glass by hitting it with a hammer
- Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam emails to users
- The First Fully General Computer Action Model
- Tech companies shouldn't be bullied into doing surveillance
- Show HN: Terminal Phone – E2EE Walkie Talkie from the Command Line
- Anthropic ditches its core safety promise
- AirSnitch: Demystifying and breaking client isolation in Wi-Fi networks [pdf]
- Will vibe coding end like the maker movement?
- Writers and Their Day Jobs
- BuildKit: Docker's Hidden Gem That Can Build Almost Anything
- I baked a pie every day for a year and it changed my life
- Open Source Endowment – new funding source for open source maintainers
- Palm OS User Interface Guidelines (2003) [pdf]
- The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee (1830)
- What Claude Code Chooses
- A 26-Gram Butterfly-Inspired Robot Achieving Autonomous Tailless Flight
- Layoffs at Block
- Show HN: Hacker Smacker – Spot great (and terrible) HN commenters at a glance
- Show HN: Linex – A daily challenge: placing pieces on a board that fights back
- Launch HN: Cardboard (YC W26) – Agentic video editor
- I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk
- The Hunt for Dark Breakfast
- What does " 2>&1 " mean?
- Court finds Fourth Amendment doesn’t support broad search of protesters’ devices
- The normalization of corruption in organizations (2003) [pdf]
- An Introduction to the Codex Seraphinianus, the Strangest Book Ever Published
- Leaving Google has actively improved my life
- Implementing a Z80 / ZX Spectrum emulator with Claude Code
- 80386 Protection
- F-Droid Board of Directors nominations 2026
- A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification
- OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation
- Hydroph0bia – fixed SecureBoot bypass for UEFI firmware from Insyde H2O (2025)
- Show HN: RetroTick – Run classic Windows EXEs in the browser
- Dan Simmons, author of Hyperion, has died
- NASA announces overhaul of Artemis program amid safety concerns, delays
- I rendered 1,418 confusables over 230 fonts. Most aren't confusable to the eye
- Breaking Free
- ChatGPT Health fails to recognise medical emergencies – study
- Modeling cycles of grift with evolutionary game theory
- Google workers seek 'red lines' on military A.I., echoing Anthropic
- The Origins of Agar
- We Will Not Be Divided
- The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran
- OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network
- Croatia declared free of landmines after 31 years
- The whole thing was a scam
- Obsidian Sync now has a headless client
- Qt45: A small polymerase ribozyme that can synthesize itself
- Unsloth Dynamic 2.0 GGUFs
- The Eternal Promise: A History of Attempts to Eliminate Programmers
- The happiest I've ever been
- OpenAI fires an employee for prediction market insider trading
- Show HN: Unfucked - version all changes (by any tool) - local-first/source avail
- Show HN: Now I Get It – Translate scientific papers into interactive webpages
- Cognitive Debt: When Velocity Exceeds Comprehension
- New evidence that Cantor plagiarized Dedekind?
- President Trump bans Anthropic from use in government systems
- Inventing the Lisa user interface – Interactions
- The Future of AI
- 747s and Coding Agents
- From Noise to Image – interactive guide to diffusion
- Ghosts'n Goblins – “Worse danger is ahead”
- Microgpt
- We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk
- Ghostty – Terminal Emulator
- Decision trees – the unreasonable power of nested decision rules
- 10-202: Introduction to Modern AI (CMU)
- H-Bomb: A Frank Lloyd Wright typographic mystery
- I built a demo of what AI chat will look like when it's "free" and ad-supported
- Flightradar24 for Ships
- New iron nanomaterial wipes out cancer cells without harming healthy tissue
- Interview with Øyvind Kolås, GIMP developer (2017)
- Why is the first C++ (m)allocation always 72 KB?
- Why XML tags are so fundamental to Claude
- Sub-second volumetric 3D printing by synthesis of holographic light fields
- Deterministic Programming with LLMs
- When does MCP make sense vs CLI?
- Samsung Galaxy update removes Android recovery menu tools, including sideloading
- The real cost of random I/O
- SpacetimeDB ThreeJS Support
- AI Made Writing Code Easier. It Made Being an Engineer Harder
- How to talk to anyone, and why you should
- Pigeons and Planes Has a Website Again
- Aromatic 5-silicon rings synthesized at last
- Rydberg atoms detect clear signals from a handheld radio
- Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS
- /e/OS is a complete, fully “deGoogled” mobile ecosystem
- Everett shuts down Flock camera network after judge rules footage public record
- Microsoft bans the word "Microslop" on its Discord, then locks the server
- Making Video Games in 2025 (without an engine)
- Tove Jansson's criticized illustrations of The Hobbit (2023)
- Little Free Library
- New iPad Air, powered by M4
- Jolla phone – a full-stack European alternative
- Inside the M4 Apple Neural Engine, Part 1: Reverse Engineering
- First in-utero stem cell therapy for fetal spina bifida repair is safe: study
- Computer-generated dream world: Virtual reality for a 286 processor
- British Columbia to end time changes, adopt year-round daylight time
- Mondrian Entered the Public Domain. The Estate Disagrees
- How to record and retrieve anything you've ever had to look up twice
- U.S. science agency moves to restrict foreign scientists from its labs
- The workers behind Meta's smart glasses can see everything
- Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2026)
- Parallel coding agents with tmux and Markdown specs
- Show HN: Govbase – Follow a bill from source text to news bias to social posts
- Launch HN: OctaPulse (YC W26) – Robotics and computer vision for fish farming
- The Xkcd thing, now interactive
- I'm reluctant to verify my identity or age for any online services
- Show HN: I built a sub-500ms latency voice agent from scratch
- Ars Technica fires reporter after AI controversy involving fabricated quotes
- MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max
- Claude's Cycles [pdf]
- Arm's Cortex X925: Reaching Desktop Performance
- Simple screw counter
- Physicists developing a quantum computer that’s entirely open source
- I'm losing the SEO battle for my own open source project
- MacBook Air with M5
- Don't become an engineering manager
- Physics Girl: Super-Kamiokande – Imaging the sun by detecting neutrinos [video]
- Seed of Might color correction process (2023) [pdf]
- Apple Studio Display and Studio Display XDR
- Launch HN: Cekura (YC F24) – Testing and monitoring for voice and chat AI agents
- India's top court angry after junior judge cites fake AI-generated orders
- Guilty Displeasures
- Against Query Based Compilers
- Intel's make-or-break 18A process node debuts for data center with 288-core Xeon
- DOS Memory Management
- The Cathode Ray Tube site
- The beauty and terror of modding Windows