top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-02-27

Department of War Designates Anthropic Supply Chain Risk

https://twitter.com/i/status/2027507717469049070

5 months ago

New California law requires age verification for all OS accounts

https://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/

5 months ago

Tenth Circuit: 4th Amendment Doesn't Support Broad Search of Protesters' Devices

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/victory-tenth-circuit-finds-fourth-amendment-doesnt-support-broad-search-0

5 months ago

Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers

https://claude.com/contact-sales/claude-for-oss

5 months ago

OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation

https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/27/openai-raises-110b-in-one-of-the-largest-private-funding-rounds-in-history/

5 months ago

The Hunt for Dark Breakfast – Can we derive breakfasts we have never observed?

https://moultano.wordpress.com/2026/02/22/the-hunt-for-dark-breakfast/

5 months ago

Leaving Google has actively improved my life

https://pseudosingleton.com/leaving-google-improved-my-life/

5 months ago

Dan Simmons, author of Hyperion, Song of Kali, dead at 77

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Simmons

5 months ago

Making Video Games in 2025 (without an engine)

https://www.noelberry.ca/posts/making_games_in_2025/

5 months ago

We deserve a better streams API for JavaScript

https://blog.cloudflare.com/a-better-web-streams-api/

5 months ago

President Trump bans Anthropic from use in government systems

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/27/nx-s1-5729118/trump-anthropic-pentagon-openai-ai-weapons-ban

5 months ago

The normalization of corruption in organizations (2003) [pdf]

https://gwern.net/doc/sociology/2003-ashforth.pdf

5 months ago

NASA announces major overhaul of Artemis program amid safety concerns, delays

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nasa-artemis-moon-program-overhaul/

5 months ago

Red Dwarf creator Rob Grant has died

https://www.beyondthejoke.co.uk/content/17193/red-dwarf-rob-grant

5 months ago

Google Workers Seek 'Red Lines' on Military A.I., Echoing Anthropic

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/technology/google-deepmind-letter-pentagon.html

5 months ago

OpenAI uncovers Chinese intimidation operation through official's use of ChatGPT

https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/25/politics/chatgpt-china-intimidation-operation

5 months ago

The Pentagon is making a mistake by threatening Anthropic

https://www.understandingai.org/p/the-pentagon-is-making-a-mistake

5 months ago

We gave terabytes of CI logs to an LLM

https://www.mendral.com/blog/llms-are-good-at-sql

5 months ago

Open source calculator firmware DB48X forbids CA/CO use due to age verification

https://github.com/c3d/db48x/commit/7819972b641ac808d46c54d3f5d1df70d706d286

5 months ago

Tove Jansson's criticized illustrations of The Hobbit

https://tovejansson.com/hobbit-tolkien/

5 months ago