top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-03-01

Microgpt

http://karpathy.github.io/2026/02/12/microgpt/

5 months ago

Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

https://ghostty.org/docs

5 months ago

Switch to Claude Without Starting Over

https://claude.com/import-memory

5 months ago

I built a demo of what AI chat will look like when it's "free" and ad-supported

https://99helpers.com/tools/ad-supported-chat

5 months ago

Decision trees – the unreasonable power of nested decision rules

https://mlu-explain.github.io/decision-tree/

5 months ago

MCP is dead. Long live the CLI

https://ejholmes.github.io/2026/02/28/mcp-is-dead-long-live-the-cli.html

5 months ago

AI Made Writing Code Easier. It Made Being an Engineer Harder

https://www.ivanturkovic.com/2026/02/25/ai-made-writing-code-easier-engineering-harder/

5 months ago

Inside the M4 Apple Neural Engine, Part 1: Reverse Engineering

https://maderix.substack.com/p/inside-the-m4-apple-neural-engine

5 months ago

WebMCP is available for early preview

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/webmcp-epp

5 months ago

New iron nanomaterial wipes out cancer cells without harming healthy tissue

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/02/260228093456.htm

5 months ago

Microgpt explained interactively

https://growingswe.com/blog/microgpt

5 months ago

Right-sizes LLM models to your system's RAM, CPU, and GPU

https://github.com/AlexsJones/llmfit

5 months ago

Libre Solar – Open Hardware for Renewable Energy

https://libre.solar

5 months ago

Claude surpasses ChatGPT to become the #1 app on the US App Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/iphone/charts

5 months ago

10-202: Introduction to Modern AI (CMU)

https://modernaicourse.org

5 months ago

Flightradar24 for Ships

https://atlas.flexport.com/

5 months ago

AWS Middle East Central Down, apparently struck in war

https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

5 months ago

RE#: how we built the fastest regex engine in F#

https://iev.ee/blog/resharp-how-we-built-the-fastest-regex-in-fsharp/

5 months ago

Why XML Tags Are So Fundamental to Claude

https://glthr.com/XML-fundamental-to-Claude

5 months ago

AI is making junior devs useless

https://beabetterdev.com/2026/03/01/ai-is-making-junior-devs-useless/

5 months ago

You Don't Have To

https://www.scottsmitelli.com/articles/you-dont-have-to/

5 months ago

World-first gigabit laser link between aircraft and geostationary satellite

https://www.esa.int/Applications/Connectivity_and_Secure_Communications/World-first_gigabit-per-second_laser_link_between_aircraft_and_geostationary_satellite

5 months ago

Ape Coding

https://rsaksida.com/blog/ape-coding/

5 months ago

Textadept

https://orbitalquark.github.io/textadept/

5 months ago

We Built a Video Rendering Engine by Lying to the Browser About What Time It Is

https://blog.replit.com/browsers-dont-want-to-be-cameras

5 months ago

Little Free Library Books

https://littlefreelibrary.org/

5 months ago

Samsung Galaxy update removes Android recovery menu tools, including sideloading

https://9to5google.com/2026/02/27/samsung-galaxy-update-android-recovery-menu-removed/

5 months ago

Why does C have the best file API

https://maurycyz.com/misc/c_files/

5 months ago

A new account made over $515,000 betting on the U.S. strike against Iran

https://xcancel.com/cabsav456/status/2027937130995921119

5 months ago

Claude dethrones ChatGPT as top U.S. app after Pentagon saga

https://www.axios.com/2026/03/01/anthropic-claude-chatgpt-app-downloads-pentagon

5 months ago

Why is the first C++ (m)allocation always 72 KB?

https://joelsiks.com/posts/cpp-emergency-pool-72kb-allocation/

5 months ago

Waymo blocking ambulance during deadly Austin shooting

https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/austin/article/waymo-austin-shooting-21948947.php

5 months ago

Intelligence is a commodity. Context is the real AI Moat

https://adlrocha.substack.com/p/adlrocha-intelligence-is-a-commodity

5 months ago

What Are Your Guilty Displeasures?

https://www.hopefulmons.com/p/what-are-your-guilty-displeasures

5 months ago

Raspberry Pi Pico as AM Radio Transmitter

https://www.pesfandiar.com/blog/2026/02/28/pico-am-radio-transmitter

5 months ago

How the Government Deceived Congress in the Debate over Surveillance Powers (2013)

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/06/director-national-intelligences-word-games-explained-how-government-deceived

5 months ago

Computer Says No

https://koenvangilst.nl/lab/computer-says-no

5 months ago

Just two days of oatmeal cut bad cholesterol by 10%

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/02/260225081217.htm

5 months ago

TorchLean: Formalizing Neural Networks in Lean

https://leandojo.org/torchlean.html

5 months ago

Guido van Rossum Interviews Thomas Wouters (Python Core Dev)

https://gvanrossum.github.io/interviews/Thomas.html

5 months ago

This System Can Go Fuck Itself and Burn in Hell

https://shawnfromportland.substack.com/p/this-system-can-go-fuck-itself-and

5 months ago

Allegations of insider trading over prediction-market bets tied to Iran conflict

https://www.morningstar.com/news/marketwatch/20260301140/allegations-of-insider-trading-over-prediction-market-bets-tied-to-iran-conflict

5 months ago

Are the Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics Beginning to Dissolve?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/are-the-mysteries-of-quantum-mechanics-beginning-to-dissolve-20260213/

5 months ago

Elevator Saga: The elevator programming game (2015)

https://play.elevatorsaga.com/index.html

5 months ago

Apache Otava

https://otava.apache.org/

5 months ago

Against Query Based Compilers

https://matklad.github.io/2026/02/25/against-query-based-compilers.html

5 months ago

The Cathode Ray Tube site

https://www.crtsite.com/didactic-crt.html

5 months ago

South Korean Police Lose Seized Crypto by Posting Password Online

https://gizmodo.com/south-korean-police-lose-seized-crypto-by-posting-password-online-2000728191

5 months ago

On the Design of Programming Languages (1974) [pdf]

https://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~su/teaching/ecs240-w17/readings/PLHistoryGoodDesign.PDF

5 months ago

Show HN: I built a zero-browser, pure-JS typesetting engine for bit-perfect PDFs

https://github.com/cosmiciron/vmprint

5 months ago

Running a One Trillion-Parameter LLM Locally on AMD Ryzen AI Max+ Cluster

https://www.amd.com/en/developer/resources/technical-articles/2026/how-to-run-a-one-trillion-parameter-llm-locally-an-amd.html

5 months ago