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

The Xkcd thing, now interactive

https://editor.p5js.org/isohedral/full/vJa5RiZWs

5 months ago

1320 upvotes – 158 comments

I'm reluctant to verify my identity or age for any online services

https://neilzone.co.uk/2026/03/im-struggling-to-think-of-any-online-services-for-which-id-be-willing-to-verify-my-identity-or-age/

5 months ago

973 upvotes – 621 comments

Apple Introduces MacBook Pro with All‑New M5 Pro and M5 Max

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/03/apple-introduces-macbook-pro-with-all-new-m5-pro-and-m5-max/

5 months ago

862 upvotes – 978 comments

Claude's Cycles: Claude Opus 4.6 solves a problem posed by Don Knuth [pdf]

https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/papers/claude-cycles.pdf

5 months ago

836 upvotes – 362 comments

Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ars-technica-fires-reporter-ai-quotes

5 months ago

605 upvotes – 378 comments

I'm losing the SEO battle for my own open source project

https://twitter.com/Gavriel_Cohen/status/2028821432759717930

5 months ago

532 upvotes – 267 comments

Lenovo's New ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability

https://www.ifixit.com/News/115827/new-thinkpads-score-perfect-10-repairability

5 months ago

520 upvotes – 247 comments

My first science video in 3 years (Pysics Girl)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3m3AMRlYfc

5 months ago

519 upvotes – 92 comments

Apple introduces the new MacBook Air with M5

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/03/apple-introduces-the-new-macbook-air-with-m5/

5 months ago

421 upvotes – 511 comments

GPT‑5.3 Instant

https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-3-instant/

5 months ago

395 upvotes – 301 comments

Don't Become an Engineering Manager

https://newsletter.manager.dev/p/dont-become-an-engineering-manager

5 months ago

395 upvotes – 269 comments

India's top court angry after junior judge cites fake AI-generated orders

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c178zzw780xo

5 months ago

362 upvotes – 194 comments

Iran War Cost Tracker

https://iran-cost-ticker.com

5 months ago

324 upvotes – 446 comments

Mullvad VPN: Banned TV Ad in the Streets of London [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwhznrpgl7k

5 months ago

308 upvotes – 187 comments

When AI Writes the Software, Who Verifies It?

https://leodemoura.github.io/blog/2026/02/28/when-ai-writes-the-worlds-software.html

5 months ago

305 upvotes – 299 comments

Intel's make-or-break 18A process node debuts for data center with 288-core Xeon

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/intels-make-or-break-18a-process-node-debuts-for-data-center-with-288-core-xeon-6-cpu-multi-chip-monster-sports-12-channels-of-ddr5-8000-foveros-direct-3d-packaging-tech

5 months ago

301 upvotes – 294 comments

Voxile: A ray-traced game made in its own engine and programming language

https://elbowgreasegames.substack.com/p/voxray-games-pushes-major-update

5 months ago

278 upvotes – 77 comments

Arm's Cortex X925: Reaching Desktop Performance

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/arms-cortex-x925-reaching-desktop

5 months ago

275 upvotes – 166 comments

Don't Make Me Talk to Your Chatbot

https://raymyers.org/post/dont-make-me-talk-to-your-chatbot/

5 months ago

259 upvotes – 213 comments

A US Government iPhone-Hacking Toolkit Is Now in Foreign Spy and Criminal Hands

https://www.wired.com/story/coruna-iphone-hacking-toolkit-us-government/

5 months ago

240 upvotes – 96 comments

Apple unveils new Studio Display and all-new Studio Display XDR

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/03/apple-unveils-new-studio-display-and-all-new-studio-display-xdr/

5 months ago

235 upvotes – 323 comments

The Internet's Top Tech Publications Lost 58% of Their Google Traffic Since 2024

https://growtika.com/blog/tech-media-collapse

5 months ago

229 upvotes – 168 comments

GitHub Is Having Issues

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/n07yy1bk6kc4

5 months ago

211 upvotes – 144 comments

Elevated Errors in Claude.ai

https://status.claude.com/incidents/yf48hzysrvl5

5 months ago

205 upvotes – 170 comments

My take on vibe coding for PMs

https://www.ddmckinnon.com/2026/02/11/my-%f0%9f%8c%b6-take-on-vibe-coding-for-pms/

5 months ago

205 upvotes – 192 comments

Claude is an Electron App because we've lost native

https://tonsky.me/blog/fall-of-native/

5 months ago

204 upvotes – 244 comments

AI-generated art can't be copyrighted (Supreme Court declines review)

https://www.theverge.com/policy/887678/supreme-court-ai-art-copyright

5 months ago

193 upvotes – 151 comments

Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death

https://www.politico.eu/article/helsinki-no-traffic-death-roads-eu-accident-finland-driving-transport/

5 months ago

192 upvotes – 129 comments

An Interactive Intro to CRDTs

https://jakelazaroff.com/words/an-interactive-intro-to-crdts/

5 months ago

178 upvotes – 33 comments

A ternary plot of citrus geneology

https://www.jlauf.com/writing/citrus/

5 months ago

170 upvotes – 36 comments

I've been running GrapheneOS on my Pixel Fold for over half a year

https://blog.matthewbrunelle.com/8-4-months-of-daily-driving-grapheneos/

5 months ago

156 upvotes – 145 comments

Working and Communicating with Japanese Engineers

https://www.tokyodev.com/articles/working-and-communicating-with-japanese-engineers

5 months ago

146 upvotes – 100 comments

Arabic document from 17th-cent. rubbish heap confirms semi-legendary Nubian king

https://phys.org/news/2026-02-arabic-document-17th-century-rubbish.html

5 months ago

144 upvotes – 43 comments

We've freed Cookie's Bustle from copyright hell

https://gamehistory.org/cookies-bustle/

5 months ago

143 upvotes – 37 comments

AWS outage due to drone attacks in UAE

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgk28nj0lrjo

5 months ago

140 upvotes – 114 comments

Zuckerberg's internal emails rendered as Facebook Messenger

https://zuckmail.vercel.app/

5 months ago

138 upvotes – 30 comments

U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for "Armageddon,"

https://jonathanlarsen.substack.com/p/us-troops-were-told-iran-war-is-for

5 months ago

137 upvotes – 148 comments

The Man Who Broke into Jail

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/03/09/alexander-friedmann-profile-prison-reform

5 months ago

129 upvotes – 59 comments

Compiling Prolog to Forth [pdf]

https://vfxforth.com/flag/jfar/vol4/no4/article4.pdf

5 months ago

126 upvotes – 10 comments

The beauty and terror of modding Windows

https://windowsread.me/p/windhawk-explained

5 months ago

123 upvotes – 105 comments

The Lobster Programming Language

https://strlen.com/lobster/

5 months ago

120 upvotes – 53 comments

Log messages are mostly for the people operating your software

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/LogMessagesAreForOperation

5 months ago

118 upvotes – 78 comments

Someone Needs to Go to Jail

https://edwardelson.substack.com/p/someone-needs-to-go-to-jail

5 months ago

111 upvotes – 73 comments

I built a pint-sized Macintosh

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/pint-sized-macintosh-pico-micro-mac/

5 months ago

111 upvotes – 26 comments

Why payment fees matter more than you think

https://cuencahighlife.com/why-payment-fees-matter-more-than-you-think/

5 months ago

102 upvotes – 118 comments

We Automated Everything Except Knowing What's Going On

https://eversole.dev/blog/we-automated-everything/

5 months ago

96 upvotes – 70 comments

Buckle Up for Bumpier Skies

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/03/09/buckle-up-for-bumpier-skies

5 months ago

93 upvotes – 43 comments

Privacy-preserving age and identity verification via anonymous credentials

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/03/02/anonymous-credentials-an-illustrated-primer/

5 months ago

90 upvotes – 61 comments

Launch HN: Cekura (YC F24) – Testing and monitoring for voice and chat AI agents

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47232903

5 months ago

89 upvotes – 21 comments

Querying 3B Vectors

https://vickiboykis.com/2026/02/21/querying-3-billion-vectors/

5 months ago

86 upvotes – 12 comments

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Defends Pentagon Work to Staff

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-ceo-altman-defends-pentagon-work-to-staff-calls-backlash-really-painful-76d769ec

5 months ago

85 upvotes – 90 comments

Stolen Gemini API key racks up $82,000 in 48 hours

https://llmhorrors.com/all/gemini-stolen-api-key-82k/

5 months ago

85 upvotes – 52 comments

Optimizing Recommendation Systems with JDK's Vector API

https://netflixtechblog.com/optimizing-recommendation-systems-with-jdks-vector-api-30d2830401ec

5 months ago

83 upvotes – 8 comments

Fire the CEO, Introducing the AxO's

https://boringops.sh/articles/fire_the_ceo/

5 months ago

82 upvotes – 56 comments

Ask HN: How many of you hold an amateur radio license in your country?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47232091

5 months ago

80 upvotes – 101 comments

You are going to get priced out of the best AI coding tools

https://newsletter.danielpaleka.com/p/you-are-going-to-get-priced-out-of

5 months ago

80 upvotes – 88 comments

Porn depicting sex between step-relatives set to be banned in the UK

https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/pornography-sexual-relationships-step-relatives-5HjdTkd_2/

5 months ago

79 upvotes – 186 comments

Pass-Through of Tariffs: Evidence from European Wine Imports

https://www.nber.org/202603/digest/pass-through-tariffs-evidence-european-wine-imports

5 months ago

76 upvotes – 84 comments

Why No AI Games?

https://franklantz.substack.com/p/why-no-ai-games

5 months ago

72 upvotes – 85 comments

The Excommunicated Devs Making Games with AI

https://www.tyleo.com/blog/the-excommunicated-devs-making-games-with-ai

5 months ago

66 upvotes – 75 comments
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