top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-03-04

Apple Introduces MacBook Neo

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/03/say-hello-to-macbook-neo/

5 months ago

Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116160393783585567

5 months ago

10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips

https://mas.to/@gabrielesvelto/116171750653898304

5 months ago

Nobody Gets Promoted for Simplicity

https://terriblesoftware.org/2026/03/03/nobody-gets-promoted-for-simplicity/

5 months ago

Anthropic CEO 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/

5 months ago

Something is afoot in the land of Qwen

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/4/qwen/

5 months ago

Building a New Flash

https://bill.newgrounds.com/news/post/1607118

5 months ago

An interactive map of FLock Cams

https://deflock.org/map#map=5/37.125286/-96.284180

5 months ago

Agentic Engineering Patterns

https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-patterns/

5 months ago

CBP Tapped into the Online Advertising Ecosystem to Track Peoples' Movements

https://www.404media.co/cbp-tapped-into-the-online-advertising-ecosystem-to-track-peoples-movements/

5 months ago

TikTok will not introduce end-to-end encryption, saying it makes users less safe

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly2m5e5ke4o

5 months ago

Qwen3.5 Fine-Tuning Guide – Unsloth Documentation

https://unsloth.ai/docs/models/qwen3.5/fine-tune

5 months ago

The one science reform we can all agree on, but we're too cowardly to do

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/the-one-science-reform-we-can-all

5 months ago

Making Firefox's right-click not suck with about:config

https://joshua.hu/firefox-making-right-click-not-suck

5 months ago

"It Turns Out"

https://jsomers.net/blog/it-turns-out

5 months ago

Moss is a pixel canvas where every brush is a tiny program

https://www.moss.town/

5 months ago

RFC 9849. TLS Encrypted Client Hello

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9849.html

5 months ago

Bet on German Train Delays

https://bahn.bet

5 months ago

A CPU that runs entirely on GPU

https://github.com/robertcprice/nCPU

5 months ago

Why can't you tune your guitar? (2019)

https://www.ethanhein.com/wp/2019/why-cant-you-tune-your-guitar/

5 months ago

Nobody Gets Promoted for Simplicity

https://terriblesoftware.org/2026/03/03/nobody-gets-promoted-for-simplicity/

5 months ago

Glaze by Raycast

https://www.glazeapp.com/

5 months ago

Does that use a lot of energy?

https://hannahritchie.github.io/energy-use-comparisons/

5 months ago

BMW Group to deploy humanoid robots in production in Germany for the first time

https://www.press.bmwgroup.com/global/article/detail/T0455864EN/bmw-group-to-deploy-humanoid-robots-in-production-in-germany-for-the-first-time?language=en

5 months ago

It is sweet and fitting to die for one's country (1921)

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46560/dulce-et-decorum-est

5 months ago

Google ends its 30 percent app store fee and welcomes third-party app stores

https://www.engadget.com/apps/google-ends-its-30-percent-app-store-fee-and-welcomes-third-party-app-stores-185248647.html

5 months ago

Graphics Programming Resources

https://develop--gpvm-website.netlify.app/resources/

5 months ago

Father claims Google's AI product fuelled son's delusional spiral

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czx44p99457o

5 months ago

Users fume over Outlook.com email 'carnage'

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/04/users_fume_at_outlookcom_email/

5 months ago

MacBook Neo

https://www.apple.com/macbook-neo/

5 months ago

Weave – A language aware merge algorithm based on entities

https://github.com/Ataraxy-Labs/weave

5 months ago

NanoGPT Slowrun: Language Modeling with Limited Data, Infinite Compute

https://qlabs.sh/slowrun

5 months ago

Medical journal says the case reports it has published for 25 years are fiction

https://retractionwatch.com/2026/03/03/canadian-pediatric-society-journal-correction-case-reports-fictional-paediatrics-child-health/

5 months ago

MyFirst Kids Watch Hacked. Access to Camera and Microphone

https://www.kth.se/en/om/nyheter/centrala-nyheter/kth-studenten-hackade-klocka-for-barn-1.1461249

5 months ago

You need to rewrite your CLI for AI agents

https://justin.poehnelt.com/posts/rewrite-your-cli-for-ai-agents/

5 months ago

Cancel ChatGPT AI boycott surges after OpenAI pentagon military deal

https://www.euronews.com/next/2026/03/02/cancel-chatgpt-ai-boycott-surges-after-openai-pentagon-military-deal

5 months ago

Humans 40k yrs ago developed a system of conventional signs

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2520385123

5 months ago

Better JIT for Postgres

https://github.com/vladich/pg_jitter

5 months ago

The View from RSS

https://www.carolinecrampton.com/the-view-from-rss/

5 months ago

NRC Issues First Commercial Reactor Construction Approval in 10 Years [pdf]

https://www.nrc.gov/sites/default/files/cdn/doc-collection-news/2026/26-028.pdf

5 months ago

In 1985 Maxell built a bunch of life-size robots for its bad floppy ad

https://buttondown.com/suchbadtechads/archive/maxell-life-size-robots/

5 months ago

Rijksmuseum researchers discover new painting by Rembrandt van Rijn

https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/press/press-releases/rijksmuseum-researchers-discover-new-painting-by-rembrandt-van-rijn

5 months ago

Did Alibaba just kneecap its powerful Qwen AI team?

https://venturebeat.com/technology/did-alibaba-just-kneecap-its-powerful-qwen-ai-team-key-figures-depart-in

5 months ago

California's Digital Age Assurance Act, and FOSS

https://runxiyu.org/comp/ab1043/

5 months ago

Show HN: A weird thing that detects your pulse from the browser video

https://pulsefeedback.io/

5 months ago

Chimpanzees Are into Crystals

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/science/chimpanzees-crystals.html

5 months ago

What canceled my Go context?

https://rednafi.com/go/context-cancellation-cause/

5 months ago

macOS code injection for fun and no profit (2024)

https://mariozechner.at/posts/2024-07-20-macos-code-injection-fun/

5 months ago

Sea level much higher than assumed in most coastal hazard assessments

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10196-1

5 months ago

The Collective Ambition Behind Odysseus, a Game-Changing Sci-Fi Larp

https://mssv.net/2025/03/19/the-collective-ambition-behind-odysseus/

5 months ago

Was Windows 1.0's lack of overlapping windows a legal or a technical matter?

https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/32511/was-windows-1-0s-lack-of-overlapping-windows-a-legal-or-a-technical-matter

5 months ago

Iran war wreaking havoc on shipping and air cargo, could create global delays

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/02/iran_war_tech_supply_chain/

5 months ago

LLMs can unmask pseudonymous users at scale with surprising accuracy

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/03/llms-can-unmask-pseudonymous-users-at-scale-with-surprising-accuracy/

5 months ago

Show HN: P0 – Yes, AI can ship complex features into real codebases

https://www.bepurple.ai/

5 months ago

Data Has Weight but Only on SSDs

https://cubiclenate.com/2026/03/04/data-has-weight-but-only-on-ssds-blathering/

5 months ago

From RGB to L*a*b* color space (2024)

https://kaizoudou.com/from-rgb-to-lab-color-space/

5 months ago

Indefinite Book Club Hiatus

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2026/03/03/indefinite-book-club-hiatus/

5 months ago

How important was the Battle of Hastings?

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/head-head/how-important-was-battle-hastings

5 months ago