top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-03-05

Judge Orders Government to Begin Refunding More Than $130B in Tariffs

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/judge-orders-government-to-begin-refunding-more-than-130-billion-in-tariffs-fdc1e62c

5 months ago

Wikipedia in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise

https://www.wikimediastatus.net

5 months ago

GPT-5.4 Thinking System Card

https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-4-thinking-system-card/

5 months ago

Googleworkspace/CLI

https://github.com/googleworkspace/cli

5 months ago

The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying

https://acko.net/blog/the-l-in-llm-stands-for-lying/

5 months ago

A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4k Developer Machines

https://grith.ai/blog/clinejection-when-your-ai-tool-installs-another

5 months ago

Good software knows when to stop

https://ogirardot.writizzy.com/p/good-software-knows-when-to-stop

5 months ago

No right to relicense this project

https://github.com/chardet/chardet/issues/327

5 months ago

The Brand Age

https://paulgraham.com/brandage.html

5 months ago

Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous 'Stop Cop City' Protester

https://www.404media.co/proton-mail-helped-fbi-unmask-anonymous-stop-cop-city-protestor/

5 months ago

Pentagon Formally Labels Anthropic Supply-Chain Risk

https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/pentagon-formally-labels-anthropic-supply-chain-risk-escalating-conflict-ebdf0523

5 months ago

Relicensing with AI-Assisted Rewrite

https://tuananh.net/2026/03/05/relicensing-with-ai-assisted-rewrite/

5 months ago

Nvidia PersonaPlex 7B on Apple Silicon: Full-Duplex Speech-to-Speech in Swift

https://blog.ivan.digital/nvidia-personaplex-7b-on-apple-silicon-full-duplex-speech-to-speech-in-native-swift-with-mlx-0aa5276f2e23

5 months ago

Labor Market Impacts of AI

https://www.anthropic.com/research/labor-market-impacts

5 months ago

Show HN: Jido 2.0, Elixir Agent Framework

https://jido.run/blog/jido-2-0-is-here

5 months ago

A standard protocol to handle and discard low-effort, AI-Generated pull requests

https://406.fail/

5 months ago

The Government Uses Targeted Advertising to Track Your Location

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/targeted-advertising-gives-your-location-government-just-ask-cbp

5 months ago

Google Safe Browsing missed 84% of phishing sites we found in February

https://www.norn-labs.com/blog/huginn-report-feb-2026

5 months ago

A Grand Vision for Rust

https://blog.yoshuawuyts.com/a-grand-vision-for-rust/

5 months ago

Poor Man's Polaroid

https://boxart.lt/blog/poor_mans_polaroid

5 months ago

Galileo's handwritten notes found in ancient astronomy text

https://www.science.org/content/article/galileo-s-handwritten-notes-found-ancient-astronomy-text

5 months ago

Jensen Huang says Nvidia is pulling back from OpenAI and Anthropic

https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/04/jensen-huang-says-nvidia-is-pulling-back-from-openai-and-anthropic-but-his-explanation-raises-more-questions-than-it-answers/

5 months ago

Every Single Board Computer I Tested in 2025

https://bret.dk/every-single-board-computer-i-tested-in-2025/

5 months ago

You Just Reveived

https://dylan.gr/1772520728

5 months ago

Noem Can't Explain Why She Hired 8-Day-Old Company for Ad Campaign

https://newrepublic.com/post/207381/kristi-noem-explain-company-ad-campaign

5 months ago

The next generations of Bubble Tea, Lip Gloss, and Bubbles are available now

https://charm.land/blog/v2/

5 months ago

Remotely unlocking an encrypted hard disk

https://jyn.dev/remotely-unlocking-an-encrypted-hard-disk/

5 months ago

US tech firms pledge at White House to bear costs of energy for datacenters

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/04/us-tech-companies-energy-cost-pledge-white-house

5 months ago

AI and the Ship of Theseus

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/3/5/theseus/

5 months ago

Maybe There's a Pattern Here?

https://dynomight.net/pattern/

5 months ago

Show HN: Poppy – a simple app to stay intentional with relationships

https://poppy-connection-keeper.netlify.app/

5 months ago

US asked Ukraine for help fighting Iranian drones, Zelensky says

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr5llg0e9g9o

5 months ago

GPT-5.4

https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-4/

5 months ago

Smalltalk's Browser: Unbeatable, yet Not Enough

https://blog.lorenzano.eu/smalltalks-browser-unbeatable-yet-not-enough/

5 months ago

Z80 Sans – a disassembler in a font (2024)

https://github.com/nevesnunes/z80-sans

5 months ago

Show HN: PageAgent, A GUI agent that lives inside your web app

https://alibaba.github.io/page-agent/

5 months ago

Let's Get Physical

https://m4iler.cloud/posts/lets-get-physical/

5 months ago

OpenTitan Shipping in Production

https://opensource.googleblog.com/2026/03/opentitan-shipping-in-production.html

5 months ago

Grammarly is offering ‘expert’ AI reviews from top authors, dead or alive

https://www.wired.com/story/grammarly-is-offering-expert-ai-reviews-from-your-favorite-authors-dead-or-alive/

5 months ago

Rising carbon dioxide levels now detected in human blood

https://phys.org/news/2026-02-carbon-dioxide-human-blood.html

5 months ago

Emacs internals: Deconstructing Lisp_Object in C (Part 2)

https://thecloudlet.github.io/blog/project/emacs-02/

5 months ago

Fast-Servers

https://geocar.sdf1.org/fast-servers.html

5 months ago

Chaos and Dystopian news for the dead internet survivors

https://www.fubardaily.com

5 months ago

The Self-Help Trap: What 20 Years of "Optimizing" Has Taught Me

https://tim.blog/2026/03/04/the-self-help-trap/

5 months ago

Self-Portrait by Ernst Mach (1886)

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/self-portrait-by-ernst-mach-1886/

5 months ago

Jails for NetBSD – Kernel Enforced Isolation and Native Resource Control

https://netbsd-jails.petermann-digital.de/

5 months ago

I love email (2023)

https://blog.xoria.org/email/

5 months ago

Cameras built to police Iranians became the regime's Achilles' heel

https://royapakzad.substack.com/p/youre-welcome-mr-supreme-leader

5 months ago

Stop Using Grey Text

https://catskull.net/stop-using-grey-text.html

5 months ago

Analytic Fog Rendering with Volumetric Primitives

https://matejlou.blog/2025/02/11/analytic-fog-rendering-with-volumetric-primitives/

5 months ago

GPT-5.4 Thinking and GPT-5.4 Pro

https://twitter.com/i/status/2029620619743219811

5 months ago

Phi-4-reasoning-vision and the lessons of training a multimodal reasoning model

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/phi-4-reasoning-vision-and-the-lessons-of-training-a-multimodal-reasoning-model/

5 months ago

OpenBSD on SGI: A Rollercoaster Story

http://miod.online.fr/software/openbsd/stories/sgiall.html

5 months ago

Palantir and other tech companies are stocking offices with tobacco products

https://fortune.com/2026/03/04/palantir-tech-companies-offices-vending-machines-tobacco-worker-productivity/

5 months ago

48x32, a 1536 LED Game Computer

https://jacquesmattheij.com/48x32-introduction/

5 months ago

What Python's asyncio primitives get wrong about shared state

https://www.inngest.com/blog/no-lost-updates-python-asyncio

5 months ago

Bourdieu's theory of taste: a grumbling abrégé

https://dynomight.net/bourdieu/

5 months ago

The IRIX 6.5.7M (sgi) source code

https://github.com/calmsacibis995/irix-657m-src

5 months ago