top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-03-07

I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has ignited a passion again

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47282777

5 months ago

Microscopes Can See Video on a LaserDisc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZuR-772cks

5 months ago

How to run Qwen 3.5 locally

https://unsloth.ai/docs/models/qwen3.5

5 months ago

Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues

https://torrentfreak.com/uploading-pirated-books-via-bittorrent-qualifies-as-fair-use-meta/

5 months ago

LLM Doesn't Write Correct Code. It Writes Plausible Code

https://blog.katanaquant.com/p/your-llm-doesnt-write-correct-code

5 months ago

Ki Editor - an editor that operates on the AST

https://ki-editor.org/

5 months ago

Put the Zipcode First

https://zipcodefirst.com

5 months ago

The yoghurt delivery women combatting loneliness in Japan

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20260302-the-yoghurt-delivery-women-combatting-loneliness-in-japan

5 months ago

LLM Writing Tropes.md

https://tropes.fyi/tropes-md

5 months ago

UUID package coming to Go standard library

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/62026

5 months ago

A Decade of Docker Containers

https://cacm.acm.org/research/a-decade-of-docker-containers/

5 months ago

Senators Launch Effort Ban Elected Officials Profiting from Prediction Markets

https://www.merkley.senate.gov/merkley-klobuchar-launch-new-effort-to-ban-federal-elected-officials-profiting-from-prediction-markets/

5 months ago

CasNum

https://github.com/0x0mer/CasNum

5 months ago

The Gervais Principle, or the Office According to "The Office"

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-or-the-office-according-to-the-office/

5 months ago

Filesystems Are Having a Moment

https://madalitso.me/notes/why-everyone-is-talking-about-filesystems/

5 months ago

War Prediction Markets Are a National-Security Threat

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/03/polymarket-insider-trading-going-get-people-killed/686283/

5 months ago

Tinnitus Is Connected to Sleep

https://www.sciencealert.com/tinnitus-is-somehow-connected-to-a-crucial-bodily-function

5 months ago

Caitlin Kalinowski: I resigned from OpenAI

https://twitter.com/kalinowski007/status/2030320074121478618

5 months ago

The Millisecond That Could Change Cancer Treatment

https://spectrum.ieee.org/flash-radiotherapy

5 months ago

Building a TB-303 from Scratch

https://loopmaster.xyz/tutorials/tb303-from-scratch

5 months ago

QGIS 4.0

https://changelog.qgis.org/en/version/4.0/

5 months ago

US economy sheds 92,000 jobs in February in sharp slide

https://www.ft.com/content/6542bd0c-59ca-493b-ab5d-2d69e4e00cae

5 months ago

Autoresearch: Agents researching on single-GPU nanochat training automatically

https://github.com/karpathy/autoresearch

5 months ago

PC processors entered the Gigahertz era today in the year 2000 with AMD's Athlon

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/pc-processors-entered-the-gigahertz-era-today-in-the-year-2000-with-amds-athlon-amd-hit-marketing-gold-with-its-1-ghz-athlon-beat-intel-by-a-nose

5 months ago

The surprising whimsy of the Time Zone Database

https://muddy.jprs.me/links/2026-03-06-the-surprising-whimsy-of-the-time-zone-database/

5 months ago

Sarvam 105B, the first competitive Indian open source LLM

https://www.sarvam.ai/blogs/sarvam-30b-105b

5 months ago

Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse

https://matduggan.com/boy-i-was-wrong-about-the-fediverse/

5 months ago

We're Training Students to Write Worse to Prove They're Not Robots

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/06/were-training-students-to-write-worse-to-prove-theyre-not-robots-and-its-pushing-them-to-use-more-ai/

5 months ago

Show HN: µJS, a 5KB alternative to Htmx and Turbo with zero dependencies

https://mujs.org

5 months ago

Practical Guide to Bare Metal C++

https://arobenko.github.io/bare_metal_cpp/#_abstract_classes

5 months ago

Lawmakers Want DoD Investigated for Biblical 'Armageddon' Claims

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2026/03/06/lawmakers-want-dod-hegseth-investigated-biblical-armageddon-claims.html

5 months ago

Some Words on WigglyPaint

https://beyondloom.com/blog/onwigglypaint.html

5 months ago

Exploring the ocean with Raspberry Pi–powered marine robots

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/exploring-the-ocean-with-raspberry-pi-powered-marine-robots/

5 months ago

Verification debt: the hidden cost of AI-generated code

https://fazy.medium.com/agentic-coding-ais-adolescence-b0d13452f981

5 months ago

Palantir and Anthropic AI helped the US hit 1k Iran targets in 24 hours

https://www.moneycontrol.com/europe/?url=https://www.moneycontrol.com/world/how-palantir-and-anthropic-ai-helped-the-us-hit-1-000-iran-targets-in-24-hours-article-13853331.html

5 months ago

TCXO Failure Analysis

https://serd.es/2026/03/06/TCXO-failure-analysis.html

5 months ago

$3T Blind Spot: US nonprofits

https://charitysense.com/insights/the-3-trillion-blind-spot

5 months ago

Graphing how the 10k* most common English words define each other

https://wyattsell.com/experiments/word-graph/

5 months ago

Show HN: ANSI-Saver – A macOS Screensaver

https://github.com/lardissone/ansi-saver

5 months ago

The Day NY Publishing Lost Its Soul

https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-day-ny-publishing-lost-its-soul

5 months ago

Show HN: Kula – Lightweight, self-contained Linux server monitoring tool

https://github.com/c0m4r/kula

5 months ago

I used pulsar detection techniques to turn a phone into a watch timegrapher

https://www.chronolog.watch/timegrapher

5 months ago

Why developers using AI are working longer hours

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-developers-using-ai-are-working-longer-hours/

5 months ago

Does Apple's M5 Max really "Destroy" a 96-Core Threadripper?

https://slashdot.org/submission/17345398/does-apples-m5-max-really-destroy-a-96-core-threadripper

5 months ago

AI Error May Have Contributed to Girl's School Bombing in Iran

https://thisweekinworcester.com/exclusive-ai-error-girls-school-bombing/

5 months ago

The Banality of Surveillance

https://benn.substack.com/p/the-banality-of-surveillance

5 months ago

Lisp-style C++ template meta programming

https://github.com/mistivia/lmp

5 months ago

Tech jobs are getting demolished in ways not seen since 2008

https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-jobs-getting-demolished-great-recession-dot-com-era-2026-3

5 months ago