top 50% hacker news stories for today

Cloud VM benchmarks 2026: performance/price for 44 VM types over 7 providers

https://devblog.ecuadors.net/cloud-vm-benchmarks-2026-performance-price-1i1m.html

1 hour ago

25 upvotes – 2 comments

Ghostmd: Ghostty but for Markdown Notes

https://mimoo.github.io/ghostmd/

1 hour ago

18 upvotes – 24 comments

Patel gutted FBI counterintelligence team tasked with tracking Iranian threats

https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/03/politics/patel-fbi-national-security-division-firings-iran

1 hour ago

12 upvotes – 1 comments

Science Fiction Is Dying. Long Live Post Sci-Fi?

https://www.typebarmagazine.com/science-fiction-is-dying-long-live-post-sci-fi/

50 minutes ago

10 upvotes – 0 comments

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

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

1 day ago

976 upvotes – 853 comments

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

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

1 day ago

422 upvotes – 377 comments

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

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

16 hours ago

407 upvotes – 223 comments

Ki Editor - an editor that operates on the AST

https://ki-editor.org/

15 hours ago

365 upvotes – 132 comments

UUID package coming to Go standard library

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

23 hours ago

344 upvotes – 224 comments

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/

4 hours ago

231 upvotes – 75 comments

A Decade of Docker Containers

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

8 hours ago

230 upvotes – 169 comments

Put the Zipcode First

https://zipcodefirst.com

2 hours ago

209 upvotes – 161 comments

The yoghurt delivery women combatting loneliness in Japan

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

12 hours ago

201 upvotes – 126 comments

QGIS 4.0

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

16 hours ago

195 upvotes – 47 comments

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

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

13 hours ago

195 upvotes – 77 comments

War Prediction Markets Are a National-Security Threat

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

5 hours ago

193 upvotes – 117 comments

CasNum

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

5 hours ago

188 upvotes – 24 comments

The Millisecond That Could Change Cancer Treatment

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

10 hours ago

182 upvotes – 57 comments

Tinnitus Is Connected to Sleep

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

11 hours ago

175 upvotes – 195 comments

Filesystems Are Having a Moment

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

14 hours ago

174 upvotes – 106 comments

Sarvam 105B, the first competitive Indian open source LLM

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

18 hours ago

170 upvotes – 60 comments

Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse

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

16 hours ago

161 upvotes – 163 comments

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

11 hours ago

157 upvotes – 133 comments

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/

6 hours ago

138 upvotes – 151 comments

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

https://mujs.org

16 hours ago

113 upvotes – 49 comments

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

12 hours ago

103 upvotes – 86 comments

Caitlin Kalinowski: I resigned from OpenAI

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

2 hours ago

99 upvotes – 54 comments

$3T Blind Spot: US nonprofits

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

3 hours ago

93 upvotes – 65 comments

Show HN: ANSI-Saver – A macOS Screensaver

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

11 hours ago

86 upvotes – 28 comments

LLM Writing Tropes.md

https://tropes.fyi/tropes-md

4 hours ago

83 upvotes – 35 comments

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

https://github.com/c0m4r/kula

1 day ago

80 upvotes – 53 comments

Verification debt: the hidden cost of AI-generated code

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

8 hours ago

78 upvotes – 76 comments

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

7 hours ago

63 upvotes – 22 comments

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

9 hours ago

62 upvotes – 49 comments

The Banality of Surveillance

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

8 hours ago

61 upvotes – 20 comments

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

3 hours ago

61 upvotes – 48 comments

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

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

20 hours ago

60 upvotes – 31 comments

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

https://twitter.com/KatanaLarp/status/2029928471632224486

11 hours ago

60 upvotes – 2 comments

The Case of the Disappearing Secretary

https://rowlandmanthorpe.substack.com/p/the-case-of-the-disappearing-secretary

12 hours ago

55 upvotes – 19 comments

Why developers using AI are working longer hours

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

2 hours ago

52 upvotes – 41 comments

AI and the Illegal War

https://buttondown.com/creativegood/archive/ai-and-the-illegal-war/

22 hours ago

49 upvotes – 9 comments
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