Weekly news | 2026-03-04
news
- Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025)
- New accounts on HN more likely to use em-dashes
- Amazon accused of widespread scheme to inflate prices across the economy
- Following 35% growth, solar has passed hydro on US grid
- How to fold the Blade Runner origami unicorn (1996)
- US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives
- Bus stop balancing is fast, cheap, and effective
- Cell Service for the Fairly Paranoid
- Japanese Death Poems
- Anthropic Drops Flagship Safety Pledge
- Show HN: A real-time strategy game that AI agents can play
- Aesthetics of single threading
- Turing Completeness of GNU find
- Launch HN: TeamOut (YC W22) – AI agent for planning company retreats
- Optophone
- Jimi Hendrix was a systems engineer
- GNU Texmacs
- Large-Scale Online Deanonymization with LLMs
- The Om Programming Language
- The Misuses of the University
- First Website (1992)
- How will OpenAI compete?
- RAM now represents 35 percent of bill of materials for HP PCs
- Artist who “paints” portraits on glass by hitting it with a hammer
- Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam emails to users
- The First Fully General Computer Action Model
- Tech companies shouldn't be bullied into doing surveillance
- Show HN: Terminal Phone – E2EE Walkie Talkie from the Command Line
- Anthropic ditches its core safety promise
- AirSnitch: Demystifying and breaking client isolation in Wi-Fi networks [pdf]
- Will vibe coding end like the maker movement?
- Writers and Their Day Jobs
- BuildKit: Docker's Hidden Gem That Can Build Almost Anything
- I baked a pie every day for a year and it changed my life
- Open Source Endowment – new funding source for open source maintainers
- Palm OS User Interface Guidelines (2003) [pdf]
- The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee (1830)
- What Claude Code Chooses
- A 26-Gram Butterfly-Inspired Robot Achieving Autonomous Tailless Flight
- Layoffs at Block
- Show HN: Hacker Smacker – Spot great (and terrible) HN commenters at a glance
- Show HN: Linex – A daily challenge: placing pieces on a board that fights back
- Launch HN: Cardboard (YC W26) – Agentic video editor
- I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk
- The Hunt for Dark Breakfast
- What does " 2>&1 " mean?
- Court finds Fourth Amendment doesn’t support broad search of protesters’ devices
- The normalization of corruption in organizations (2003) [pdf]
- An Introduction to the Codex Seraphinianus, the Strangest Book Ever Published
- Leaving Google has actively improved my life
- Implementing a Z80 / ZX Spectrum emulator with Claude Code
- 80386 Protection
- F-Droid Board of Directors nominations 2026
- A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification
- OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation
- Hydroph0bia – fixed SecureBoot bypass for UEFI firmware from Insyde H2O (2025)
- Show HN: RetroTick – Run classic Windows EXEs in the browser
- Dan Simmons, author of Hyperion, has died
- NASA announces overhaul of Artemis program amid safety concerns, delays
- I rendered 1,418 confusables over 230 fonts. Most aren't confusable to the eye
- Breaking Free
- ChatGPT Health fails to recognise medical emergencies – study
- Modeling cycles of grift with evolutionary game theory
- Google workers seek 'red lines' on military A.I., echoing Anthropic
- The Origins of Agar
- We Will Not Be Divided
- The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran
- OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network
- Croatia declared free of landmines after 31 years
- The whole thing was a scam
- Obsidian Sync now has a headless client
- Qt45: A small polymerase ribozyme that can synthesize itself
- Unsloth Dynamic 2.0 GGUFs
- The Eternal Promise: A History of Attempts to Eliminate Programmers
- The happiest I've ever been
- OpenAI fires an employee for prediction market insider trading
- Show HN: Unfucked - version all changes (by any tool) - local-first/source avail
- Show HN: Now I Get It – Translate scientific papers into interactive webpages
- Cognitive Debt: When Velocity Exceeds Comprehension
- New evidence that Cantor plagiarized Dedekind?
- President Trump bans Anthropic from use in government systems
- Inventing the Lisa user interface – Interactions
- The Future of AI
- 747s and Coding Agents
- From Noise to Image – interactive guide to diffusion
- Ghosts'n Goblins – “Worse danger is ahead”
- Microgpt
- We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk
- Ghostty – Terminal Emulator
- Decision trees – the unreasonable power of nested decision rules
- 10-202: Introduction to Modern AI (CMU)
- H-Bomb: A Frank Lloyd Wright typographic mystery
- I built a demo of what AI chat will look like when it's "free" and ad-supported
- Flightradar24 for Ships
- New iron nanomaterial wipes out cancer cells without harming healthy tissue
- Interview with Øyvind Kolås, GIMP developer (2017)
- Why is the first C++ (m)allocation always 72 KB?
- Why XML tags are so fundamental to Claude
- Sub-second volumetric 3D printing by synthesis of holographic light fields
- Deterministic Programming with LLMs
- When does MCP make sense vs CLI?
- Samsung Galaxy update removes Android recovery menu tools, including sideloading
- The real cost of random I/O
- SpacetimeDB ThreeJS Support
- AI Made Writing Code Easier. It Made Being an Engineer Harder
- How to talk to anyone, and why you should
- Pigeons and Planes Has a Website Again
- Aromatic 5-silicon rings synthesized at last
- Rydberg atoms detect clear signals from a handheld radio
- Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS
- /e/OS is a complete, fully “deGoogled” mobile ecosystem
- Everett shuts down Flock camera network after judge rules footage public record
- Microsoft bans the word "Microslop" on its Discord, then locks the server
- Making Video Games in 2025 (without an engine)
- Tove Jansson's criticized illustrations of The Hobbit (2023)
- Little Free Library
- New iPad Air, powered by M4
- Jolla phone – a full-stack European alternative
- Inside the M4 Apple Neural Engine, Part 1: Reverse Engineering
- First in-utero stem cell therapy for fetal spina bifida repair is safe: study
- Computer-generated dream world: Virtual reality for a 286 processor
- British Columbia to end time changes, adopt year-round daylight time
- Mondrian Entered the Public Domain. The Estate Disagrees
- How to record and retrieve anything you've ever had to look up twice
- U.S. science agency moves to restrict foreign scientists from its labs
- The workers behind Meta's smart glasses can see everything
- Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2026)
- Parallel coding agents with tmux and Markdown specs
- Show HN: Govbase – Follow a bill from source text to news bias to social posts
- Launch HN: OctaPulse (YC W26) – Robotics and computer vision for fish farming
- The Xkcd thing, now interactive
- I'm reluctant to verify my identity or age for any online services
- Show HN: I built a sub-500ms latency voice agent from scratch
- Ars Technica fires reporter after AI controversy involving fabricated quotes
- MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max
- Claude's Cycles [pdf]
- Arm's Cortex X925: Reaching Desktop Performance
- Simple screw counter
- Physicists developing a quantum computer that’s entirely open source
- I'm losing the SEO battle for my own open source project
- MacBook Air with M5
- Don't become an engineering manager
- Physics Girl: Super-Kamiokande – Imaging the sun by detecting neutrinos [video]
- Seed of Might color correction process (2023) [pdf]
- Apple Studio Display and Studio Display XDR
- Launch HN: Cekura (YC F24) – Testing and monitoring for voice and chat AI agents
- India's top court angry after junior judge cites fake AI-generated orders
- Guilty Displeasures
- Against Query Based Compilers
- Intel's make-or-break 18A process node debuts for data center with 288-core Xeon
- DOS Memory Management
- The Cathode Ray Tube site
- The beauty and terror of modding Windows
AI: - Claude Code Remote Control - Statement from Dario Amodei on Our Discussions with the Department of War - Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers - Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth - How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription? - Switch to Claude without starting over - GPT‑5.3 Instant
- AWS:
- Amazon Aurora DSQL Kiro powers and AI agent skills
- Amazon Aurora DSQL new Go, Python, and Node.js connectors that simplify IAM authentication
- Amazon Aurora Server-Side Encryption at Rest
- Backup PrivateLink support for SAP HANA
- Bedrock Claude Sonnet 4.6
- Bedrock reinforcement fine-tuning adds support for open-weight models with OpenAI-compatible APIs
- Certificate Manager updates default certificate validity
- Clean Rooms remote Apache Iceberg REST catalogs
- Connect agent time-off requests in draft schedules
- Connect Cases AWS Service Quotas
- Connect multi-line text fields on case templates
- DocumentDB long-term support (LTS) on 5.0
- EC2 nested virtualization
- EC2 new high performance computing Hpc8a instances
- Glue 5.1 is now available in 18 additional regions
- HealthImaging additional metrics for monitoring data stores
- Managed Grafana KMS customer managed keys
- MSK dual-stack (IPv4 and IPv6) connectivity for existing clusters
- OpenSearch Service Graviton4 (c8g,m8g & r8g ) instances
- OpenSearch Service storage optimized i7i instances
- RDS for Oracle January 2026 Release Update and Spatial Patch Bundle
- For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on AWS’s What’s New Feed page.
tooling
- Cl-kawa: Scheme on Java on Common Lisp
- 100M-Row Challenge with PHP
- Show HN: I ported Tree-sitter to Go
- Show HN: Django Control Room – All Your Tools Inside the Django Admin
- Just-bash: Bash for Agents
- Parakeet.cpp – Parakeet ASR inference in pure C++ with Metal GPU acceleration
- Open source calculator firmware DB48X forbids CA/CO use due to age verification
- Smallest transformer that can add two 10-digit numbers
- Woxi: Wolfram Mathematica Reimplementation in Rust
- Addressing Antigravity Bans and Reinstating Access
- Verified Spec-Driven Development (VSDD)
- Show HN: Xmloxide – an agent-made Rust replacement for libxml2
- If AI writes code, should the session be part of the commit?
- Right-sizes LLM models to your system's RAM, CPU, and GPU
- Show HN: Timber – Ollama for classical ML models, 336x faster than Python
- Anthropic Cowork feature creates 10GB VM bundle on macOS without warning
- Show HN: Omni – Open-source workplace search and chat, built on Postgres
blogs
- Never buy a .online domain
- Mercury 2: Fast reasoning LLM powered by diffusion
- LLM=True
- Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown
- We are changing our developer productivity experiment design
- Google API keys weren't secrets, but then Gemini changed the rules
- Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model
- This time is different
- PA bench: Evaluating web agents on real world personal assistant workflows
- Gauss's Weekday Algorithm, Visualized
- Can you reverse engineer our neural network?
- A better streams API is possible for JavaScript
- Reading English from 1000 AD
- An interactive intro to quadtrees
- We gave terabytes of CI logs to an LLM
- Don't use passkeys for encrypting user data
- MCP server that reduces Claude Code context consumption by 98%
- Don't trust AI agents
- An ode to houseplant programming (2025)
- Robust and efficient quantum-safe HTTPS
- Hardwood: A New Parser for Apache Parquet
- Microgpt explained interactively
- Next-gen spacecraft are overwhelming communication networks
- Use the Mikado Method to do safe changes in a complex codebase
- An interactive intro to Elliptic Curve Cryptography
- The 185-Microsecond Type Hint
- We Built a Video Rendering Engine by Lying to the Browser About What Time It Is
- I built a pint-sized Macintosh
- Most-read tech publications have lost over half their Google traffic since 2024
- Disable Your SSH access accidentally with scp