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Daily Hacker News for 2026-03-20

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 20, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Return of the Obra Dinn: spherical mapped dithering for a 1bpp first-person game
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• 4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches
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• macOS 26 breaks custom DNS settings including .internal
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• Show HN: Three new Kitten TTS models – smallest less than 25MB
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• Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service
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• Push events into a running session with channels
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• ArXiv declares independence from Cornell
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• France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app
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• I'm OK being left behind, thanks
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• Chuck Norris has died
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-03-19

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 19, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• OpenRocket
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• Nvidia greenboost: transparently extend GPU VRAM using system RAM/NVMe
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• FBI is buying location data to track US citizens, director confirms
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• Warranty Void If Regenerated
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• Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents
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• A sufficiently detailed spec is code
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• Afroman found not liable in defamation case
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• “Your frustration is the product”
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• Astral to Join OpenAI
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• Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-03-18

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 18, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• JPEG Compression
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• Unsloth Studio
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• Python 3.15's JIT is now back on track
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• A Decade of Slug
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• Get Shit Done: A meta-prompting, context engineering and spec-driven dev system
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• Mistral AI Releases Forge
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• Have a fucking website
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• Nightingale – open-source karaoke app that works with any song on your computer
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• Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming (1989)
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• Despite Doubts, Federal Cyber Experts Approved Microsoft Cloud Service
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-03-17

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 17, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Why I love FreeBSD
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• The American Healthcare Conundrum
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• The “small web” is bigger than you might think
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• Meta’s renewed commitment to jemalloc
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• Leanstral: Open-source agent for trustworthy coding and formal proof engineering
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• US SEC preparing to scrap quarterly reporting requirement
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• Kagi Translate now supports LinkedIn Speak as an output language
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• Kagi Small Web
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• Reddit User Uncovers Who Is Behind Meta's $2B Lobbying for Age Verification Tech
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• Microsoft's 'unhackable' Xbox One has been hacked by 'Bliss'
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-03-16

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 16, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• LLM Architecture Gallery
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• Stop Sloppypasta
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• The 49MB web page
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• Canada's bill C-22 mandates mass metadata surveillance
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• How I write software with LLMs
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• Corruption erodes social trust more in democracies than in autocracies
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• MoD sources warn Palantir role at heart of government is threat to UK security
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• Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story
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• US Job Market Visualizer
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• Palestinian boy, 12, describes how Israeli forces killed his family in car
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-03-15

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 15, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Python: The Optimization Ladder
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• Baochip-1x: What it is, why I'm doing it now and how it came about
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• Allow me to get to know you, mistakes and all
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• Ageless Linux – Software for humans of indeterminate age
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• How kernel anti-cheats work
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• Rack-mount hydroponics
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• The Appalling Stupidity of Spotify's AI DJ
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• $96 3D-printed rocket that recalculates its mid-air trajectory using a $5 sensor
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• A Visual Introduction to Machine Learning (2015)
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• Chrome DevTools MCP
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-03-14

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 14, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Wired headphone sales are exploding
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• Bucketsquatting is finally dead
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• Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock
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• The Wyden Siren Goes Off Again: We’ll Be “Stunned” By What the NSA Is Doing
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• Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters
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• 1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6
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• Your phone is an entire computer
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• Hammerspoon
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• Mouser: An open source alternative to Logi-Plus mouse software
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• Digg is gone again
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-03-13

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 13, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Willingness to look stupid
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• Show HN: Channel Surfer – Watch YouTube like it’s cable TV
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• US private credit defaults hit record 9.2% in 2025, Fitch says
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• ATMs didn’t kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did
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• Innocent woman jailed after being misidentified using AI facial recognition
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• “This is not the computer for you”
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• Vite 8.0 Is Out
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• Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act
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• TUI Studio – visual terminal UI design tool
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• Can I run AI locally?
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-03-12

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 12, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web
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• The MacBook Neo
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• BitNet: Inference framework for 1-bit LLMs
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• Google closes deal to acquire Wiz
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• I was interviewed by an AI bot for a job
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• Show HN: s@: decentralized social networking over static sites
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• Returning to Rails in 2026
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• Malus – Clean Room as a Service
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• Asia rolls out 4-day weeks, WFH to solve fuel crisis caused by Iran war
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• Shall I implement it? No
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-03-11

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 11, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world
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• Agents that run while I sleep
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• Cloudflare crawl endpoint
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• U+237C ⍼ Is Azimuth
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• Zig – Type Resolution Redesign and Language Changes
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• Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns
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• How we hacked McKinsey's AI platform
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• Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job
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• Temporal: A nine-year journey to fix time in JavaScript
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• Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans.
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-03-10

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 10, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft
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• Florida judge rules red light camera tickets are unconstitutional
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• OpenAI is walking away from expanding its Stargate data center with Oracle
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• No, it doesn't cost Anthropic $5k per Claude Code user
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• I put my whole life into a single database
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• Yann LeCun's AI startup raises $1B in Europe's largest ever seed round
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• Online age-verification tools for child safety are surveilling adults
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• After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes
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• Meta acquires Moltbook
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• Tony Hoare has died
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-03-09

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 09, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Microscopes can see video on a laserdisc
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• Ask HN: How to be alone?
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• My Homelab Setup
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• LibreOffice Writer now supports Markdown
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• Agent Safehouse – macOS-native sandboxing for local agents
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• How the Sriracha guys screwed over their supplier
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• US Court of Appeals: TOS may be updated by email, use can imply consent [pdf]
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• FontCrafter: Turn your handwriting into a real font
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• Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe (2025)
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• Building a Procedural Hex Map with Wave Function Collapse
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-03-08

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 08, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Yoghurt delivery women combatting loneliness in Japan
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• A decade of Docker containers
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• CasNum
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• Put the zip code first
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• How to run Qwen 3.5 locally
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• Cloud VM benchmarks 2026
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• Apple's 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortage
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• FrameBook
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• The changing goalposts of AGI and timelines
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• Ask HN: Please restrict new accounts from posting
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-03-07

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 07, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Payphone Go
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• Hardening Firefox with Anthropic's Red Team
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• this css proves me human
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• Helix: A post-modern text editor
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• Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma
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• Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion
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• LLMs work best when the user defines their acceptance criteria first
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• UUID package coming to Go standard library
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• Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues
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• Ki Editor - an editor that operates on the AST
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-03-06

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 06, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• CBP tapped into the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples’ movements
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• 10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips
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• Good software knows when to stop
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• A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4k Developer Machines
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• The Brand Age
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• Where things stand with the Department of War
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• System76 on Age Verification Laws
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• Workers who love ‘synergizing paradigms’ might be bad at their jobs
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• Global warming has accelerated significantly
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• Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-03-05

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 05, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Qwen3.5 Fine-Tuning Guide
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• Building a new Flash
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• Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military deal ‘straight up lies’
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• Google Workspace CLI
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• The L in \"LLM\" Stands for Lying
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• Relicensing with AI-Assisted Rewrite
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• No right to relicense this project
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• Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs
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• Wikipedia was in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise
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• GPT-5.4
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-03-04

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 04, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• MacBook Air with M5
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• Physics Girl: Super-Kamiokande – Imaging the sun by detecting neutrinos [video]
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• GPT‑5.3 Instant
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• Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable
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• TikTok will not introduce end-to-end encryption, saying it makes users less safe
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• Agentic Engineering Patterns
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• Nobody Gets Promoted for Simplicity
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• MacBook Neo
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• Something is afoot in the land of Qwen
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• An interactive map of Flock Cams
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-03-03

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 03, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• New iPad Air, powered by M4
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• British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time
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• Show HN: I built a sub-500ms latency voice agent from scratch
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• Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns
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• Ars Technica fires reporter after AI controversy involving fabricated quotes
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• The Xkcd thing, now interactive
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• Claude's Cycles [pdf]
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• I'm losing the SEO battle for my own open source project
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• MacBook Pro with new M5 Pro and M5 Max
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• I'm reluctant to verify my identity or age for any online services
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-03-02

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 02, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• How to talk to anyone and why you should
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• Making Video Games in 2025 (without an engine)
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• When does MCP make sense vs CLI?
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• If AI writes code, should the session be part of the commit?
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• Everett shuts down Flock camera network after judge rules footage public record
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• Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS
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• How to talk to anyone and why you should
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• /e/OS is a complete, fully “deGoogled” mobile ecosystem
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• Jolla phone – a full-stack European alternative
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• Microsoft bans the word \"Microslop\" on its Discord, then locks the server
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-03-01

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on March 01, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• The happiest I've ever been
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• MCP server that reduces Claude Code context consumption by 98%
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• Obsidian Sync now has a headless client
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• Qwen3.5 122B and 35B models offer Sonnet 4.5 performance on local computers
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• We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk
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• Microgpt
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• Switch to Claude without starting over
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• Decision trees – the unreasonable power of nested decision rules
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• I built a demo of what AI chat will look like when it's \"free\" and ad-supported
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• Ghostty – Terminal Emulator
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-02-28

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on February 28, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification
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• OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation
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• We Will Not Be Divided
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• Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth
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• Croatia declared free of landmines after 31 years
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• OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network
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• How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?
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• The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran
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• OpenAI – How to delete your account
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• The whole thing was a scam
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