Hacker News on Tuesday, 3 March 2026

The Xkcd thing, now interactive(editor.p5js.org)

1191 points by memalign 7 months ago | 152 comments

A p5.js sketch by isohedral offering an interactive version of the xkcd 'Dependency' comic about fragile software dependency stacks.

I'm reluctant to verify my identity or age for any online services(neilzone.co.uk)

905 points by speckx 7 months ago | 554 comments

A personal blog post explaining why the author can think of few online services for which he would be willing to verify his identity or age, amid policy proposals for age checks.

MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max(apple.com)

812 points by scrlk 7 months ago | 874 comments

Apple Newsroom press release announcing MacBook Pro models with M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, faster SSDs, and 1TB starting storage.

Claude's Cycles [pdf](www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu)

742 points by fs123 7 months ago | 311 comments

Don Knuth's note describing how Claude Opus 4.6 solved his open problem on decomposing a 3D torus digraph's arcs into three directed Hamiltonian cycles.

Ars Technica fires reporter after AI controversy involving fabricated quotes(futurism.com)

542 points by danso 7 months ago | 334 comments

Futurism article reporting that Ars Technica parted ways with reporter Benj Edwards after a controversy over AI-fabricated quotes.

Physics Girl: Super-Kamiokande – Imaging the sun by detecting neutrinos [video](youtube.com)

463 points by pcdavid 7 months ago | 77 comments

A YouTube video by Physics Girl, titled "My first science video in 3 years!", about Super-Kamiokande imaging the sun by detecting neutrinos.

I'm losing the SEO battle for my own open source project(twitter.com)

448 points by devinitely 7 months ago | 226 comments

An X article by Gavriel Cohen arguing Google Search is broken as a fake NanoClaw site outranks the real site for his open source AI agent project.

MacBook Air with M5(apple.com)

380 points by Garbage 7 months ago | 422 comments

Apple Newsroom press release announcing the MacBook Air with the M5 chip, doubled starting storage, and improved wireless connectivity.

GPT‑5.3 Instant(openai.com)

365 points by meetpateltech 7 months ago | 284 comments

OpenAI announcement of GPT-5.3 Instant, an update to ChatGPT's most-used model aimed at smoother, more useful everyday conversations.

Don't become an engineering manager(newsletter.manager.dev)

364 points by flail 7 months ago | 259 comments

A Manager.dev newsletter post by Anton Zaides arguing that engineers should reconsider accepting promotions to engineering manager roles.

Lenovo’s new ThinkPads score 10/10 for repairability(ifixit.com)

319 points by wrxd 7 months ago | 152 comments

iFixit news article reporting that Lenovo's new ThinkPad T-series laptops earn a perfect 10/10 repairability score.

India's top court angry after junior judge cites fake AI-generated orders(bbc.com)

304 points by tchalla 7 months ago | 160 comments

Intel's make-or-break 18A process node debuts for data center with 288-core Xeon(tomshardware.com)

289 points by vanburen 7 months ago | 251 comments

When AI writes the software, who verifies it?(leodemoura.github.io)

271 points by todsacerdoti 7 months ago | 273 comments

Arm's Cortex X925: Reaching Desktop Performance(chipsandcheese.com)

253 points by ingve 7 months ago | 151 comments

Voxile: A ray-traced game made in its own engine and programming language(elbowgreasegames.substack.com)

245 points by spacemarine1 7 months ago | 65 comments

Iran War Cost Tracker(iran-cost-ticker.com)

238 points by TSiege 7 months ago | 267 comments

Mullvad VPN: Banned TV Ad in the Streets of London [video](youtube.com)

227 points by vanyauhalin 7 months ago | 128 comments

Don't make me talk to your chatbot(raymyers.org)

218 points by pkilgore 7 months ago | 177 comments

Apple Studio Display and Studio Display XDR(apple.com)

214 points by victorbjorklund 7 months ago | 249 comments

GitHub Is Having Issues(githubstatus.com)

203 points by Simpliplant 7 months ago | 138 comments

Possible US Government iPhone-Hacking Toolkit in foreign spy and criminal hands(wired.com)

197 points by alwillis 7 months ago | 62 comments

Most-read tech publications have lost over half their Google traffic since 2024(growtika.com)

197 points by Growtika 7 months ago | 141 comments

Elevated Errors in Claude.ai(status.claude.com)

170 points by LostMyLogin 7 months ago | 140 comments

An Interactive Intro to CRDTs (2023)(jakelazaroff.com)

166 points by evakhoury 7 months ago | 28 comments

My spicy take on vibe coding for PMs(ddmckinnon.com)

160 points by dmckinno 7 months ago | 138 comments

A ternary plot of citrus geneology(jlauf.com)

157 points by jlauf 7 months ago | 31 comments

Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death(politico.eu)

139 points by mooreds 7 months ago | 70 comments

Working and Communicating with Japanese Engineers(tokyodev.com)

134 points by zdw 7 months ago | 82 comments

Arabic document from 17th-cent. rubbish heap confirms semi-legendary Nubian king(phys.org)

125 points by wglb 7 months ago | 37 comments

AI-generated art can’t be copyrighted after Supreme Court declines review(theverge.com)

118 points by duggan 7 months ago | 82 comments

Log messages are mostly for the people operating your software(utcc.utoronto.ca)

117 points by todsacerdoti 7 months ago | 62 comments

We've freed Cookie's Bustle from copyright hell(gamehistory.org)

116 points by sb057 7 months ago | 18 comments

Compiling Prolog to Forth [pdf](vfxforth.com)

114 points by PaulHoule 7 months ago | 9 comments

The beauty and terror of modding Windows(windowsread.me)

109 points by wild_pointer 7 months ago | 88 comments

A man who broke into jail(newyorker.com)

108 points by fortran77 7 months ago | 51 comments

The Lobster Programming Language(strlen.com)

107 points by keyle 7 months ago | 48 comments

Claude is an Electron App because we've lost native(tonsky.me)

102 points by todsacerdoti 7 months ago | 120 comments

Daily Driving GrapheneOS(blog.matthewbrunelle.com)

95 points by zdw 7 months ago | 88 comments

Payment fees matter more than you think(cuencahighlife.com)

92 points by dxs 7 months ago | 62 comments

Launch HN: Cekura (YC F24) – Testing and monitoring for voice and chat AI agents

89 points by atarus 7 months ago | 22 comments

I built a pint-sized Macintosh(jeffgeerling.com)

87 points by ingve 7 months ago | 20 comments

Zuckerberg's internal emails rendered as Facebook Messenger(zuckmail.vercel.app)

82 points by not-chatgpt 7 months ago | 17 comments

Stolen Gemini API key racks up $82,000 in 48 hours(llmhorrors.com)

78 points by salkahfi 7 months ago | 43 comments

Querying 3B Vectors(vickiboykis.com)

73 points by surprisetalk 7 months ago | 9 comments

Optimizing Recommendation Systems with JDK's Vector API(netflixtechblog.com)

69 points by mariuz 7 months ago | 4 comments

Privacy-preserving age and identity verification via anonymous credentials(blog.cryptographyengineering.com)

67 points by FrasiertheLion 7 months ago | 38 comments

Someone needs to go to jail(edwardelson.substack.com)

67 points by shimm723 7 months ago | 21 comments

Buckle Up for Bumpier Skies(newyorker.com)

66 points by littlexsparkee 7 months ago | 37 comments

You are going to get priced out of the best AI coding tools(newsletter.danielpaleka.com)

60 points by fi-le 7 months ago | 44 comments

Pass-Through of Tariffs: Evidence from European Wine Imports(nber.org)

60 points by neehao 7 months ago | 66 comments

Fire the CEO, Introducing the AxO's(boringops.sh)

60 points by boringops-dan 7 months ago | 24 comments

Porn depicting sex between step-relatives set to be banned in the UK(lbc.co.uk)

48 points by GaryBluto 7 months ago | 58 comments

Earth Garden: Field Recordings Around the World(earth-garden.alen.ro)

47 points by alentodorov 7 months ago | 11 comments

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Defends Pentagon Work to Staff(wsj.com)

47 points by cdrnsf 7 months ago | 23 comments

AWS outage due to drone attacks in UAE(bbc.com)

47 points by stellastah 7 months ago | 34 comments

Talos: Hardware accelerator for deep convolutional neural networks(talos.wtf)

47 points by llamatheollama 7 months ago | 16 comments

The Excommunicated Devs Making Games with AI(tyleo.com)

46 points by tyleo 7 months ago | 40 comments

Tell HN: GitHub Having Issues

45 points by Sytten 7 months ago | 25 comments

Why No AI Games?(franklantz.substack.com)

43 points by pavel_lishin 7 months ago | 39 comments