Hacker News on Wednesday, 4 March 2026

MacBook Neo(apple.com)

1891 points by dm 7 months ago | 2192 comments

Apple Newsroom press release announcing the MacBook Neo, a 13-inch aluminum laptop with Apple silicon and all-day battery life starting at $599.

Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable(grapheneos.social)

1164 points by pabs3 7 months ago | 477 comments

A GrapheneOS Mastodon post stating that Motorola devices supporting GrapheneOS will allow bootloader unlocking and relocking.

10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips(mas.to)

845 points by marvinborner 7 months ago | 435 comments

Mastodon thread by Mozilla engineer Gabriele Svelto describing data from Firefox crash reports showing many crashes stem from bit-flips caused by bad memory or flaky hardware.

Nobody Gets Promoted for Simplicity(terriblesoftware.org)

811 points by aamederen 7 months ago | 451 comments

A Terrible Software blog post arguing that engineering organizations reward complex work over simple solutions when deciding promotions.

Something is afoot in the land of Qwen(simonwillison.net)

760 points by simonw 7 months ago | 333 comments

Simon Willison blog post on Qwen 3.5 open weight models and the departure of lead researcher Junyang Lin from Alibaba's Qwen team after a reorg.

Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military deal ‘straight up lies’(techcrunch.com)

715 points by SilverElfin 7 months ago | 368 comments

TechCrunch article reporting that Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called OpenAI's messaging about its military deal 'straight up lies.'

Building a new Flash(bill.newgrounds.com)

702 points by TechPlasma 7 months ago | 227 comments

A Newgrounds news post by developer Bill Premo announcing a new cross-platform Flash-like 2D animation authoring tool built in C# with Avalonia and SkiaSharp.

An interactive map of Flock Cams(deflock.org)

566 points by anjel 7 months ago | 206 comments

DeFlock's interactive map of Flock license plate reader cameras across the United States, showing clustered camera counts by region.

CBP tapped into the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples’ movements(404media.co)

497 points by ece 7 months ago | 192 comments

404 Media article reporting that US Customs and Border Protection used data from the online advertising ecosystem to track people's locations and movements.

Agentic Engineering Patterns(simonwillison.net)

460 points by r4um 7 months ago | 264 comments

Simon Willison's guide index of patterns for getting good results from coding agents like Claude Code and OpenAI Codex, covering principles, testing, and prompts.

TikTok will not introduce end-to-end encryption, saying it makes users less safe(bbc.com)

388 points by 1659447091 7 months ago | 371 comments

BBC News article reporting that TikTok will not add end-to-end encryption to direct messages, arguing it would put users at risk.

Qwen3.5 Fine-Tuning Guide(unsloth.ai)

384 points by bilsbie 7 months ago | 93 comments

Unsloth documentation guide explaining how to fine-tune Qwen3.5 LLMs (0.8B to 122B) with LoRA, including VRAM requirements and free Colab notebooks.

“It turns out” (2010)(jsomers.net)

300 points by Munksgaard 7 months ago | 90 comments

Moss is a pixel canvas where every brush is a tiny program(moss.town)

294 points by smusamashah 7 months ago | 33 comments

Government grant-funded research should not be published in for-profit journals(experimental-history.com)

290 points by sito42 7 months ago | 128 comments

Making Firefox's right-click not suck with about:config(joshua.hu)

273 points by mmsc 7 months ago | 185 comments

RFC 9849. TLS Encrypted Client Hello(rfc-editor.org)

269 points by P_qRs 7 months ago | 132 comments

Bet on German Train Delays(bahn.bet)

250 points by indiantinker 7 months ago | 166 comments

Why can't you tune your guitar? (2019)(ethanhein.com)

239 points by digitallogic 7 months ago | 165 comments

A CPU that runs entirely on GPU(github.com)

227 points by cypres 7 months ago | 115 comments

Glaze by Raycast(glazeapp.com)

217 points by romac 7 months ago | 130 comments

Nobody gets promoted for simplicity(terriblesoftware.org)

206 points by SerCe 7 months ago | 81 comments

BMW Group to deploy humanoid robots in production in Germany for the first time(press.bmwgroup.com)

201 points by JeanKage 7 months ago | 218 comments

Does that use a lot of energy?(hannahritchie.github.io)

186 points by speckx 7 months ago | 159 comments

Dulce et Decorum Est (1921)(poetryfoundation.org)

181 points by bikeshaving 7 months ago | 90 comments

NanoGPT Slowrun: Language Modeling with Limited Data, Infinite Compute(qlabs.sh)

173 points by sdpmas 7 months ago | 31 comments

Graphics Programming Resources(develop--gpvm-website.netlify.app)

164 points by abetusk 7 months ago | 16 comments

Weave – A language aware merge algorithm based on entities(github.com)

162 points by rs545837 7 months ago | 91 comments

Google ends its 30 percent app store fee and welcomes third-party app stores(engadget.com)

157 points by _____k 7 months ago | 56 comments

Humans 40k yrs ago developed a system of conventional signs(pnas.org)

146 points by bikenaga 7 months ago | 60 comments

MacBook Neo(apple.com)

145 points by meetpateltech 7 months ago | 145 comments

Father claims Google's AI product fuelled son's delusional spiral(bbc.com)

141 points by tartoran 7 months ago | 164 comments

MyFirst Kids Watch Hacked. Access to Camera and Microphone(kth.se)

132 points by jidoka 7 months ago | 34 comments

In 1985 Maxell built a bunch of life-size robots for its bad floppy ad(buttondown.com)

131 points by rfarley04 7 months ago | 19 comments

Rijksmuseum researchers discover new painting by Rembrandt van Rijn(rijksmuseum.nl)

131 points by ohjeez 7 months ago | 29 comments

Better JIT for Postgres(github.com)

129 points by vladich 7 months ago | 58 comments

NRC issues first commercial reactor construction approval in 10 years [pdf](nrc.gov)

126 points by Anon84 7 months ago | 108 comments

Emails to Outlook.com rejected due to a fault or overzealous blocking rules(theregister.com)

124 points by Bender 7 months ago | 74 comments

Medical journal says the case reports it has published for 25 years are fiction(retractionwatch.com)

122 points by Tomte 7 months ago | 47 comments

The View from RSS(carolinecrampton.com)

114 points by Curiositry 7 months ago | 31 comments

Show HN: A weird thing that detects your pulse from the browser video(pulsefeedback.io)

103 points by kilroy123 7 months ago | 44 comments

Cancel ChatGPT AI boycott surges after OpenAI pentagon military deal(euronews.com)

100 points by nothrowaways 7 months ago | 14 comments

macOS code injection for fun and no profit (2024)(mariozechner.at)

100 points by jstrieb 7 months ago | 18 comments

California's Digital Age Assurance Act, and FOSS(runxiyu.org)

96 points by todsacerdoti 7 months ago | 72 comments

The Collective Ambition Behind Odysseus, a Game-Changing Sci-Fi Larp(mssv.net)

92 points by surprisetalk 7 months ago | 4 comments

To understand our fascination with crystals, researchers gave some to chimps(nytimes.com)

89 points by jimnotgym 7 months ago | 60 comments

Did Alibaba just kneecap its powerful Qwen AI team?(venturebeat.com)

84 points by GTP 7 months ago | 24 comments

What canceled my Go context?(rednafi.com)

82 points by mweibel 7 months ago | 45 comments

Was Windows 1.0's lack of overlapping windows a legal or a technical matter?(retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)

81 points by SeenNotHeard 7 months ago | 55 comments

How important was the Battle of Hastings?(historytoday.com)

80 points by benbreen 7 months ago | 54 comments

From RGB to L*a*b* color space (2024)(kaizoudou.com)

77 points by kqr 7 months ago | 30 comments

Sea level much higher than assumed in most coastal hazard assessments(nature.com)

76 points by jacquesm 7 months ago | 43 comments

Data Has Weight but Only on SSDs(cubiclenate.com)

75 points by LorenDB 7 months ago | 58 comments

Apple Announces Low-Cost 'MacBook Neo' with A18 Pro Chip(macrumors.com)

71 points by vanburen 7 months ago | 49 comments

Indefinite Book Club Hiatus(whatever.scalzi.com)

68 points by cdrnsf 7 months ago | 39 comments

LLMs can unmask pseudonymous users at scale with surprising accuracy(arstechnica.com)

64 points by Gagarin1917 7 months ago | 44 comments

You need to rewrite your CLI for AI agents(justin.poehnelt.com)

60 points by justinwp 7 months ago | 36 comments

Who Writes the Bugs? A Deeper Look at 125,000 Kernel Vulnerabilities(pebblebed.com)

57 points by MBCook 7 months ago | 15 comments

Marcus AI Claims Dataset(github.com)

57 points by davegoldblatt 7 months ago | 42 comments

Faster C software with Dynamic Feature Detection(gist.github.com)

56 points by todsacerdoti 7 months ago | 2 comments