Hacker News on Sunday, 8 March 2026

Agent Safehouse – macOS-native sandboxing for local agents(agent-safehouse.dev)

762 points by atombender 7 months ago | 172 comments

Landing page for Agent Safehouse, a macOS-native sandboxing tool that restricts local AI coding agents' write access to a chosen working directory.

Ask HN: How to be alone?

586 points by sillysaurusx 7 months ago | 462 comments

An Ask HN post in which a 38-year-old, newly alone after a 20-year relationship, asks the community for advice and stories on coping with loneliness.

Ask HN: Please restrict new accounts from posting

519 points by Oras 7 months ago | 394 comments

Ask HN thread requesting that Hacker News restrict new accounts from posting due to a rise in AI-generated submissions, especially in Show HN.

FrameBook(fb.edoo.gg)

497 points by todsacerdoti 7 months ago | 82 comments

A project page titled FrameBook showing an old black MacBook chassis apparently rebuilt with modern internals, likely a Framework laptop mainboard.

The changing goalposts of AGI and timelines(mlumiste.com)

333 points by skandium 7 months ago | 252 comments

Blog post arguing that OpenAI's 2018 charter self-sacrifice clause, combined with Sam Altman's stated AGI timelines, implies OpenAI should stop competing.

Apple's 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortage(arstechnica.com)

324 points by rbanffy 7 months ago | 198 comments

Ars Technica article reporting that Apple quietly dropped the 512GB RAM Mac Studio configuration amid an industry-wide memory shortage.

LibreOffice Writer now supports Markdown(blog.documentfoundation.org)

314 points by todsacerdoti 7 months ago | 59 comments

Cloud VM benchmarks 2026(devblog.ecuadors.net)

313 points by dkechag 7 months ago | 139 comments

My Homelab Setup(bryananthonio.com)

306 points by photon_collider 7 months ago | 204 comments

Warn about PyPy being unmaintained(github.com)

284 points by networked 7 months ago | 153 comments

I ported Linux to the PS5 and turned it into a Steam Machine(xcancel.com)

282 points by doener 7 months ago | 105 comments

We should revisit literate programming in the agent era(silly.business)

269 points by horseradish 7 months ago | 200 comments

Show HN: I built a real-time OSINT dashboard pulling 15 live global feeds(github.com)

254 points by vancecookcobxin 7 months ago | 105 comments

LibreOffice: Request to the European Commission to adhere to its own guidances(blog.documentfoundation.org)

244 points by maxloh 7 months ago | 37 comments

PCB devboard the size of a USB-C plug(github.com)

244 points by zachlatta 7 months ago | 61 comments

Living human brain cells play DOOM on a CL1 [video](youtube.com)

232 points by kevinak 7 months ago | 228 comments

Tested: How Many Times Can a DVD±RW Be Rewritten? Methodology and Results(goughlui.com)

222 points by giuliomagnifico 7 months ago | 73 comments

Notes on writing Rust-based Wasm(notes.brooklynzelenka.com)

216 points by vinhnx 7 months ago | 91 comments

Roblox is minting teen millionaires(bloomberg.com)

201 points by petethomas 7 months ago | 239 comments

Most of the US economy is in a recession(businessinsider.com)

166 points by wslh 7 months ago | 148 comments

Flash media longevity testing – 6 years later(old.reddit.com)

160 points by 1970-01-01 7 months ago | 89 comments

Artificial-life: A simple (300 lines of code) reproduction of Computational Life(github.com)

149 points by tosh 7 months ago | 20 comments

Optimizing Top K in Postgres(paradedb.com)

134 points by philippemnoel 7 months ago | 17 comments

Julia Snail – An Emacs Development Environment for Julia Like Clojure's Cider(github.com)

132 points by TheWiggles 7 months ago | 17 comments

Blacksky AppView(github.com)

130 points by Kye 7 months ago | 82 comments

Oracle may slash up to 30k jobs to fund AI data-centers as US banks retreat(cio.com)

129 points by ljoshua 7 months ago | 127 comments

WSL Manager(github.com)

124 points by gballan 7 months ago | 60 comments

Linux Internals: How /proc/self/mem writes to unwritable memory (2021)(offlinemark.com)

116 points by medbar 7 months ago | 26 comments

Printf-Tac-Toe(github.com)

109 points by carlos-menezes 7 months ago | 12 comments

I made a programming language with M&Ms(mufeedvh.com)

108 points by tosh 7 months ago | 39 comments

How Big Diaper absorbs billions of extra dollars from American parents(thehustle.co)

104 points by Anon84 7 months ago | 170 comments

Pushing and Pulling: Three reactivity algorithms(jonathan-frere.com)

104 points by frogulis 7 months ago | 18 comments

SWE-CI: Evaluating Agent Capabilities in Maintaining Codebases via CI(arxiv.org)

102 points by mpweiher 7 months ago | 36 comments

Claude struggles to cope with ChatGPT exodus(forbes.com)

99 points by perakojotgenije 7 months ago | 96 comments

Lil Finder Guy(basicappleguy.com)

94 points by frizlab 7 months ago | 30 comments

MonoGame: A .NET framework for making cross-platform games(github.com)

92 points by azhenley 7 months ago | 61 comments

Segagaga Has Been Translated into English(thedreamcastjunkyard.co.uk)

89 points by nanna 7 months ago | 32 comments

Show HN: Skir – like Protocol Buffer but better(skir.build)

89 points by gepheum 7 months ago | 48 comments

Google just gave Sundar Pichai a $692M pay package(techcrunch.com)

87 points by Arcuru 7 months ago | 96 comments

What if the Apple ][ had run on Field-Sequential?(nicole.express)

87 points by zdw 7 months ago | 17 comments

Invoker Commands API(developer.mozilla.org)

87 points by maqnius 7 months ago | 15 comments

Beagle, a source code management system that stores AST trees(github.com)

86 points by strogonoff 7 months ago | 45 comments

Neural Boids(campedersen.com)

84 points by ecto 7 months ago | 29 comments

Show HN: Curiosity – DIY 6" Newtonian Reflector Telescope(curiosity-telescope.vercel.app)

72 points by big_Brain69 7 months ago | 17 comments

Sem – Semantic version control. Entity-level diffs on top of Git(github.com)

70 points by pabs3 7 months ago | 11 comments

I don't know if my job will still exist in ten years(seangoedecke.com)

63 points by nomdep 7 months ago | 30 comments

PeppyOS: A simpler alternative to ROS 2 (now with containers support)(peppy.bot)

61 points by Ekami 7 months ago | 24 comments

About memory pressure, lock contention, and Data-oriented Design(mnt.io)

60 points by vinhnx 7 months ago | 12 comments

CLI RSS/Atom feed reader inspired by Taskwarrior, synced using Git(github.com)

58 points by todsacerdoti 7 months ago | 16 comments

Show HN: Eyot, A programming language where the GPU is just another thread(cowleyforniastudios.com)

58 points by steeleduncan 7 months ago | 11 comments

Forcing Flash Attention onto a TPU and Learning the Hard Way(archerzhang.me)

55 points by azhng 7 months ago | 14 comments

Prefix sums at gigabytes per second with ARM NEON(lemire.me)

55 points by mfiguiere 7 months ago | 8 comments

What Happens After You Die? (2016)(lamag.com)

54 points by NaOH 7 months ago | 39 comments

To the Polypropylene Makers(lesswrong.com)

54 points by raldi 7 months ago | 16 comments

Full Spectrum and Infrared Photography(timstr.website)

53 points by alter_igel 7 months ago | 26 comments

CNN Explainer – Learn Convolutional Neural Network in Your Browser (2020)(poloclub.github.io)

52 points by vismit2000 7 months ago | 2 comments

Pike: To Exit or Not to Exit(tomjohnell.com)

49 points by dnw 7 months ago | 15 comments

Velxio, Arduino Emulator(velxio.dev)

49 points by dmonterocrespo 7 months ago | 18 comments

Will Claude Code ruin our team?(justinjackson.ca)

49 points by YounesDz 7 months ago | 35 comments

The new Apple begins to emerge(parkerortolani.blog)

47 points by atombender 7 months ago | 79 comments