Top Hacker News Stories – March 1, 2026

1. 31.
   A new Polymarket account made over $500k betting on the U.S. strike against Iran (twitter.com)

   143 pointsby doener14d ago108 comments
2. 32.
   Why is the first C++ (m)allocation always 72 KB? (joelsiks.com)

   131 pointsby joelsiks14d ago36 comments
3. 33.
   

   Waymo blocking ambulance during deadly Austin shooting (mysanantonio.com)

   129 pointsby clydethefrog14d ago206 comments
4. 34.
   

   Intelligence is a commodity. Context is the real AI Moat (adlrocha.substack.com)

   126 pointsby adlrocha14d ago108 comments
5. 35.
   Guilty Displeasures (hopefulmons.com)

   121 pointsby aregue14d ago115 comments
6. 36.
   

   How the Government Deceived Congress in the Debate over Surveillance Powers (2013) (eff.org)

   115 pointsby doener14d ago11 comments
7. 37.
   

   Computer Says No (koenvangilst.nl)

   108 pointsby vnglst14d ago45 comments
8. 38.
   

   This system can go fuck itself and burn in hell (shawnfromportland.substack.com)

   98 pointsby SirensOfTitan14d ago81 comments
9. 39.
   Guido van Rossum Interviews Thomas Wouters (Python Core Dev) (gvanrossum.github.io)

   98 pointsby azhenley14d ago11 comments
10. 40.
    

    Allegations of insider trading over prediction-market bets tied to Iran conflict (morningstar.com)

    97 pointsby paulpauper14d ago52 comments
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    Are the Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics Beginning to Dissolve? (quantamagazine.org)

    95 pointsby wjb314d ago160 comments
12. 42.
    Elevator Saga: The elevator programming game (2015) (play.elevatorsaga.com)

    93 pointsby xmprt14d ago17 comments
13. 43.
    

    Apache Otava (otava.apache.org)

    85 pointsby djoldman14d ago9 comments
14. 44.
    The Cathode Ray Tube site (crtsite.com)

    84 pointsby joebig14d ago18 comments
15. 45.
    Against Query Based Compilers (matklad.github.io)

    83 pointsby surprisetalk14d ago62 comments
16. 46.
    On the Design of Programming Languages (1974) [pdf] (web.cs.ucdavis.edu)

    80 pointsby jruohonen14d ago45 comments
17. 47.
    

    Show HN: I built a zero-browser, pure-JS typesetting engine for bit-perfect PDFs (github.com)

    78 pointsby cosmiciron14d ago57 comments
18. 48.
    Mount Mayhem at Netflix: Scaling Containers on Modern CPUs (netflixtechblog.com)

    71 pointsby vquemener14d ago33 comments
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    Billy bookshelves as a retro motherboard "rack" (rubenerd.com)

    69 pointsby ingve14d ago52 comments
20. 50.
    My Favorite 39C3 Talks (asindu.xyz)

    69 pointsby max_14d ago4 comments
21. 51.
    Greg Knauss Is Losing Himself (shapeof.com)

    69 pointsby wallflower14d ago60 comments
22. 52.
    The Rust calling convention we deserve (2024) (mcyoung.xyz)

    68 pointsby cratermoon14d ago16 comments
23. 53.
    

    Show HN: Rust compiler in PHP emitting x86-64 executables (github.com)

    66 pointsby mrconter1114d ago50 comments
24. 54.
    U.S. Races to Accomplish Iran Mission Before Munitions Run Out (wsj.com)

    65 pointsby ParentiSoundSys14d ago73 comments
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    US Military says 3 service members have been killed (apnews.com)

    57 pointsby sheikhnbake14d ago70 comments
26. 56.
    

    Welcoming Elizabeth Barron as the New Executive Director of the PHP Foundation (thephp.foundation)

    56 pointsby ulrischa14d ago20 comments
27. 57.
    

    Big Breakfast Alters Appetite, Gut Health (cambridge.org)

    51 pointsby wjb314d ago46 comments
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    Pentagon Adopts Incel-Speak (theguardian.com)

    47 pointsby zabzonk14d ago32 comments
29. 59.
    Show HN: Vertex.js – A 1kloc SPA Framework (lukeb42.github.io)

    46 pointsby LukeB4214d ago26 comments
30. 60.
    Two kinds of error (evanhahn.com)

    44 pointsby zdw14d ago22 comments