Top Hacker News Stories – March 3, 2026

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

   1320 pointsby memalign12d ago158 comments
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   Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable (grapheneos.social)

   1296 pointsby pabs312d ago562 comments
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   I'm reluctant to verify my identity or age for any online services (neilzone.co.uk)

   974 pointsby speckx12d ago622 comments
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   MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max (apple.com)

   862 pointsby scrlk12d ago979 comments
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   Claude's Cycles [pdf] (www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu)

   841 pointsby fs12312d ago362 comments
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   I'm losing the SEO battle for my own open source project (twitter.com)

   533 pointsby devinitely12d ago270 comments
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   Lenovo’s new ThinkPads score 10/10 for repairability (ifixit.com)

   520 pointsby wrxd12d ago248 comments
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   Physics Girl: Super-Kamiokande – Imaging the sun by detecting neutrinos [video] (youtube.com)

   519 pointsby pcdavid12d ago92 comments
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   TikTok will not introduce end-to-end encryption, saying it makes users less safe (bbc.com)

   427 pointsby 165944709112d ago434 comments
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    MacBook Air with M5 (apple.com)

    424 pointsby Garbage12d ago513 comments
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    Don't become an engineering manager (newsletter.manager.dev)

    396 pointsby flail12d ago269 comments
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    GPT‑5.3 Instant (openai.com)

    395 pointsby meetpateltech12d ago301 comments
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    India's top court angry after junior judge cites fake AI-generated orders (bbc.com)

    362 pointsby tchalla12d ago194 comments
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    Iran War Cost Tracker (iran-cost-ticker.com)

    324 pointsby TSiege12d ago446 comments
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    Mullvad VPN: Banned TV Ad in the Streets of London [video] (youtube.com)

    308 pointsby vanyauhalin12d ago188 comments
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    When AI writes the software, who verifies it? (leodemoura.github.io)

    305 pointsby todsacerdoti12d ago299 comments
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    Intel's make-or-break 18A process node debuts for data center with 288-core Xeon (tomshardware.com)

    301 pointsby vanburen12d ago294 comments
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    Voxile: A ray-traced game made in its own engine and programming language (elbowgreasegames.substack.com)

    279 pointsby spacemarine112d ago77 comments
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    Arm's Cortex X925: Reaching Desktop Performance (chipsandcheese.com)

    277 pointsby ingve12d ago166 comments
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    A CPU that runs entirely on GPU (github.com)

    272 pointsby cypres12d ago131 comments
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    Don't make me talk to your chatbot (raymyers.org)

    259 pointsby pkilgore12d ago213 comments
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    Possible US Government iPhone-Hacking Toolkit in foreign spy and criminal hands (wired.com)

    240 pointsby alwillis12d ago96 comments
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    Nobody gets promoted for simplicity (terriblesoftware.org)

    239 pointsby SerCe12d ago91 comments
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    Apple Studio Display and Studio Display XDR (apple.com)

    235 pointsby victorbjorklund12d ago324 comments
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    Most-read tech publications have lost over half their Google traffic since 2024 (growtika.com)

    229 pointsby Growtika12d ago169 comments
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    GitHub having issues [resolved] (githubstatus.com)

    211 pointsby Simpliplant12d ago144 comments
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    Claude is an Electron App because we've lost native (tonsky.me)

    206 pointsby todsacerdoti12d ago245 comments
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    My spicy take on vibe coding for PMs (ddmckinnon.com)

    206 pointsby dmckinno12d ago192 comments
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    AI-generated art can’t be copyrighted after Supreme Court declines review (theverge.com)

    193 pointsby duggan12d ago151 comments
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    Graphics Programming Resources (develop--gpvm-website.netlify.app)

    193 pointsby abetusk12d ago25 comments