Top Hacker News Stories – March 3, 2026

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   We may soon have 70M boomers too old to drive, too car-dependent to stop (lloydalter.substack.com)

   36 pointsby cainxinth12d ago11 comments
2. 92.
   

   Giving LLMs a personality is just good engineering (seangoedecke.com)

   36 pointsby dboon12d ago28 comments
3. 93.
   Show HN: A trainable, modular electronic nose for industrial use (sniphi.com)

   34 pointsby kwitczak12d ago25 comments
4. 94.
   130k Lines of Formal Topology: Simple and Cheap Autoformalization for Everyone? (arxiv.org)

   33 pointsby PaulHoule12d ago11 comments
5. 95.
   MrBeast Is Getting into Financial Services. Parents Should Pay Attention (nytimes.com)

   33 pointsby sigwinch12d ago9 comments
6. 96.
   I Used Claude to File My Taxes for Free (kachess.dev)

   32 pointsby gdudeman12d ago32 comments
7. 97.
   Claude's Cycles [pdf] (cs.stanford.edu)

   32 pointsby cebert12d ago4 comments
8. 98.
   

   Zed will require age identification for its services (zed.dev)

   31 pointsby delduca12d ago22 comments
9. 99.
   

   Legal AI slop is becoming a real problem (ctinsider.com)

   28 pointsby dryadin12d ago11 comments
10. 100.
    

    Ohio EPA weighs allowing data centers to dump wastewater into rivers (nbc4i.com)

    28 pointsby randycupertino12d ago6 comments
11. 101.
    

    Show HN: We want to displace Notion with collaborative Markdown files (moment.dev)

    28 pointsby antics12d ago13 comments
12. 102.
    Tesla loses Toyota and Stellantis from EU CO2 pool, taking billions with them (electrek.co)

    28 pointsby breve12d ago3 comments
13. 103.
    The Longing (1999) (cluetrain.com)

    27 pointsby herbertl12d ago4 comments
14. 104.
    Ask HN: What's your experience self-hosting in 2026? (news.ycombinator.com)

    27 pointsby rustcore12d ago12 comments
15. 105.
    

    Military Leaders Say Iran War Is So Trump Can Bring About "Armageddon" (newrepublic.com)

    25 pointsby Teever12d ago8 comments
16. 106.
    

    Seurat Most Famous for Paris Park Painting Yet Half His Paintings Were Seascapes (smithsonianmag.com)

    24 pointsby bookofjoe12d ago10 comments
17. 107.
    

    Rust zero-cost abstractions vs. SIMD (turbopuffer.com)

    24 pointsby Sirupsen12d ago4 comments
18. 108.
    I lost my ability to learn anything new because of AI and I need your opinions (news.ycombinator.com)

    24 pointsby dokdev12d ago29 comments
19. 109.
    US President struggles to explain why he launched another Middle Eastern war (ft.com)

    23 pointsby Jimmc41412d ago8 comments
20. 110.
    What's new in Linux kernel for PostgreSQL (erthalion.info)

    21 pointsby erthalion12d ago3 comments
21. 111.
    

    Show HN: Construct Computer – Agentic Cloud OS for Daily Work (construct.computer)

    21 pointsby ankushKun12d ago8 comments
22. 112.
    The unfortunate need for an "age verification" API for legal compliance (lists.ubuntu.com)

    21 pointsby turrini12d ago10 comments
23. 113.
    Trump says U.S. will cut all trade with Spain (detroitnews.com)

    20 pointsby scythe12d ago5 comments
24. 114.
    The Shady World of IP Leasing (acid.vegas)

    20 pointsby slome12d ago0 comments
25. 115.
    

    LibreOffice Online dragged out of the attic (theregister.com)

    19 pointsby rbanffy12d ago2 comments
26. 116.
    

    How to Kill the Code Review (latent.space)

    19 pointsby tonkkatonka12d ago5 comments
27. 117.
    Show HN: Demucs music stem separator rewritten in Rust – runs in the browser (github.com)

    19 pointsby nikhilunni12d ago3 comments
28. 118.
    Ask HN: What will OpenAI employees do now who have signed notdividedorg petition (news.ycombinator.com)

    17 pointsby Imustaskforhelp12d ago16 comments
29. 119.
    El Paso ICE Camp East Montana under quarantine after measles outbreak (elpasotimes.com)

    17 pointsby mooreds12d ago7 comments
30. 120.
    Fixpoints to think clearly (blog.yellowflash.in)

    16 pointsby yellowflash12d ago5 comments