Top Hacker News Stories – March 3, 2026

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   How did MS-DOS decide on two seconds to keep the floppy disk cache valid? (devblogs.microsoft.com)

   16 pointsby paulmooreparks12d ago0 comments
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   'To be free, we have to be feared,' Macron says in keynote nuclear speech (france24.com)

   14 pointsby vrganj12d ago2 comments
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   Ask HN: How do you stay focused during deep work? (news.ycombinator.com)

   14 pointsby rustcore12d ago3 comments
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   Trump Worries Iran's Leaders May Be Just 'As Bad' After War (bloomberg.com)

   14 pointsby petethomas12d ago18 comments
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   Left-Handers Are More Competitive Than Right-Handers (psychologytoday.com)

   14 pointsby geox12d ago1 comments
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   Anthropic Nears $20B Revenue Run Rate Amid Pentagon Feud (bloomberg.com)

   14 pointsby Analemma_12d ago2 comments
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   RTINGS: Revamping Our Membership Program (rtings.com)

   13 pointsby zaxcellent12d ago1 comments
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   To update blobs or not to update blobs (codon.org.uk)

   13 pointsby trelane12d ago5 comments
9. 129.
   Facebook Appears to Be Down (news.ycombinator.com)

   13 pointsby Molitor590112d ago16 comments
10. 130.
    YGG, Largest French Torrent Tracker, Hacked (yggleak.top)

    12 pointsby TechSquidTV12d ago1 comments
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    The Pointless War Between The Pentagon and Anthropic (wsj.com)

    11 pointsby jrosenblatt12d ago2 comments
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    Show HN: WordPress for Voice Agents – Unpod.ai (github.com)

    11 pointsby parvbhullar12d ago10 comments
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    Lego's New Tech-Packed Smart Brick (wired.com)

    11 pointsby simonebrunozzi12d ago1 comments
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    Trump: 'We're going to cut off all trade with Spain' (english.elpais.com)

    11 pointsby geox12d ago1 comments
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    Claims about gender, behavior fall apart when samples are ethnically diverse (psypost.org)

    11 pointsby ZunarJ512d ago2 comments
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    EEmicroGPT: 19,000× faster microgpt training on a laptop CPU (loss vs. time) (entrpi.github.io)

    11 pointsby easygenes12d ago2 comments
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    Facing Its Third Data Center, an Iowa County Rolls Out Extensive Zoning Rules (insideclimatenews.org)

    10 pointsby WaitWaitWha13d ago0 comments
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    Show HN: Kanon 2 Enricher – the first hierarchical graphitization model (isaacus.com)

    10 pointsby ubutler12d ago6 comments
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    Haptics: Tactile Feedback for the Mobile Web (haptics.lochie.me)

    10 pointsby andresquez12d ago5 comments
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    Spain says we have the necessary resources to contain US trade embargo (marketscreener.com)

    9 pointsby rguiscard12d ago2 comments
21. 141.
    Show HN: Term-CLI – interactive terminals for AI agents (for SSH/TUI/REPL flows) (github.com)

    9 pointsby eliasoe12d ago2 comments
22. 142.
    Ask HN: How Do Emergency Alerts on Phone Work? (news.ycombinator.com)

    8 pointsby rishikeshs12d ago4 comments
23. 143.
    Living Human Brain Cells Play Doom on a Cortical Labs CL1 [video] (youtube.com)

    8 pointsby OccamsMirror12d ago0 comments
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    First Impressions on Open-Source Claude Security (Strix) (theartificialq.github.io)

    8 pointsby bearsyankees12d ago1 comments
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    Ask HN: How is Claude agent experience in Xcode 26.3? (news.ycombinator.com)

    8 pointsby malshe12d ago5 comments
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    GitHub Is Degraded (updog.ai)

    8 pointsby shahahmed12d ago2 comments
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    Iranian Number Station (iz0kba.it)

    8 pointsby pabs312d ago1 comments
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    Windows 98 Disk Defrag Simulator (defrag98.com)

    7 pointsby nixass12d ago1 comments
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    Ask HN: What is the "Control Plane" for local AI agents? (news.ycombinator.com)

    7 pointsby denis4inet12d ago8 comments
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    California to require age verification for all OS including Linux (tomshardware.com)

    6 pointsby hambes12d ago4 comments