Top Hacker News Stories – March 4, 2026

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   US tech firms pledge at White House to bear costs of energy for datacenters (theguardian.com)

   185 pointsby geox11d ago247 comments
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   Maybe there's a pattern here? (dynomight.net)

   181 pointsby surprisetalk11d ago141 comments
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   Medical journal says the case reports it has published for 25 years are fiction (retractionwatch.com)

   179 pointsby Tomte11d ago66 comments
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   Show HN: Poppy – A simple app to stay intentional with relationships (poppy-connection-keeper.netlify.app)

   179 pointsby mahirhiro11d ago124 comments
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   MyFirst Kids Watch Hacked. Access to Camera and Microphone (kth.se)

   164 pointsby jidoka11d ago38 comments
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   You need to rewrite your CLI for AI agents (justin.poehnelt.com)

   163 pointsby justinwp11d ago67 comments
7. 37.
   Humans 40k yrs ago developed a system of conventional signs (pnas.org)

   157 pointsby bikenaga11d ago66 comments
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   Better JIT for Postgres (github.com)

   155 pointsby vladich11d ago113 comments
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   Z80 Sans – a disassembler in a font (2024) (github.com)

   154 pointsby pabs311d ago15 comments
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    The View from RSS (carolinecrampton.com)

    147 pointsby Curiositry11d ago51 comments
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    NRC issues first commercial reactor construction approval in 10 years [pdf] (nrc.gov)

    142 pointsby Anon8411d ago164 comments
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    In 1985 Maxell built a bunch of life-size robots for its bad floppy ad (buttondown.com)

    141 pointsby rfarley0411d ago23 comments
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    Did Alibaba just kneecap its powerful Qwen AI team? (venturebeat.com)

    138 pointsby GTP11d ago43 comments
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    Rijksmuseum researchers discover new painting by Rembrandt van Rijn (rijksmuseum.nl)

    138 pointsby ohjeez11d ago34 comments
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    Chaos and Dystopian news for the dead internet survivors (fubardaily.com)

    120 pointsby anonnona887811d ago50 comments
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    Show HN: A weird thing that detects your pulse from the browser video (pulsefeedback.io)

    115 pointsby kilroy12311d ago54 comments
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    To understand our fascination with crystals, researchers gave some to chimps (nytimes.com)

    114 pointsby jimnotgym11d ago72 comments
18. 48.
    

    What canceled my Go context? (rednafi.com)

    110 pointsby mweibel11d ago66 comments
19. 49.
    

    macOS code injection for fun and no profit (2024) (mariozechner.at)

    110 pointsby jstrieb11d ago21 comments
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    Sea level much higher than assumed in most coastal hazard assessments (nature.com)

    107 pointsby jacquesm11d ago74 comments
21. 51.
    

    The Collective Ambition Behind Odysseus, a Game-Changing Sci-Fi Larp (mssv.net)

    105 pointsby surprisetalk11d ago5 comments
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    Was Windows 1.0's lack of overlapping windows a legal or a technical matter? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)

    105 pointsby SeenNotHeard11d ago82 comments
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    Iran war wreaking havoc on shipping and air cargo, could create global delays (theregister.com)

    102 pointsby Bender11d ago204 comments
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    Show HN: P0 – Yes, AI can ship complex features into real codebases (bepurple.ai)

    93 pointsby arndt11d ago40 comments
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    Data has weight but only on SSDs (cubiclenate.com)

    93 pointsby LorenDB11d ago75 comments
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    From RGB to L*a*b* color space (2024) (kaizoudou.com)

    86 pointsby kqr11d ago35 comments
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    How important was the Battle of Hastings? (historytoday.com)

    85 pointsby benbreen11d ago62 comments
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    1.5 Million Users Leave ChatGPT (forbes.com)

    81 pointsby johnbarron11d ago27 comments
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    48x32, a 1536 LED Game Computer (2023) (jacquesmattheij.com)

    79 pointsby duck11d ago19 comments
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    What Python’s asyncio primitives get wrong about shared state (inngest.com)

    79 pointsby goodoldneon11d ago49 comments