Top Hacker News Stories – March 4, 2026

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   New York could prohibit chatbot medical, legal, engineering advice (folding-sky.com)

   76 pointsby bluepeter11d ago100 comments
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   Who Writes the Bugs? A Deeper Look at 125,000 Kernel Vulnerabilities (pebblebed.com)

   71 pointsby MBCook11d ago23 comments
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   Welcome to the Wasteland: A Thousand Gas Towns (steve-yegge.medium.com)

   68 pointsby nop_slide11d ago96 comments
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   Package managers need to cool down (nesbitt.io)

   63 pointsby zdw11d ago55 comments
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   Editing changes in patch format with Jujutsu (knifepoint.net)

   59 pointsby cassepipe11d ago11 comments
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   A Visual Guide to DNA Sequencing (asimov.press)

   58 pointsby surprisetalk11d ago15 comments
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   Israel Spent Years Hacking Tehran Traffic Cameras to Track Khamenei (thedefensepost.com)

   56 pointsby gambutin11d ago24 comments
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   Anthropic chief back in talks with Pentagon about AI deal (ft.com)

   55 pointsby ajam150711d ago12 comments
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   Gemini Said They Could Only Be Together If He Killed Himself. Soon, He Was Dead (wsj.com)

   53 pointsby psim111d ago61 comments
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    Daemon (2006) (en.wikipedia.org)

    53 pointsby solomonb11d ago13 comments
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    Regulator contacts Meta over workers watching intimate AI glasses videos (bbc.com)

    53 pointsby csomar11d ago11 comments
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    Open Source Iran War Cost Tracker: 45.7B (iranwarcost.com)

    50 pointsby koverda11d ago20 comments
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    The next era of social media: built and run in Europe, ruled by our laws (eurosky.tech)

    43 pointsby doener11d ago88 comments
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    DOJ proposes policy aimed at limiting state bar ethics probes into its attorneys (abcnews.com)

    41 pointsby petethomas11d ago3 comments
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    Digital Iris [video] (youtube.com)

    39 pointsby surprisetalk11d ago3 comments
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    What's driving rising business costs? (libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org)

    39 pointsby jnord11d ago67 comments
17. 77.
    Nuclear War: An LLM Scenario (chrisclapham.com)

    37 pointsby huey7711d ago27 comments
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    Senate fails to block US involvement in Iran war (usatoday.com)

    36 pointsby geox11d ago11 comments
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    The influence of anxiety: Harold Bloom and literary inheritance (thepointmag.com)

    35 pointsby apollinaire11d ago5 comments
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    AI companies aim 'not to help workers, but to replace them' (vaticannews.va)

    33 pointsby rawgabbit11d ago12 comments
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    "Clothing-as-a-Service" startup charged with $300M fraud (2025) (cnbc.com)

    33 pointsby mv411d ago10 comments
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    Iran says targeted AWS Data Centers for support of U.S. military (cnbc.com)

    33 pointsby johnbarron11d ago2 comments
23. 83.
    Anthropic's AI tool Claude central to U.S. campaign in Iran, amid a bitter feud (washingtonpost.com)

    31 pointsby spenvo11d ago9 comments
24. 84.
    Show HN: BrowseBrawl – What if browser agents battled to generate training data? (browser-brawl.com)

    30 pointsby HrubyOnRails11d ago18 comments
25. 85.
    The Iran War's Most Precious Commodity Isn't Oil, It's Desalinated Water (bloomberg.com)

    29 pointsby ck211d ago14 comments
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    The Space Race's Forgotten Theme Park (daily.jstor.org)

    28 pointsby anarbadalov11d ago2 comments
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    FTC Admits Age Verification Violates Children's Privacy Law, Ignores That Fact (techdirt.com)

    27 pointsby cdrnsf11d ago1 comments
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    Show HN: A shell-native cd-compatible directory jumper using power-law frecency (github.com)

    26 pointsby jghub11d ago16 comments
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    Notes on Project Oberon (sidhion.com)

    26 pointsby surprisetalk11d ago12 comments
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    US troops were told war on Iran was 'all part of God's divine plan' (theguardian.com)

    25 pointsby KnuthIsGod11d ago2 comments