Top Hacker News Stories – March 4, 2026

1. 121.
   Ask HN: If your project is free, what are you building and why keep it free? (news.ycombinator.com)

   11 pointsby LeanVibe11d ago24 comments
2. 122.
   UN calls for investigation into deadly strike on school in Iran (reuters.com)

   10 pointsby nerdyadventurer11d ago2 comments
3. 123.
   Welcome to the Wasteland: A Thousand Gas Towns (steve-yegge.medium.com)

   10 pointsby weltview11d ago2 comments
4. 124.
   YggTorrent Shuts Down After Hack, Leak and Stolen Crypto (torrentfreak.com)

   10 pointsby teroshan11d ago1 comments
5. 125.
   

   What should terrify Republicans is RBOB futures price on wholesale gas (bsky.app)

   9 pointsby u1hcw9nx11d ago0 comments
6. 126.
   Show HN: Glyph, a local-first Markdown notes app for macOS built with Rust (glyphformac.com)

   8 pointsby skarat11d ago4 comments
7. 127.
   Ask HN: Porting MIT CADR to RISC-V (news.ycombinator.com)

   8 pointsby lstevens1411d ago0 comments
8. 128.
   

   US escort offer met with skepticism as traffic trickle through Strait of Hormuz (lloydslist.com)

   8 pointsby anigbrowl11d ago1 comments
9. 129.
   Show HN: Paste a URL and watch multiple AI models redesign it side-by-side (shuffle.dev)

   8 pointsby kemyd11d ago3 comments
10. 130.
    Stathat Is Shutting Down (news.ycombinator.com)

    8 pointsby jervant11d ago2 comments
11. 131.
    Tell HN: AI lies about having sandbox guardrails (news.ycombinator.com)

    8 pointsby benjosaur11d ago4 comments
12. 132.
    Show HN: Snowbin – A Mindmap-Based Social Platform Built with Lisp (snowbin.net)

    7 pointsby rrepo11d ago5 comments
13. 133.
    The Dangerous Illusion of AI Coding? – Jeremy Howard (youtube.com)

    7 pointsby terrorbilly11d ago0 comments
14. 134.
    

    Ask LLM Agents to Classify Problems Before Starting (futuresearch.ai)

    7 pointsby ddp2611d ago1 comments
15. 135.
    

    Some Lotto Math (leancrew.com)

    7 pointsby surprisetalk11d ago0 comments
16. 136.
    Show HN: I packaged decade of video infra battle scars into tools for AI agents (news.ycombinator.com)

    7 pointsby ashu_trv11d ago0 comments
17. 137.
    

    Lawsuit alleges Gemini guided man to consider mass casualty event before suicide (sfgate.com)

    7 pointsby divbzero11d ago2 comments
18. 138.
    Dyson Spheres on the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram (arxiv.org)

    7 pointsby johnbarron11d ago1 comments
19. 139.
    

    LLM Prose Tells (git.eeqj.de)

    7 pointsby dougb511d ago1 comments
20. 140.
    A Day in the Life of an Enshittificator [video] (youtube.com)

    6 pointsby punnerud11d ago0 comments
21. 141.
    

    Facing Its Third Data Center, an Iowa County Rolls Out Extensive Zoning Rules (insideclimatenews.org)

    6 pointsby ourmandave11d ago0 comments
22. 142.
    Rhode Island Files First-in-Nation Single-Room Occupancy Model Legislation (ij.org)

    6 pointsby mhb11d ago4 comments
23. 143.
    

    The ping-verse: a deep dive into 14 ping-type utilities across OSI layers (netbeez.net)

    6 pointsby panosv11d ago2 comments
24. 144.
    

    Higher tariffs likely this week, says US Treasury (bbc.com)

    6 pointsby tartoran11d ago3 comments
25. 145.
    Iranian girls killed by 'double-tap' strikes on Minab school (middleeasteye.net)

    6 pointsby xvxvx11d ago4 comments
26. 146.
    Ask HN: Who's hiring but companies that don't have AI mandates? (news.ycombinator.com)

    5 pointsby ares62312d ago3 comments
27. 147.
    

    Attacker can bypass cryptography and prove mathematically impossible statements (osec.io)

    5 pointsby nailer12d ago1 comments
28. 148.
    

    The Intel 486DX2 CPU (dfarq.homeip.net)

    5 pointsby jnord11d ago0 comments
29. 149.
    Show HN: I built a browser-based 3D modeler because I'm scared of Blender (app.topomaker.com)

    5 pointsby whothatcodeguy11d ago1 comments
30. 150.
    

    Show HN: WooTTY - browser terminal in a single Go binary (github.com)

    5 pointsby masterkain11d ago1 comments