Top Hacker News Stories – March 5, 2026

  1. 31.
    Grammarly is offering ‘expert’ AI reviews from famous dead and living writers
    Grammarly is offering ‘expert’ AI reviews from famous dead and living writers (wired.com)
  2. 32.
    OpenTitan Shipping in Production
    OpenTitan Shipping in Production (opensource.googleblog.com)
  3. 33.
    Emacs internals: Deconstructing Lisp_Object in C (Part 2)
    Emacs internals: Deconstructing Lisp_Object in C (Part 2) (thecloudlet.github.io)
  4. 34.
    Rising carbon dioxide levels now detected in human blood (phys.org)
  5. 35.
    Fast-Servers (geocar.sdf1.org)
  6. 36.
    The Self-Help Trap: What 20 Years of "Optimizing" Has Taught Me
    The Self-Help Trap: What 20 Years of "Optimizing" Has Taught Me (tim.blog)
  7. 37.
    Self-Portrait by Ernst Mach (1886)
    Self-Portrait by Ernst Mach (1886) (publicdomainreview.org)
  8. 38.
    Jails for NetBSD – Kernel Enforced Isolation and Native Resource Control (netbsd-jails.petermann-digital.de)
  9. 39.
    I love email (2023) (blog.xoria.org)
  10. 40.
    How to install and start using LineageOS on your phone (lockywolf.net)
  11. 41.
    Cameras built to police Iranians became the regime's Achilles' heel
    Cameras built to police Iranians became the regime's Achilles' heel (royapakzad.substack.com)
  12. 42.
    Stop using grey text (2025) (catskull.net)
  13. 43.
    Analytic Fog Rendering with Volumetric Primitives (2025)
    Analytic Fog Rendering with Volumetric Primitives (2025) (matejlou.blog)
  14. 44.
    Phi-4-reasoning-vision and the lessons of training a multimodal reasoning model
    Phi-4-reasoning-vision and the lessons of training a multimodal reasoning model (microsoft.com)
  15. 45.
    OpenBSD on SGI: A Rollercoaster Story (miod.online.fr)
  16. 46.
    Palantir and other tech companies are stocking offices with tobacco products
    Palantir and other tech companies are stocking offices with tobacco products (fortune.com)
  17. 47.
    Bourdieu's theory of taste: a grumbling abrégé (2023)
    Bourdieu's theory of taste: a grumbling abrégé (2023) (dynomight.net)
  18. 48.
    The IRIX 6.5.7M (sgi) source code
    The IRIX 6.5.7M (sgi) source code (github.com)
  19. 49.
    Apple: Enough Is Enough (bastibe.de)
  20. 50.
    Datasets for Reconstructing Visual Perception from Brain Data
    Datasets for Reconstructing Visual Perception from Brain Data (github.com)
  21. 51.
    GLiNER2: Unified Schema-Based Information Extraction
    GLiNER2: Unified Schema-Based Information Extraction (github.com)
  22. 52.
    Launch HN: Vela (YC W26) – AI for complex scheduling (news.ycombinator.com)
  23. 53.
    Modernizing swapping: virtual swap spaces (lwn.net)
  24. 54.
    Zed new terms required to be 18 years old
    Zed new terms required to be 18 years old (zed.dev)
  25. 55.
    OpenWrt 25.12 Stable Release
    OpenWrt 25.12 Stable Release (forum.openwrt.org)
  26. 56.
    The home computer war
    The home computer war (technicshistory.com)
  27. 57.
    Ten years of deploying to production (brandonvin.github.io)
  28. 58.
    Ethiopia gets $350M World Bank financing for its digital ID project (2024)
    Ethiopia gets $350M World Bank financing for its digital ID project (2024) (mariblock.com)
  29. 59.
    My application programmer instincts failed when debugging assembler
    My application programmer instincts failed when debugging assembler (landedstar.com)
  30. 60.
    Parsync, a tool for parallel SSH transfers – 7x faster than rsync
    Parsync, a tool for parallel SSH transfers – 7x faster than rsync (github.com)