HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-03-01

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    Microgpt (karpathy.github.io)

    1936 points · HN #47202708

  2. 02

    We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk (twitter.com/openai)

    832 points · HN #47200420

  3. 03

    Ghostty – Terminal Emulator (ghostty.org)

    863 points · HN #47206009

  4. 04

    Decision trees – the unreasonable power of nested decision rules (mlu-explain.github.io)

    558 points · HN #47204964

  5. 05

    I built a demo of what AI chat will look like when it's “free” and ad-supported (99helpers.com)

    591 points · HN #47205890

  6. 06

    Flightradar24 for Ships (flexport.com)

    251 points · HN #47205637

  7. 07

    When does MCP make sense vs CLI? (ejholmes.github.io)

    447 points · HN #47208398

  8. 08

    WebMCP is available for early preview (chrome.com)

    360 points · HN #47211249

  9. 09

    10-202: Introduction to Modern AI (CMU) (modernaicourse.org)

    259 points · HN #47204559

  10. 10

    Switch to Claude without starting over (claude.com)

    592 points · HN #47204571

  11. 11

    Why XML tags are so fundamental to Claude (glthr.com)

    228 points · HN #47207236

  12. 12

    Microgpt explained interactively (growingswe.com)

    311 points · HN #47205208

  13. 13

    MCP server that reduces Claude Code context consumption by 98% (mksg.lu)

    570 points · HN #47193064

  14. 14

    H-Bomb: A Frank Lloyd Wright typographic mystery (inconspicuous.info)

    153 points · HN #47163779

  15. 15

    Long Range E-Bike (2021) (jacquesmattheij.com)

    181 points · HN #47165965

  16. 16

    Setting up phones is a nightmare (joelchrono.xyz)

    194 points · HN #47170958

  17. 17

    New iron nanomaterial wipes out cancer cells without harming healthy tissue (sciencedaily.com)

    322 points · HN #47207404

  18. 18

    Interview with Øyvind Kolås, GIMP developer (2017) (gimp.org)

    140 points · HN #47168405

  19. 19

    Why does C have the best file API (maurycyz.com)

    162 points · HN #47209788

  20. 20

    An ode to houseplant programming (2025) (hannahilea.com)

    155 points · HN #47181542

  21. 21

    Ape Coding [fiction] (rsaksida.com)

    189 points · HN #47206798

  22. 22

    Robust and efficient quantum-safe HTTPS (googleblog.com)

    119 points · HN #47183396

  23. 23

    Hardwood: A New Parser for Apache Parquet (morling.dev)

    110 points · HN #47167432

  24. 24

    Why is the first C++ (m)allocation always 72 KB? (joelsiks.com)

    131 points · HN #47205129

  25. 25

    How to talk to anyone and why you should (theguardian.com)

    478 points · HN #47142183

  26. 26

    Sub-second volumetric 3D printing by synthesis of holographic light fields (nature.com)

    104 points · HN #47152448

  27. 27

    Deterministic Programming with LLMs (mcherm.com)

    72 points · HN #47158834

  28. 28

    Samsung Galaxy update removes Android recovery menu tools, including sideloading (9to5google.com)

    176 points · HN #47202808

  29. 29

    Operational issue – Multiple services (UAE) (amazon.com)

    248 points · HN #47209781

  30. 30

    The real cost of random I/O (vondra.me)

    107 points · HN #47165230