Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2026-03-02

  1. Ghostty – Terminal Emulator ghostty.org - 302 comments 694 points
  2. Switch to Claude without starting over claude.com - 252 comments 550 points
  3. I built a demo of what AI chat will look like when it’s “free” and ad-supported 99helpers.com - 283 comments 529 points
  4. Decision trees – the unreasonable power of nested decision rules mlu-explain.github.io - 74 comments 460 points
  5. AI Made Writing Code Easier. It Made Being an Engineer Harder www.ivanturkovic.com - 298 comments 381 points
  6. When does MCP make sense vs CLI? ejholmes.github.io - 226 comments 355 points
  7. New iron nanomaterial wipes out cancer cells without harming healthy tissue www.sciencedaily.com - 97 comments 276 points
  8. WebMCP is available for early preview developer.chrome.com - 137 comments 253 points
  9. Microgpt explained interactively growingswe.com - 37 comments 251 points
  10. 10-202: Introduction to Modern AI - CMU modernaicourse.org - 56 comments 241 points
  11. Flightradar24 for Ships atlas.flexport.com - 46 comments 215 points
  12. Why XML tags are so fundamental to Claude glthr.com - 132 comments 191 points
  13. Operational issue – Multiple services - UAE health.aws.amazon.com - 86 comments 185 points
  14. AI is making junior devs useless beabetterdev.com - 322 comments 172 points
  15. Ape Coding - fiction rsaksida.com - 109 comments 164 points
  16. Everett shuts down Flock camera network after judge rules footage public record www.wltx.com - 28 comments 157 points
  17. If AI writes code, should the session be part of the commit? github.com - 169 comments 150 points
  18. A new Polymarket account made over $500k betting on the U.S. strike against Iran twitter.com - 97 comments 133 points
  19. Why is the first C++ - mallocation always 72 KB? joelsiks.com - 29 comments 122 points
  20. Waymo blocking ambulance during deadly Austin shooting www.mysanantonio.com - 168 comments 113 points
  21. Little Free Library littlefreelibrary.org - 48 comments 103 points
  22. Why does C have the best file API maurycyz.com - 66 comments 101 points
  23. Show HN: Timber – Ollama for classical ML models, 336x faster than Python github.com - 11 comments 100 points
  24. Claude hits #1 on the App Store as users rally behind Anthropic 9to5mac.com - 2 comments 98 points
  25. How the Government Deceived Congress in the Debate over Surveillance Powers - 2013 www.eff.org - 10 comments 95 points
  26. Right-sizes LLM models to your system’s RAM, CPU, and GPU github.com - 22 comments 94 points
  27. Claude dethrones ChatGPT as top U.S. app after Pentagon saga www.axios.com - 7 comments 87 points
  28. Allegations of insider trading over prediction-market bets tied to Iran conflict www.morningstar.com - 44 comments 86 points
  29. Are the Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics Beginning to Dissolve? www.quantamagazine.org - 103 comments 82 points
  30. This system can go fuck itself and burn in hell shawnfromportland.substack.com - 54 comments 81 points