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Today’s top stories on Hacker News are a fascinating mix of high-stakes space exploration and surprisingly tactile hardware hacks. The community is buzzing over a DIY project involving filing down the sharp corners of a MacBook, a testament to the lengths users will go for ergonomic comfort. Meanwhile, the successful splashdown of Artemis II marks a triumphant moment for science and space travel, capturing the collective imagination of the tech world.

AI remains a dominant theme, but the focus has shifted toward efficiency and ethics. Discussions are heating up over small language models outperforming expectations in vulnerability detection, while news of France ditching Windows for Linux highlights a growing push for digital sovereignty. We’re also seeing a strong interest in the "lean startup" philosophy, with one entrepreneur sharing how they manage a five-figure monthly revenue on a tiny twenty-dollar tech stack.

Beyond the code, the list touches on global shifts, from South Korea’s move toward universal mobile data to the impressive milestone of seven countries reaching 100% renewable energy. Whether it’s the future of AI safety or the legality of home distilling, there’s a sense of curiosity about how technology and policy are reshaping our daily lives.

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1Filing the corners off my MacBookskentwalters.com1357normanvalentine1 day ago646
2Artemis II safely splashes downcbsnews.com1265areoform1 day ago439
3Small models also found the vulnerabilities that Mythos foundaisle.com1222dominicq1 day ago321
4I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stackstevehanov.ca754tradertef15 hours ago435
5Installing every* Firefox extensionjack.cab665RohanAdwankar1 day ago80
6Tell HN: docker pull fails in spain due to football cloudflare block546littlecranky678 hours ago219
7Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usagegithub.com/anthropics494cmaster118 hours ago461
8France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic riskxda-developers.com480pabs31 day ago280
9Exploiting the most prominent AI agent benchmarksrdi.berkeley.edu479Anon841 day ago119
10Show HN: Pardonned.com – A searchable database of US Pardons477vidluther1 day ago262
11Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6thgithub.com/anthropics420lsdmtme15 hours ago321
12Seven countries now generate 100% of their electricity from renewable energythe-independent.com400mpweiher7 hours ago187
13South Korea introduces universal basic mobile data accesstheregister.com400saikatsg1 day ago121
14Bring Back Idiomatic Designjohnloeber.com360phil2948 hours ago171
15Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incidentsamaltman.com357jack_hanford1 day ago947
16AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of Itthealgorithmicbridge.com320gHeadphone11 hours ago570
17Apple update looks like Czech mate for locked-out iPhone usertheregister.com319OuterVale12 hours ago205
18Cirrus Labs to join OpenAIcirruslabs.org276seekdeep1 day ago139
19The future of everything is lies, I guess – Part 5: Annoyancesaphyr.com267aphyr1 day ago162
20Advanced Mac Substitute is an API-level reimplementation of 1980s-era Mac OSv68k.org260zdw1 day ago67
21447 TB/cm² at zero retention energy – atomic-scale memory on fluorographanezenodo.org253iliatoli1 day ago136
2220 years on AWS and never not my jobdaemonology.net251cperciva1 day ago64
23Apple has removed most of the towns and villages in Lebanon from Apple maps?maps.apple.com236thepasswordis2 hours ago114
24Dark Castledarkcastle.co.uk234evo_91 day ago33
25Bitcoin miners are losing on every coin produced as difficulty dropscoindesk.com234PaulHoule1 day ago220
26Apple Silicon and Virtual Machines: Beating the 2 VM Limit (2023)khronokernel.com225krackers1 day ago158
27US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutionaltheguardian.com218Jimmc41416 hours ago222
28The End of Eleventybrennan.day195ValentineC19 hours ago170
29The disturbing white paper Red Hat is trying to erase from the internetosnews.com192choult1 day ago75
30Show HN: boringBar – a taskbar-style dock replacement for macOSboringbar.app171a-ve3 hours ago110