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The Government Uses Targeted Advertising to Track Your Location

Article URL: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/targeted-advertising-gives-your-location-government-just-ask-cbp Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47264341 Points: 40 # Comments: 10

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Show HN: PageAgent, A GUI agent that lives inside your web app

Title: Show HN: PageAgent, A GUI agent that lives inside your web app Hi HN, I'm building PageAgent, an open-source (MIT) library that embeds an AI agent directly into your frontend. I built this because I believe there's a massive design space for d

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Datasets for Reconstructing Visual Perception from Brain Data

Article URL: https://github.com/seelikat/neuro-visual-reconstruction-dataset-index Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47263661 Points: 12 # Comments: 0

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A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4k Developer Machines

Article URL: https://grith.ai/blog/clinejection-when-your-ai-tool-installs-another Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47263595 Points: 58 # Comments: 10

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Wikipedia in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise

Article URL: https://www.wikimediastatus.net Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47263323 Points: 343 # Comments: 100

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Google Safe Browsing missed 84% of confirmed phishing sites

Article URL: https://www.norn-labs.com/blog/huginn-report-feb-2026 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47262347 Points: 186 # Comments: 55

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Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/judge-orders-government-to-begin-refunding-more-than-130-billion-in-tariffs-fdc1e62c Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47261688 Points: 646 # Comments: 482

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Netflix buys Ben Affleck’s AI filmmaking company InterPositive

Affleck says he wanted to "preserve what makes human storytelling human, which is judgement."

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Match Group COO out, as dating apps struggle to connect with Gen Z

Match Group eliminates the COO role as CEO Spencer Rascoff has been managing operations.

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Zeno raises $25M to speed up production of its battery-swap motorbikes

The startup, co-founded by Tesla and Apple alumni, has sold nearly 1,000 of its motorbikes so far.

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Musk testifies tweet that led to $44 billion lawsuit "may not have been my wisest"

Elon Musk takes the stand in a San Francisco courtroom.

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macOS Tahoe 26.3.1 update will "upgrade" your M5's CPU to new "super" cores

In otherwise minor software update, macOS now uses M5's new nomenclature.

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Show HN: Jido 2.0, Elixir Agent Framework

Hi HN! I'm the author of an Elixir Agent Framework called Jido. We reached our 2.0 release this week, shipping a production-hardened framework to build, manage and run Agents on the BEAM. Jido now supports a host of Agentic features, including: - Too

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BBC says 'irreversible' trends mean it will not survive without major overhaul

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/mar/05/bbc-charter-renewal-tv-licence-major-overhaul Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47262600 Points: 13 # Comments: 15

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Palantir and other tech companies are stocking offices with tobacco products

Article URL: https://fortune.com/2026/03/04/palantir-tech-companies-offices-vending-machines-tobacco-worker-productivity/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47262523 Points: 56 # Comments: 48