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Hacker News 300 points31m ago

AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice: https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2026/03/ai-advice-sycophantic-models-research

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47554773

AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice

Not only are AIs far more agreeable than humans when advising on interpersonal matters, but users also prefer the sycophantic models.

Hacker News 300 points1h ago

Britain today generating 90%+ of electricity from renewables: https://grid.iamkate.com/

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47553484

National Grid: Live

Shows the live status of Great Britain’s electric power transmission network

Hacker News 300 points3h ago

Meow.camera: https://meow.camera/#4258783365322591678

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47543204

Hacker News 300 points3h ago

I put all 8,642 Spanish laws in Git – every reform is a commit: https://github.com/EnriqueLop/legalize-es

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47553798

Commits · EnriqueLop/legalize-es

Spanish legislation as a Git repo — every law is a Markdown file, every reform a commit. 8,600+ laws. - Commits · EnriqueLop/legalize-es

GitHub
Hacker News 300 points4h ago

Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/iran-linked-hackers-claim-breach-of-fbi-directors-personal-email-doj-official-2026-03-27/

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47543167

Hacker News 300 points6h ago

‘Energy independence feels practical’: Europeans building mini solar farms: https://www.euronews.com/2026/03/26/suddenly-energy-independence-feels-practical-europeans-are-building-mini-solar-farms-at-ho

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47540383

What is plug-in solar and can it save you money?

Many consumers want to know how long it will take them to make back the upfront costs of solar.

euronews
Hacker News 300 points9h ago

Go hard on agents, not on your filesystem: https://jai.scs.stanford.edu/

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47550282

jai - easy containment for AI agents

Super-lightweight Linux sandbox for AI agents

Hacker News 300 points12h ago

John Bradley, author of xv, has died: https://voxday.net/2026/03/25/rip-john-bradley/

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47534086

RIP John Bradley - Vox Popoli

John Bradley, the longtime member of this community who was the founder, producer, and lead guitarist of Booster Patrol, died on March 20. He was 61. I couldn’t think of a better way to pay tribute to the man who was both a bandmate and a friend than to write a song for him in […]

Vox Popoli
Hacker News 300 points16h ago

Make macOS consistently bad (unironically): https://lr0.org/blog/p/macos/

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47547009

Make macOS 26 consistently bad (unironically) | La Vita Nouva

Hacker News 300 points18h ago

AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is more worrying: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/26/ai-got-the-blame-for-the-iran-school-bombing-the-truth-is-far-more-worrying

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47544980

AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying

LLMs-gone-rogue dominated coverage, but had nothing to do with the targeting. Instead, it was choices made by human beings, over many years, that gave us this atrocity

The Guardian