HN Buddy - February 27, 2026

Hey buddy,

Man, Friday was pretty wild on Hacker News, especially with all the AI drama. Let me give you the quick rundown:

AI and Government Tussle: Anthropic vs. Washington

Okay, so this was the biggest one: The new "Department of War" (yeah, that's a thing now, apparently) officially said they're going to designate Anthropic as a supply-chain risk. Crazy, right? Like, 80% of Fortune 500 companies use them. People in the comments were saying the Secretary of War, Hegseth, seems totally unfit for the job after this and that Signal leak. Then, get this, President Trump actually banned Anthropic from all government systems!

All Stories from Today

I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk (twitter.com)

1249 points by jacobedawson | 994 comments

Court finds Fourth Amendment doesn’t support broad search of protesters’ devices (www.eff.org)

558 points by hn_acker | 100 comments

A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification (www.pcgamer.com)

549 points by WalterSobchak | 517 comments

The Hunt for Dark Breakfast (moultano.wordpress.com)

528 points by moultano | 179 comments

Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers (claude.com)

523 points by zhisme | 220 comments

OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation (techcrunch.com)

469 points by zlatkov | 516 comments

Dan Simmons, author of Hyperion, has died (www.dignitymemorial.com)

441 points by throw0101a | 198 comments

Leaving Google has actively improved my life (pseudosingleton.com)

422 points by speckx | 229 comments

A better streams API is possible for JavaScript (blog.cloudflare.com)

401 points by nnx | 138 comments

Google workers seek 'red lines' on military A.I., echoing Anthropic (www.nytimes.com)

281 points by mikece | 133 comments

The normalization of corruption in organizations (2003) [pdf] (gwern.net)

271 points by rendx | 146 comments

Rob Grant, creator of Red Dwarf, has died (www.beyondthejoke.co.uk)

265 points by nephihaha | 78 comments

President Trump bans Anthropic from use in government systems (www.npr.org)

256 points by pkress2 | 193 comments

NASA announces overhaul of Artemis program amid safety concerns, delays (www.cbsnews.com)

247 points by voxadam | 267 comments

The Pentagon is making a mistake by threatening Anthropic (www.understandingai.org)

243 points by speckx | 211 comments

ChatGPT Health fails to recognise medical emergencies – study (www.theguardian.com)

196 points by simonebrunozzi | 146 comments

A Chinese official’s use of ChatGPT revealed an intimidation operation (www.cnn.com)

196 points by cwwc | 120 comments

We gave terabytes of CI logs to an LLM (www.mendral.com)

186 points by shad42 | 97 comments

Breaking Free (www.forbrukerradet.no)

183 points by Aissen | 41 comments

A Nationwide Book Ban Bill Has Been Introduced in the House of Representatives (bookriot.com)

179 points by LostMyLogin | 148 comments

Show HN: RetroTick – Run classic Windows EXEs in the browser (retrotick.com)

178 points by lqs_ | 54 comments

Open source calculator firmware DB48X forbids CA/CO use due to age verification (github.com)

169 points by iamnothere | 88 comments

F-Droid Board of Directors nominations 2026 (f-droid.org)

161 points by edent | 128 comments

Palantir's AI Is Playing a Major Role in Tracking Gaza Aid Deliveries (www.dropsitenews.com)

145 points by mikece | 59 comments

Allocating on the Stack (go.dev)

144 points by spacey | 51 comments

Trump orders US Government to cut ties with Anthropic (abcnews.com)

144 points by SunshineTheCat | 2 comments

Tell HN: MitID, Denmark's digital ID, was down (news.ycombinator.com)

131 points by mousepad12 | 172 comments

Let's discuss sandbox isolation (www.shayon.dev)

131 points by shayonj | 43 comments

Vibe coded Lovable-hosted app littered with basic flaws exposed 18K users (www.theregister.com)

131 points by nottorp | 33 comments

Dear Time Lords: Freeze Computers in 1993 (graydon2.dreamwidth.org)

110 points by zdw | 86 comments