DTF:HN for March 1, 2026

Your Daily Tech Feed covering the top 10 stories on Hacker News for March 1, 2026. Featuring: AI Made Writing Code Easier. It Made Being an Engineer Harder, I built a demo of what AI chat will look like when it's "free" and ad-supported, Microgpt, Ghostty – Terminal Emulator, Decision trees – the unreasonable power of nested decision rules, and more. Stories covered: 1. AI Made Writing Code Easier. It Made Being an Engineer Harder https://www.ivanturkovic.com/2026/02/25/ai-made-writing-code-easier-engineering-harder/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47206824 2. I built a demo of what AI chat will look like when it's "free" and ad-supported https://99helpers.com/tools/ad-supported-chat HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47205890 3. Microgpt http://karpathy.github.io/2026/02/12/microgpt/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47202708 4. Ghostty – Terminal Emulator https://ghostty.org/docs HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47206009 5. Decision trees – the unreasonable power of nested decision rules https://mlu-explain.github.io/decision-tree/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47204964 6. Interview with Øyvind Kolås, GIMP developer https://www.gimp.org/news/2026/02/22/%C3%B8yvind-kol%C3%A5s-interview-ww2017/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47168405 7. We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk https://twitter.com/OpenAI/status/2027846016423321831 HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47200420 8. 10-202: Introduction to Modern AI (CMU) https://modernaicourse.org HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47204559 9. Switch to Claude without starting over https://claude.com/import-memory HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47204571 10. An ode to houseplant programming (2025) https://hannahilea.com/blog/houseplant-programming/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47181542