The HackerNoon Newsletter: Prefill Is the Tax You Keep Paying Twice (3/4/2026)

How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, March 4, 2026? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, An Wang Sells Core Memory Patent to IBM in 1956, and we present you with these top quality stories. From 5 Open-Source Projects for Books and Readers to Support via Kivach to EU’s AI Omnibus: Pivoting from Regulation to Active Deployment , let’s dive right in. 5 Open-Source Projects for Books and Readers to Support via Kivach By @obyte [ 6 Min read ] Are you an avid reader? Heres a tour of book-focused and free tools, and how Kivach lets you support the people building them, one small donation at a time. Read More. Prefill Is the Tax You Keep Paying Twice By @tirtha [ 12 Min read ] Your inference stack is burning money on solved problems. A storage hierarchy would fix the part youre paying for twice. Read More. Rootless Rituals Die Fast in the Age of Vibe Coding By @raysvitla [ 2 Min read ] 15% of 2026 is gone. heres what he