top 10 hacker news stories for 2026-03-18

Rob Pike's 5 Rules of Programming

https://www.cs.unc.edu/~stotts/COMP590-059-f24/robsrules.html

5 months ago

1014 upvotes – 449 comments

Have a Fucking Website

https://www.otherstrangeness.com/2026/03/14/have-a-fucking-website/

5 months ago

947 upvotes – 524 comments

Nightingale – open-source karaoke app that works with any song on your computer

https://nightingale.cafe/

5 months ago

591 upvotes – 162 comments

Warranty Void If Regenerated

https://nearzero.software/p/warranty-void-if-regenerated

5 months ago

519 upvotes – 319 comments

FBI is buying location data to track US citizens, director confirms

https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/18/fbi-is-buying-location-data-to-track-us-citizens-kash-patel-wyden/

5 months ago

509 upvotes – 187 comments

Federal Cyber Experts Called Microsoft's Cloud "A Pile of Shit", yet Approved It

https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-cloud-fedramp-cybersecurity-government

5 months ago

485 upvotes – 225 comments

Death to Scroll Fade

https://dbushell.com/2026/01/09/death-to-scroll-fade/

5 months ago

412 upvotes – 209 comments

Show HN: I built 48 lightweight SVG backgrounds you can copy/paste

https://www.svgbackgrounds.com/set/free-svg-backgrounds-and-patterns/

5 months ago

399 upvotes – 67 comments

Nvidia NemoClaw

https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw

5 months ago

385 upvotes – 262 comments

Wanter – A tiny, decentralised tool to explore the small web

https://susam.net/wander/

5 months ago

367 upvotes – 89 comments
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