top 20 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

3 months ago

1014 upvotes – 449 comments

Have a Fucking Website

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

3 months ago

947 upvotes – 524 comments

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

https://nightingale.cafe/

3 months ago

591 upvotes – 162 comments

Warranty Void If Regenerated

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

3 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/

3 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

3 months ago

485 upvotes – 225 comments

Death to Scroll Fade

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

3 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/

3 months ago

399 upvotes – 67 comments

Nvidia NemoClaw

https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw

3 months ago

385 upvotes – 262 comments

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

https://susam.net/wander/

3 months ago

367 upvotes – 89 comments

AI Coding Is Gambling

https://notes.visaint.space/ai-coding-is-gambling/

3 months ago

348 upvotes – 430 comments

25 Years of Eggs

https://www.john-rush.com/posts/eggs-25-years-20260219.html

3 months ago

298 upvotes – 80 comments

Show HN: Will my flight have Starlink?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47428650

3 months ago

276 upvotes – 364 comments

The Pleasures of Poor Product Design

https://www.inconspicuous.info/p/the-pleasures-of-poor-product-design

3 months ago

269 upvotes – 100 comments

Snowflake AI Escapes Sandbox and Executes Malware

https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/snowflake-ai-escapes-sandbox-and-executes-malware

3 months ago

268 upvotes – 83 comments

OpenAI Has New Focus (On the IPO)

https://om.co/2026/03/17/openai-has-new-focus-on-the-ipo/

3 months ago

266 upvotes – 256 comments

Show HN: Duplicate 3 layers in a 24B LLM, logical deduction .22→.76. No training

https://github.com/alainnothere/llm-circuit-finder

3 months ago

265 upvotes – 81 comments

The worst volume control UI in the world

https://uxdesign.cc/the-worst-volume-control-ui-in-the-world-60713dc86950

3 months ago

234 upvotes – 116 comments

Machine Payments Protocol (MPP)

https://stripe.com/blog/machine-payments-protocol

3 months ago

204 upvotes – 89 comments

SSH has no Host header

https://blog.exe.dev/ssh-host-header

3 months ago

188 upvotes – 170 comments
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