1014
449
Rob Pike's 5 Rules of Programming
https://www.cs.unc.edu/~stotts/COMP590-059-f24/robsrules.html
3 months ago
947
524
Have a Fucking Website
https://www.otherstrangeness.com/2026/03/14/have-a-fucking-website/
591
162
Nightingale – open-source karaoke app that works with any song on your computer
https://nightingale.cafe/
519
319
Warranty Void If Regenerated
https://nearzero.software/p/warranty-void-if-regenerated
509
187
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/
485
225
Federal Cyber Experts Called Microsoft's Cloud "A Pile of Shit", yet Approved It
https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-cloud-fedramp-cybersecurity-government
412
209
Death to Scroll Fade
https://dbushell.com/2026/01/09/death-to-scroll-fade/
399
67
Show HN: I built 48 lightweight SVG backgrounds you can copy/paste
https://www.svgbackgrounds.com/set/free-svg-backgrounds-and-patterns/
385
262
Nvidia NemoClaw
https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw
367
89
Wanter – A tiny, decentralised tool to explore the small web
https://susam.net/wander/
348
430
AI Coding Is Gambling
https://notes.visaint.space/ai-coding-is-gambling/
298
80
25 Years of Eggs
https://www.john-rush.com/posts/eggs-25-years-20260219.html
276
364
Show HN: Will my flight have Starlink?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47428650
269
100
The Pleasures of Poor Product Design
https://www.inconspicuous.info/p/the-pleasures-of-poor-product-design
268
83
Snowflake AI Escapes Sandbox and Executes Malware
https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/snowflake-ai-escapes-sandbox-and-executes-malware
266
256
OpenAI Has New Focus (On the IPO)
https://om.co/2026/03/17/openai-has-new-focus-on-the-ipo/
265
81
Show HN: Duplicate 3 layers in a 24B LLM, logical deduction .22→.76. No training
https://github.com/alainnothere/llm-circuit-finder
234
116
The worst volume control UI in the world
https://uxdesign.cc/the-worst-volume-control-ui-in-the-world-60713dc86950
204
Machine Payments Protocol (MPP)
https://stripe.com/blog/machine-payments-protocol
188
170
SSH has no Host header
https://blog.exe.dev/ssh-host-header
186
2
Tech hobbyist makes shoulder-mounted guided missile prototype with $96 in parts
https://www.tomshardware.com/3d-printing/tech-hobbyist-makes-shoulder-mounted-guided-missile-prototype-with-usd96-in-parts-and-a-3d-printer-diy-manpads-includes-wi-fi-guidance-ballistics-calculations-optional-camera-for-tracking
176
63
Bayesian statistics for confused data scientists
https://nchagnet.pages.dev/blog/bayesian-statistics-for-confused-data-scientists/
175
Meta will shut down VR Horizon Worlds access June 15
https://www.engadget.com/ar-vr/meta-will-shut-down-vr-horizon-worlds-access-in-june-222028919.html
167
22
A tale about fixing eBPF spinlock issues in the Linux kernel
https://rovarma.com/articles/a-tale-about-fixing-ebpf-spinlock-issues-in-the-linux-kernel/
165
132
Aliens.gov ~ domain registered 17MAR2026
https://whois.domaintools.com/aliens.gov
164
9
Abusing Customizable Selects
https://css-tricks.com/abusing-customizable-selects/
161
114
CVE-2026-3888: Important Snap Flaw Enables Local Privilege Escalation to Root
https://blog.qualys.com/vulnerabilities-threat-research/2026/03/17/cve-2026-3888-important-snap-flaw-enables-local-privilege-escalation-to-root
151
128
Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47428391
213
Measuring progress toward AGI: A cognitive framework
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-deepmind/measuring-agi-cognitive-framework/
145
108
RX – a new random-access JSON alternative
https://github.com/creationix/rx
85
EU Inc.: A new harmonised corporate legal regime
https://commission.europa.eu/topics/business-and-industry/doing-business-eu/company-law-and-corporate-governance/eu-inc-new-harmonised-corporate-legal-regime_en
143
66
LLMs Predict My Coffee
https://dynomight.net/coffee/
46
Parallel Perl – autoparallelizing interpreter with JIT
https://perl.petamem.com/gpw2026/perl-mit-ai-gpw2026.html#/4/1/1
142
197
Pardoned for Fraud, a CEO Mounts His Comeback: 'We Can Trust You Now'
https://www.wsj.com/business/trevor-milton-pardon-nikola-trump-3163e19c
140
Too Much Color
https://www.keithcirkel.co.uk/too-much-color/
139
32
Celebrating Tony Hoare's mark on computer science
https://bertrandmeyer.com/2026/03/16/celebrating-tony-hoares-mark-on-computer-science/
93
Hundreds of Millions of iPhones Can Be Hacked With a New Tool Found in the Wild
https://www.wired.com/story/hundreds-of-millions-of-iphones-can-be-hacked-with-a-new-tool-found-in-the-wild/
94
An industrial piping contractor on Claude Code [video]
https://twitter.com/toddsaunders/status/2034243420147859716
136
49
Meta's Omnilingual MT for 1,600 Languages
https://ai.meta.com/research/publications/omnilingual-mt-machine-translation-for-1600-languages/?_fb_noscript=1
135
44
2025 Turing Award given for Quantum Information Science
https://awards.acm.org/about/2025-turing
144
North Korean's 100k fake IT workers net $500M a year for Kim
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/18/researchers_lift_the_lid_on/
122
75
Judge orders restoration of Voice of America
https://apnews.com/article/voice-of-america-kari-lake-trump-cd6d1ef05272f842705da0ed38d3de24
115
130
Oil nears $110 a barrel after gas field strike
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c78x83lpgngo
59
The Ugliest Airplane: An Appreciation
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/ugliest-airplane-appreciation-180978708/
60
How many branches can your CPU predict?
https://lemire.me/blog/2026/03/18/how-many-branches-can-your-cpu-predict/
111
Google Engineers Launch "Sashiko" for Agentic AI Code Review of the Linux Kernel
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Sashiko-Linux-AI-Code-Review
107
35
A ngrok-style secure tunnel server written in Rust and Open Source
https://github.com/joaoh82/rustunnel
105
A tiny, decentralised tool to explore the small web
https://codeberg.org/susam/wander
95
103
A data center opened next door. Then came the high-pitched whine
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/11/data-centers-ai-electricity-virginia-00815219
92
19
ZJIT removes redundant object loads and stores
https://railsatscale.com/2026-03-18-how-zjit-removes-redundant-object-loads-and-stores/
88
38
Show HN: Tmux-IDE, OSS agent-first terminal IDE
https://tmux.thijsverreck.com
87
72
Remove your ring camera with a claw hammer
https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/remove-your-ring-camera-with-a-claw
42
Show HN: Playing LongTurn FreeCiv with Friends
https://github.com/ndroo/freeciv.andrewmcgrath.info
86
18
Switzerland Built an Alternative to BGP
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/17/switzerland_bgp_alternative/
84
106
Kagi is contemplating the removal of the assistant from its professional tier
https://kagifeedback.org/d/10116-kagi-assistant-standalone-subscription
DOGE canceled NC Museum grant for HVAC systems after ChatGPT flagged it as DEI
https://myfox8.com/news/north-carolina/high-point/doge-canceled-high-point-museum-grant-for-hvac-systems-after-chatgpt-flagged-it-as-dei-lawsuit-alleges/
82
50
A look at content scrambling in DVDs
https://mathweb.ucsd.edu/~crypto/Projects/MarkBarry/
8
Lent and Lisp
https://leancrew.com/all-this/2026/02/lent-and-lisp/
16
Trashing American Allies Turns Out to Be Bad for National Security
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/trump-independence-allies-support/686432/
Why Lab Coats Turned White
https://www.asimov.press/p/lab-coat
76
48
What's on HTTP?
https://whatsonhttp.com/
17
It's Their Mona Lisa
https://ironicsans.ghost.io/its-t-mona-lisa/
70
31
Node.js worker threads are problematic, but they work great for us
https://www.inngest.com/blog/node-worker-threads
0
Turing Award Honors Bennett and Brassard for Quantum Information Science
https://amturing.acm.org
65
Wander – A tiny, decentralised tool (just 2 files) to explore the small web
64
97
FDA links raw cheese to outbreak; Makers "100% disagree," refuse recall
https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/03/fda-links-raw-cheese-to-outbreak-makers-100-disagree-refuse-recall/
Iran's South Pars Gas Field Is Attacked by Israel, Sending Energy Prices Soaring
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/world/middleeast/israel-strikes-south-pars-gas-oil-prices.html
Federal Cyber Experts Called Microsoft's Cloud "A Pile of Shit", yet Approved It