top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-03-27

People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/people-inside-microsoft-are-fighting-to-drop-windows-11s-mandatory-microsoft-account-requirements-during-setup

3 months ago

764 upvotes – 611 comments

If you don't opt out by Apr 24 GitHub will train on your private repos

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47548243

3 months ago

742 upvotes – 319 comments

Hold on to Your Hardware

https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/hold-on-to-your-hardware/

3 months ago

661 upvotes – 533 comments

Anatomy of the .claude/ Folder

https://blog.dailydoseofds.com/p/anatomy-of-the-claude-folder

3 months ago

624 upvotes – 266 comments

The 'Paperwork Flood': How I Drowned a Bureaucrat Before Dinner

https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/the-paperwork-flood/

3 months ago

611 upvotes – 485 comments

Make macOS consistently bad (unironically)

https://lr0.org/blog/p/macos/

3 months ago

537 upvotes – 372 comments

Iran-linked hackers claim breach of FBI director's personal email

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/iran-linked-hackers-claim-breach-of-fbi-directors-personal-email-doj-official-2026-03-27/

3 months ago

466 upvotes – 536 comments

Special desk for people who work at home with a cat

https://soranews24.com/2026/03/27/japan-now-has-a-special-desk-for-people-who-work-at-home-with-a-pet-catphotos/

3 months ago

463 upvotes – 166 comments

AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is more worrying

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/26/ai-got-the-blame-for-the-iran-school-bombing-the-truth-is-far-more-worrying

3 months ago

412 upvotes – 383 comments

A Faster Alternative to Jq

https://micahkepe.com/blog/jsongrep/

3 months ago

396 upvotes – 259 comments

Suddenly energy independence feels practical:Europeans building mini solar farms

https://www.euronews.com/2026/03/26/suddenly-energy-independence-feels-practical-europeans-are-building-mini-solar-farms-at-ho

3 months ago

354 upvotes – 351 comments

Cherri – programming language that compiles directly to a Apple Shortuct

https://github.com/electrikmilk/cherri

2 months ago

353 upvotes – 73 comments

Meow.camera

https://meow.camera/#4258783365322591678

3 months ago

331 upvotes – 73 comments

15 Years of Forking

https://www.waterfox.com/blog/15-years-of-forking/

3 months ago

299 upvotes – 60 comments

Schedule Claude Code tasks on the web

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/web-scheduled-tasks

3 months ago

298 upvotes – 243 comments

4D Doom

https://github.com/danieldugas/HYPERHELL

2 months ago

283 upvotes – 80 comments

DOJ confirms FBI Director Kash Patel's personal email was hacked

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/03/doj-confirms-fbi-director-kash-patels-personal-email-was-hacked/

3 months ago

264 upvotes – 7 comments

Installing a Let's Encrypt TLS Certificate on a Brother Printer with Certbot

https://owltec.ca/Other/Installing+a+Let%27s+Encrypt+TLS+certificate+on+a+Brother+printer+automatically+with+Certbot+(%26+Cloudflare)

3 months ago

246 upvotes – 54 comments

TinyLoRA – Learning to Reason in 13 Parameters

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.04118

3 months ago

233 upvotes – 45 comments

ISBN Visualization – Annas Archive

https://annas-archive.gd/isbn-visualization?

3 months ago

225 upvotes – 41 comments
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