top 50% 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

5 months ago

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

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

5 months ago

Hold on to Your Hardware

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

5 months ago

Anatomy of the .claude/ Folder

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

5 months ago

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

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

5 months ago

Make macOS consistently bad (unironically)

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

5 months ago

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/

5 months ago

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/

5 months ago

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

5 months ago

A Faster Alternative to Jq

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

5 months ago

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

5 months ago

Cherri – programming language that compiles directly to a Apple Shortuct

https://github.com/electrikmilk/cherri

5 months ago

Meow.camera

https://meow.camera/#4258783365322591678

5 months ago

15 Years of Forking

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

5 months ago

Schedule Claude Code tasks on the web

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

5 months ago

4D Doom

https://github.com/danieldugas/HYPERHELL

5 months ago

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/

5 months ago

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)

5 months ago

TinyLoRA – Learning to Reason in 13 Parameters

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.04118

5 months ago

ISBN Visualization – Annas Archive

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

5 months ago

I turned my Kindle into my own personal newspaper

https://manualdousuario.net/en/how-to-kindle-personal-newspaper/

5 months ago

Velxio 2.0 – Emulate Arduino, ESP32, and Raspberry Pi 3 in the Browser

https://github.com/davidmonterocrespo24/velxio

5 months ago

Slovenia becomes first EU country to introduce fuel rationing

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c77m4zx6zvmo

5 months ago

Show HN: TwitchRoulette – Find live streamers who need views the most

https://twitchroulette.net/

5 months ago

The Last Gasps of the Rent Seeking Class

https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2026/02/26/the-last-gasps-of-the-rent-seeking-class.html

5 months ago

OpenBSD on Motorola 88000 Processors

http://miod.online.fr/software/openbsd/stories/m88k1.html

5 months ago

Iran-linked hackers have breached FBI Director Kash Patel's personal emails

https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/27/politics/iran-linked-hackers-fbi-director-patel

5 months ago

Show HN: Forkrun – NUMA-aware shell parallelizer (50×–400× faster than parallel)

https://github.com/jkool702/forkrun

5 months ago

Should QA Exist

https://www.rubick.com/should-qa-exist/

5 months ago

Hong Kong Police Can Now Demand Phone Passwords Under New Security Rules

https://www.gadgetreview.com/hong-kong-police-can-now-demand-phone-passwords-under-new-security-rules

5 months ago

Agents of Chaos

https://agentsofchaos.baulab.info/report.html

5 months ago

Agent-to-Agent Pair Programming

https://axeldelafosse.com/blog/agent-to-agent-pair-programming

5 months ago

Telnyx package compromised on PyPI

https://telnyx.com/resources/telnyx-python-sdk-supply-chain-security-notice-march-2026

5 months ago

Researchers find 3,500-year-old loom that reveals textile revolution

https://web.ua.es/en/actualidad-universitaria/2026/marzo2026/23-31/ua-researchers-find-3-500-year-old-loom-that-reveals-key-aspects-of-textile-revolution-in-the-bronze-age.html

5 months ago

Colorado House passes bill to limit surveillance pricing and wage setting

https://coloradonewsline.com/briefs/surveillance-pricing-wage-setting/

5 months ago

The European AllSky7 fireball network

https://www.allsky7.net/#archive

5 months ago

I am leaving the AI party after one drink

https://lara-aigmueller.at/thoughts/leaving-the-ai-party/

5 months ago

Back to FreeBSD – Part 2 – Jails

https://hypha.pub/back-to-freebsd-part-2

5 months ago

ninja: a small build system with a focus on speed

https://github.com/ninja-build/ninja

5 months ago

Why are executives enamored with AI, but ICs aren't?

https://johnjwang.com/post/2026/03/27/why-are-executives-enabled-with-ai-but-ics-arent/

5 months ago

Apple says no one using Lockdown Mode has been hacked with spyware

https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/27/apple-says-no-one-using-lockdown-mode-has-been-hacked-with-spyware/

5 months ago

Reinventing the Pull Request

https://lubeno.dev/blog/reinventing-the-pull-request

5 months ago

A Primer on Long-Duration Life Support

https://mceglowski.substack.com/p/a-primer-on-long-duration-life-support

5 months ago

The Future of SCIP

https://sourcegraph.com/blog/the-future-of-scip

5 months ago

Anthropic's Claude loses its >99% uptime in Q1 2026

https://bsky.app/profile/teropa.bsky.social/post/3mi2dbt27m226

5 months ago

From 0% to 36% on Day 1 of ARC-AGI-3

https://www.symbolica.ai/blog/arc-agi-3

5 months ago

Netflix raises prices for every subscription tier by up to 12.5 percent

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/03/netflix-increases-prices-for-all-plans-by-up-to-2-per-month/

5 months ago

Consider the Greenland Shark (2020)

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/n09/katherine-rundell/consider-the-greenland-shark

5 months ago

PyPI package telnyx has been compromised in yet another supply chain attack

https://www.aikido.dev/blog/telnyx-pypi-compromised-teampcp-canisterworm

5 months ago

Some uncomfortable truths about AI coding agents

https://standupforme.app/blog/some-uncomfortable-truths-about-ai-coding-agents/

5 months ago

Memorial to IT Workers Who Have Fallen in Ukraine

https://dou.ua/memorial/

5 months ago

Author of Red Mars calls 'bullshit' on emigrating to the planet

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2520312-author-of-red-mars-calls-bullshit-on-emigrating-to-the-planet/

5 months ago

Vibe-Coded Ext4 for OpenBSD

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1064541/1a399d572a046fb9/

5 months ago

Framework Becomes a KDE Patron

https://ev.kde.org/2026/03/27/framework-becomes-kde-patron/

5 months ago

About the Atmosphere

https://toni.org/2026/03/27/about-the-atmosphere/

5 months ago

Nine observations from carbon dioxide monitoring

https://grieve-smith.com/ftn/2026/03/nine-observations-from-carbon-dioxide-monitoring/

5 months ago

Ohm's Peg-to-WASM Compiler

https://ohmjs.org/blog/2026/03/12/peg-to-wasm

5 months ago

Capability-Based Security for Redox: Namespace and CWD as Capabilities

https://www.redox-os.org/news/nlnet-cap-nsmgr-cwd/

5 months ago

A leak reveals that Anthropic is testing a more capable AI model "Claude Mythos"

https://fortune.com/2026/03/26/anthropic-says-testing-mythos-powerful-new-ai-model-after-data-leak-reveals-its-existence-step-change-in-capabilities/

5 months ago

We broke 92% of SHA-256 – you should start to migrate from it

https://stateofutopia.com/papers/2/we-broke-92-percent-of-sha-256.html

5 months ago