top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-03-30

Copilot Edited an Ad into My PR

https://notes.zachmanson.com/copilot-edited-an-ad-into-my-pr/

4 months ago

How to Turn Anything into a Router

https://nbailey.ca/post/router/

4 months ago

Don't let AI write for you

https://alexhwoods.com/dont-let-ai-write-for-you/

4 months ago

Fedware: Government Apps That Spy Harder Than the Apps They Ban

https://www.sambent.com/the-white-house-app-has-huawei-spyware-and-an-ice-tip-line/

4 months ago

CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font

https://www.codingfont.com/

4 months ago

Philly courts will ban all smart eyeglasses starting next week

https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia/smart-glasses-ai-meta-courts-20260326.html

4 months ago

Turning a MacBook into a touchscreen with $1 of hardware (2018)

https://anishathalye.com/macbook-touchscreen/

4 months ago

How the AI Bubble Bursts

https://martinvol.pe/blog/2026/03/30/how-the-ai-bubble-bursts/

4 months ago

The Curious Case of Retro Demo Scene Graphics

https://www.datagubbe.se/aipixels/

4 months ago

"Over 1.5 million GitHub PRs have had ads injected into them by Copilot"

https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-copilot-is-now-injecting-ads-into-pull-requests-on-github-gitlab/

4 months ago

Parrots pack twice as many neurons as primate brains of the same mass

https://www.dhanishsemar.com/writing/bird-brains

4 months ago

New Washington state law bans noncompete agreements

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/local-business/new-washington-law-bans-noncompete-agreements/

4 months ago

Android Developer Verification

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/03/android-developer-verification-rolling-out-to-all-developers.html

4 months ago

I am definitely missing the pre-AI writing era

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/BJ4pnropWdnzzgeJc/i-am-definitely-missing-the-pre-ai-writing-era

4 months ago

FTC Action Against Match and OkCupid for Deceiving Users, Sharing Personal Data

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2026/03/ftc-takes-action-against-match-okcupid-deceiving-users-sharing-personal-data-third-party

4 months ago

New Apple Silicon M4 and M5 HiDPI Limitation on 4K External Displays

https://smcleod.net/2026/03/new-apple-silicon-m4-m5-hidpi-limitation-on-4k-external-displays/

4 months ago

15 years, one server, 8GB RAM and 500k users – how Webminal refuses to die

https://community.webminal.org/t/15-years-one-server-8gb-ram-and-500k-users-how-webminal-refuses-to-die/8803

4 months ago

I use excalidraw to manage my diagrams for my blog

https://blog.lysk.tech/excalidraw-frame-export/

4 months ago

Learn Claude Code by doing, not reading

https://claude.nagdy.me/

4 months ago

Vulnerability Research Is Cooked

https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/03/30/vulnerability-research-is-cooked/

4 months ago