top 50% 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

Show HN: 30u30.fyi – Is your startup founder on Forbes' most fraudulent list?

https://30u30.fyi

4 months ago

Mathematical methods and human thought in the age of AI

https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.26524

4 months ago

72% of the dollar's purchasing power was destroyed in just four episodes

https://eco3min.fr/en/us-inflation-is-not-linear/

4 months ago

Take Better Notes, by Hand

https://brianschrader.com/archive/take-better-notes-by-hand/

4 months ago

Show HN: CLI to order groceries via reverse-engineered REWE API (Haskell)

https://github.com/yannick-cw/korb

4 months ago

Good CTE, Bad CTE

https://boringsql.com/posts/good-cte-bad-cte/

4 months ago

OpenGridWorks: The Electricity Infrasctructure, Mapped

https://www.opengridworks.com

4 months ago

Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman Equation: Reinforcement Learning and Diffusion Models

https://dani2442.github.io/posts/continuous-rl/

4 months ago

Intuiting Pratt Parsing

https://louis.co.nz/2026/03/26/pratt-parsing.html

4 months ago

Why I'm betting on ATProto (and why you should, too)

https://brittanyellich.com/atproto/

4 months ago

America Is Now a Rogue Superpower

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/2026/03/trump-us-power-iran/686567/

4 months ago

"CEO Said a Thing " Journalism

https://karlbode.com/ceo-said-a-thing-journalism/

4 months ago

VHDL's Crown Jewel

https://www.sigasi.com/opinion/jan/vhdls-crown-jewel/

4 months ago

Ghostmoon.app – The Swiss Army Knife for your macOS menu bar

https://www.mgrunwald.com/ghostmoon/

4 months ago

Show HN: Zerobox – Sandbox any command with file and network restrictions

https://github.com/afshinm/zerobox

4 months ago

You are falling behind because you haven't fed the insincerity machine

https://christianheilmann.com/2026/03/28/you-are-falling-behind-because-you-havent-fed-the-insincerity-machine-in-the-last-5-minutes/

4 months ago

JSON Canvas Spec

https://jsoncanvas.org/spec/1.0/

4 months ago

OCR For construction documents does not work

https://www.getanchorgrid.com/developer/docs/endpoints/drawings-doors

4 months ago

Car Seats as Contraception

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/731812

4 months ago

Recover Apple Keychain

https://arkoinad.com/posts/apple_keychain_recovery.html

4 months ago

An NSFW Filter for Marginalia Search

https://www.marginalia.nu/log/a_134_nsfw/

4 months ago

Show HN: Coasts – Containerized Hosts for Agents

https://github.com/coast-guard/coasts

4 months ago

What we learned building 100 API integrations with OpenCode

https://nango.dev/blog/learned-building-200-api-integrations-with-opencode/

4 months ago

The ladder is missing rungs – Engineering Progression When AI Ate the Middle

https://negroniventurestudios.com/2026/03/19/the-ladder-is-missing-rungs/

4 months ago

What Gödel Discovered (2020)

https://stopa.io/post/269

4 months ago

We're Pausing Asimov Press

https://www.asimov.press/p/pause

4 months ago

Spain shuts airspace for US planes involved in Iran war

https://english.aawsat.com/world/5256772-spain-shuts-airspace-us-planes-involved-iran-war

4 months ago

Reverse Engineering Crazy Taxi, Part 2

https://wretched.computer/post/crazytaxi2

4 months ago

William Blake, Remote by the Sea

https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/william-blake-remote-sea

4 months ago

A Nursing Home Owner Got a Pardon. The Families of His Patients Got Nothing

https://www.propublica.org/article/joseph-schwartz-trump-pardon-skyline-nursing-home-patients

4 months ago

The Strait of Hormuz Oil Shock Is Now Heading West

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-iran-war-hormuz-closure-oil-shock

4 months ago

Set the Line Before It's Crossed

https://nomagicpill.substack.com/p/set-the-line-before-its-crossed

4 months ago

The stealthy startup that pitched brainless human clones

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/03/30/1134780/r3-bio-brainless-human-clones-full-body-replacement-john-schloendorn-aging-longevity/

4 months ago

Built a cheap DIY fan controller because my motherboard never had working PWM

https://www.himthe.dev/blog/msi-forgot-my-fans

4 months ago

The Hateful Eight is 85% of S&P 500 Decline

https://paulkedrosky.com/chart-of-the-day-the-hateful-eight-is-85-of-s-p-500-decline/

4 months ago

A sea of sparks: Seeing radioactivity

https://maurycyz.com/projects/spinthariscope/

4 months ago

Euro-Office Wants to Replace Google Docs and Microsoft Office

https://www.howtogeek.com/this-new-open-source-web-editor-wants-to-replace-google-docs-and-microsoft-office/

4 months ago

DigitalOcean Seeks $800M in Funding

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/digitalocean-seeks-800m-in-funding/

4 months ago

Stripe Is Down

https://dashboard.stripe.com/login

4 months ago

We Hid a Free Trip to Switzerland in Our Privacy Policy. Someone Found It

https://www.cape.co/blog/easter-egg-in-privacy-policy

4 months ago

Magic the Gathering Deck Shuffler

https://mtg.jessitron.honeydemo.io/

4 months ago

Google's insecure-by-default API keys and 30h billing lag cost my startup $15k

https://old.reddit.com/r/googlecloud/comments/1s7v5x9/how_googles_insecurebydefault_api_keys_and_a/

4 months ago

The Sudden Fall of OpenAI's Most Hyped Product Since ChatGPT

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-sudden-fall-of-openais-most-hyped-product-since-chatgpt-64c730c9

4 months ago

Show HN: I turned a sketch into a 3D-print pegboard for my kid with an AI agent

https://github.com/virpo/pegboard

4 months ago

Bitwarden Integrates with OneCLI Agent Vault

https://www.onecli.sh/blog/bitwarden-agent-access-sdk-onecli

4 months ago

HD Audio Driver for Windows 98SE / Me

https://github.com/andrew-hoffman/wdmhda

4 months ago