Hacker News top 30 - 2026-03-19
- Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming - 1989 www.cs.unc.edu - 430 comments 913 points
- Nightingale – open-source karaoke app that works with any song on your computer nightingale.cafe - 152 comments 540 points
- Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents www.pew.org - 518 comments 471 points
- Despite doubts, federal cyber experts approved Microsoft cloud service www.propublica.org - 209 comments 455 points
- FBI is buying location data to track US citizens, director confirms techcrunch.com - 166 comments 440 points
- Death to Scroll Fade dbushell.com - 195 comments 377 points
- AI coding is gambling notes.visaint.space - 395 comments 324 points
- Nvidia NemoClaw github.com - 203 comments 285 points
- Warranty Void If Regenerated nearzero.software - 158 comments 283 points
- Wander – A tiny, decentralised tool to explore the small web susam.net - 65 comments 251 points
- Snowflake AI Escapes Sandbox and Executes Malware www.promptarmor.com - 80 comments 243 points
- Show HN: I built 48 lightweight SVG backgrounds you can copy/paste www.svgbackgrounds.com - 49 comments 231 points
- Show HN: Will my flight have Starlink? news.ycombinator.com - 274 comments 213 points
- OpenAI Has New Focus - on the IPO om.co - 175 comments 208 points
- A sufficiently detailed spec is code haskellforall.com - 81 comments 195 points
- Tech hobbyist makes shoulder-mounted guided missile prototype with $96 in parts www.tomshardware.com - 2 comments 182 points
- Machine Payments Protocol - MPP stripe.com - 71 comments 169 points
- Meta will shut down VR Horizon Worlds access June 15 www.engadget.com - 160 comments 150 points
- Aliens.gov ~ domain registered 17MAR2026 whois.domaintools.com - 122 comments 149 points
- Cook: A simple CLI for orchestrating Claude Code rjcorwin.github.io - 27 comments 135 points
- Celebrating Tony Hoare’s mark on computer science bertrandmeyer.com - 31 comments 131 points
- EU Inc.: A new harmonised corporate legal regime commission.europa.eu - 79 comments 121 points
- CVE-2026-3888: Important Snap Flaw Enables Local Privilege Escalation to Root blog.qualys.com - 69 comments 121 points
- North Korean’s 100k fake IT workers net $500M a year for Kim www.theregister.com - 131 comments 120 points
- Measuring progress toward AGI: A cognitive framework blog.google - 186 comments 117 points
- Trevor Milton is raising funds for a new jet he claims will transform flying www.wsj.com - 178 comments 116 points
- Hundreds of Millions of iPhones Can Be Hacked With a New Tool Found in the Wild www.wired.com - 89 comments 116 points
- 2025 Turing award given for quantum information science awards.acm.org - 27 comments 116 points
- Ask HN: How do you deal with people who trust LLMs? news.ycombinator.com - 112 comments 112 points
- Judge orders restoration of Voice of America apnews.com - 67 comments 105 points
March 19, 2026 ∙