Hacker News on Wednesday, 18 March 2026

Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming (1989)(cs.unc.edu)

942 points by vismit2000 7 months ago | 437 comments

A university course page listing Rob Pike's five rules of programming on measurement, simple algorithms, and data structures, with notes relating them to Hoare, Thompson, and Brooks.

Have a fucking website(otherstrangeness.com)

726 points by asukachikaru 7 months ago | 410 comments

Blog post by Merritt K on Other Strangeness urging people and businesses to maintain their own websites rather than relying on social media platforms.

Nightingale – open-source karaoke app that works with any song on your computer(nightingale.cafe)

520 points by rzzzzru 7 months ago | 151 comments

Landing page for Nightingale, an open-source desktop karaoke app that separates vocals, transcribes lyrics, and plays songs back with word-level sync and pitch scoring.

Warranty Void If Regenerated(nearzero.software)

465 points by Stwerner 7 months ago | 283 comments

A Substack short fiction piece, "Warranty Void If Regenerated," written with Claude's help, set around a rural equipment repair shop.

Despite Doubts, Federal Cyber Experts Approved Microsoft Cloud Service(propublica.org)

449 points by hn_acker 7 months ago | 206 comments

ProPublica investigation into how federal cybersecurity reviewers approved Microsoft's cloud service under FedRAMP despite serious doubts about its security.

FBI is buying location data to track US citizens, director confirms(techcrunch.com)

392 points by jbegley 7 months ago | 143 comments

TechCrunch article reporting that FBI director Kash Patel confirmed the bureau buys commercial location data to track US citizens, prompted by questioning from Sen. Wyden.

Nvidia NemoClaw(github.com)

356 points by hmokiguess 7 months ago | 234 comments

GitHub repository for NVIDIA NemoClaw, a plugin for secure installation of OpenClaw, licensed Apache-2.0.

Death to Scroll Fade(dbushell.com)

352 points by PaulHoule 7 months ago | 192 comments

A blog post by David Bushell criticizing scroll-fade animations on websites, deliberately demonstrating the effect while ignoring reduced-motion preferences.

Show HN: I built 48 lightweight SVG backgrounds you can copy/paste(svgbackgrounds.com)

335 points by visiwig 7 months ago | 63 comments

A collection of free, customizable SVG backgrounds and patterns that can be copied and pasted into websites, with paid all-access option.

Wander – A tiny, decentralised tool to explore the small web(susam.net)

335 points by susam 7 months ago | 78 comments

Wander is a tiny decentralised tool for browsing the small web by hopping between personal websites, showing a toolbar with Wander, Console, and About buttons.

AI coding is gambling(notes.visaint.space)

288 points by speckx 7 months ago | 345 comments

25 Years of Eggs(john-rush.com)

278 points by avyfain 7 months ago | 75 comments

OpenAI Has New Focus (on the IPO)(om.co)

243 points by aamederen 7 months ago | 227 comments

The pleasures of poor product design(inconspicuous.info)

238 points by NaOH 7 months ago | 90 comments

Show HN: Will my flight have Starlink?

237 points by bblcla 7 months ago | 309 comments

Snowflake AI Escapes Sandbox and Executes Malware(promptarmor.com)

224 points by ozgune 7 months ago | 70 comments

The worst volume control UI in the world (2017)(uxdesign.cc)

214 points by andsoitis 7 months ago | 104 comments

Show HN: Duplicate 3 layers in a 24B LLM, logical deduction .22→.76. No training(github.com)

211 points by xlayn 7 months ago | 73 comments

Machine Payments Protocol (MPP)(stripe.com)

172 points by bpierre 7 months ago | 74 comments

SSH has no Host header(blog.exe.dev)

151 points by apitman 7 months ago | 144 comments

Tech hobbyist makes shoulder-mounted guided missile prototype with $96 in parts(tomshardware.com)

151 points by bilsbie 7 months ago | 109 comments

Bayesian statistics for confused data scientists(nchagnet.pages.dev)

150 points by speckx 7 months ago | 41 comments

Abusing Customizable Selects(css-tricks.com)

145 points by speckx 7 months ago | 7 comments

CVE-2026-3888: Important Snap Flaw Enables Local Privilege Escalation to Root(blog.qualys.com)

139 points by askl 7 months ago | 90 comments

LLMs predict my coffee(dynomight.net)

132 points by surprisetalk 7 months ago | 53 comments

Parallel Perl – Autoparallelizing interpreter with JIT(perl.petamem.com)

131 points by bmn__ 7 months ago | 43 comments

A tale about fixing eBPF spinlock issues in the Linux kernel(rovarma.com)

130 points by y1n0 7 months ago | 15 comments

Meta's Omnilingual MT for 1,600 Languages(ai.meta.com)

129 points by j0e1 7 months ago | 37 comments

Celebrating Tony Hoare's mark on computer science(bertrandmeyer.com)

128 points by benhoyt 7 months ago | 31 comments

RX – a new random-access JSON alternative(github.com)

124 points by creationix 7 months ago | 60 comments

An industrial piping contractor on Claude Code [video](twitter.com)

119 points by mighty-fine 7 months ago | 78 comments

Measuring progress toward AGI: A cognitive framework(blog.google)

117 points by surprisetalk 7 months ago | 187 comments

2025 Turing award given for quantum information science(awards.acm.org)

114 points by srvmshr 7 months ago | 26 comments

Trevor Milton is raising funds for a new jet he claims will transform flying(wsj.com)

114 points by jgalt212 7 months ago | 171 comments

Too Much Color(keithcirkel.co.uk)

106 points by maguay 7 months ago | 56 comments

Aliens.gov ~ domain registered 17MAR2026(whois.domaintools.com)

104 points by someprick 7 months ago | 83 comments

The Ugliest Airplane: An Appreciation(smithsonianmag.com)

102 points by randycupertino 7 months ago | 50 comments

A tiny, decentralised tool to explore the small web(codeberg.org)

97 points by carte_blanche 7 months ago | 16 comments

North Korean's 100k fake IT workers net $500M a year for Kim(theregister.com)

97 points by speckx 7 months ago | 94 comments

Meta will shut down VR Horizon Worlds access June 15(engadget.com)

94 points by bookofjoe 7 months ago | 80 comments

How many branches can your CPU predict?(lemire.me)

85 points by chmaynard 7 months ago | 50 comments

ZJIT removes redundant object loads and stores(railsatscale.com)

83 points by tekknolagi 7 months ago | 16 comments

Google Engineers Launch "Sashiko" for Agentic AI Code Review of the Linux Kernel(phoronix.com)

83 points by speckx 7 months ago | 36 comments

EU Inc.: A new harmonised corporate legal regime(commission.europa.eu)

82 points by guidoiaquinti 7 months ago | 49 comments

A ngrok-style secure tunnel server written in Rust and Open Source(github.com)

79 points by joaoh82 7 months ago | 36 comments

Lent and Lisp(leancrew.com)

73 points by surprisetalk 7 months ago | 3 comments

Show HN: Playing LongTurn FreeCiv with Friends(github.com)

71 points by verelo 7 months ago | 29 comments

Cryptography in Home Entertainment (2004)(mathweb.ucsd.edu)

71 points by rvnx 7 months ago | 40 comments

Show HN: Tmux-IDE, OSS agent-first terminal IDE(tmux.thijsverreck.com)

69 points by thijsverreck 7 months ago | 34 comments

A data center opened next door. Then came the high-pitched whine(politico.com)

63 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 7 months ago | 48 comments

What’s on HTTP?(whatsonhttp.com)

62 points by elixx 7 months ago | 27 comments

Oil nears $110 a barrel after gas field strike(bbc.com)

59 points by tartoran 7 months ago | 28 comments

Hundreds of Millions of iPhones Can Be Hacked With a New Tool Found in the Wild(wired.com)

59 points by WalterSobchak 7 months ago | 36 comments

Turing Award Honors Bennett and Brassard for Quantum Information Science(amturing.acm.org)

59 points by throw0101d 7 months ago | 0 comments

Wander – A tiny, decentralised tool (just 2 files) to explore the small web(susam.net)

56 points by oystersareyum 7 months ago | 16 comments

Node.js worker threads are problematic, but they work great for us(inngest.com)

54 points by goodoldneon 7 months ago | 29 comments

Why Lab Coats Turned White(asimov.press)

54 points by mailyk 7 months ago | 31 comments

Judge orders restoration of Voice of America(apnews.com)

51 points by geox 7 months ago | 20 comments

Launch an autonomous AI agent with sandboxed execution in 2 lines of code(amaiya.github.io)

48 points by wiseprobe 7 months ago | 19 comments

It's Their Mona Lisa(ironicsans.ghost.io)

48 points by ramimac 7 months ago | 15 comments