Hacker News on Monday, 30 March 2026

Copilot edited an ad into my PR(notes.zachmanson.com)

1364 points by pavo-etc 7 months ago | 552 comments

Blog post describing how GitHub Copilot, asked to fix a typo in a pull request, edited the PR description to insert an advertisement for itself and Raycast.

How to turn anything into a router(nbailey.ca)

734 points by yabones 7 months ago | 255 comments

Blog post explaining how to build a homebrew Linux router from a mini-PC or other computer, prompted by a US policy restricting imports of new consumer routers.

Do your own writing(alexhwoods.com)

690 points by karimf 7 months ago | 222 comments

Blog post by Alex Woods arguing against using LLMs to write documents and essays, since writing is a way to think and build trust.

Fedware: Government apps that spy harder than the apps they ban(sambent.com)

644 points by speckx 6 months ago | 255 comments

Blog post by Sam Bent examining 13 US government mobile apps, such as the White House, FBI and FEMA apps, for tracking SDKs, ads and excessive permissions.

CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font(codingfont.com)

442 points by nvahalik 7 months ago | 223 comments

CodingFont by Typogram is an interactive game that compares coding fonts side by side in a code editor so users can pick their favorite.

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

382 points by HughParry 6 months ago | 194 comments

Anish Athalye's 2018 blog post describing Project Sistine, which turns a MacBook into a touchscreen using a $1 mirror and computer vision on the webcam.

Philly courts will ban all smart eyeglasses starting next week(inquirer.com)

368 points by Philadelphia 7 months ago | 182 comments

Philadelphia Inquirer article reporting that Philadelphia's First Judicial District will ban smart eyeglasses in courts to protect witnesses and jurors from intimidation.

Bird brains (2023)(dhanishsemar.com)

331 points by DiffTheEnder 7 months ago | 208 comments

Personal blog essay on bird intelligence, prompted by a video of New Zealand kea parrots moving traffic cones near a tunnel by Milford Sound.

The curious case of retro demo scene graphics(datagubbe.se)

330 points by zdw 7 months ago | 84 comments

Essay on the demo scene's attitude toward copying in pixel graphics, covering tracing, image conversion, and AI prompting.

"Over 1.5 million GitHub PRs have had ads injected into them by Copilot"(neowin.net)

312 points by bundie 7 months ago | 157 comments

Android Developer Verification(android-developers.googleblog.com)

308 points by ingve 6 months ago | 311 comments

I am definitely missing the pre-AI writing era(lesswrong.com)

300 points by joozio 7 months ago | 220 comments

How the AI Bubble Bursts(martinvol.pe)

292 points by martinvol 7 months ago | 347 comments

FTC action against Match and OkCupid for deceiving users, sharing personal data(ftc.gov)

267 points by gnabgib 7 months ago | 133 comments

I use Excalidraw to manage my diagrams for my blog(blog.lysk.tech)

262 points by mlysk 7 months ago | 106 comments

New Washington state law bans noncompete agreements(seattletimes.com)

257 points by toomuchtodo 7 months ago | 101 comments

New Apple Silicon M4 and M5 HiDPI Limitation on 4K External Displays(smcleod.net)

247 points by smcleod 7 months ago | 117 comments

Learn Claude Code by doing, not reading(claude.nagdy.me)

218 points by taubek 6 months ago | 100 comments

Vulnerability research is cooked(sockpuppet.org)

214 points by pedro84 6 months ago | 144 comments

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

206 points by not-chatgpt 6 months ago | 67 comments

15 years, one server, 8GB RAM and 500k users – how Webminal refuses to die(community.webminal.org)

202 points by giis 7 months ago | 39 comments

Mathematical methods and human thought in the age of AI(arxiv.org)

195 points by zaikunzhang 7 months ago | 80 comments

72% of the dollar's purchasing power was destroyed in just four episodes(eco3min.fr)

183 points by latentframe 7 months ago | 179 comments

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

183 points by wazHFsRy 7 months ago | 78 comments

Take better notes, by hand(brianschrader.com)

179 points by sonicrocketman 7 months ago | 82 comments

Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman Equation: Reinforcement Learning and Diffusion Models(dani2442.github.io)

151 points by sebzuddas 7 months ago | 46 comments

Good CTE, Bad CTE(boringsql.com)

149 points by radimm 7 months ago | 34 comments

OpenGridWorks: The Electricity Infrasctructure, Mapped(opengridworks.com)

146 points by jonbraun 6 months ago | 21 comments

Intuiting Pratt Parsing(louis.co.nz)

141 points by signa11 7 months ago | 45 comments

VHDL's Crown Jewel(sigasi.com)

136 points by cokernel_hacker 7 months ago | 50 comments

Ghostmoon.app – The Swiss Army Knife for your macOS menu bar(mgrunwald.com)

133 points by mgrunwald_ 7 months ago | 101 comments

I'm betting on ATProto(brittanyellich.com)

132 points by speckx 6 months ago | 120 comments

JSON Canvas Spec (2024)(jsoncanvas.org)

121 points by tobr 7 months ago | 33 comments

OCR for construction documents does not work, we fixed it(getanchorgrid.com)

117 points by wcisco17 7 months ago | 74 comments

Show HN: Zerobox – Sandbox any command with file, network, credential controls(github.com)

114 points by afshinmeh 7 months ago | 86 comments

You are falling behind because you haven't fed the insincerity machine(christianheilmann.com)

100 points by speckx 7 months ago | 21 comments

What we learned building 100 API integrations with OpenCode(nango.dev)

88 points by rguldener 6 months ago | 19 comments

An NSFW filter for Marginalia search(marginalia.nu)

86 points by speckx 7 months ago | 14 comments

What Gödel Discovered (2020)(stopa.io)

82 points by qnleigh 6 months ago | 14 comments

The ladder is missing rungs – Engineering Progression When AI Ate the Middle(negroniventurestudios.com)

78 points by sorenvrist 7 months ago | 31 comments

We're Pausing Asimov Press(asimov.press)

77 points by bookofjoe 7 months ago | 45 comments

Recover Apple Keychain(arkoinad.com)

76 points by speckx 6 months ago | 25 comments

Show HN: Coasts – Containerized Hosts for Agents(github.com)

73 points by jsunderland323 7 months ago | 29 comments

William Blake, Remote by the Sea(laphamsquarterly.org)

73 points by occurrence 6 months ago | 4 comments

Reverse Engineering Crazy Taxi, Part 2(wretched.computer)

66 points by wgreenberg 7 months ago | 5 comments

Set the Line Before It's Crossed(nomagicpill.substack.com)

65 points by surprisetalk 7 months ago | 32 comments

America Is Now a Rogue Superpower(theatlantic.com)

64 points by JumpCrisscross 6 months ago | 20 comments

Built a cheap DIY fan controller because my motherboard never had working PWM(himthe.dev)

61 points by bobsterlobster 6 months ago | 23 comments

Car Seats as Contraception(journals.uchicago.edu)

58 points by CGMthrowaway 6 months ago | 78 comments

A sea of sparks: Seeing radioactivity(maurycyz.com)

57 points by maurycyz 6 months ago | 19 comments

Bitwarden integrates with OneCLI agent vault(onecli.sh)

55 points by sudo_chmod 7 months ago | 31 comments

Magic the Gathering Deck Shuffler(mtg.jessitron.honeydemo.io)

55 points by mooreds 7 months ago | 15 comments

"CEO Said a Thing " Journalism(karlbode.com)

51 points by LordAtlas 6 months ago | 5 comments

R3 Bio pitched “brainless clones” to serve the role of backup human bodies(technologyreview.com)

51 points by joozio 7 months ago | 61 comments

DigitalOcean Seeks $800M in Funding(datacenterdynamics.com)

51 points by herbertl 7 months ago | 37 comments

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

48 points by virpo 6 months ago | 13 comments

Stripe is down(status.stripe.com)

46 points by tompccs 7 months ago | 16 comments

Intel Assured Supply Chain Product Brief(intel.com)

46 points by aw-engineer 7 months ago | 10 comments

HD Audio Driver for Windows 98SE / Me(github.com)

44 points by userbinator 7 months ago | 7 comments

The Hateful Eight is 85% of S&P 500 Decline(paulkedrosky.com)

39 points by aanet 6 months ago | 38 comments