HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-03-18

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

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

    1020 points · HN #47423647

  2. 02

    OpenRocket (openrocket.info)

    696 points · HN #47386703

  3. 03

    Mistral AI Releases Forge (mistral.ai)

    733 points · HN #47418295

  4. 04

    Nvidia NemoClaw (github.com/nvidia)

    385 points · HN #47427027

  5. 05

    Nvidia greenboost: transparently extend GPU VRAM using system RAM/NVMe (gitlab.com/isolatedoctopi)

    463 points · HN #47388658

  6. 06

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

    370 points · HN #47422759

  7. 07

    Warranty Void If Regenerated (nearzero.software)

    520 points · HN #47431237

  8. 08

    Have a fucking website (otherstrangeness.com)

    948 points · HN #47421442

  9. 09

    Unsloth Studio (unsloth.ai)

    388 points · HN #47414032

  10. 10

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

    592 points · HN #47422942

  11. 11

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

    403 points · HN #47427299

  12. 12

    Show HN: Sub-millisecond VM sandboxes using CoW memory forking (github.com/adammiribyan)

    311 points · HN #47412569

  13. 13

    The pleasures of poor product design (inconspicuous.info)

    269 points · HN #47420432

  14. 14

    Despite doubts, federal cyber experts approved Microsoft cloud service (propublica.org)

    487 points · HN #47426057

  15. 15

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

    266 points · HN #47423976

  16. 16

    Honda is killing its EVs (techcrunch.com)

    374 points · HN #47387268

  17. 17

    On a Boat (moq.dev)

    155 points · HN #47372072

  18. 18

    More than 135 open hardware devices flashable with your own firmware (openhardware.directory)

    326 points · HN #47369883

  19. 19

    Show HN: Will my flight have Starlink?

    276 points · HN #47428650

  20. 20

    Show HN: Hacker News archive (47M+ items, 11.6GB) as Parquet, updated every 5m (huggingface.co)

    408 points · HN #47378781

  21. 21

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

    161 points · HN #47427208

  22. 22

    Book: The Emerging Science of Machine Learning Benchmarks (mlbenchmarks.org)

    138 points · HN #47380714

  23. 23

    Write up of my homebrew CPU build (willwarren.com)

    238 points · HN #47389696

  24. 24

    Why AI systems don't learn – On autonomous learning from cognitive science (arxiv.org)

    205 points · HN #47418722

  25. 25

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

    140 points · HN #47422228

  26. 26

    Machine Payments Protocol (MPP) (stripe.com)

    204 points · HN #47426936

  27. 27

    JPEG Compression (sophielwang.com)

    399 points · HN #47372367

  28. 28

    Death to Scroll Fade (dbushell.com)

    412 points · HN #47426932

  29. 29

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

    509 points · HN #47430797

  30. 30

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

    168 points · HN #47420388