HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-03-19

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    Astral to Join OpenAI (astral.sh)

    1489 points · HN #47438723

  2. 02

    Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps (arstechnica.com)

    1196 points · HN #47442690

  3. 03

    Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents (pew.org)

    815 points · HN #47433058

  4. 04

    Show HN: Three new Kitten TTS models – smallest less than 25MB (github.com/kittenml)

    561 points · HN #47441546

  5. 05

    Afroman found not liable in defamation case (nypost.com)

    1250 points · HN #47436950

  6. 06

    Return of the Obra Dinn: spherical mapped dithering for a 1bpp first-person game (tigsource.com)

    472 points · HN #47406160

  7. 07

    How the Turner twins are mythbusting modern technical apparel (carryology.com)

    344 points · HN #47416972

  8. 08

    OpenBSD: PF queues break the 4 Gbps barrier (undeadly.org)

    220 points · HN #47439320

  9. 09

    A sufficiently detailed spec is code (haskellforall.com)

    652 points · HN #47434047

  10. 10

    4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches (bbc.com)

    465 points · HN #47440430

  11. 11

    Scaling Karpathy's Autoresearch: What Happens When the Agent Gets a GPU Cluster (skypilot.co)

    237 points · HN #47442435

  12. 12

    Noq: n0's new QUIC implementation in Rust (iroh.computer)

    248 points · HN #47443588

  13. 13

    Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers (github.com/cockpit-project)

    331 points · HN #47445599

  14. 14

    “Your frustration is the product” (daringfireball.net)

    606 points · HN #47437655

  15. 15

    Juggalo makeup blocks facial recognition technology (2019) (consequence.net)

    263 points · HN #47438675

  16. 16

    Waymo Safety Impact (waymo.com)

    351 points · HN #47445246

  17. 17

    Conway's Game of Life, in real life (lcamtuf.substack.com)

    332 points · HN #47434732

  18. 18

    The math that explains why bell curves are everywhere (quantamagazine.org)

    207 points · HN #47401489

  19. 19

    NanoGPT Slowrun: 10x Data Efficiency with Infinite Compute (qlabs.sh)

    168 points · HN #47444072

  20. 20

    Be intentional about how AI changes your codebase (swerdlow.dev)

    170 points · HN #47446373

  21. 21

    An update on Steam / GOG changes for OpenTTD (openttd.org)

    342 points · HN #47442834

  22. 22

    LotusNotes (computer.rip)

    172 points · HN #47385439

  23. 23

    macOS 26 breaks custom DNS settings including .internal (gist.github.com)

    390 points · HN #47440759

  24. 24

    Autoresearch for SAT Solvers (github.com/iliazintchenko)

    167 points · HN #47433265

  25. 25

    Launch HN: Voltair (YC W26) – Drone and charging network for power utilities

    85 points · HN #47442452

  26. 26

    From Oscilloscope to Wireshark: A UDP Story (2022) (mattkeeter.com)

    134 points · HN #47444460

  27. 27

    Cook: A simple CLI for orchestrating Claude Code (rjcorwin.github.io)

    307 points · HN #47434024

  28. 28

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

    265 points · HN #47431671

  29. 29

    Mozilla to launch free built-in VPN in upcoming Firefox 149 (cyberinsider.com)

    265 points · HN #47434567

  30. 30

    Launch HN: Canary (YC W26) – AI QA that understands your code

    58 points · HN #47441629