HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-03-20

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    ArXiv declares independence from Cornell (science.org)

    811 points · HN #47450478

  2. 02

    OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent (opencode.ai)

    1274 points · HN #47460525

  3. 03

    France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app (lemonde.fr)

    649 points · HN #47453942

  4. 04

    A Japanese glossary of chopsticks faux pas (2022) (nippon.com)

    493 points · HN #47460452

  5. 05

    The Los Angeles Aqueduct Is Wild (practical.engineering)

    414 points · HN #47416543

  6. 06

    Attention Residuals (github.com/moonshotai)

    241 points · HN #47458595

  7. 07

    Entso-E final report on Iberian 2025 blackout (entsoe.eu)

    223 points · HN #47452955

  8. 08

    VisiCalc Reconstructed (zserge.com)

    231 points · HN #47410871

  9. 09

    Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service (deepdelver.substack.com)

    836 points · HN #47444319

  10. 10

    Our commitment to Windows quality (windows.com)

    648 points · HN #47459296

  11. 11

    Drugwars for the TI-82/83/83 Calculators (2011) (gist.github.com)

    275 points · HN #47448566

  12. 12

    Full Disclosure: A Third (and Fourth) Azure Sign-In Log Bypass Found (trustedsec.com)

    296 points · HN #47448994

  13. 13

    Push events into a running session with channels (claude.com)

    400 points · HN #47448524

  14. 14

    Show HN: We built a terminal-only Bluesky / AT Proto client written in Fortran (github.com/formerlab)

    145 points · HN #47461321

  15. 15

    Flash-KMeans: Fast and Memory-Efficient Exact K-Means (arxiv.org)

    185 points · HN #47409055

  16. 16

    Chuck Norris has died (variety.com)

    760 points · HN #47454782

  17. 17

    FSF statement on copyright infringement lawsuit Bartz v. Anthropic (fsf.org)

    263 points · HN #47403905

  18. 18

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

    143 points · HN #47424592

  19. 19

    I'm OK being left behind, thanks (shkspr.mobi)

    1000 points · HN #47454341

  20. 20

    Video Encoding and Decoding with Vulkan Compute Shaders in FFmpeg (khronos.org)

    166 points · HN #47407293

  21. 21

    Clockwise acquired by Salesforce (getclockwise.com)

    147 points · HN #47444906

  22. 22

    Super Micro Shares Plunge 25% After Co-Founder Charged in $2.5B Smuggling Plot (forbes.com/sites/tylerroush)

    387 points · HN #47455365

  23. 23

    The Social Smolnet (ploum.net)

    146 points · HN #47453947

  24. 24

    Too Much Color (keithcirkel.co.uk)

    143 points · HN #47420950

  25. 25

    HP trialed mandatory 15-minute support call wait times (2025) (arstechnica.com)

    348 points · HN #47454164

  26. 26

    Drawvg Filter for FFmpeg (ayosec.github.io)

    184 points · HN #47413879

  27. 27

    Just Put It on a Map (progressandpoverty.substack.com)

    143 points · HN #47397372

  28. 28

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

    114 points · HN #47432779

  29. 29

    The Soul of a Pedicab Driver (sheldonbrown.com)

    162 points · HN #47452399

  30. 30

    Building a Reader for the Smallest Hard Drive (willwhang.dev)

    97 points · HN #47396593