HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-03-30

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

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

    1606 points · HN #47570269

  2. 02

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

    777 points · HN #47574034

  3. 03

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

    683 points · HN #47577761

  4. 04

    Do your own writing (alexhwoods.com)

    748 points · HN #47573519

  5. 05

    Bird brains (2023) (dhanishsemar.com)

    341 points · HN #47573887

  6. 06

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

    499 points · HN #47575403

  7. 07

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

    408 points · HN #47578572

  8. 08

    The Cognitive Dark Forest (ryelang.org)

    575 points · HN #47566442

  9. 09

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

    416 points · HN #47569471

  10. 10

    Cherri – programming language that compiles to an Apple Shortuct (github.com/electrikmilk)

    355 points · HN #47549824

  11. 11

    15 Years of Forking (waterfox.com)

    300 points · HN #47545607

  12. 12

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

    358 points · HN #47570666

  13. 13

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

    283 points · HN #47571376

  14. 14

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

    322 points · HN #47571279

  15. 15

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

    218 points · HN #47572771

  16. 16

    The road signs that teach travellers about France (bbc.com)

    154 points · HN #47566960

  17. 17

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

    317 points · HN #47575616

  18. 18

    Agents of Chaos (baulab.info)

    137 points · HN #47547843

  19. 19

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

    171 points · HN #47571495

  20. 20

    VHDL's Crown Jewel (sigasi.com)

    149 points · HN #47570435

  21. 21

    Vulnerability research is cooked (sockpuppet.org)

    267 points · HN #47578086

  22. 22

    In math, rigor is vital, but are digitized proofs taking it too far? (quantamagazine.org)

    128 points · HN #47528403

  23. 23

    Build123d: A Python CAD programming library (github.com/gumyr)

    153 points · HN #47567242

  24. 24

    Show HN: Coasts – Containerized Hosts for Agents (github.com/coast-guard)

    99 points · HN #47575417

  25. 25

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

    279 points · HN #47579229

  26. 26

    Hardware Image Compression (ludicon.com)

    73 points · HN #47557299

  27. 27

    Take better notes, by hand (brianschrader.com)

    214 points · HN #47576317

  28. 28

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

    304 points · HN #47570940

  29. 29

    Seeing like a spreadsheet (davidoks.blog)

    134 points · HN #47556063

  30. 30

    Ninja is a small build system with a focus on speed (github.com/ninja-build)

    112 points · HN #47540903