Top 10 Hacker News — Top Stories — March 30, 2026

Do your own writing, with 111 points, is a manifesto against AI-generated text — insisting that authentic voice and labor are worth saving even when machines write faster.

How to turn anything into a router rakes in 461 points and 172 comments, a deep technical guide for repurposing old hardware to bypass corporate internet gatekeepers.

Bird brains (2023) scores 254 points and 162 comments, reviving a classic investigation into avian intelligence that challenges human exceptionalism.

Cherri — a programming language that compiles to an Apple Shortcut — earns 132 points, appealing to Apple ecosystem tinkerers who want more power from automation.

CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font gets 200 points and 115 comments, turning a mundane developer choice into a community-wide competition.

A sea of sparks: Seeing radioactivity scores 25 points, a poetic but niche look at how scientists visualize invisible radiation through particle trails.

William Blake, Remote by the Sea manages only 12 points and zero comments — a forgotten outlier about the poet that few Hacker News readers engaged with.

Seeing Like a Spreadsheet earns 22 points and 1 comment, critiquing how spreadsheet logic flattens human experience into rows and columns.

The Hateful Eight is 85% of S&P 500 Decline scores 24 points and 25 comments, blaming eight mega-cap tech stocks for dragging down the entire index.

Do your own writing, with 111 points, is a manifesto against AI-generated text — insisting that authentic voice and labor are worth saving even when machines write faster.

How to turn anything into a router rakes in 461 points and 172 comments, a deep technical guide for repurposing old hardware to bypass corporate internet gatekeepers.

Bird brains (2023) scores 254 points and 162 comments, reviving a classic investigation into avian intelligence that challenges human exceptionalism.

Cherri — a programming language that compiles to an Apple Shortcut — earns 132 points, appealing to Apple ecosystem tinkerers who want more power from automation.

CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font gets 200 points and 115 comments, turning a mundane developer choice into a community-wide competition.

A sea of sparks: Seeing radioactivity scores 25 points, a poetic but niche look at how scientists visualize invisible radiation through particle trails.

William Blake, Remote by the Sea manages only 12 points and zero comments — a forgotten outlier about the poet that few Hacker News readers engaged with.

Seeing Like a Spreadsheet earns 22 points and 1 comment, critiquing how spreadsheet logic flattens human experience into rows and columns.

The Hateful Eight is 85% of S&P 500 Decline scores 24 points and 25 comments, blaming eight mega-cap tech stocks for dragging down the entire index.