77: DTF:HN for March 18, 2026

Your Daily Tech Feed covering the top 10 stories on Hacker News for March 18, 2026. Featuring: Rob Pike's 5 Rules of Programming, JPEG Compression, Write up of my homebrew CPU build, Nightingale – open-source karaoke app that works with any song on your computer, Mistral AI Releases Forge, and more.

Stories covered:

1. Rob Pike's 5 Rules of Programming
   (Article | HN Discussion)
2. JPEG Compression
   (Article | HN Discussion)
3. Write up of my homebrew CPU build
   (Article | HN Discussion)
4. Nightingale – open-source karaoke app that works with any song on your computer
   (Article | HN Discussion)
5. Mistral AI Releases Forge
   (Article | HN Discussion)
6. Ask HN: What breaks first when your team grows from 10 to 50 people?
   (HN Discussion)
7. How the Eon Team Produced a Virtual Embodied Fly
   (Article | HN Discussion)
8. A Decade of Slug
   (Article | HN Discussion)
9. Celebrating Tony Hoare's mark on computer science
   (Article | HN Discussion)
10. Microsoft's 'unhackable' Xbox One has been hacked by 'Bliss'
    (Article | HN Discussion)