HN Daily - March 30, 2026

Today on HN Daily: How to Turn Anything into a Router — US router import ban prompts a practical guide to DIY Linux routers from e-waste Fedware — Government apps that spy harder than TikTok; the White House app ships a Huawei tracking SDK and an ICE tip line CodingFont — A bracket-tournament game to find your perfect coding font (166 comments of font debates) FTC vs. OkCupid — Match Group settles over secretly sharing 3 million users' photos with a facial recognition company back in 2014 Don't Let AI Write For You — Why outsourcing writing to LLMs is like paying someone else to work out for you I Am Definitely Missing the Pre-AI Writing Era — A raw personal account of losing the ability to write without AI assistance MacBook Touchscreen with $1 of Hardware — Project Sistine resurfaces; Apple still hasn't made a touchscreen Mac in 2026 Cherri & Build123d — A language that compiles to Apple Shortcuts, and Python-based parametric CAD