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January 16, 2026

Hacker Newsletter #778

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Issue #778 // 2026-01-16 // View in your browser

#Favorites


Edwin AI automates the entire playbook process—from generation to execution—to reduce MTTR, prevent outages, and free teams from repetitive incident work
//logicmonitor.com sponsored

Don't fall into the anti-AI hype
//antirez.com comments→

CLI agents make self-hosting on a home server easier and fun
//fulghum.io comments→

Shipmap
//shipmap.org comments→

Postal Arbitrage
//walzr.com comments→

How Markdown took over the world
//anildash.com comments→

London–Calcutta bus service
//en.wikipedia.org comments→

Inside The Internet Archive's Infrastructure
//hackernoon.com comments→

LLM Problems Observed in Humans
//embd.cc comments→

First impressions of Claude Cowork
//simonw.substack.com comments→

No management needed: anti-patterns in early-stage engineering teams
//ablg.io comments→

#Ask HN


Share your personal website

How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?

How are you doing RAG locally?

What are you working on?

What's the current state of paraphrasing anonymyty tools?

#Classifieds


Deploy your app before your coffee gets cold. The cloud for developers who ship. Sevalla. $50 free credit. //sevalla.com

More SQL Antipatterns //pragprog.com

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End recipe clutter. Scan, import, & generate with AI //grandmasrecipes.app

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#Show HN


I made a memory game to teach you to play piano by ear //lend-me-your-ears.specr.net comments→

Scroll Wikipedia like TikTok //quack.sdan.io comments→

AI in SolidWorks //trylad.com comments→

Webctl – Browser automation for agents based on CLI instead of MCP //github.com comments→

Self-host Reddit – 2.38B posts, works offline, yours forever //github.com comments→

AsciiSketch a free browser-based ASCII art and diagram editor //files.littlebird.com.au comments→

#Code


I hate GitHub Actions with passion //xlii.space comments→

The next two years of software engineering //addyosmani.com comments→

Scaling long-running autonomous coding //cursor.com comments→

The Gleam Programming Language //gleam.run comments→

Bubblewrap: A nimble way to prevent agents from accessing your .env files //patrickmccanna.net comments→

#Data


TimeCapsuleLLM: LLM trained only on data from 1800-1875 //github.com comments→

How much of my observability data is waste? //usetero.com comments→

Data is the only moat //frontierai.substack.com comments→

Generate QR Codes with Pure SQL in PostgreSQL //tanelpoder.com comments→

#Design


Eulogy for Dark Sky, a data visualization masterpiece //nightingaledvs.com comments→

Volkswagen Brings Back Physical Buttons //caranddriver.com comments→

ASCII Clouds //caidan.dev comments→

Meet ski map artist James Niehues, the 'Monet of the mountains' //adventure.com comments→

#Books


I used Claude Code to discover connections between 100 books //trails.pieterma.es comments→

The Concise TypeScript Book //github.com comments→

Crafting Interpreters //craftinginterpreters.com comments→

#Working


To those who fired or didn't hire tech writers because of AI //passo.uno comments→

Why senior engineers let bad projects fail //lalitm.com comments→

Just Get a Better Job //idiallo.com comments→

#Learn


Ozempic is changing the foods Americans buy //news.cornell.edu comments→

Exercise can be nearly as effective as therapy for depression //sciencedaily.com comments→

Why some clothes shrink in the wash – and how to 'unshrink' them //swinburne.edu.au comments→

Are two heads better than one? //eieio.games comments→

#Watching


Scott Adams has died //youtube.com comments→

The chess bot on Delta Air Lines will destroy you //youtube.com comments→

39c3: In-house electronics manufacturing from scratch: How hard can it be? //media.ccc.de comments→

#Startup News


Apple picks Gemini to power Siri //cnbc.com comments→

Ford F-150 Lightning outsold the Cybertruck and was then canceled for poor sales //electrek.co comments→

Apple is fighting for TSMC capacity as Nvidia takes center stage //culpium.com comments→

Flock Hardcoded the Password for America's Surveillance Infrastructure 53 Times //nexanet.ai comments→

SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation //sparkfun.com comments→

Google AI Studio is now sponsoring Tailwind CSS //twitter.com comments→

Anthropic invests $1.5M in the Python Software Foundation //discuss.python.org comments→

#Fun


JavaScript Demos in 140 Characters //beta.dwitter.net comments→

This game is a single 13 KiB file that runs on Windows, Linux and in the Browser //iczelia.net comments→

Uncrossy //uncrossy.com comments→

Rocket Launch and Orbit Simulator //donutthejedi.com comments→

Sun Position Calculator //drajmarsh.bitbucket.io comments→

TinyCity – A tiny city SIM for MicroPython (Thumby micro console) //github.com comments→

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