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Hacker Newsletter #780

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Issue #780 // 2026-01-30 // View in your browser

#Favorites


Airtable - From idea to app in an instant
//airtable.com sponsored

Airfoil
//ciechanow.ski comments→

Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds
//blog.google comments→

Gas Town's agent patterns, design bottlenecks, and vibecoding at scale
//maggieappleton.com comments→

How I estimate work
//seangoedecke.com comments→

OpenClaw - open source personal AI assistant
//github.com comments→

Moltbook
//moltbook.com comments→

The browser is the sandbox
//simonwillison.net comments→

The tech monoculture is finally breaking
//jasonwillems.com comments→

Mental Models
//fs.blog comments→

Doing the thing is doing the thing
//softwaredesign.ing comments→

Making niche solutions is the point
//ntietz.com comments→

#Ask HN


What's the current best local/open speech-to-speech setup?

Gmail spam filtering suddenly marking everything as spam?

How are you automating your coding work?

#Classifieds


Localize iOS & Android apps with LLMs — right on your Mac //apps.apple.com

Keep your customers in the loop with Onset, an all-in-one platform for release notes, roadmaps and more. //onset.io

Debug MCP servers fast with the free MCP Workbench tool //orkes.io

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#Show HN


A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch //github.com comments→

A MitM proxy to see what your LLM tools are sending //github.com comments→

Flameshot //github.com comments→

An interactive map of US lighthouses and navigational aids //lighthouses.app comments→

Elo ranking for landing pages //landingleaderboard.com comments→

Transcribee: YouTube transcriber that builds a knowledge base //github.com comments→

#Code


Mermaid ASCII: Render Mermaid diagrams in your terminal //github.com comments→

The future of software engineering is SRE //swizec.com comments→

Make.ts //matklad.github.io comments→

Notes on starting to use Django //jvns.ca comments→

Draig, a Welsh Programming Language //raku.land comments→

#Data


Introduction to PostgreSQL Indexes //dlt.github.io comments→

The challenges of soft delete //atlas9.dev comments→

OpenAI's In-House Data Agent //openai.com comments→

Scaling PostgreSQL to power 800M ChatGPT users //openai.com comments→

#Design


New YC homepage //ycombinator.com comments→

Web-based image editor modeled after Deluxe Paint //github.com comments→

San Francisco Graffiti //walzr.com comments→

Dithering – Part 2: The Ordered Dithering //visualrambling.space comments→

#Books


The Agentic AI Handbook: Production-Ready Patterns //nibzard.com comments→

Ask HN: Books to learn 6502 ASM and the Apple II //news.ycombinator.com

Shelvy Books //shelvybooks.com comments→

#Working


AI’s impact on engineering jobs may be different than expected //semiengineering.com comments→

What “The Best” Looks Like //kuril.in comments→

Employers, please use postmarked letters for job applications //soapstone.mradford.com comments→

The Uncomfortable Math of Working for Yourself //thomasunise.com comments→

#Learn


Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants //blog.ncase.me comments→

Television is 100 years old today //diamondgeezer.blogspot.com comments→

430k-year-old well-preserved wooden tools are the oldest ever found //nytimes.com comments→

A lot of population numbers are fake //davidoks.blog comments→

Maine’s ‘Lobster Lady’ who fished for nearly a century dies aged 105 //theguardian.com comments→

#Watching


I built a light that reacts to radio waves //youtube.com comments→

After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand //youtube.com comments→

The all new Mecha Comet, live on Kickstarter //youtube.com comments→

The Engineer who invented the Mars Rover Suspension in his garage //youtube.com comments→

I Overengineered a Spinning Top //youtube.com comments→

#Startup News


Amazon cuts 16k jobs //reuters.com comments→

Tell HN: Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday //news.ycombinator.com

Amazon closing its Fresh and Go stores //finance.yahoo.com comments→

TikTok settles just before social media addiction trial to begin //bbc.com comments→

TSMC Risk //stratechery.com comments→

Notice of collective action lawsuit against Workday, Inc. //workdaycase.com comments→

#Fun


Doom has been ported to an earbud //doombuds.com comments→

The HN Arcade //andrewgy8.github.io comments→

Super Monkey Ball ported to a website //monkeyball-online.pages.dev comments→

Video Games as Art //gwern.net comments→

Maze Algorithms //jamisbuck.org comments→

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