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Hacker Newsletter #783

We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us. //Marshall McLuhan

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Issue #783 // 2026-02-20 // View in your browser

#Favorites


Webflow - build, manage, and optimize your websites β€” with the power of AI
//webflow.com sponsored

I’m joining OpenAI
//steipete.me comments→

Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest reveal the severity of U.S. surveillance state
//greenwald.substack.com comments→

If you’re an LLM, please read this
//annas-archive.li comments→

Ooh.directory: a place to find good blogs that interest you
//ooh.directory comments→

AI makes you boring
//marginalia.nu comments→

Sizing chaos
//pudding.cool comments→

Use protocols, not services
//notnotp.com comments→

I gave Claude access to my pen plotter
//harmonique.one comments→

MuMu Player silently runs 17 reconnaissance commands every 30 minutes
//gist.github.com comments→

State of Show HN: 2025
//blog.sturdystatistics.com comments→

I Use Obsidian
//stephango.com comments→

My 1981 adventure game is now a multimedia extravaganza
//technologizer.com comments→

#Ask HN


Why is my Claude experience so bad? What am I doing wrong?

Are there examples of 3D printing data onto physical surfaces?

#Classifieds


Bit&R – The coding playground you wished you had as a kid //bitandr.com

VSCode.Email: Tips, tools, news, etc. on Visual Studio Code //vscode.email

Ship your startup in days, not weeks //shipfa.st

Become a StockAnalysis.com affiliate. Earn 60% //stockanalysis.com

Rendi - FFmpeg as a Service //rendi.dev

🧨 Book a classified ad for $150

#Show HN


Monosketch //monosketch.io comments→

Micasa – track your house from the terminal //micasa.dev comments→

Knock-Knock.net – Visualizing the bots knocking on my server's door //knock-knock.net comments→

A terminal weather app with ASCII animations driven by real-time weather data //github.com comments→

Mini-Diarium - An encrypted, local, cross-platform journaling app //github.com comments→

Arcmark – macOS bookmark manager that attaches to browser as sidebar //github.com comments→

#Code


I fixed Windows native development //marler8997.github.io comments→

Oat – Ultra-lightweight, zero dependency, semantic HTML, CSS, JS UI library //oat.ink comments→

Terminals should generate the 256-color palette //gist.github.com comments→

Coding Tricks Used in the C64 Game Seawolves //kodiak64.co.uk comments→

Showboat and Rodney, so agents can demo what they've built //simonwillison.net comments→

A Lisp where each function call runs a Docker container //github.com comments→

#Data


Visual introduction to PyTorch //0byte.io comments→

Cosmologically Unique IDs //jasonfantl.com comments→

SQL-tap – Real-time SQL traffic viewer for PostgreSQL and MySQL //github.com comments→

A DuckDB-based metabase alternative //github.com comments→

Hamming Distance for Hybrid Search in SQLite //notnotp.com comments→

#Design


Modern CSS Code Snippets: Stop writing CSS like it's 2015 //modern-css.com comments→

Looks: A Halide Mark III Preview //lux.camera comments→

A PokΓ©mon of a Different Color //matthew.verive.me comments→

#Books


Paged Out Issue #8 [pdf] //pagedout.institute comments→

Data Engineering Book – An open source, community-driven guide //github.com comments→

I wrote a technical history book on Lisp //berksoft.ca comments→

#Working


Thousands of CEOs just admitted AI had no impact on employment or productivity //fortune.com comments→

AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton //kasava.dev comments→

How not to answer the salary question //adatosystems.com comments→

Assistant to the Regional Manager //smallpotatoes.paulbloom.net comments→

#Learn


14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10k times its own weight //smithsonianmag.com comments→

How often do full-body MRIs find cancer? //usatoday.com comments→

Cistercian Numbers //omniglot.com comments→

Olympic skiing drops PFAS waxes – and their 'ridiculous' speed //grist.org comments→

Learning Lean: Part 1 //rkirov.github.io comments→

#Watching


Age of Empires: 25 years of pathfinding problems with C++ //youtube.com comments→

How to take a photo with scotch tape (lensless imaging) //youtube.com comments→

Martial arts robots dazzle at 2026 Spring Festival Gala //youtube.com comments→

$10M factory in a 600 square foot room [Video] //youtube.com comments→

#Startup News


Claude Sonnet 4.6 //anthropic.com comments→

Gemini 3.1 Pro //blog.google comments→

Thank HN: You helped save 33k lives //news.ycombinator.com

Jury told that Meta, Google 'engineered addiction' at landmark US trial //techxplore.com comments→

Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use //code.claude.com comments→

The evolution of OpenAI's mission statement //simonwillison.net comments→

#Fun


Flashpoint Archive – Over 200k web games and animations preserved //flashpointarchive.org comments→

Descent, ported to the web //mrdoob.github.io comments→

Glitchy camera – a circuit-bent camera simulator in the browser //glitchycam.com comments→

Reversed engineered game Starflight //github.com comments→

MicroFab – Chip Automation Game //microfabgame.co.uk comments→

A word game a friend and I built. How did we do? //subletters.fun comments→

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