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Issue #789 // 2026-02-27 // View in your browser

#Favorites


Modern financial planning tool to simplify your journey to financial independence
//projectionlab.com sponsored

I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard
//hawksley.org comments→

Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War
//anthropic.com comments→

I'm helping my dog vibe code games
//calebleak.com comments→

How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution
//boristane.com comments→

Facebook is cooked
//pilk.website comments→

I pitched a roller coaster to Disneyland at age 10 in 1978
//wordglyph.xyz comments→

The Missing Semester of Your CS Education – Revised for 2026
//missing.csail.mit.edu comments→

What Claude Code Chooses
//amplifying.ai comments→

Diode – Build, program, and simulate hardware
//withdiode.com comments→

#Ask HN


Share your productive usage of OpenClaw

Have top AI research institutions just given up on the idea of safety?

How do you know if AI agents will choose your tool?

#Classifieds


Caligra c100 Developer Terminal //caligra.com

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

MCP authentication in minutes //docs.propelauth.com

Nango: Integrate your product & AI agents with 600+ APIs //nango.dev

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#Show HN


Loops is a federated, open-source TikTok //joinloops.org comments→

Nearby Glasses //github.com comments→

Terminal Phone – E2EE Walkie Talkie from the Command Line //gitlab.com comments→

X86CSS – An x86 CPU emulator written in CSS //lyra.horse comments→

Respectify – A comment moderator that teaches people to argue better //respectify.org comments→

Babyshark – Wireshark made easy (terminal UI for PCAPs) //github.com comments→

#Code


Pi – A minimal terminal coding harness //pi.dev comments→

Turn Dependabot Off //words.filippo.io comments→

The JavaScript Oxidation Compiler //oxc.rs comments→

What does " 2>&1 " mean? //stackoverflow.com comments→

Racket v9.1 //blog.racket-lang.org comments→

#Data


PgDog – Scale Postgres without changing the app //github.com comments→

What is a database transaction? //planetscale.com comments→

AI Timeline – 171 LLMs from Transformer (2017) to GPT-5.3 //llm-timeline.com comments→

#Design


The peculiar case of Japanese web design //sabrinas.space comments→

Artist who β€œpaints” portraits on glass by hitting it with a hammer //simonbergerart.com comments→

Japanese Woodblock Print Search //ukiyo-e.org comments→

3D Mahjong, Built in CSS //voxjong.com comments→

Museum of Plugs and Sockets //plugsocketmuseum.nl comments→

#Books


CIA World Factbook Archive (1990–2025), searchable and exportable //cia-factbook-archive.fly.dev comments→

Six Math Essentials //terrytao.wordpress.com comments→

#Working


Jimi Hendrix was a systems engineer //spectrum.ieee.org comments→

I found a Vulnerability. They found a Lawyer //dixken.de comments→

Writing code is cheap now //simonwillison.net comments→

#Learn


β€˜Viking’ was a job, not a matter of heredity: ancient DNA study //science.org comments→

Half million 'Words with Spaces' missing from dictionaries //linguabase.org comments→

The Physics and Economics of Moving 44 Tonnes at 56mph //mikeayles.com comments→

The Hunt for Dark Breakfast – Can we derive breakfasts we have never observed? //moultano.wordpress.com comments→

#Watching


So you want to build a tunnel //practical.engineering comments→

Story of XZ Backdoor //youtube.com comments→

AI is destroying open source, and it's not even good yet //youtube.com comments→

The Weird OS Built Around a Database //youtube.com comments→

#Startup News


Ggml.ai joins Hugging Face to ensure the long-term progress of Local AI //github.com comments→

Amazon accused of widespread scheme to inflate prices across the economy //thebignewsletter.com comments→

Layoffs at Block //twitter.com comments→

Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model //blog.google comments→

Stripe valued at $159B, 2025 annual letter //stripe.com comments→

Stripe reportedly makes offer to acquire PayPal //cnbc.com comments→

#Fun


A real-time strategy game that AI agents can play //llmskirmish.com comments→

Linex – A daily challenge: placing pieces on a board that fights back //playlinex.com comments→

Ed's Stratego Site //edcollins.com comments→

Snakes.run: rendering 100M pixels a second over SSH //eieio.games comments→

0 A.D. Release 28: Boiorix //play0ad.com comments→

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