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March 13, 2026

Hacker Newsletter #786

One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. //Tony Hoare

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#Favorites


Stripe Sessions: The internet economy conference, April 29-30
//stripesessions.com sponsored

Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans
//news.ycombinator.com comments→

Tony Hoare has died
//blog.computationalcomplexity.org comments→

Malus – Clean Room as a Service
//malus.sh comments→

Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns
//geohot.github.io comments→

Building a Procedural Hex Map with Wave Function Collapse
//felixturner.github.io comments→

Shall I implement it? No
//gist.github.com comments→

Cloudflare crawl endpoint
//developers.cloudflare.com comments→

The dead Internet is not a theory anymore
//adriankrebs.ch comments→

Files are the interface humans and agents interact with
//madalitso.me comments→

#Ask HN


Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion

Please restrict new accounts from posting

How to be alone?

What Are You Working On?

#Classifieds


Rendi - FFmpeg as a Service //rendi.dev

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

Pleopods - A weekly digest of the top links from Lobste.rs //pleopods.com

Buttondown Email - the last email platform you'll migrate to //buttondown.com

👉 Buy a classified ad

#Show HN


I built a tool that watches webpages and exposes changes as RSS //sitespy.app comments→

I built a real-time OSINT dashboard pulling 15 live global feeds //github.com comments→

Autoresearch: Agents researching on single-GPU nanochat training automatically //github.com comments→

DenchClaw – Local CRM on Top of OpenClaw //github.com comments→

Vanilla JavaScript refinery simulator built to explain job to my kids //fuelingcuriosity.com comments→

Understudy – Teach a desktop agent by demonstrating a task once //github.com comments→

#Code


Temporal: The 9-year journey to fix time in JavaScript //bloomberg.github.io comments→

No right to relicense this project //github.com comments→

Returning to Rails in 2026 //markround.com comments→

Writing my own text editor, and daily-driving it //blog.jsbarretto.com comments→

I built a programming language using Claude Code //ankursethi.com comments→

Pushing and Pulling: Three reactivity algorithms //jonathan-frere.com comments→

#Data


Big data on the cheapest MacBook //duckdb.org comments→

The surprising whimsy of the Time Zone Database //muddy.jprs.me comments→

Optimizing Top K in Postgres //paradedb.com comments→

#Design


FontCrafter: Turn your handwriting into a real font //arcade.pirillo.com comments→

Put the zip code first //zipcodefirst.com comments→

LibreSprite – open-source pixel art editor //libresprite.github.io comments→

The Met releases high-def 3D scans of 140 famous art objects //openculture.com comments→

Learnings from paying artists royalties for AI-generated art //kapwing.com comments→

Ask HN: Most beautiful personal blog UI you have ever seen? //news.ycombinator.com

Art Bits from HyperCard //archives.somnolescent.net comments→

#Books


Practical Guide to Bare Metal C++ //arobenko.github.io comments→

The stagnancy of publishing and the disappearance of the midlist //honest-broker.com comments→

Science Fiction Is Dying. Long Live Post Sci-Fi? //typebarmagazine.com comments→

Typst Examples Book //sitandr.github.io comments→

Nobody finishes reading my books //smallpotatoes.paulbloom.net comments→

#Working


Workers who love ‘synergizing paradigms’ might be bad at their jobs //news.cornell.edu comments→

I was interviewed by an AI bot for a job //theverge.com comments→

The Gervais Principle, or the Office According to “The Office” //ribbonfarm.com comments→

ATMs didn't kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did //davidoks.blog comments→

Levels of Agentic Engineering //bassimeledath.com comments→

#Learn


Lego's 0.002mm specification and its implications for manufacturing //thewave.engineer comments→

3D-Knitting: The Ultimate Guide //oliver-charles.com comments→

Runners who churn butter on their runs //runnersworld.com comments→

#Watching


Microscopes can see video on a laserdisc //youtube.com comments→

Living human brain cells play DOOM on a CL1 //youtube.com comments→

Terence Tao: Formalizing a proof in Lean using Claude Code //youtube.com comments→

#Startup News


After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes //arstechnica.com comments→

Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world //wired.com comments→

Meta acquires Moltbook //axios.com comments→

Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down //bsky.social comments→

Google closes deal to acquire Wiz //wiz.io comments→

Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AI //reuters.com comments→

#Fun


Bubble Sorted Amen Break //parametricavocado.itch.io comments→

Printf-Tac-Toe //github.com comments→

1v1 coding game that LLMs struggle with //yare.io comments→

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