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Hacker Newsletter #787

We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run. //Roy Amara

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Issue #787 // 2026-03-27 // View in your browser

#Favorites


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

Personal Encyclopedias
//whoami.wiki comments→

Some things just take time
//lucumr.pocoo.org comments→

The 49MB web page
//thatshubham.com comments→

We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do
//derekthompson.org comments→

Shell Tricks That Make Life Easier (and Save Your Sanity)
//blog.hofstede.it comments→

The “small web” is bigger than you might think
//kevinboone.me comments→

Wander – A tiny, decentralised tool to explore the small web
//susam.net comments→

Allow me to get to know you, mistakes and all
//sebi.io comments→

My minute-by-minute response to the LiteLLM malware attack
//futuresearch.ai comments→

#Ask HN


What is it like being in a CS major program these days?

How do you deal with people who trust LLMs?

AI productivity gains – do you fire devs or build better products?

#Classifieds


Frontend Hero – Replace 11 browser extensions with one //frontend-hero.com

Brand and marketing for startup speeds and budgets //leapday.ai

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

➡️Book a classified ad for $150

#Show HN


Tinybox – A powerful computer for deep learning //tinygrad.org comments→

Flighty Airports //flighty.com comments→

I built 48 lightweight SVG backgrounds you can copy/paste //svgbackgrounds.com comments→

Email.md – Markdown to responsive, email-safe HTML //emailmd.dev comments→

Hammerspoon //github.com comments→

A plain-text cognitive architecture for Claude Code //lab.puga.com.br comments→

Ichinichi – One note per day, E2E encrypted, local-first //news.ycombinator.com

I put an AI agent on a $7/month VPS with IRC as its transport layer //georgelarson.me comments→

Fio: 3D World editor/game engine – inspired by Radiant and Hammer //github.com comments→

Thermal Receipt Printers – Markdown and Web UI //github.com comments→

#Code


Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming //cs.unc.edu comments→

Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web //hacks.mozilla.org comments→

Give Django your time and money, not your tokens //better-simple.com comments→

A Decade of Slug //terathon.com comments→

Cook: A simple CLI for orchestrating Claude Code //rjcorwin.github.io comments→

Java 26 is here //hanno.codes comments→

#Data


Can I run AI locally? //canirun.ai comments→

LLM Architecture Gallery //sebastianraschka.com comments→

Quantization from the Ground Up //ngrok.com comments→

Turbolite – a SQLite VFS serving sub-250ms cold JOIN queries from S3 //github.com comments→

Executing programs inside transformers with exponentially faster inference //percepta.ai comments→

#Design


TUI Studio – visual terminal UI design tool //tui.studio comments→

The pleasures of poor product design //inconspicuous.info comments→

Obsolete Sounds //citiesandmemory.com comments→

The day I discovered type design //marksimonson.com comments→

My Astrophotography in the Movie Project Hail Mary //rpastro.square.site comments→

#Books


Five Years of Running a Systems Reading Group at Microsoft //armaansood.com comments→

Library of Short Stories //libraryofshortstories.com comments→

Learning Creative Coding //stigmollerhansen.dk comments→

#Working


US Job Market Visualizer //karpathy.ai comments→

Why I may ‘hire’ AI instead of a graduate student //science.org comments→

#Learn


Why so many control rooms were seafoam green //bethmathews.substack.com comments→

Data centers are transitioning from AC to DC //spectrum.ieee.org comments→

Generating All 32-Bit Primes (Part I) //hnlyman.github.io comments→

The Math That Explains Why Bell Curves Are Everywhere //quantamagazine.org comments→

Using calculus to do number theory //hidden-phenomena.com comments→

#Watching


Sci-Fi Short Film "There Is No Antimemetics Division" //youtube.com comments→

Reverse Engineering Apple's GPU Energy Model on the M4 Max //youtube.com comments→

The Los Angeles Aqueduct Is Wild //youtube.com comments→

#Startup News


Astral to Join OpenAI //astral.sh comments→

Goodbye to Sora //twitter.com comments→

Epic Games to cut more than 1k jobs as Fortnite usage falls //reuters.com comments→

Clockwise acquired by Salesforce //getclockwise.com comments→

Mistral AI Releases Forge //mistral.ai comments→

#Fun


Kagi Translate now supports LinkedIn Speak as an output language //translate.kagi.com comments→

Hormuz Minesweeper – Are you tired of winning? //hormuz.pythonic.ninja comments→

Conway's Game of Life, in real life //lcamtuf.substack.com comments→

Playing LongTurn FreeCiv with Friends //github.com comments→

What's my JND? – a colour guessing game //keithcirkel.co.uk comments→

Off By – a daily game about how wrong we are about the American economy //offby.io comments→

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