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April 3, 2026

Hacker Newsletter #788

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Issue #788 // 2026-04-03 // View in your browser

#Favorites


Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry
//twitter.com comments→

Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan
//stepsecurity.io comments→

Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies
//sytse.com comments→

The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode
//alex000kim.com comments→

Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide
//ccunpacked.dev comments→

Spanish legislation as a Git repo
//github.com comments→

AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice
//news.stanford.edu comments→

How to turn anything into a router
//nbailey.ca comments→

Do your own writing
//alexhwoods.com comments→

EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security
//blog.cloudflare.com comments→

A dot a day keeps the clutter away
//scottlawsonbc.com comments→

Slop is not necessarily the future
//greptile.com comments→

Seeing like a spreadsheet
//davidoks.blog comments→

#Ask HN


Client took over development by vibe coding. What to do?

What was it like in the era of BBS before the internet?

#Classifieds


EstateClear – Probate case management for small firms //estateclear.org

Unlimited free postgres databases. spin up, throw away, repeat //ghost.build

A social network for tech startups. Get early access now //industrysocial.net

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

Book a classified ad for $150

#Show HN


I took back Video.js after 16 years and we rewrote it to be 88% smaller //videojs.org comments→

Gemini can now natively embed video, so I built sub-second video search //github.com comments→

Open source CAD in the browser //solvespace.com comments→

30u30.fyi – Is your startup founder on Forbes' most fraudulent list? //30u30.fyi comments→

OpenGridWorks: Electricity infrastructure, mapped //opengridworks.com comments→

Gridland: make terminal apps that also run in the browser //gridland.io comments→

#Code


Anatomy of the .claude/ folder //blog.dailydoseofds.com comments→

Pretext: TypeScript library for multiline text measurement and layout //github.com comments→

TruffleRuby //chrisseaton.com comments→

Build123d: A Python CAD programming library //github.com comments→

#Data


Google releases Gemma 4 open models //deepmind.google comments→

1-Bit Bonsai, the First Commercially Viable 1-Bit LLMs //prismml.com comments→

Good CTE, Bad CTE //boringsql.com comments→

Modern SQLite: Features You Didn't Know It Had //slicker.me comments→

The revenge of the data scientist //hamel.dev comments→

#Design


CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font //codingfont.com comments→

The curious case of retro demo scene graphics //datagubbe.se comments→

The road signs that teach travellers about France //bbc.com comments→

#Books


ISBN Visualization //annas-archive.gd comments→

'Backrooms' and the Rise of the Institutional Gothic //thereader.mitpress.mit.edu comments→

What major works of literature were written after age of 85? 75? 65? //statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu comments→

The Little Book of C //little-book-of.github.io comments→

Almighty Lisp: Lisp and Emacs Essentials Book //almightylisp.com comments→

Memo: A language that remembers only the last 12 lines of code //danieltemkin.com comments→

#Working


I wanted to build vertical SaaS for pest control, so I took a technician job //onhand.pro comments→

I quit. The clankers won //dbushell.com comments→

Ask HN: Who is hiring? //news.ycombinator.com

The ladder is missing rungs – Engineering Progression When AI Ate the Middle //negroniventurestudios.com comments→

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? //news.ycombinator.com

#Learn


Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics //news.umich.edu comments→

Antimatter has been transported for the first time //nature.com comments→

Intuiting Pratt Parsing //louis.co.nz comments→

#Watching


Artemis II Launch Day Updates //nasa.gov comments→

I Built an Open-World Engine for the N64 //youtube.com comments→

Reverse engineering GTA San Andreas with autonomous LLM agents //youtube.com comments→

Clojure: The Documentary, official trailer //youtube.com comments→

#Startup News


Oracle slashes 30k jobs //rollingout.com comments→

Apple Business //apple.com comments→

SpaceX files to go public //nytimes.com comments→

OpenAI Acquires TBPN //openai.com comments→

#Fun


CSS is DOOMed //nielsleenheer.com comments→

4D Doom //github.com comments→

Chess in SQL //dbpro.app comments→

Payphone Tag is territory game using Australia's 15,000 payphones //payphonetag.com comments→

Wageslave – I quit my soul sucking job to make a game about it //cauldron.itch.io comments→

Skub – a sliding puzzle browser game //skub.app comments→

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