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May 1, 2026

Hacker Newsletter #792

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. //Lily Tomlin

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Issue #792 // 2026-05-01 // View in your browser

#Favorites


Earn an Ivy League master’s degree in AI, data science, computer science, or software systems and cybersecurity––100% online taught by Penn’s world-renowned faculty
//upenn sponsored

Ghostty is leaving GitHub
//mitchellh comments→

Zed 1.0
//zed comments→

Cursor Camp
//neal comments→

How ChatGPT serves ads
//buchodi comments→

Men who stare at walls
//alexselimov comments→

Where the goblins came from
//openai comments→

How an oil refinery works
//construction-physics comments→

I built a Game Boy emulator in F#
//nickkossolapov.github comments→

Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish
//blog.matthewbrunelle comments→

OpenTrafficMap
//opentrafficmap comments→

Letting AI play my game – building an agentic test harness to help play-testing
//blog.jeffschomay comments→

Biology is a Burrito: A text- and visual-based journey through a living cell
//burrito comments→

Getting my daily news from a dot matrix printer 2024
//aschmelyun comments→

#Ask HN


What skills are future proof in an AI driven job market?

Am I getting old, or is working with AI juniors becoming a nightmare?

#Classifieds


"The Guild" is Back - Help us Make a Reunion Movie! //launchoracle

You bring the domain, we host the email. $10/year. //purelymail

Algotutor - AI personal tutor for Go developers //algotutor

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#Show HN


Localsend: An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop //github comments→

I aggregated 28 US Government auction sites into one search //bidprowl comments→

A Karpathy-style LLM wiki your agents maintain (Markdown and Git) //github comments→

Live Sun and Moon Dashboard with NASA Footage //lumara-space comments→

Rocky – Rust SQL engine with branches, replay, column lineage //github comments→

A terminal spreadsheet editor with Vim keybindings //github comments→

Study Bible MCP – scholarly Greek/Hebrew lexicons and morphology //github comments→

#Code


Quarkdown – Markdown with Superpowers //quarkdown comments→

I don't want your PRs anymore //dpc comments→

Why I still reach for Lisp and Scheme instead of Haskell //jointhefreeworld comments→

Self-updating screenshots //interblah comments→

Remix 3 Beta Preview //remix comments→

#Data


Durable queues, streams, pub/sub, and a cron scheduler – inside your SQLite file //honker comments→

Talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930 //talkie-lm comments→

Rocky – Rust SQL engine with branches, replay, column lineage //github comments→

Full-Text Search with DuckDB //peterdohertys.website comments→

#Design


Is my blue your blue? //ismy comments→

A 1960s art school experiment that redefined creativity //thereader.mitpress.mit comments→

Creating a Color Palette from an Image //amandahinton comments→

#Books


How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt] //thereader.mitpress.mit comments→

Britannica11.org – a structured edition of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica //britannica11 comments→

Integrated by Design //vivianvoss comments→

FreeBSD Device Drivers Book //github comments→

#Working


Sabotaging projects by overthinking, scope creep, and structural diffing //kevinlynagh comments→

Work with the garage door up //notes.andymatuschak comments→

I did no work for a year and no one noticed //leylakazim.substack comments→

Adding a team was the wrong strategic decision //learnings.aleixmorgadas comments→

#Learn


Can you stop beans from making you gassy? //seriouseats comments→

Jumping into cold water can stop your heart //jorgenmelau.substack comments→

Exposing Floating Point – Bartosz Ciechanowski //ciechanow comments→

#Watching


How to Build the Future: Demis Hassabis //youtube comments→

Nicholas Carlini – Black-hat LLMs //youtube comments→

Neal Stephenson: The Real Threat Isn't AI, It's Us //youtube comments→

#Startup News


Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal //bloomberg comments→

China blocks Meta's acquisition of AI startup Manus //cnbc comments→

OpenAI models coming to Amazon Bedrock: Interview with OpenAI and AWS CEOs //stratechery comments→

Alphabet Announces First Quarter 2026 Results //abc comments→

#Fun


The Classic American Diner //blogs.loc comments→

Live Sun and Moon Dashboard with NASA Footage //lumara-space comments→

Google Flow Music //flowmusic comments→

DataCenter.FM – background noise app featuring the sound of the AI bubble //datacenter comments→

I built "Middle Class Museum", a tour of things that used to be affordable //ideagames comments→

Realmz – Reviving a Classic Macintosh Game //danapplegate comments→

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