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May 29, 2026

Hacker Newsletter #795

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month. //Theodore Roosevelt

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#Favorites


Choose Gusto for payroll, benefits, and more—built for small businesses
//gusto sponsored

I'm Tired of Talking to AI
//orchidfiles comments→

Can we have the day off?
//mlsu comments→

I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit
//simonwillison comments→

Why Japanese companies do so many different things
//davidoks comments→

What we lost when we stopped letting kids leave the front yard
//stevemagness.substack comments→

Time to talk about my writerdeck
//veronicaexplains comments→

Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations
//noslopgrenade comments→

Mini Micro Fantasy Computer
//miniscript comments→

How to convert between wealth and income tax
//paulgraham comments→

Squares in Squares
//kingbird.myphotos comments→

#Ask HN


Is anyone working at least 4 hours daily on an Apple Vision Pro?

Entrepreneurs, how long did it take you to succeed?

When and why did you start believing in God?

#Classifieds


Hire a talented full-time web developer with SuperBuilt //wearesuperbuilt

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

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

📣 Book a classified ad for $150

#Show HN


Magnifica Humanitas //vatican comments→

Audiomass – a free, open-source multitrack audio editor for the web //audiomass comments→

Hacker News front page as a site //thefrontpage comments→

Hallucinate – Massively Multiplayer Online Rave //hallucinate comments→

Continue? Y/N: A 60-second game about AI agent permission fatigue //llmgame.scalex comments→

#Code


Using AI to write better code more slowly //nolanlawson comments→

Microsoft open-sources “the earliest DOS source code discovered to date” //arstechnica comments→

Use boring languages with LLMs //jry comments→

#Data


Claude Opus 4.8 //anthropic comments→

Disagreement among frontier LLMs on real-world fact-checks //lenz comments→

Building durable workflows on Postgres //dbos comments→

#Design


Ferrari Luce //ferrari comments→

A few interesting modern pixel fonts //unsung.aresluna comments→

#Books


The Art of Money Getting //kk comments→

You’re not burnt out, you’re existentially starving //neilthanedar comments→

Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore //unix comments→

Usborne 1980s Computer Books //usborne comments→

A new book about humanity's obsession with gold //economist comments→

All Lean Books and Where to Find Them //lakesare.brick comments→

Incorruptible: Why Good Companies Go Bad and How Great Companies Stay Great //incorruptible comments→

#Working


The worst job interview I ever had //oliverio comments→

The four-day workweek in Australia: insights from early adopters of 100:80:100 //scienceaim comments→

The Companies Cutting Headcount for AI Will Lose to the Ones Who Didn't //libertas.software comments→

How to be successful interviewing for big tech //blog.postman comments→

#Learn


Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting, study finds //apa comments→

A successful Japanese trial of a ramjet engine designed for Mach‑5 aircraft //bgr comments→

Why is almost everyone right-handed? A new study connects it to bipedalism //ox.ac comments→

#Watching


Wake up! 16b //hellmood.111mb comments→

Zero Lines Maze: What the 8-Bit Guy's One-Liner Can Still Teach Us //retrogamecoders comments→

IBM Confidential: System/360 File Organization //youtube comments→

You Only Use 10% of Printf() – Here Are Things They Didn't Teach You //youtube comments→

John Cleese on Creativity in Management //youtube comments→

#Startup News


DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode //pcgamer comments→

Last.fm is now independent //support.last comments→

Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down //cnbc comments→

Mistral AI acquires Emmi AI //emmi comments→

Valve raises Steam Deck prices //theverge comments→

Clickup Reduced Headcount by 22% //twitter comments→

#Fun


SimCity 3k in 4k //thran comments→

Earthion: A New Mega Drive-Style Shoot-Em-Up //earthiongame comments→

The Permanent Upper Crow //permanent-upper-crow.jasonwu comments→

My new obsession: A horse-racing board game of pure luck //alexanderbjoy comments→

Bitburner, programming-based incremental game //bitburner-official.github comments→

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