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June 5, 2026

Hacker Newsletter #796

If you want something you've never had, you must be willing to do something you've never done. //Thomas Jefferson

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Issue #796 // 2026-06-05 // View in your browser

#Favorites


Airtable - the path to 10x every person in your organization
//airtable sponsored

The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen
//0xsid comments→

The dead economy theory
//owenmcgrann comments→

They’re made out of weights
//maxleiter comments→

Domain expertise has always been the real moat
//brethorsting comments→

I am retiring from tech to live offline
//openpath comments→

Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing
//simonwillison comments→

Stop Ruining It
//seths comments→

Mechanical Pencil: An illustrated celebration of the engineering around us
//mechanical-pencil comments→

The Speed of Prototyping in the Age of AI
//darylcecile comments→

Retro-Tech Parenting
//havenweb comments→

#Ask HN


What Is the State of App Development in 2026?

So what happened to Facebook "localhost" tracking?

What game have you replayed more times than any other?

#Show HN


The Website Specification //specification.website comments→

Eyeball //eyeball.rory comments→

Muxcard, a DIY credit card size computer //github comments→

Cheese Paper: a text editor specifically designed for writing //brie comments→

#Code


Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs //arps18.github comments→

Love systemd timers //blog.tjll comments→

My thoughts after using Clojure for about a month //acdw comments→

On Rendering Diffs //pierre.computer comments→

#Data


SQLite is all you need for durable workflows //obeli comments→

Learn SQL Once, Use It for 30 Years //fagnerbrack comments→

#Design


DaVinci Resolve 21 //blackmagicdesign comments→

3D-printed book turns its own G-code into raised lettering //designboom comments→

12,060 piece, $799.99, Sagrada Família is the largest Lego building set to date //lego comments→

The Tenfold Playground //inkandswitch comments→

Ford 021C Concept Car //marc-newson comments→

#Books


High Density Living, 2000 Years Ago: Inside the Roman Apartment Building //commonedge comments→

Linux Basics for Hackers //github comments→

A Man Who Reads Books for a Living //lithub comments→

Book Dedications //walzr comments→

Textbooks in Tokenland //systemsapproach comments→

#Working


The Last Technical Interview //steve-yegge.medium comments→

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

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

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? //news.ycombinator

#Learn


Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes //dailycal comments→

Creatine raises brain energy levels and slows cognitive decline: study //thesciverse comments→

Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot //fieggen comments→

The Unreasonable Redundancy of Nature's Protein Folds //research.ligo comments→

What it takes to transpose a matrix //gudok comments→

#Watching


It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12 //jeffgeerling comments→

Zig 2026: No-AI Policy, $670K Foundation, Left GitHub and Why Zig Isn't 1.0 //youtube comments→

But It Happened //youtube comments→

Loading Sega Games Off a Vinyl Record //youtube comments→

Meteor strike captured on volcano livestream //youtube comments→

#Startup News


Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI? //economist comments→

OpenRouter raises $113M Series B //openrouter comments→

MacBook Neo is so popular that Apple doubled production //macrumors comments→

Accenture to acquire Ookla //newsroom.accenture comments→

Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions //techcrunch comments→

VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare //blog.cloudflare comments→

#Fun


Chipotlai Max //github comments→

Lemmings for Picotron //sophiehoulden comments→

Getting Claude to extract data from a 1997 football manager game //bennuttall comments→

Usagi – Simple 2D Game Engine for Rapid Prototyping //github comments→

SkiFreedle, a daily game version of SkiFree //skifreedle comments→

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