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June 12, 2026

Hacker Newsletter #797

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. //Henry Ford

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Issue #797 // 2026-06-12 // View in your browser

#Favorites


Secure AI Generated Applications with Vibe Coding Best Practices
//wiz sponsored

Claude Fable 5
//anthropic comments→

Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight
//mohkohn.co comments→

Making Graphics Like it's 1993
//staniks.github comments→

Dopamine Fracking
//igerman comments→

Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate social media feeds
//bbc comments→

I Derived a Pancake
//absurdlyoptimized comments→

Edsger – A handwritten Clojure REPL for the reMarkable 2
//handwritten.danieljanus comments→

Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive
//simonwillison comments→

Games Between Programs: The Ruliology of Competition
//writings.stephenwolfram comments→

If You Are Asking for Human Attention, Demonstrate Human Effort
//tombedor comments→

#Ask HN


What was your "oh crap" moment with GenAI?

Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?

What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?

Are you still using a Vision Pro?

#Classifieds


Tiny health wearable that never needs charging //getchargerless

Let your inbox AI agent do the work. Try this+that //thisandthat

Catch broken forms with automated web form testing //formtester365

Rendi - FFmpeg as a Service //rendi

Book a classified ad for $150

#Show HN


macOS Container Machines //github comments→

Homebrew 6.0.0 //brew comments→

FablePool – pool money behind a prompt, and Fable builds it in public //fablepool comments→

#Code


Upcoming breaking changes for npm v12 //github comments→

Software Is Made Between Commits //zed comments→

Self-hosted dev sandboxes with preview URLs (Docker, Go, no K8s) //github comments→

#Data


pg_durable: Microsoft open sources in-database durable execution //github comments→

DiffusionGemma: 4x Faster Text Generation //blog comments→

1k Data Breaches Later, the Disclosure Lag Is Worse //troyhunt comments→

#Design


I design with Claude more than Figma now //blog.janestreet comments→

Thi.ng – open-source building blocks for computational design and art //thi comments→

How liminalism became the defining aesthetic //hyperallergic comments→

Words of Type //wiki.wordsoftype comments→

#Books


I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA //news.ycombinator

The Cypherpunk Library //cypherpunkbooks comments→

PlayStation Architecture //copetti comments→

The Case for Free Online Books //from-a-to-remzi.blogspot comments→

Reading for pleasure is sharply down among schoolkids, report shows //nbcnews comments→

#Working


Cleaning up after AI rockstar developers //codingwithjesse comments→

Doing nothing at work //seangoedecke comments→

Ask HN: Are most corporate SWE jobs performative? //news.ycombinator

Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf] //web.mit comments→

#Learn


Reviving Papers with Code //paperswithcode comments→

Ear Training Practice Exercises //tonedear comments→

I found a seashell in the middle of the desert //github comments→

Samurai City //worksinprogress comments→

#Watching


C++: The Documentary //herbsutter comments→

I thought I knew how electrolysis worked //youtube comments→

Smudging the game disc to make speedrunning 'SpongeBob' faster //inverse comments→

Tribute to Jiro Yamada, Automotive Artist (1960-2025) //youtube comments→

Something is jamming GPS over Europe //youtube comments→

#Startup News


S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic //arstechnica comments→

PgDog is funded and coming to a database near you //pgdog comments→

Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers //cnbc comments→

Waymo Premier //waymo comments→

#Fun


πFS //github comments→

Gravity – Interactive solar-system simulator, from Newton to Einstein //qunabu.github comments→

Programming a GBA Game on an iPhone //blog.adamledoux comments→

Quick games disguised as boring spreadsheets //boredspreadsheet comments→

NBSDgames – 21 new, improved, original text games for Unix, DOS, Plan9 //github comments→

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