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June 19, 2026

Hacker Newsletter #798

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. //Mark Twain

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Issue #798 // 2026-06-19 // View in your browser

#Favorites


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

Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
//anthropic comments→

Iroh 1.0
//iroh.computer comments→

Apple's weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness
//theverge comments→

How to earn a billion dollars
//paulgraham comments→

Calvin and Hobbes and the price of integrity
//therepublicofletters.substack comments→

Not everyone is using AI for everything
//gabrielweinberg comments→

I Love the Computer
//michaelenger comments→

Write for One Person
//wizardzines comments→

What job interviews taught me about Kubernetes
//notnotp comments→

Show HN: An 8-bit live gamecast for baseball
//ribbie comments→

Getting Creative with Perlin Noise Fields
//sighack comments→

Being an old school web-based sports sim dev in the era of vibe coded games
//zengm comments→

#Ask HN


Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?

What are you working on?

Favorite text heavy blogs that are a joy to read?

#Show HN


Kage – Shadow any website to a single binary for offline viewing //github comments→

Hacker News but for independent blogs //bubbles comments→

A website that lists websites to submit your website to //submission.directory comments→

Commodore Releases Flip Phone //commodore comments→

Paca – Lightweight Jira alternative for human-AI collaboration //github comments→

Are You in the Weights? //intheweights comments→

Datasette Apps: Host custom HTML applications inside Datasette //simonwillison comments→

#Code


I found 10k GitHub repositories distributing Trojan malware //orchidfiles comments→

TIL: You can make HTTP requests without curl using Bash /dev/TCP //mareksuppa comments→

How to setup a local coding agent on macOS //ikyle comments→

.gitignore Isn't the only way to ignore files in Git //nelson comments→

Ponytail – make your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room //github comments→

#Data


Free SQL→ER diagram tool, runs in the browser, nothing uploaded //sqltoerdiagram comments→

DuckDB Internals: Why Is DuckDB Fast? //greybeam comments→

How TimescaleDB compresses time-series data //roszigit comments→

Looking Forward to Postgres 19: It's About Time //pgedge comments→

#Design


Every Frame Perfect //tonsky comments→

Inkwash, a watercolor sketching app and explanation //johnowhitaker.github comments→

Storied Colors – A catalogue of named colors //storiedcolors comments→

Garden of Flowers – an archive of pictorial typography before ASCII art //garden-of-flowers.heikkilotvonen comments→

An interview with an Apple emoji designer //shadycharacters.co comments→

#Books


Your ePub Is fine //andreklein comments→

Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books? //tim comments→

Loreline – Tools for writing interactive fiction //loreline comments→

#Working


Is Meta destroying its engineering organization? //newsletter.pragmaticengineer comments→

Leaving Mozilla //blog.unitedheroes comments→

Why thinking out loud with someone beats thinking alone //thesignalist comments→

#Learn


Electric motors with no rare earths //renaultgroup comments→

How JPL keeps the 13-year-old Curiosity rover doing science //spectrum.ieee comments→

The Manhoff Archives: Color photos of Stalin-era USSR taken by a US diplomat //rferl comments→

Why do commercial spaces sit vacant? //freerange comments→

#Watching


How did Atari apply side art to Arcade Cabinets? //arcadeblogger comments→

I think they are lying to you //youtube comments→

YouTuber Punishes Himself by Writing a First Person Shooter in COBOL //gizmodo comments→

How SpaceX Humiliated Wall Street //youtube comments→

Thoughts on Python Typing – Guido van Rossum – PyCon US 2026 Typing Summit //youtube comments→

#Startup News


Midjourney Medical //midjourney comments→

SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B //reuters comments→

Salesforce to Acquire Fin (formerly Intercom) for $3.6B //salesforce comments→

#Fun


TinyWind: A pixel pirate sailing game with real wind physics (380k+ kms sailed) //tinywind comments→

CrankGPT //crankgpt comments→

Pirates, a naval warfare game inspired by Sid Meier's Pirates //piwodlaiwo.github comments→

Putt.day a daily mini golf game //putt comments→

Pac-Man, but you're the ghost //garrit comments→

Shepherd's Dog: A Game by Fable //koenvangilst comments→

Kirkland Roundabouts //kirklandroundabouts comments→

Bitsy //bitsy comments→

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