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June 26, 2026

Hacker Newsletter #799

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. //Frank Lloyd Wright

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Issue #799 // 2026-06-26 // View in your browser

#Favorites


Running local models is good now
//vickiboykis comments→

An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time
//scrollprize comments→

Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities
//reuters comments→

Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't send an invoice
//paolino comments→

Jerry's Map
//jerrysmap comments→

Help I accidentally a wigglegram
//lmao comments→

CSSQuake
//cssquake comments→

Blogging can just be stating the obvious
//blog.jim-nielsen comments→

My Mathematical Regression
//blog.dahl comments→

Slate EV truck starts at $24,950
//slate comments→

Om Malik has died
//om comments→

The minimum viable unit of saleable software
//brandur comments→

Big Banana Car
//bigbananacar comments→

#Ask HN


Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage?

Where is our profession (programmer) going?

#Show HN


Steam Machine launches today //store.steampowered comments→

I made Google Trends for Hacker News by indexing 18 years of comments //hackernewstrends comments→

StartupWiki – A Free Alternative to Crunchbase //startupwiki comments→

An ASCII 3D Rendering Engine //glyphcss comments→

Dirty Little Zine – a tool for making an 8 page printable Zine //dirtylittlezine comments→

OpenKnowledge – open source AI-first alternative to Obsidian/Notion //github comments→

ytr: YouTube Radio for Emacs //xenodium comments→

Bible as RAG Database //crosscanon comments→

#Code


Deno Desktop //docs.deno comments→

RubyLLM: A Ruby framework for all major AI providers //rubyllm comments→

When I reject AI code even if it works //vinibrasil comments→

Clojure Hosted on Go //github comments→

#Data


F3 //github comments→

Plotnine //plotnine comments→

I rewrote PostHog's SQL parser, 70x faster, while barely looking at the code //posthog comments→

Statistics that live in your SQL //kolistat comments→

#Design


Stealing Is a Skill //ben-mini comments→

Japanese symbols that speak without words //arun comments→

Monolisa v3 – a typeface for developers and creatives //monolisa comments→

The disappearance of Japan's animators //economist comments→

#Books


Dostoyevsky isn't difficult //autodidacts comments→

Pre-2022 Books //notes.lorenzogravina comments→

AI children's books, body horror edition //lcamtuf.substack comments→

The Garbage Collection Handbook: The Art of Automatic Memory Management (2nd Ed) //gchandbook comments→

#Working


Did my old job only exist because of fraud? //david.newgas comments→

Fired by Google for creating the Google workspace CLI //twitter comments→

Ask for no, don't ask for yes //mooreds comments→

The modern company won't have bullshit jobs //12gramsofcarbon comments→

#Learn


Slow breathing modulates brain function and risk behavior //cell comments→

Everything is logarithms //alexkritchevsky comments→

The ability to regrow body parts is dormant in mammals, not lost //sciencedaily comments→

#Watching


Five monitors on a Commodore 128 //youtube comments→

Nintendo Wii U games running from a 1980's Bernoulli disk //youtube comments→

Remaking BBC test cards to teach you video processing //youtube comments→

15 sorting algorithms in 6 minutes //youtube comments→

Coding a Brick Tower //youtube comments→

#Startup News


Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics //startupfortune comments→

Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads //reuters comments→

45°C cooling design cuts data center water use to near zero //blogs.nvidia comments→

Qualcomm to Acquire Modular //reuters comments→

Elastic lays off 7% of employees //elastic comments→

#Fun


Half-Life 2 in a Browser //hl2.slqnt comments→

Beyond All Reason (Free Total Annihilation Inspired RTS) //beyondallreason comments→

Got sick of ads, so I made my own logic puzzle site //puzzlelair comments→

Chess-Inspired Roguelike //princechazz comments→

Wordit – Change One Letter, Keep the Chain Going //victorribeiro comments→

A game where you're an OS and have to manage processes, memory and I/O events //github comments→

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