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July 17, 2026

Hacker Newsletter #801

The future influences the present just as much as the past. //Friedrich Nietzsche

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Issue #801 // 2026-07-17 // View in your browser

#Favorites


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Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence
//kimi comments→

Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail
//fabiensanglard comments→

The lost joy of music piracy
//pigeonsandplanes comments→

Good Tools Are Invisible
//gingerbill comments→

FAANG Simulator
//abeyk comments→

Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source
//opensource.microsoft comments→

Interview with Mitchell Hashimoto about Ghostty and Zig
//alexalejandre comments→

Tiny Emulators
//floooh.github comments→

Collection of Digital Clock Designs
//clocks comments→

Ente – Opening Our Books
//ente comments→

If you want to create a button from scratch, you must first create the universe
//madcampos comments→

Pseudpocalypse
//dynomight comments→

MITS: Rockets, Calculators, and Personal Computers
//abortretry comments→

#Ask HN


Add flag for AI-generated articles

What Are You Working On?

Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board?

#Classifieds


Process Over Magic: Beyond Vibe Coding //pragprog

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

Harmonic for Hacker News //play.google

Buttondown Email - the last email platform you'll migrate to //buttondown

Book a classified ad for $150

#Show HN


Chatto is now open source //hmans comments→

Davit, a Apple Containers UI //davit comments→

Photos of items from families in different countries with different incomes //gapminder comments→

Orbit – AR satellite tracker, watch 15k+ objects //nagylukas.github comments→

I mapped 8.5M research papers into an interactive atlas //tomesphere comments→

Spellsurf – Create words from words //spellsurf comments→

#Code


The Tower Keeps Rising //lucumr.pocoo comments→

The git history command //lalitm comments→

Write code like a human will maintain it //unstack comments→

How I use HTMX with Go //alexedwards comments→

Command Line Interface Guidelines //clig comments→

Job queues are deceptively tricky //typesanitizer comments→

#Data


Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model //thinkingmachines comments→

Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests //github comments→

Prefer strict tables in SQLite //evanhahn comments→

Microsoft releases Flint, a visualization language for AI agents //microsoft.github comments→

I implemented a neural network in SQL //github comments→

Guide to data tools landscape for developers //sinja comments→

PostgreSQL performance and cost across 23 EC2 instance types //postgres.saneengineer comments→

#Design


Decoy Font //mixfont comments→

Modern decor may be straining people's brains //studyfinds comments→

Backtrack-Free Cursive //mmapped comments→

1,300 Beautiful Wildlife Illustrations from the 19th Century Now Restored //openculture comments→

An Infuriating Goodbye to Photoshop //anderegg comments→

#Books


Opening lines of famous literary works //verbaprima comments→

Immersive Linear Algebra Book with Interactive Figures //immersivemath comments→

Digital Deli, 1984 book by early PC hackers and enthusiasts //atariarchives comments→

The Little Book of Reinforcement Learning //github comments→

#Working


#Learn


Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration //academic.oup comments→

Late Bronze Age Collapse //acoup comments→

Helium escaping from atmosphere of nearby rocky exoplanet in a habitable zone //science comments→

'Likweli': A new monkey species discovered in the Congo Basin //news.yale comments→

#Watching


A better way to tie gym shorts (or any drawstring) //youtube comments→

Count Binface //countbinface comments→

Maxwell's Equations Were Discovered //youtube comments→

Taiwan's Lost 8-Bit Computer //youtube comments→

#Startup News


Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets //9to5mac comments→

Sony deletes more movies from the accounts of people who ‘bought’ them //techdirt comments→

OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe //community.oneplus comments→

Stripe and Advent have made a joint offer to acquire PayPal – sources //reuters comments→

#Fun


18 Words //18words comments→

Super Dario //superdario.pawb comments→

Yamanote.fun – A complete soundscape for Tokyo's Yamanote line //yamanote comments→

Duskers, the scary command line game, is getting a sequel //elbowgreasegames.substack comments→

The Conservationist Who Turned 40 Terabytes of Public Data into a Video Game //blog.exe comments→

Analog Watch //analog comments→

MIRA: Multiplayer Interactive World Models Trained on Rocket League //mira-wm comments→

One More Letter //playonemoreletter comments→

I've built a words game based on binary search //hilogame comments→

QBasic Gorillas (Repeeled) //gameswithtony comments→

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