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July 24, 2026

Hacker Newsletter #802

Act like a duck. Be calm on the surface, but paddle like hell underneath. //Oliver Luck

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Issue #802 // 2026-07-24 // View in your browser

#Favorites


Stop chasing invoices. Hire an AI agent to work your AR.
//lunos sponsored

Who's afraid of Chinese models?
//stratechery comments→

If You Build It, They Will Come
//benlandautaylor comments→

Writing by hand is good for your brain
//nealstephenson.substack comments→

I Inspected My Take-Home Interview Project. It Was a Whole Operation
//citizendot.github comments→

I'm a USB-C Maximalist
//shkspr comments→

Networking and the Internet, from First Principles
//fazamhd comments→

Never Enough
//dark.ronacher comments→

Making
//beej comments→

What happened to TheNumbers.com
//stephenfollows comments→

Why Software Factories Fail (or: harness engineering is not enough)
//github comments→

#Ask HN


Any AWS billing issues known? Amazon forecast of 3 billion dollars

What are your favorite blogs not about AI?

#Show HN


FreeInk: Open ecosystem for e-readers //freeink comments→

Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab) //bento comments→

Map of the world's great castles and fortresses //thecastlemap comments→

Late.sh – a command-line Clubhouse for computer people //late comments→

HN Hall of Fame – browse 3,100 legendary Hacker News links //orangecrumbs comments→

#Code


Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now //simonwillison comments→

Grok Build is open source //github comments→

Typing Speed Test, but for Developers //haxxorwpm.0s comments→

Moonstone: Modern, cross-platform Lua runtime and package manager written in Zig //moonstone comments→

MoonBASIC: A modern BASIC for building 2D and 3D games //github comments→

Everyone Should Know SIMD //mitchellh comments→

#Data


Transcribe.cpp //workshop.cjpais comments→

The startup's Postgres survival guide //hatchet comments→

The unreasonable difficulty of time series forecasting //suzyahyah.github comments→

Ollama: All Aboard Open Models //ollama comments→

Learning a few things about running SQLite //jvns comments→

DeepSQL – A self-hostable DBA agent for Postgres and MySQL //deepsql comments→

Trifle – Open-source analytics that stores answers, not events //trifle comments→

#Design


Shinjuku Station in 3D //satoshi7190.github comments→

Businesses with ugly AI menu redesigns //blog.fiddery comments→

98.css //jdan.github comments→

Ghost Cut – or why Cut and Paste is broken everywhere //ishmael.textualize comments→

#Books


Judge a book by its first pages //uncovered comments→

Raspberry Pi, Picos, Hats Humble Book Bundle //humblebundle comments→

Quality non-fiction books are the antithesis of AI slop //resobscura.substack comments→

#Working


What does "playing politics" mean for software engineers? //seangoedecke comments→

On Building Daily Puzzles, On Ending Them, and Other Thoughts //dailybaffle comments→

#Learn


Long presumed dead, a thriving coral reef is discovered in West Africa //e360.yale comments→

A digestion of the Jacobian conjecture counterexample //terrytao.wordpress comments→

Painting the sides of railroad rails white to reduce derailment //up comments→

Astronomers may have found the first exomoon //eso comments→

#Watching


Cross sectioning insects in an electron microscope with a femtosecond laser //youtube comments→

Modder Runs GTA III Inside GTA: San Andreas on an In-Game TV //videocardz comments→

The Java Story – The Official Documentary //youtube comments→

The Professor Who Taught People How to Think //youtube comments→

#Startup News


OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation //openai comments→

Advertise in ChatGPT //ads.openai comments→

Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement for pirated books used to train Claude //apnews comments→

Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting //runtimewire comments→

#Fun


Immersive Gaussian Splat tour of grace cathedral, San Francisco //vincentwoo comments→

PCjs Machines //pcjs comments→

Q3Edit – Edit and play Quake 3 maps in the browser //q3edit comments→

A self-running space economy SIM in Rust and Bevy //github comments→

The Daily Solargraph //eagereyes comments→

What else do people draw on gradient.horse? //rybakov comments→

The Visual 6502 //visual6502 comments→

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