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August 1, 2026

Hacker Newsletter #803

It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to. //W. C. Fields

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Issue #803 // 2026-07-31 // View in your browser

#Favorites


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

Our position on open-weights models
//anthropic comments→

PGSimCity - How PostgreSQL Works
//nikolays.github comments→

The coolest use for the Vision Pro
//christianselig comments→

It's getting harder to focus every day
//glyphack comments→

Superlogical
//superlogical comments→

How to survive boiling water
//taxa.substack comments→

The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models
//claude comments→

Decker, a platform that builds on the legacy of Hypercard and classic macOS
//beyondloom comments→

The Productivity Mirage
//frantic comments→

Elevators
//john comments→

Design is compromise
//stephango comments→

Modern email can be built from borrowed parts
//en.andros comments→

Software for One
//ajwaxman comments→

#Ask HN


What livestream do you keep open in a tab?

Anyone else tired of brands discontinuing your favorite everyday items?

#Show HN


I was tired of opening 2 tabs for every HN link, so I made a userscript //github comments→

CheapFoodMap – A map of good meals under $10 //cheapfoodmap comments→

Brolly, a plain-text weather forecast site //brolly comments→

I mapped every US golf course //golfcoursebrowser comments→

Hubble: Open-source notetaking app for you and your agents //hubble comments→

ReadKinetic – a free, local-first speed reader for your own books //readkinetic comments→

tale.fyi, we deserve a home for fiction //tale comments→

The Federalist Papers, typeset as the 1787 newspapers they ran in //federalistreader comments→

Dreeve, a self-hosted dashboard for your sports and fitness data //github comments→

#Code


If coding has been solved, why does software keep getting worse? //ptrchm comments→

Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub //github comments→

A shell colon does nothing. Use it anyway //refp comments→

Watching Go's new garbage collector move through the heap //theconsensus comments→

Some more things about Django I've been enjoying //jvns comments→

#Data


Kimi-K3 on HuggingFace //huggingface comments→

Kimi K3 Architecture Overview and Notes //sebastianraschka comments→

Choose DuckDB rather than SQLite //tracewayapp comments→

TokenTown: A visual way to understand how LLMs work //laurentiugabriel.github comments→

Are AI Labs Pelicanmaxxing? //dylancastillo comments→

#Design


User Interfaces of the Demo Scene //datagubbe comments→

Darktable //darktable comments→

The AI Aesthetic //blog.jim-nielsen comments→

Toolcraft //toolcraft comments→

#Books


Delayed Gratification – Proud to Be 'Last to Breaking News' //slow-journalism comments→

The End of an Era //hughhowey comments→

Paged Out #9 [pdf] //pagedout.institute comments→

Logic for Programmers //logicforprogrammers comments→

The Rust on ESP Book //docs.espressif comments→

#Working


OverpAId – Fire your CEO. Hire the future //overpaid comments→

Did they ghost you? //didtheyghostyou comments→

What is happening to jobs? Separating AI hype from reality //siepr.stanford comments→

Engineering management after the cost of code collapsed //karimjedda comments→

Becoming a Research Engineer at a Big LLM Lab //maxmynter comments→

#Learn


7.1 Earthquake in Japan //data.jma.go comments→

Hannah Fry Wins the Leelavati Prize in 2026 for Mathematics Outreach //maths.cam.ac comments→

Should you wash your solar panels? //incoherency.co comments→

I made some transistor animations //brandonli comments→

I flagged two research papers for fake authors and both were accepted as orals //geospatialml comments→

Cooking for Engineers //cookingforengineers comments→

#Watching


Don't Take the Black Pill //youtube comments→

SpaceX Starship Flight 13 livestream //spacex comments→

Interview with Boris Cherny //youtube comments→

#Startup News


Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots //deepmind comments→

LearnVector – Andrew Ng's AI company building one‑to‑one learning experiences //learnvector comments→

Patreon laying off 20% of staff //patreon comments→

Unitree As2-W //unitree comments→

#Fun


Reverse Minesweeper //sunflowersgame comments→

I made a game where you build a CPU from logic gates //select comments→

Hard Road – A beautiful procedural post-apocalyptic game //hardroad comments→

Infinite Jigsaw Game //infinitejigsaw comments→

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