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September 4, 2026

Hacker Newsletter #808

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool. //Richard Feynman

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Issue #808 // 2026-09-04 // View in your browser

#Favorites


The AI Conference 2026: Shaping the future of AI
//aiconference sponsored

GPT-6 Astra
//openai comments→

Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
//anthropic comments→

Creepy Crawlies
//people.kernel comments→

Good Culture Is the Biggest Productivity Hack, Not AI
//newsletter.eng-leadership comments→

Bug Blindness
//danluu comments→

Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them
//trellner comments→

Calibrate Before You Accelerate: Bias Toward Action in a New Role
//tucker comments→

Launch HN: Nori Robotics (YC S26) – A low-cost humanoid robot for development
//norirobotics comments→

CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO
//github comments→

Refurbishing a Tektronix TDS7104 Oscilloscope
//tomverbeure.github comments→

Automating Immersive Reading
//smoores comments→

My experience has nuance, yours is a data point
//blog.jim-nielsen comments→

Porting my 1993 Amiga game to Godot, with an LLM reading the 68000 assembly
//babyloniantwins comments→

#Ask HN


Why are OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down? Coincidence?

How do you survive a job you hate which is slowly making you sick?

#Classifieds


Product launch, but no marketer? //reallygoodpmm

Is your cloud AI ready? Have an expert review your security first. //cloudsecuritypartners

Your devs added 3 MCP servers this week. Governed? | Willow //withwillow

Get 50 Free B2B Ad Templates (Perfect for LinkedIn & Meta) //b2bads

👉 Book a classified ad for $150

#Show HN


Movie Scene Map – 13,312 films, series, games, anime and manga //moviescenemap comments→

Check if a file was made with Claude //claude comments→

Weedout – Safari extension that hides YouTube AI-labeled videos //masteranza.github comments→

We built open OpenRouter that turns usage into a better model //github comments→

Dyson CameraJet electric toothbrush //dyson comments→

HN Match Maker – Matching "Who Wants to Be Hired?" With "Who's Hiring?" //hnmatchmaker comments→

#Code


Htmx 4.0 //four.htmx comments→

Fine, I'll build my own text editor //dbushell comments→

Commodore 64 released September 1, 1982 //dfarq.homeip comments→

Intrusive Linked Lists //data-structures-in-practice comments→

The Browser's Main Thread Is Expensive //kciter comments→

#Data


How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been? //danluu comments→

The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations //dwarkesh comments→

Pre-Release of Polars 2.0 //pola comments→

Tangle – Visual ML Pipeline Editor //tangleml comments→

#Design


“I just chose words carefully” //unsung.aresluna comments→

GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven //ckardaris comments→

Ambient CSS v3 – Blender meets CSS //ambientcss.vercel comments→

OpenShot 4.0: Record, Edit, and Color Like Never Before //openshot comments→

How I Design with AI //ref comments→

#Working


No AI Fridays //noaifridays comments→

Ask HN: Who is hiring? //news.ycombinator

Calibrate Before You Accelerate: Bias Toward Action in a New Role //tucker comments→

The safest job from AI may be writing //muratbuffalo.blogspot comments→

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? //news.ycombinator

American Airlines' Legendary Mechanic Passes Away at 100 After 80-Year Career //simpleflying comments→

Invisible Companies //colossus comments→

#Learn


Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope //science.nasa comments→

Biggest dark matter detector spots a single weird particle //science comments→

Aging brains blend memories together instead of just forgetting them //studyfinds comments→

Longest Straight Line Paths on Water or Land on the Earth //arxiv comments→

Holden's Lightning Flight //en.wikipedia comments→

#Watching


A walkable ASCII cyberpunk city in one HTML file //youtube comments→

How Railroad Crossings Work //practical.engineering comments→

Harvard Professor on Why You Should Learn C in 2026 //youtube comments→

The Death of Educational Content on YouTube //youtube comments→

The Largest Electric Aircraft Just Flew //youtube comments→

Open Task Light: I made a lamp you can make yourself //youtube comments→

#Startup News


Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX //openai comments→

Google avoids a breakup of its ad tech business //nytimes comments→

Uber is laying off 10% of staff //uber comments→

#Fun


Restroom Archive //restroomarchive comments→

Voronoi Go //voronoigo comments→

Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived //anyhumanever comments→

Unusual Suspects //neal comments→

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