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October 2, 2026

Hacker Newsletter #812

For every complex problem, there is a solution that is clear, simple, and wrong. //H. L. Mencken

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Issue #812 // 2026-10-02 // View in your browser

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#Favorites


Everybody’s home. No one’s coming over
//derekthompson comments→

Dots: Always-on agents
//openai comments→

I'm the mom in that viral Giants clip. Let me tell you about my husband
//themomoftheyear.substack comments→

Pirating the Pirates
//mubi comments→

A brief history of the Bloomberg terminal
//spectrum.ieee comments→

Ten lines of code that changed my world
//pixelambacht comments→

37,500 border drawings: a map of the world as people remember it
//habibicode comments→

Solving Factorio Quality
//exyr comments→

Does Georgism Work? Five Years Later
//astralcodexten comments→

C64 MERCENARY (1985): a novel exploit bug at the start of the game
//gamesexplained comments→

Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display
//jagi comments→

#Ask HN


What are you reading?

Who's still keeping a DOS machine up because the business depends on it?

#Show HN


America.gov //america comments→

Reladraw – A diagram language where you decide where to place things //github comments→

Real-time Solar System with 526k asteroids and all tracked satellites //space.bl2 comments→

HN.watch – Videos of all Hacker News posts //hn comments→

Ledge.sh – Runnable Markdown Notes //ledge comments→

#Code


Pi 1.0 //earendil comments→

Platform-independent SIMD in Go //go comments→

The problem is not AI code, but not knowing about system architecture or intent //ssp comments→

Don't couple your Go code to GitHub //iain comments→

#Data


Gemini 4 Argon //blog comments→

Ollaya – Ollama for open-source, Jev-style decision models //ollaya comments→

Excel now supports multiple values in a single cell //techcommunity.microsoft comments→

MicroLLM Lab – Try 7 tiny LLM's in the browser //stateofutopia comments→

RIP, vector database //turbopuffer comments→

Postgres AT TIME ZONE 'UTC' does NOT do what you think it does //bookofrevenue comments→

#Design


Tells of a Slop UI //hereticpleb.vercel comments→

Apple's Dimensional Drawings //developer.apple comments→

Before pixels: Modular industrial dashboards //unsung.aresluna comments→

How our vibe coded website looks like a designer made it //railcode comments→

Kids Drawings Trends //walzr comments→

Free alternative to graphics design giants //scissor comments→

Book of Shapes – Collection of minimal, generative and customizable SVG-patterns //bookofshapes comments→

#Books


OpenAI Feared "Optics" of what might appear on Hacker News //authorsguild comments→

A bookshelf of rare company documents and out-of-print tech books //rare-books.vercel comments→

Ju Ju Tsu A book about jj / jujutstu //arialdo.codeberg comments→

#Working


Coding is not solved //blog.alexewerlof comments→

We're gonna need a lot more mathematicians //terrytao.wordpress comments→

A Staff Engineer's Guide to Inventing Work //sujithjay comments→

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

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

#Learn


How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent //spectrum.ieee comments→

Surprisingly complex waves reveal the brain's inner workings //quantamagazine comments→

Divide by Depth for Instant 3D //gabrieloc comments→

Why the Bronze Age Collapsed //worksinprogress comments→

Reading’s Bayeux Tapestry //diamondgeezer.blogspot comments→

#Watching


SNL Weekend Update: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on A.I.'S Threat to Humanity //youtube comments→

Alan Kay: Shannon gave us a way of dealing with noisy channels //youtube comments→

Deterministic Concurrency //youtube comments→

#Startup News


DraftKings is using AI to behaviorally target chronic gamblers //eff comments→

MongoDB CEO resigns to join Meta //reuters comments→

World Labs Is Joining AMD //worldlabs comments→

Micron CEO Says Memory Supply Will Be Much Tighter in 2027 and 2028 Than in 2026 //techpowerup comments→

#Fun


Lofi Cities – Pixel-art city nights with browser-generated lofi //loficities comments→

56k.rip – the 1996 dial-up internet experience //56k comments→

Destroy Any Website with Stickman //destroy.spritefusion comments→

1996 chat room simulator connected to Win95 and System 7 web desktops //lolchat comments→

Tank Body Problem //jimsitu comments→

Katamari Object Library //katamari.andrew-boylan comments→

NAND-16: a computer built from 277,248 NAND gates //somethingbig comments→

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