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October 9, 2026

Hacker Newsletter #813

Whoever pays the consultant gets pretty much what they want to hear. //Matthew Stewart

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Issue #813 // 2026-10-09 // View in your browser

#Favorites


Poppulo - Reach people wherever they are
//poppulo sponsored

Margaret Hamilton has died
//news.mit comments→

We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything
//simonwillison comments→

Animated ASCII Art for Web Pages
//ascii comments→

Anti-patterns in software blogging
//refactoringenglish comments→

Yes, and
//htmx comments→

Apple and a hacker's future
//stratechery comments→

Wood Tape (2004)
//gamesbyemail comments→

Vibecoding isn't as fun as writing code by hand
//autodidacts comments→

City building games have a Soul Problem pt.2
//radical-elements comments→

Hacking SimCity 2000 saved games
//log.schemescape comments→

#Ask HN


What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?

What games do you religiously play on your phone browser?

#Classifieds


All US-based recruiter jobs. Updated daily. //workintalent

Founders: this+that is the ops team you haven't hired yet //thisandthat

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

Simulate your financial future today //projectionlab

👉 Book a classified ad and find your audience

#Show HN


Bigwords.page – Turn any screen into a sign. The URL is the app //bigwords comments→

Find the flattest route between any two points in SF //flattensf comments→

A walkable 3D art history museum built from Wikipedia //artmuseum.artfrompixels comments→

Made an open-source Lego AI generator //github comments→

Jevman – AI decision models play Pac-Man //opper comments→

SVG Spark – 10 client-side SVG design and dev tools //svg-spark.vercel comments→

#Code


Founding Forward Deployed Engineer at Lunos //lunos sponsored

A browser-native classic Visual Basic VB6 IDE //wieslawsoltes.github comments→

The Slow Formation of Durable Software //newsletter.dancohen comments→

What is Codemode //lucumr.pocoo comments→

Pyxel – A Python retro game engine with built-in art and sound editors //github comments→

#Data


Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash? //dgt comments→

Polars 2.0 //pola comments→

Agents don't need memory, they need documentation //liao comments→

From the creator of Redis; run LLM locally with ds4 //dwarfstar comments→

DuckDB Ducklake //github comments→

Demystifying Tufte's data-ink ratio //tuftesrazor.scienceux comments→

#Design


Apple Pass Designer //developer.apple comments→

I hired an illustrator to draw my house. Now it's my Home Assistant dashboard //antonfrolov.substack comments→

A font recreated from photographs of classic Commodore 64 keycaps //github comments→

Example.com just launched the biggest redesign in decades //debugbear comments→

The lamps in my house //arslan comments→

Beauty in DVD Menus //vale comments→

#Books


I gave Opus 5.5 one prompt and six hours to visualize Invisible Cities //quesma comments→

Competitive Programmer's Handbook (2018) [pdf] //cses comments→

Anne Carson wins Nobel Prize in literature 2026 //theguardian comments→

#Working


Reasons I didn't become an EMT, ranked //ben.stolovitz comments→

To grieve, or not to grieve? //xenaproject.wordpress comments→

The people holding up the internet //sheets comments→

Forever junior: Skills AI can't develop for you //tech.criteo comments→

#Learn


Nobel Prize in Physics 2026: Francis Halzen //nobelprize comments→

What's Earth's dominant species by mass? //signoregalilei comments→

Teams in Vienna and Beijing have built the first thorium nuclear clocks //nytimes comments→

Brownian Motion //gregorygundersen comments→

#Watching


Greg Kroah-Hartman – Security in the LLM Age //youtube comments→

How to scale intent, quality, and artistry with AI //youtube comments→

LGTM (Looks Good to Me) – Claude Opus 5.5 Music Video //youtube comments→

You Are an Expert Software Engineer [Krazam] //youtube comments→

#Startup News


Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program //apnews comments→

Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge //techspot comments→

JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025 //helgilibrary comments→

OpenAI annualised revenues $20B less than previously signalled //cnbc comments→

Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery //arstechnica comments→

Supabase is acquiring Turso //supabase comments→

Orkut.com //orkut comments→

#Fun


Newgrounds.com – A community of games, music, and art //newgrounds comments→

Hole Punch: Sling your spaceship around gravitational fields //notoriousbfg comments→

We ported the original Doom to SQL //cedardb comments→

Our space game has a built-in RISC-V emulator that runs Linux //againstallodds comments→

Quake ported to safe Rust, playable in browser //quake-srp.pages comments→

A tribute to one of the best games on the Atari 2600 //plicerin.github comments→

Wordminos – Crosswords Meet Dominos //wordminos comments→

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