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October 16, 2026

Hacker Newsletter #814

Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution. //Clay Shirky

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Issue #814 // 2026-10-16 // View in your browser

#Favorites


Poppulo - Reach people wherever they are
//poppulo sponsored

Things to know when you get cancer
//jjmaxwell4 comments→

Passkeys are a trap
//nonfunctional.substack comments→

How Amazon pushes up prices all across the Internet
//not-ship comments→

Redesigning source control at Anthropic
//anthropic comments→

AI is a tool and using it well takes skill
//yyhh comments→

Tiny Little Office
//tinylittleoffice comments→

The Lightbulb Computer
//lightbulbcomputer comments→

Tesla Roadster
//tesla comments→

How random are you?
//lab.specr comments→

Fancy Curl Sites
//nytpu comments→

#Ask HN


Do you want a router that has DD-WRT pre-installed?

CAD for wood working with LLM support?

Why aren't Americans rising up against tipping?

What is the current trajectory of a senior engineer?

#Classifieds


Compete. Code. Win Cash. QHack 2026 Quantum Challenge Awaits! //qhack

Founding Forward Deployed Engineer at Lunos //lunos

Simulate your financial future today //projectionlab

Build one-page sites for pretty much anything //carrd

📢 Post a job or share your side project

#Show HN


Guitoro, a virtual guitar you strum with your keyboard //guitoro comments→

Carrier-Explode: iPhone, Pixel and Galaxy carrier settings decoded //carrierexplode comments→

Let your AI agents paint big arrows, boxes and text on your screen //github comments→

Unfenced – Land for sale that borders public land //unfenced comments→

I wrote an email app that accepts only one sender per inbox //clova comments→

#Code


A Modern Web App in C //prophitt comments→

I paid people to try and follow my README //shkspr comments→

Python 3.15 //python comments→

The tilde in your PATH may not be your HOME //disconnect3d comments→

#Data


Muse Wonder //research.meta comments→

Muse Spark Open //research.meta comments→

Jev meets the Trolley Problem //zachlandes comments→

Why DuckDB 2.0 is faster //motherduck comments→

Postgres isn't slow, your storage is //clickhouse comments→

#Design


Iosevka is an open-source, sans-serif and slab-serif monospace font //typeof comments→

'Wallace and Gromit,' 90% Alone //animationobsessive.substack comments→

The Origin Story of Kid Pix //red-green-blue comments→

The Dock on Mac, from OS 10 to macOS 27 //blog.jim-nielsen comments→

#Books


So, you’d like to sell your print issues of The Onion? //theonion comments→

900-Page Pre-Pantone Guide to Color from 1692 (With Complete High-Res Scan) //openculture comments→

Publishers Killed the Paperback, Then Blamed Readers //jacobin comments→

A Book That Will Never Be Read //forbetterscience comments→

Ask HN: What's your favorite children's books? //ycombinator

#Working


I know why the mathematicians weep //derekthompson comments→

A Remote Employee Refused 160 Webcam Photos a Day. Her Employer Fired Her //inc comments→

The cost of getting a job today //weli comments→

#Learn


The baffling intelligence of a single cell //jsomers comments→

MIT class project turns into an FDA-cleared treatment for tremors //news.mit comments→

Sound //ciechanow comments→

How machines learned precision //glinscott.github comments→

#Watching


GameBoy on E-Paper ESP32 at 30FPS //youtube comments→

Every US Electrical Outlet Explained //youtube comments→

Martin Odersky – Keynote: The End of Programming? //youtube comments→

#Startup News


Cloudflare acquires Deno //deno comments→

Our $445M Series D //oxide.computer comments→

Typesafe AI raises $870M at $7.5B //typesafe comments→

#Fun


Triple-A Minesweeper //minesweeper.mikelacher comments→

Sorry, I'm in a meeting //iminafleeting comments→

Total Annihilation, rebuilt for modern computers //nanolathe comments→

Brickbrag – A multiplayer brick-building world in the browser //brickbrag comments→

A city-building game in which the city would prefer you didn't //housing.over comments→

Catch a Bird – I made it for my own sanity //catchabird comments→

Game of Life – But Multiplayer, Hypermedia and Python //stario comments→

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