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October 30, 2026

Hacker Newsletter #816

Things are only impossible until they are not. //Captain Picard

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Issue #816 // 2026-10-30 // View in your browser

#Favorites


Modern financial planning tool to simplify your journey to financial independence
//projectionlab sponsored

Patrick Stewart has died
//nytimes comments→

Anthropic S-1
//sec comments→

Three new discoveries in mathematics, computer science, and physics
//openai comments→

We should be more ambitious with the software we build
//danluu comments→

Sebastian Raschka's from-scratch video course on building reasoning models
//magazine.sebastianraschka comments→

AI promised less work. I've never worked more
//oioannou comments→

CNC Stone Carving
//carmelitegothic comments→

Emacs Turns 50
//technologyreview comments→

Switzerland. Block by block. At 1:1 scale
//blocks.manifold3d comments→

Growing Trees
//brashandplucky comments→

Decompiling Fast Food Tycoon 2: Drawing the World
//healeycodes comments→

#Ask HN


Median product "lifespan" has fallen from ~4y down to ~1.5y

Old.reddit.com Gone

#Classifieds


Process Over Magic: Beyond Vibe Coding //pragprog

GTM Data Governance Manager @ Launch Darkly //launchdarkly

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#Show HN


Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you //edjefferson comments→

New 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6 //apple comments→

TitleArt – Make text like it's 1997 //titleart.dvy comments→

A Truly Modular Keyboard //github comments→

OnKey – I'm a bad singer, so I built an app to show where I'm off-key //github comments→

I put employees inside S&P 500 market-cap bubbles //bigwhalehunting comments→

Encarta 95 Web //benwinding.github comments→

#Code


Ghostty 1.4 //ghostty comments→

The Goose Programming Language //aardappel.github comments→

The Mythical Man-Month in the Age of AI //j11g comments→

Crystal 1.22 //crystal-lang comments→

A proof-of-concept formalization of the IRS federal tax forms //github comments→

#Data


DeepInfer: High-performance inference framework for DeepSeek models //github comments→

We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4 //mistral comments→

Twelve years of distributed SQLite //philipotoole comments→

I Turned DOOM into a Transformer //github comments→

#Design


Websites Should Be Printable //brennenputh comments→

Ink droplets in motion snag top prize in Nikon Small World contest //arstechnica comments→

What goes into making an animated film? //disneyanimation comments→

16colo.rs – ANSI/ASCII art archive //16colo comments→

Colorfigures //april-zhu comments→

#Books


Dolly Parton's Imagination Library //imaginationlibrary comments→

I don't understand quantum physics //southampton.ac comments→

Tool book of a Nuremberg knight from 1505 //loeffelholz-codex comments→

Jokes for the ZX81 //spelk comments→

An illustrated online book on Hewlett-Packard equipment //blog.adafruit comments→

Start Doing Graph Theory //vertex comments→

#Working


No signs of AI payoff outside the tech sector //apollo comments→

Dayjob: Tax – evaluating AI agents on 50 professional tax assignments //surgehq comments→

Hunger beats tenure: Advice for junior engineers //felixrieseberg comments→

Why are good developers so wary of agentic development? //martinfowler comments→

After automation: Solo founding will be the default //every comments→

Freehire, open-source search 3M+ tech jobs from company career boards //freehire comments→

#Learn


The Exponential Time Hypothesis Is False [pdf] //github comments→

Oldest GUI application that still runs on Windows 11 //blog.enlyth comments→

Solar power is becoming bigger than nuclear //bbc comments→

Classification of Finite Simple Groups Formalized in Lean //cfsg.axiommath comments→

The St. Helena 5 pence coin shows Jonathan, a roughly 190 year old tortoise //de.numista comments→

An examination of lost firefly species of the US and Canada //journaloflostspecies comments→

#Watching


VCF Southwest 2026, but Edited on Silicon Graphics for '90s TV //youtube comments→

One Man's Pan Am 747 Replica //youtube comments→

The complete history of the PC game Civilization, as told by Sid Meier //youtube comments→

Whatever Happened to Fire Escapes? //practical.engineering comments→

Reinventing the Pencil Sharpener //youtube comments→

#Startup News


Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce //seattletimes comments→

StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month //data.stackexchange comments→

CSS-Tricks has a new owner //css-tricks comments→

The Grid, a factory-scale robot in Massachusetts that builds PCBs on demand //circuithub comments→

DoorDash to acquire Instacart //about.doordash comments→

Google Search is now less than half of Alphabet’s revenue //kadoa comments→

Why Micron Is Suddenly Ditching 4F² DRAM as Rivals Double Down //hothardware comments→

Hex Raises $100M //hex comments→

#Fun


Apple Music 404 Not Found //music.apple comments→

Listen and read USA nuclear forces Emergency Action Messages, heard on 11175 kHz //missileer comments→

A tiny world model running games on a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W //github comments→

Glider 4.0 Unofficial Web Edition (Mac game port) //dbohdan.github comments→

Requests, Please //morronel.github comments→

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