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March 7, 2025

Hacker Newsletter #736

I find, when you're an optimist, life has a funny way of looking after you. //Simon Sinek

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#Favorites


Learn how to associate individual users to PostHog event data in React applications
//clerk.com sponsored

Apple M3 Ultra
//apple.com comments→

Tailscale is pretty useful
//blog.6nok.org comments→

Show HN: Bayleaf – Building a low-profile wireless split keyboard
//graz.io comments→

MacBook Air M4
//apple.com comments→

Troubleshooting: A skill that never goes obsolete
//autodidacts.io comments→

Hallucinations in code are the least dangerous form of LLM mistakes
//simonwillison.net comments→

Calendar.txt
//terokarvinen.com comments→

Automatically tagging politician when they use their phone on the livestreams
//driesdepoorter.be comments→

My Beancount books are 95% automatic after 3 years
//fangpenlin.com comments→

Why and How I use “Org Mode” for my writing and more
//evalapply.org comments→

#Ask HN


Former devs who can't get a job, what did you end up doing for work?

What less-popular systems programming language are you using?

Recommend resources that helped your game dev journey?

Are you a 40-year old software engineer without a job for > 1 year?

#Show HN


Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord //revolt.chat comments→

European word translator: an interactive map //ukdataexplorer.com comments→

Tach – Visualize and untangle your Python codebase //github.com comments→

I made a website where you can create your own "Life in Weeks" timeline //lifeweeks.app comments→

MS Paint IDE //ms-paint-i.de comments→

Agents.json – OpenAPI Specification for LLMs //github.com comments→

#Code


EA Open Sources Command and Conquer: Red Alert, along with other games //github.com comments→

The power of interning: making a time series database smaller //gendignoux.com comments→

Tach – Visualize and untangle your Python codebase //github.com comments→

API design note: Beware of adding an "Other" enum value //devblogs.microsoft.com comments→

Agents.json – OpenAPI Specification for LLMs //github.com comments→

#Data


Mistral OCR //mistral.ai comments→

Writing an LLM from scratch, part 8 – trainable self-attention //gilesthomas.com comments→

SQLite-on-the-server is misunderstood: Better at hyper-scale than micro-scale //rivet.gg comments→

Smallpond – A lightweight data processing framework built on DuckDB and 3FS //github.com comments→

The Internals of PostgreSQL //interdb.jp comments→

Apache iceberg the Hadoop of the modern-data-stack? //blog.det.life comments→

#Design


Solarpunk //en.wikipedia.org comments→

A shirt whose price increases by 1 euro with every purchase //driesdepoorter.be comments→

Geist: A font designed for developers and designers, from Vercel //vercel.com comments→

Design Tips for Startups //vigilant.run comments→

#Working


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

Should managers still code? //theengineeringmanager.substack.com comments→

Inheriting is becoming nearly as important as working //economist.com comments→

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

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? //news.ycombinator.com

Didn't realize it was this bad //old.reddit.com comments→

#Learn


Age and cognitive skills: Use it or lose it //science.org comments→

MIT 6.S184: Introduction to Flow Matching and Diffusion Models //diffusion.csail.mit.edu comments→

The Pentium contains a complicated circuit to multiply by three //righto.com comments→

There Was a Texas Lottery Arbitrage //bloomberg.com comments→

DARPA Large Bio-Mechanical Space Structures //sam.gov comments→

Mucins keep the brain safe and could guard against ageing //nature.com comments→

#Watching


Gödel's theorem debunks the most important AI myth – Roger Penrose //youtube.com comments→

Partnering with the Shawnee Tribe for Civilization VII //civilization.2k.com comments→

DIY "infinity contrast" TV – with 100% recycled parts //youtube.com comments→

Japanese Toshiba Typewriter Model BW-2112 //youtube.com comments→

#Startup News


A Letter to the American People //18f.org comments→

Microsoft is killing Skype //windowscentral.com comments→

TSMC expected to announce $100B investment in U.S. //wsj.com comments→

Introducing a terms of use and updated privacy notice for Firefox //blog.mozilla.org comments→

Alexa+ //aboutamazon.com comments→

Maritime Fusion – Fusion Reactors for Ships //news.ycombinator.com

The Return of Digg, a Star of an Earlier Internet Era //nytimes.com comments→

#Fun


Firefly ‘Blue Ghost’ lunar lander touches down on the moon //cnn.com comments→

The most unhinged video wall, made out of Chromebooks //varun.ch comments→

Breakout with a roguelite/vampire survivor twist //breakout.lecaro.me comments→

LLMs Playing Mafia games – See them lie, deceive, and reason //mafia.opennumbers.xyz comments→

368 Chickens //368chickens.com comments→

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