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March 14, 2025

Hacker Newsletter #737

Deep and simple are far, far more important than shallow and complicated and fancy. //Fred Rogers

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Issue #737 // 2025-03-14 // View in your browser

Happy Pi Day! – kale

#Sponsor


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#Favorites


uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store
//chromewebstore.google.com comments→

A 10x Faster TypeScript
//devblogs.microsoft.com comments→

Mark Klein, AT&T whistleblower who revealed NSA mass spying, has died
//eff.org comments→

It is as if you were on your phone
//pippinbarr.com comments→

Kill your Feeds – Stop letting algorithms dictate what you think
//usher.dev comments→

Factorio Learning Environment – Agents Build Factories
//jackhopkins.github.io comments→

The Future Is Niri
//ersei.net comments→

Building websites with lots of little HTML pages
//blog.jim-nielsen.com comments→

Here's how I use LLMs to help me write code
//simonwillison.net comments→

Inline Evaluation Adventure
//rigsomelight.com comments→

#Ask HN


Do your eyes bug you even though your prescription is "correct"?

How did the internet discover my subdomain?

Best Windows/Linux developer laptop in 2025

#Show HN


Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening //seven39.com comments→

Peer-to-peer file transfers in the browser //github.com comments→

Presenterm: Markdown Slideshows in the Terminal //github.com comments→

We built a Plug-in Home Battery for the 99.7% of us without Powerwalls //pilaenergy.com comments→

Leaflet.pub – a web app for creating and sharing rich documents //news.ycombinator.com

#Classifieds


Good teams need clarity, not just speed. Track what matters //iftrue.co

Build vs. buy for product integrations (engineer's guide) //nango.dev

Start your newsletter with Buttondown //buttondown.com

Airtable: Digital operations for the AI era //airtable.com

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#Code


Performance of the Python 3.14 tail-call interpreter //blog.nelhage.com comments→

What makes code hard to read: Visual patterns of complexity //seeinglogic.com comments→

I stopped everything and started writing C again //kmx.io comments→

The program is the database is the interface //scattered-thoughts.net comments→

Goravel: A Go framework inspired by Laravel //goravel.dev comments→

Standards for ANSI Escape Codes //jvns.ca comments→

#Data


The DuckDB Local UI //duckdb.org comments→

New tools for building agents //openai.com comments→

Postgres Just Cracked the Top Fastest Databases for Analytics //mooncake.dev comments→

Fork of Claude-code working with local and other LLM providers //github.com comments→

A bear case: My predictions regarding AI progress //lesswrong.com comments→

#Design


The Golden Age of Japanese Pencils //notes.stlartsupply.com comments→

Practical UX for startups surviving without a designer //tibinotes.com comments→

The 2005 Sony Bravia ad //sfgate.com comments→

A look at the creative process behind Bluey and Cocomelon //readtrung.com comments→

Created a gallery from cool website designs I hoarded over the years //webdesigninspiration.io comments→

#Books


The Startup CTO's Handbook //github.com comments→

The Lost Art of Logarithms //lostartoflogarithms.com comments→

#Working


Layoffs Don't Work //thehustle.co comments→

Ask HN: Where do seasoned devs look for short-term work? //news.ycombinator.com

"Normal" engineers are the key to great teams //spectrum.ieee.org comments→

Ask HN: How do you have effective 1:1s with your manager? //news.ycombinator.com

AI fakers exposed in tech dev recruitment: postmortem //newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com comments→

#Learn


Why fastDOOM is fast //fabiensanglard.net comments→

Differentiable Logic Cellular Automata //google-research.github.io comments→

What made the Irish famine so deadly //newyorker.com comments→

Steam Networks //worksinprogress.co comments→

The US island that speaks Elizabethan English //bbc.com comments→

Australian man survives 100 days with artificial heart //theguardian.com comments→

#Watching


Gemini Robotics //deepmind.google comments→

Walt Disney's MultiPlane Camera (Filmed Feb. 13, 1957) //youtube.com comments→

I Built a Mechanical Calculator //youtube.com comments→

#Startup News


The DOJ still wants Google to sell off Chrome //wired.com comments→

Microsoft is plotting a future without OpenAI //techstartups.com comments→

Intel appoints Lip-Bu Tan as its CEO //reuters.com comments→

Anthropic raises $3.5B at $61.5B valuation //nytimes.com comments→

Apple AI's Platform Pivot Potential //stratechery.com comments→

#Fun


Made a scroll bar buddy that walks down the page when you scroll //focusfurnace.com comments→

Cursor told me I should learn coding instead of asking it to generate it //forum.cursor.com comments→

Time Portal – Get dropped into history, guess where you landed //eggnog.ai comments→

Bubbles, a vanilla JavaScript web game //ehmorris.com comments→

The 90s Gamer Experience: Handwritten Notes and Maps //rz01.org comments→

The masters of Commodore 64 games //spillhistorie.no comments→

City simulator I made in Scratch //scratch.mit.edu comments→

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