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March 28, 2025

Hacker Newsletter #739

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Issue #739 // 2025-03-28 // View in your browser

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#Favorites


U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat
//theatlantic.com comments→

Stoop Coffee: A simple idea transformed my neighborhood
//supernuclear.substack.com comments→

Claude can now search the web
//anthropic.com comments→

4o Image Generation
//openai.com comments→

Tracing the thoughts of a large language model
//anthropic.com comments→

The highest-ranking personal blogs of Hacker News
//refactoringenglish.com comments→

Apple needs a Snow Sequoia
//reviews.ofb.biz comments→

The Great Barefoot Running Hysteria of 2010
//runningshoescore.com comments→

43-year-old Family Canoe Trip
//paddlingmag.com comments→

The HTML Review
//thehtml.review comments→

Three Chapters at Cloudflare: Programmer to CTO to Board of Directors
//blog.cloudflare.com comments→

#Ask HN


Difficulties with going back to school

How should junior programmers use and/or not use AI for programming?

#Show HN


Blender releases their Oscar winning version tool //blender.org comments→

I made a tool to port tweets to Bluesky mantaining their original date //bluemigrate.com comments→

LinkedIn sucks, so I built a better one //heyopenspot.com comments→

I tried making artificial sunlight at home //victorpoughon.fr comments→

Fingernotes – handwritten notes which become their own preview image //fingernotes.com comments→

#Code


PyTorch Internals: Ezyang's Blog //blog.ezyang.com comments→

War story: the hardest bug I ever debugged //clientserver.dev comments→

Use Long Options in Scripts //matklad.github.io comments→

Good-bye core types; Hello Go as we know and love it //go.dev comments→

Writing a tiny undo/redo stack in JavaScript //blog.julik.nl comments→

Source code art in the Rivulet language //github.com comments→

Importing a front end JavaScript library without a build system //jvns.ca comments→

#Data


A love letter to the CSV format //github.com comments→

Pen and Paper Exercises in Machine Learning //arxiv.org comments→

Improving recommendation systems and search in the age of LLMs //eugeneyan.com comments→

MySQL transactions per second vs. fsyncs per second //sirupsen.com comments→

An Interview with Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy About Data and AI //stratechery.com comments→

#Design


Piranesi's Perspective Trick //medium.com comments→

Kylie Minogue song about a typeface //abcdinamo.com comments→

#Books


The little book about OS development //littleosbook.github.io comments→

Architecture Patterns with Python //cosmicpython.com comments→

Everything I learned from (finally) completing The Artist's Way //extraordinaryroutines.com comments→

Nature of Code //natureofcode.com comments→

Maintenance of two infamous guns: the AK-47 and the M16 //books.worksinprogress.co comments→

#Working


Career Development: What It Means to Be a Manager, Director, or VP //kellblog.com comments→

The Worst Programmer I Know //dannorth.net comments→

Sell yourself, sell your work //solipsys.co.uk comments→

Has the decline of knowledge work begun? //nytimes.com comments→

Cottagecore Programmers //tjmorley.com comments→

#Learn


Project Aardvark: reimagining AI weather prediction //turing.ac.uk comments→

The polar vortex is hitting the brakes //climate.gov comments→

Understanding Solar Energy //construction-physics.com comments→

Japanese scientists use stem cell treatment to restore movement in spinal injury //medicalxpress.com comments→

63 Chinese Cuisines: The Complete Guide //chinesecookingdemystified.substack.com comments→

#Watching


They Might Be Giants Flood EPK Promo //youtube.com comments→

Legged Locomotion Meets Skateboarding //umich-curly.github.io comments→

Did you spot a fish? Press the Fish Doorbell //visdeurbel.nl comments→

David Lynch Presents Interview Project //youtube.com comments→

#Startup News


23andMe files for bankruptcy to sell itself //reuters.com comments→

Amazon to kill off local Alexa processing, all voice requests shipped to cloud //theregister.com comments→

Waymos crash less than human drivers //understandingai.org comments→

#Fun


I built a website for sharing drum patterns //drumpatterns.onether.com comments→

A glitch in an online survey replaced the word 'yes' with 'forks' //pewresearch.org comments→

The Prospero Challenge //mattkeeter.com comments→

Glider for Apple II //colino.net comments→

A difficult game to test your logic //rvlabs.ca comments→

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