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April 18, 2025

Hacker Newsletter #742

You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there. //Yogi Berra

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#Favorites


Learn How to Integrate Clerk with Your Lovable — Lovable integrates Clerk for custom domains, streamlined auth flows, and waitlist-powered onboarding
//clerk.com sponsored

But what if I want a faster horse?
//rakhim.exotext.com comments→

Google is winning on every AI front
//thealgorithmicbridge.com comments→

A hackable AI assistant using a single SQLite table and a handful of cron jobs
//geoffreylitt.com comments→

How to win an argument with a toddler
//seths.blog comments→

Open guide to equity compensation
//github.com comments→

A startup doesn't need to be a unicorn
//mattgiustwilliamson.substack.com comments→

Everything wrong with MCP
//blog.sshh.io comments→

Live Map of the London Underground
//londonunderground.live comments→

Playing in the Creek
//hgreer.com comments→

Reproducing Hacker News writing style fingerprinting
//antirez.com comments→

How to bike across the country
//brooks.team comments→

#Ask HN


Why is there no P2P streaming protocol like BitTorrent?

How do you monetize personal code if it's not an "app"?

#Show HN


Unsure Calculator – back-of-a-napkin probabilistic calculator //filiph.github.io comments→

Browser MCP – Automate your browser using Cursor, Claude, VS Code //browsermcp.io comments→

I made a free tool that analyzes SEC filings and posts detailed reports //signalbloom.ai comments→

Plandex v2 – open source AI coding agent for large projects and tasks //github.com comments→

Omnom: Self-hosted bookmarking with searchable, wysiwyg snapshots //omnom.zone comments→

memEx, a personal knowledge base inspired by zettlekasten and org-mode //gitea.bubbletea.dev comments→

#Code


An intro to DeepSeek's distributed file system //maknee.github.io comments→

Why I Program in Lisp //funcall.blogspot.com comments→

Lux – A luxurious package manager for Lua //mrcjkb.dev comments→

Writing my own dithering algorithm in Racket //amanvir.com comments→

Chonky – a neural approach for text semantic chunking //github.com comments→

#Data


SQLite File Format Viewer //sqlite-internal.pages.dev comments→

Hacking the Postgres wire protocol //pgdog.dev comments→

Charts.css //chartscss.org comments→

#Design


Nice things with SVG //fuma-nama.vercel.app comments→

Default styles for h1 elements are changing //developer.mozilla.org comments→

Better typography with text-wrap pretty //webkit.org comments→

Kermit: A typeface for kids //microsoft.design comments→

Why is there a “small house” in IBM's Code page 437? //blog.glyphdrawing.club comments→

#Books


Making Software //makingsoftware.com comments→

The Wisconsin cartographer who mapped Tolkien's fantasy world //wpr.org comments→

Ask HN: What books have been worth your time? //news.ycombinator.com

CLP Calculus Textbooks //personal.math.ubc.ca comments→

Happy Little Monoliths, First Edition //hire.jonasgalvez.com.br comments→

#Working


Googler... ex-Googler //nerdy.dev comments→

Strengths Are Your Weaknesses //terriblesoftware.org comments→

I ditched my laptop for a pocketable mini PC and a pair of AR glasses //tomsguide.com comments→

#Learn


“Most promising signs yet” of alien life on a planet beyond our Solar System //skyatnightmagazine.com comments→

How dairy robots are changing work for cows and farmers //spectrum.ieee.org comments→

Passing planes and other whoosh sounds //windytan.com comments→

#Watching


Isaac Asimov describes how AI will liberate humans and their creativity //openculture.com comments→

Kmart lied to me, so I hacked their lamp //youtube.com comments→

Unusual Shop Tips //youtube.com comments→

#Startup News


TikTok is harming children at an industrial scale //afterbabel.com comments→

Meta antitrust trial kicks off in federal court //axios.com comments→

Temu pulls its U.S. Google Shopping ads //searchengineland.com comments→

Intel sells 51% stake in Altera to private equity firm on a $8.75B valuation //newsroom.intel.com comments→

Kaggle and the Wikimedia Foundation are partnering on open data //blog.google comments→

#Fun


Attention K-Mart Shoppers //archive.org comments→

Atari Missile Command Game Built Using AI Gemini 2.5 Pro //missile-command-game.centminmod.com comments→

Omiword – A daily, sector-based word puzzle //omiword.com comments→

I Made YC Rejection Simulator //yc-sim.vercel.app comments→

I made a math puzzle game. Hope you like it //madmonk13.github.io comments→

Buzzled – a three axis hex logic puzzle //puzzmallow.com comments→

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