Hacker Newsletter

Subscribe
Archives
April 25, 2025

Hacker Newsletter #743

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. //Pope Francis

hackernewsletter

Issue #743 // 2025-04-25 // View in your browser

#Favorites


Carrd is a platform for building simple, responsive, one-page sites for pretty much anything
//carrd.co sponsored

Getting forked by Microsoft
//philiplaine.com comments→

AI Horseless Carriages
//koomen.dev comments→

Claude Code: Best practices for agentic coding
//anthropic.com comments→

OpenAI Codex CLI: Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal
//github.com comments→

The movie mistake mystery from "Revenge of the Sith"
//fxrant.blogspot.com comments→

The Gruen Transfer is consuming the internet
//sebs.website comments→

How I blog with Obsidian, Hugo, GitHub, and Cloudflare
//ingau.me comments→

AI assisted search-based research works now
//simonwillison.net comments→

Hypertext TV
//hypertext.tv comments→

AMP and why emails are not (and should never be) interactive
//buttondown.com comments→

#Ask HN


Share your AI prompt that stumps every model

How do you talk about past jobs you regret in interviews?

#Show HN


I built an AI that turns GitHub codebases into easy tutorials //github.com comments→

My from-scratch OS kernel that runs DOOM //github.com comments→

Undercutf1 – F1 Live Timing TUI with Driver Tracker, Variable Delay //github.com comments→

JuryNow – Get an anonymous instant verdict from 12 real people //jurynow.app comments→

Hyperwood – Open-Source Furniture //hyperwood.org comments→

Rowboat – Open-source IDE for multi-agent systems //github.com comments→

#Code


Python’s new t-strings //davepeck.org comments→

15,000 lines of verified cryptography now in Python //jonathan.protzenko.fr comments→

Advanced Python Features //blog.edward-li.com comments→

Pipelining might be my favorite programming language feature //herecomesthemoon.net comments→

YAGRI: You are gonna read it //scottantipa.com comments→

What do I think about Lua after shipping a project with 60k lines of code? //blog.luden.io comments→

Graphics livecoding in Common Lisp //kevingal.com comments→

#Data


Dia, an open-weights TTS model for generating realistic dialogue //github.com comments→

I analyzed chord progressions in 680k songs //cantgetmuchhigher.com comments→

Instant SQL for results as you type in DuckDB UI //motherduck.com comments→

Abusing DuckDB-WASM by making SQL draw 3D graphics (Sort Of) //hey.earth comments→

#Design


You wouldn't steal a font //fedi.rib.gay comments→

CSS Hell //csshell.com comments→

The raccoons who made computer magazine ads great //technologizer.com comments→

#Books


Careless People //pluralistic.net comments→

Darwin's children drew all over the “On the Origin of Species” manuscript //theappendix.net comments→

More Everything Forever //nytimes.com comments→

Libro: a command-line tool to track your books //github.com comments→

The Cold Start Problem: Using Network Effects to Scale Your Product – A Review //madhavajay.com comments→

Perplexingly Book-Learned Emacs //lars.ingebrigtsen.no comments→

#Working


On loyalty to your employer //medium.com comments→

Ask HN: What did you learn too late in your tech career? //news.ycombinator.com

How to Tell Your Boss They're Wrong–Tactfully //hbr.org comments→

#Learn


Shortest-possible walking tour to 81,998 bars in South Korea //math.uwaterloo.ca comments→

Kezurou-Kai #39 //bigsandwoodworking.com comments→

How a yacht works: sailboat physics and design //onemetre.net comments→

Algebraic Semantics for Machine Knitting //uwplse.org comments→

#Watching


I thought I bought a camera, but no DJI sold me a license to use it //youtube.com comments→

We Diagnosed and Fixed the 2023 Voyager 1 Anomaly from 15B Miles Away //youtube.com comments→

How much math is knowable? //youtube.com comments→

Dissecting a British wartime night vision tank periscope //youtube.com comments→

#Startup News


Kagi Assistant is now available to all users //blog.kagi.com comments→

Apple and Meta fined millions for breaching EU law //ca.finance.yahoo.com comments→

FTC takes action against Uber for deceptive billing and cancellation practices //ftc.gov comments→

Supabase raises $200M Series D at $2B valuation //finance.yahoo.com comments→

OpenAI is building a social network? //theverge.com comments→

Why is OpenAI buying Windsurf? //theahura.substack.com comments→

#Fun


Which year: guess which year each photo was taken //whichyr.com comments→

I made a Doom-like game fit inside a QR code //github.com comments→

Find the Odd Disk //colors2.alessandroroussel.com comments→

101 BASIC Computer Games //github.com comments→

Dosidicus – A digital pet with a simple neural network //github.com comments→

Trailmarks – Huge, browser-based, Carmen Sandiego-style travel game //trailmarks.earth comments→

__END__

You're among 63,119 others who received this email because you wanted a weekly recap of the best articles from Hacker News. Published by Curpress from Bellingham, Washington. Hacker Newsletter is not affiliated with Y Combinator in any way.

💡 Need to disconnect? Unsubscribe

✨ Want to promote your startup? Buy a classified ad or click reply to get our media kit

⭐ Not a subscriber? Subscribe at https://hackernewsletter.com

Don't miss what's next. Subscribe to Hacker Newsletter: