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Hacker Newsletter #747

A single question can be more influential than a thousand statements. //Bo Bennett

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Issue #747 // 2025-05-23 // View in your browser

#Favorites


Getting started with Clerk Billing. Learn how to build a complete billing experience without a custom UI or webhooks.
//clerk.com sponsored

Claude 4
//anthropic.com comments→

Watching AI drive Microsoft employees insane
//old.reddit.com comments→

Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot
//support.mozilla.org comments→

Thoughts on thinking
//dcurt.is comments→

That fractal that's been up on my wall for years
//chriskw.xyz comments→

Planetfall
//somethingaboutmaps.wordpress.com comments→

Spaced repetition systems have gotten way better
//domenic.me comments→

If nothing is curated, how do we find things
//tadaima.bearblog.dev comments→

Gemini Diffusion
//simonwillison.net comments→

A shower thought turned into a Collatz visualization
//abstractnonsense.com comments→

#Ask HN


How do you promote your personal project in limited budget?

How to Make Friendster Great?

#Show HN


Have I Been Pwned 2.0 //troyhunt.com comments→

What are people doing? Live-ish estimates based on global population dynamics //humans.maxcomperatore.com comments→

90s.dev – Game maker that runs on the web //90s.dev comments→

I Built My Own Audio Player //nexo.sh comments→

Defuddle, an HTML-to-Markdown alternative to Readability //github.com comments→

Hardtime.nvim – break bad habits and master Vim motions //github.com comments→

#Code


GitHub Copilot Coding Agent //github.blog comments→

Push Ifs Up and Fors Down //matklad.github.io comments→

Jules: An asynchronous coding agent //jules.google comments→

Edit is now open source //devblogs.microsoft.com comments→

A simple search engine from scratch //bernsteinbear.com comments→

Biff – a batteries-included web framework for Clojure //biffweb.com comments→

#Data


Getting AI to write good SQL //cloud.google.com comments→

Litestream: Revamped //fly.io comments→

The principles of database design, or, the Truth is out there //ebellani.github.io comments→

Airport for DuckDB //airport.query.farm comments→

#Design


How to have the browser pick a contrasting color in CSS //webkit.org comments→

In the past year my illustration business has dropped more half //reverentgeek.com comments→

Sketchy Calendar //inkandswitch.com comments→

Hypersystem: A pixel display font for Hypermedia Systems //deniz.aksimsek.tr comments→


#Working


Sorry, grads: Entry-level tech jobs are getting wiped out //sfstandard.com comments→

Unspoken Currency of Office Politics: Leverage and Sanction Between Coworkers //graphthinking.blogspot.com comments→

Ask HN: When will managers be replaced by AI? //news.ycombinator.com

3 Years of Remote Work //brendangregg.com comments→

#Learn


AI in my plasma physics research didn’t go the way I expected //understandingai.org comments→

Deep Learning Is Applied Topology //theahura.substack.com comments→

For algorithms, a little memory outweighs a lot of time //quantamagazine.org comments→

Does Earth have two high-tide bulges on opposite sides? //physics.stackexchange.com comments→

Understanding Transformers via N-gram Statistics //arxiv.org comments→

Decibels Are Ridiculous //lcamtuf.substack.com comments→

#Watching


I trapped an AI model inside an art installation //youtube.com comments→

Tech mogul Palmer Luckey creating arsenal of AI-powered autonomous weapons //youtube.com comments→

Pluto Flyover from New Horizons //apod.nasa.gov comments→

#Startup News


OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive //bloomberg.com comments→

Proton threatens to quit Switzerland over new surveillance law //techradar.com comments→

23andMe Sells Gene-Testing Business to DNA Drug Maker Regeneron //bloomberg.com comments→

We’ll be ending web hosting for your apps on Glitch //blog.glitch.com comments→

#Fun


Making video games (without an engine) in 2025 //noelberry.ca comments→

Game theory illustrated by an animated cartoon game //ncase.me comments→

Animated Factorization //datapointed.net comments→

Text to 3D simulation on a map (does history pretty well) //mused.com comments→

8-Bit Spelling Game I Built for My Daughter Using Claude AI //kbr.sh comments→

A/B Street: Transportation planning and traffic simulation for friendlier cities //github.com comments→

Horizon Drive: The Shopify Edition //shopify.com comments→

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