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Hacker Newsletter #748

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else. //George Halas

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Issue #748 // 2025-05-30 // View in your browser

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#Favorites


Find Your People
//foundersatwork.posthaven.com comments→

Square Theory
//aaronson.org comments→

Claude 4 System Card
//simonwillison.net comments→

Reinvent the Wheel
//endler.dev comments→

The Who Cares Era
//dansinker.com comments→

WeatherStar 4000+: Weather Channel Simulator
//weatherstar.netbymatt.com comments→

How to live on $432 a month in America
//shagbark.substack.com comments→

GitHub issues is almost the best notebook in the world
//simonwillison.net comments→

Particle Life simulation in browser using WebGPU
//lisyarus.github.io comments→

Saying Bye to Glitch
//pketh.org comments→

#Ask HN


What are you working on?

Anyone struggling to get value out of coding LLMs?

What projects do you donate to?

#Classifieds


Company updates made simple. Follow stocks, get AI summaries. //assetroom.net

Need a brighter outlook? Free. Curated. Daily. //randomdailyart.com

Reliability is in the eye of the app-holder. //embrace.io

Authentication and user management, built for B2B SaaS //propelauth.com

Follow my 100 % AI startup challenge: ProfitSwarm.ai //profitswarm.ai

#Show HN


hcker.news – an ergonomic, timeline-based Hacker News front page //hcker.news comments→

DoubleMemory – more efficient local-first read-it-later app //doublememory.com comments→

1 min workouts for people who sit all day //shortreps.com comments→

Ruffle – open-source Flash player //ruffle.rs comments→

Online Text to Diagram Tools //xosh.org comments→

#Code


My LLM CLI tool can run tools now, from Python code or plugins //simonwillison.net comments→

Human coders are still better than LLMs //antirez.com comments→

TIL: timeout in Bash scripts //heitorpb.github.io comments→

Learning C3 //alloc.dev comments→

Peer Programming with LLMs, for Senior+ Engineers //pmbanugo.me comments→

Clojure MCP //github.com comments→

#Data


Postgres IDE in VS Code //techcommunity.microsoft.com comments→

Deepseek R1-0528 //huggingface.co comments→

PgDog – Shard Postgres without extensions //github.com comments→

DuckLake is an integrated data lake and catalog format //ducklake.select comments→

SQLite JavaScript - extend your database with JavaScript //github.com comments→

#Design


Gurus of 90s Web Design: Zeldman, Siegel, Nielsen //cybercultural.com comments→

Lottie is an open format for animated vector graphics //lottie.github.io comments→

SVG Animation Software //expressive.app comments→

The legacy of the iconic Nakagin capsule tower //designboom.com comments→

#Books


The Level Design Book //book.leveldesignbook.com comments→

I wrote a modern Command Line Handbook //commandline.stribny.name comments→

#Working


At Amazon, some coders say their jobs have begun to resemble warehouse work //nytimes.com comments→

Denmark to raise retirement age to 70 //telegraph.co.uk comments→

As a developer, my most important tools are a pen and a notebook //hamatti.org comments→

How to Make a Living as a Writer //thewalrus.ca comments→

AI makes bad managers //staysaasy.com comments→

#Learn


Open Source Society University – Path to a free self-taught education in CS //github.com comments→

How a hawk learned to use traffic signals to hunt more successfully //frontiersin.org comments→

Japan Post launches 'digital address' system //japantimes.co.jp comments→

A Visual History of Chessmen //chesshistory.github.io comments→

Player Piano Rolls //omeka-s.library.illinois.edu comments→

The Soviet People's Car: The Enduring Legacy of the Lada //comradegallery.com comments→

#Watching


Starship Flight 9 booster explodes on impact //youtube.com comments→

What programmers should know about how CPUs work //youtube.com comments→

We Tested Google Veo and Runway to Create This AI Film. It Was Wild //youtube.com comments→

#Startup News


Valve takes another step toward making SteamOS a true Windows competitor //arstechnica.com comments→

ClickHouse raises $350M Series C //clickhouse.com comments→

Val Town for Glitch Users //blog.val.town comments→

#Fun


CSS Minecraft //benjaminaster.com comments→

Owls in Towels //owlsintowels.org comments→

Lazy Tetris //lazytetris.com comments→

Genetic Boids Web Simulation //attentionmech.github.io comments→

Space Selfie //space.crunchlabs.com comments→

The Way of Code: The Timeless Art of Vibe Coding //thewayofcode.com comments→

Wall Go – browser remake of a Devil's Plan 2 mini-game //schaoss.github.io comments→

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