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September 12, 2025

Hacker Newsletter #762

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Issue #762 // 2025-09-12 // View in your browser

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#Favorites


iPhone Air
//apple.com comments→

I replaced Animal Crossing's dialogue with a live LLM by hacking GameCube memory
//joshfonseca.com comments→

Pontevedra, Spain declares its entire urban area a "reduced traffic zone"
//greeneuropeanjournal.eu comments→

Serverless Horrors
//serverlesshorrors.com comments→

We can’t circumvent the work needed to train our minds
//zettelkasten.de comments→

iPhone dumbphone
//stopa.io comments→

How RSS beat Microsoft
//buttondown.com comments→

Physically based rendering from first principles
//imadr.me comments→

Building a DOOM-like multiplayer shooter in pure SQL
//cedardb.com comments→

Being good isn't enough
//joshs.bearblog.dev comments→

Conway's Game of Life, but musical
//hudsong.dev comments→

An engineering history of the Manhattan Project
//construction-physics.com comments→

#Ask HN


Do custom ROMs exist for electric cars, for example Teslas?

Is your company still hiring junior engineers?

My Workflow Is 70% AI, 20% Copy-Paste, 10% Panic. What's Yours?

#Classifieds


B2B Ads: A free weekly B2B ad template newsletter //b2bads.com

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

Cut Code Review Time & Bugs in Half //coderabbit.ai

Searchcraft, the faster less-bloated alternative to Elasticsearch //searchcraft.io

Book a classified ad for $150 //airtable.com

#Show HN


I recreated Windows XP as my portfolio //mitchivin.com comments→

Term.everything – Run any GUI app in the terminal //github.com comments→

Immich – High performance self-hosted photo and video management //github.com comments→

I'm a dermatologist and I vibe coded a skin cancer learning app //molecheck.info comments→

I'm making an open-source platform for learning Japanese //kanadojo.com comments→

Jiratui – A Textual UI for interacting with Atlassian Jira from your shell //jiratui.sh comments→

LightCycle, a FOSS game in Rust based on Tron //github.com comments→

#Code


I ditched Docker for Podman //codesmash.dev comments→

Formatting code should be unnecessary //maxleiter.com comments→

A new experimental Go API for JSON //go.dev comments→

Stop writing CLI validation. Parse it right the first time //hackers.pub comments→

A clickable visual guide to the Rust type system //rustcurious.com comments→

RubyMine is now free for non-commercial use //blog.jetbrains.com comments→

Writing code is easy, reading it isn't //idiallo.com comments→

#Data


Spiral //spiraldb.com comments→

CauseNet: Towards a causality graph extracted from the web //causenet.org comments→

Claude's memory architecture is the opposite of ChatGPT's //shloked.com comments→

SQL needed structure //scattered-thoughts.net comments→

Data modeling guide for real-time analytics with ClickHouse //ssp.sh comments→

Lessons from building an AI data analyst //pedronasc.com comments→

#Design


I didn't bring my son to a museum to look at screens //sethpurcell.com comments→

Pico CSS – Minimal CSS Framework for Semantic HTML //picocss.com comments→

Making a font of my handwriting //chameth.com comments→

The art world is in a precarious state //news.artnet.com comments→

#Books


Swimming in Tech Debt //helpthisbook.com comments→

Quantum Mechanics, Concise Book //github.com comments→

#Working


996 //lucumr.pocoo.org comments→

Job mismatch and early career success //nber.org comments→

How can I deal with a team member who is always complaining? //andiroberts.com comments→

#Learn


Immunotherapy drug clinical trial results: half of tumors shrink or disappear //rockefeller.edu comments→

Belling the Cat //en.wikipedia.org comments→

Creative Technology: The Sound Blaster //abortretry.fail comments→

An engineering history of the Manhattan Project //construction-physics.com comments→

Randomly selecting points inside a triangle //johndcook.com comments→

Playing Viking Chess with Whale Bones //hakaimagazine.com comments→

#Watching


I bought the cheapest EV, a used Nissan Leaf //jeffgeerling.com comments→

How inaccurate are Nintendo's official emulators? //youtube.com comments→

Language-Oriented Programming in Racket //youtube.com comments→

Rails World 2025 Opening Keynote – DHH //youtube.com comments→

#Startup News


Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B to settle lawsuit with book authors //nytimes.com comments→

Mistral raises 1.7B€, partners with ASML //mistral.ai comments→

Zoox robotaxi launches in Las Vegas //zoox.com comments→

Dropbox Paper mobile App Discontinuation //help.dropbox.com comments→

#Fun


A Navajo weaving of an integrated circuit: the 555 timer //righto.com comments→

Developing a Space Flight Simulator in Clojure //wedesoft.de comments→

All 54 lost clickwheel iPod games have now been preserved for posterity //arstechnica.com comments→

Fartscroll-Lid: An app that plays fart sounds when opening or closing a MacBook //github.com comments→

Seedship – Text-Based Game //philome.la comments→

WrittenRealms – a modern platform for text-based games //writtenrealms.com comments→

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