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October 3, 2025

Hacker Newsletter #765

What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make. //Jane Goodall

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#Favorites

A WebGL game where you deliver messages on a tiny planet
//messenger.abeto.co comments→

Claude Sonnet 4.5
//anthropic.com comments→

Play snake in the URL address bar
//demian.ferrei.ro comments→

What if I don't want videos of my hobby time available to the world?
//neilzone.co.uk comments→

Users only care about 20% of your application
//idiallo.com comments→

I only use Google Sheets
//mayberay.bearblog.dev comments→

Designing agentic loops
//simonwillison.net comments→

Our efforts, in part, define us
//weakty.com comments→

consumed.today
//consumed.today comments→

Organize your Slack channels by "How Often", not "What"
//aggressivelyparaphrasing.me comments→

A replica of Citizen Quartz watch based on Harel's paper introducing statecharts
//andyjakubowski.github.io comments→

10k Pushups and How I Got into the Best Shape of My Adult Life
//wjgilmore.com comments→

#Ask HN


What are you working on?

What is nowadays (opensource) way of converting HTML to PDF?

How Do You Journal?

#Show HN


Kagi News //blog.kagi.com comments→

Autism Simulator //autism-simulator.vercel.app comments→

Immich v2.0.0 – First stable release //github.com comments→

Toolbrew – Free little tools without signups or ads //toolbrew.co comments→

Sculptor – A UI for Claude Code //imbue.com comments→

Glide, an extensible, keyboard-focused web browser //blog.craigie.dev comments→

I spent 4 months building Duolingo but for your life //three-cells.com comments→

#Code


Claude Code 2.0 //npmjs.com comments→

Libghostty is coming //mitchellh.com comments→

Write the damn code //antonz.org comments→

Minimal files and config for a PWA //github.com comments→

Solveit – A course and platform for solving problems with code //answer.ai comments→

#Data


A SQL Heuristic: ORs Are Expensive //ethanseal.com comments→

Subtleties of SQLite Indexes //emschwartz.me comments→

ChartDB Agent – Cursor for DB schema design //app.chartdb.io comments→

Cormac McCarthy's personal library //smithsonianmag.com comments→

#Design


Loadmo.re: design inspiration for unconventional web //loadmo.re comments→

Drunk CSS //shkspr.mobi comments→

What Happens to Artists' Studios After They Die? //nytimes.com comments→

#Books


A little notebook for learning linear algebra with Python //little-book-of.github.io comments→

Category Theory Illustrated – Natural Transformations //abuseofnotation.github.io comments→

How to draw construction equipment for kids //alyssarosenberg.substack.com comments→

Spending time with the material //robinsloan.com comments→

#Working


Don't avoid workplace politics //terriblesoftware.org comments→

There is a huge pool of exceptional junior engineers //workweave.dev comments→

Ask HN: Who is hiring? //news.ycombinator.com

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? //news.ycombinator.com

#Learn


Greenland is a beautiful nightmare //matduggan.com comments→

Inflammation now predicts heart disease more strongly than cholesterol //empirical.health comments→

The strangest letter of the alphabet: The rise and fall of yogh //deadlanguagesociety.com comments→

A 3K-year-old copper smelting site could be key to understanding origins of iron //phys.org comments→

#Watching


2025 Nikon Small World in Motion Competition Winners //nikonsmallworld.com comments→

John Jumper: AI is revolutionizing scientific discovery //youtube.com comments→

Washi: The Japanese paper crafted to last 1000 years //bbc.com comments→

Fred Dibnah shows how to erect a chimney scaffold at 200 feet //youtube.com comments→

I built ChatGPT with Minecraft redstone //youtube.com comments→

#Startup News


Sora 2 //openai.com comments→

OpenAI's H1 2025: $4.3B in income, $13.5B in loss //techinasia.com comments→

EA Announces Agreement to be Acquired by PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners //ir.ea.com comments→

#Fun


Learn to play Go //online-go.com comments→

Playball – Watch MLB games from a terminal //github.com comments→

Code golfing a tiny demo using maths and a pinch of insanity //blog.pkh.me comments→

A web version of Pips game (NYT domino game) //pipsgamer.com comments→

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