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Hacker Newsletter #758

Here you have been taught to fear nothing but idleness. //Lyman Hall

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#Favorites


Simulate your financial future and chart a course toward your best life
//projectionlab.com sponsored

GPT-5
//openai.com comments→

I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file
//al3rez.com comments→

Ultrathin business card runs a fluid simulation
//github.com comments→

I want everything local – Building my offline AI workspace
//instavm.io comments→

Things that helped me get out of the AI 10x engineer imposter syndrome
//colton.dev comments→

Search all text in New York City
//alltext.nyc comments→

This website is for humans
//localghost.dev comments→

The Framework Desktop is a beast
//world.hey.com comments→

My Lethal Trifecta talk at the Bay Area AI Security Meetup
//simonwillison.net comments→

One Million Screenshots
//onemillionscreenshots.com comments→

Ratfactor's illustrated guide to folding fitted sheets
//ratfactor.com comments→

How to sell if your user is not the buyer
//writings.founderlabs.io comments→

#Ask HN


How can ChatGPT serve 700M users when I can't run one GPT-4 locally?

What toolchains are people using for desktop app development in 2025?

With all the AI hype, how are software engineers feeling?

Would you get a CS degree today?

#Show HN


The current sky at your approximate location, as a CSS gradient //sky.dlazaro.ca comments→

Building a web search engine from scratch with 3B neural embeddings //blog.wilsonl.in comments→

Engineering.fyi – Search across tech engineering blogs in one place //engineering.fyi comments→

Omnara – Run Claude Code from anywhere //github.com comments→

#Code


Claude Code IDE integration for Emacs //github.com comments→

How I code with AI on a budget/free //wuu73.org comments→

PYX: The next step in Python packaging //astral.sh comments→

Bolt – A super-fast, statically-typed scripting language written in C //github.com comments→

#Data


Genie 3: A new frontier for world models //deepmind.google comments→

Apache ECharts 6 //echarts.apache.org comments→

We caught companies making it harder to delete your personal data online //themarkup.org comments→

Neki – Sharded Postgres by the team behind Vitess //planetscale.com comments→

Hand-picked selection of articles on AI fundamentals/concepts //aman.ai comments→

Token growth indicates future AI spend per dev //blog.kilocode.ai comments→

#Design


Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2025 shortlist //rmg.co.uk comments→

Pricing Pages – A Curated Gallery of Pricing Page Designs //pricingpages.design comments→

I built an offline, open‑source desktop Pixel Art Editor in Python //github.com comments→

So what's the difference between plotted and printed artwork? //lostpixels.io comments→

A gentle introduction to anchor positioning //webkit.org comments→

Airbrush art of the 80s was Chrome-tastic //coolandcollected.com comments→

#Working


Learn, Reflect, Apply, Prepare: The Four Daily Practices That Changed How I Live //opuslabs.substack.com comments→

A case study in bad hiring practice and how to fix it //tomkranz.com comments→

#Learn


Try and //ygdp.yale.edu comments→

1910: The year the modern world lost its mind //derekthompson.org comments→

Basic Social Skills Guide //improveyoursocialskills.com comments→

Bezier-rs – algorithms for Bézier segments and shapes //graphite.rs comments→

How to teach your kids to play poker: Start with one card //bloomberg.com comments→

The enduring puzzle of static electricity //pubs.aip.org comments→

Visualizing quaternions: An explorable video series //eater.net comments→

I used to know how to write in Japanese //aethermug.com comments→

#Watching


Pebble Time 2 Design Reveal //youtube.com comments→

Digital Foundry leaves IGN, now independent //youtube.com comments→

The era of boundary-breaking advancements is over? //youtube.com comments→

I Made a Floppy Disk from Scratch //youtube.com comments→

#Startup News


GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation //theverge.com comments→

Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act //bbc.com comments→

Kodak has no plans to cease, go out of business, or file for bankruptcy //kodak.com comments→

Perplexity Makes Longshot $34.5B Offer for Chrome //wsj.com comments→

#Fun


Project Hyperion: Interstellar ship design competition //projecthyperion.org comments→

Doom port to pure Go – Gore //github.com comments→

The Anti-Pattern Game //hakon.gylterud.net comments→

Move to dodge the bullets. How long can you survive? //dodge.trickle.host comments→

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