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Hacker Newsletter #760

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August 29, 11:44 am

Hacker Newsletter #760

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Issue #760 // 2025-08-29 // View in your browser

#Favorites


Modern financial planning tool to simplify your journey to financial independence
//projectionlab.com sponsored

Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android
//9to5google.com comments

A visual introduction to big O notation
//samwho.dev comments

US Intel
//stratechery.com comments

Line scan camera image processing for train photography
//daniel.lawrence.lu comments

Building the mouse Logitech won't make
//samwilkinson.io comments

We put a coding agent in a while loop
//github.com comments

Show HN: A zoomable, searchable archive of BYTE magazine
//byte.tsundoku.io comments

Making games in Go: 3 months without LLMs vs. 3 days with LLMs
//marianogappa.github.io comments

The Size of Adobe Reader Installers Through the Years
//sigwait.org comments

The ROI of Exercise
//herman.bearblog.dev comments

#Ask HN


The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?

Why hasn't x86 caught up with Apple M series?

Best codebases to study to learn software design?

#Classifieds


Digital Ocean - Simple, complete cloud infrastructure for even the most complex demands //digitalocean.com

Tech Daily, the best of HN each day //buttondown.com

Airtable - Build with AI that means business //airtable.com

simplicity - sustainable, humane, and effective software development //pragprog.com

#Show HN


Monodraw //monodraw.helftone.com comments

Framework Laptop 16 //frame.work comments

Clearcam – Add AI object detection to your IP CCTV cameras //github.com comments

Turn Markdown into React/Svelte/Vue UI at runtime, zero build step //markdown-ui.com comments

Port Kill – A lightweight macOS status bar development port monitor //github.com comments

MinuteBio – Short biography of famous people for kids //minutebio.org comments

#Code


Go is still not good //blog.habets.se comments

Everything I know about good API design //seangoedecke.com comments

Unexpected productivity boost of Rust //lubeno.dev comments

Rv, a new kind of Ruby management tool //andre.arko.net comments

Developer's block //underlap.org comments

SmallJS: Smalltalk-80 that compiles to JavaScript //small-js.org comments

#Data


Base, an SQLite database editor for macOS //menial.co.uk comments

Gemma 3 270M re-implemented in pure PyTorch for local tinkering //github.com comments

LabPlot: Free, open source and cross-platform Data Visualization and Analysis //labplot.org comments

A statistical analysis of Rotten Tomatoes //statsignificant.com comments

#Design


What are OKLCH colors? //jakub.kr comments

Manim: Animation engine for explanatory math videos //github.com comments

Perfect Freehand – Draw perfect pressure-sensitive freehand lines //perfectfreehand.com comments

#Books


The Unix-Haters Handbook (1994) [pdf] //simson.net comments

How well does the money laundering control system work? //journals.uchicago.edu comments

#Working


Proposal to Ban Ghost Jobs //cnbc.com comments

Google has eliminated 35% of managers overseeing small teams in past year //cnbc.com comments

All managers make mistakes; good managers acknowledge and repair //terriblesoftware.org comments

The cost of interrupted work //blog.oberien.de comments

AI adoption linked to 13% decline in jobs for young U.S. workers: study //cnbc.com comments

#Learn


Japan has opened its first osmotic power plant //theguardian.com comments

Chinese astronauts make rocket fuel and oxygen in space //livescience.com comments

Important machine learning equations //chizkidd.github.io comments

What is a color space? //makingsoftware.com comments

#Watching


Starship's Tenth Flight Test //spacex.com comments

I made a floppy disk from scratch //kottke.org comments

The man with a Home Computer //youtube.com comments

Adventures in State Space //youtube.com comments

The Minecraft Code //youtube.com comments

Python: The Documentary – An origin story //youtube.com comments

An Automated Lego Car Factory //youtube.com comments

#Startup News


Claude for Chrome //anthropic.com comments

U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel //cnbc.com comments

Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City //cnbc.com comments

Typepad is shutting down //everything.typepad.com comments

#Fun


LunarEngine: An open source, Roblox-compatible game engine //github.com comments

VIM Master //github.com comments

Bicyclopedia //bicyclopedia.lemoing.ca comments

Playing every game of Wordle simultaneously //chriskw.xyz comments

Enhanced Queens Game – A Queens puzzle with a 3rd constraint (regions) //queensgame.io comments