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Hacker Newsletter #763

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September 19, 12:26 pm

Hacker Newsletter #763

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Issue #763 // 2025-09-19 // View in your browser

# Sponsor


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#Favorites


Hosting a website on a disposable vape
//bogdanthegeek.github.io comments

UTF-8 is a brilliant design
//iamvishnu.com comments

Models of European metro stations
//stations.albertguillaumes.cat comments

Meta Ray-Ban Display
//meta.com comments

Two Slice, a font that's only 2px tall
//joefatula.com comments

AI coding
//geohot.github.io comments

Slow social media
//herman.bearblog.dev comments

CLAVIER-36 – A programming environment for generative music
//clavier36.com comments

Just for fun: animating a mosaic of 90s GIFs
//alexplescan.com comments

I'm Not a Robot Game
//neal.fun comments

You're a Slow Thinker. Now What?
//chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com comments

#Ask HN


What's a good 3D Printer for sub $1000?

Is anyone else sick of AI splattered code

#Classifieds


FFmpeg API - Run FFmpeg online without installing servers //rendi.dev

End recipe clutter. Scan, import, & generate with AI //grandmasrecipes.app

The London Blockchain Conference is where vision meets action: October 22-23 //londonblockchain.net

👉 Buy a classified ad

#Show HN


A store that generates products from anything you type in search //anycrap.shop comments

QGIS is a free, open-source, cross platform geographical information system //github.com comments

The text disappears when you screenshot it //unscreenshottable.vercel.app comments

GNU Midnight Commander //midnight-commander.org comments

Perrinn 424 – An open access electric hyper car designed for racing //discover.perrinn.com comments

#Code


React is winning by default and slowing innovation //lorenstew.art comments

Asciinema CLI 3.0 rewritten in Rust, adds live streaming, upgrades file format //blog.asciinema.org comments

Dagger.js – A buildless, runtime-only JavaScript micro-framework //daggerjs.org comments

How to Use Claude Code Subagents to Parallelize Development //zachwills.net comments

#Data


RustGPT: A pure-Rust transformer LLM built from scratch //github.com comments

Pgstream: Postgres streaming logical replication with DDL changes //github.com comments

Semlib – Semantic Data Processing //github.com comments

DriftDB – An experimental append-only database with time-travel queries //github.com comments

#Design


"Your" vs. "My" in user interfaces //adamsilver.io comments

FFglitch, FFmpeg fork for glitch art //ffglitch.org comments

Which colours dominate movie posters and why? //stephenfollows.com comments

Midcentury North American Restaurant Placemats //casualarchivist.substack.com comments

Unusual Capabilities of Nano Banana (Examples) //github.com comments

MIT software tool turns everyday objects into animated, eye-catching displays //news.mit.edu comments

Rules for creating good-looking user interfaces, from a developer //weberdominik.com comments

#Books


Learn Your Way: Reimagining Textbooks with Generative AI //research.google comments

Rereading books //maxgirkins.com comments

I wrote a book: The Elements of Code //news.ycombinator.com

#Learn


Myocardial infarction may be an infectious disease //tuni.fi comments

Folks, we have the best π //lcamtuf.substack.com comments

A single, 'naked' black hole confounds theories of the young cosmos //quantamagazine.org comments

Famous cognitive psychology experiments that failed to replicate //buttondown.com comments

Procedural Island Generation (III) //brashandplucky.com comments

U.S. already has the critical minerals it needs, according to new analysis //minesnewsroom.com comments

Self-Assembly Gets Automated in Reverse of 'Game of Life' //quantamagazine.org comments

#Watching


I built my own phone because innovation is sad rn //youtube.com comments

Rust: A quest for performant, reliable software //youtube.com comments

Rupert's snub cube and other Math Holes //tom7.org comments

#Startup News


Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year //skyfall.dev comments

Nvidia buys $5B in Intel //tomshardware.com comments

Waymo has received our pilot permit allowing for commercial operations at SFO //waymo.com comments

PayPal to support Ethereum and Bitcoin //newsroom.paypal-corp.com comments

U.S. investors, Trump close in on TikTok deal with China //wsj.com comments

YouTube addresses lower view counts which seem to be caused by ad blockers //9to5google.com comments

Bringing fully autonomous rides to Nashville, in partnership with Lyft //waymo.com comments

#Fun


I made a generative online drum machine with ClojureScript //dopeloop.ai comments

Celestia – Real-time 3D visualization of space //celestiaproject.space comments

Trucker built a scale model of NYC over 21 years //gothamist.com comments

A QBasic Text Adventure Still Expanding in 2025 //the-ventureweaver.itch.io comments

Playing "Minecraft" Without Minecraft //lenowo.org comments