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Hacker Newsletter #767

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October 17, 11:30 am

Hacker Newsletter #767

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Issue #767 // 2025-10-17 // View in your browser

# Sponsor


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#Favorites


NanoChat – The best ChatGPT that $100 can buy
//github.com comments

Apple M5 chip
//apple.com comments

I built physical album cards with NFC tags to teach my son music discovery
//fulghum.io comments

Beliefs that are true for regular software but false when applied to AI
//boydkane.com comments

Smartphones and being present
//herman.bearblog.dev comments

Macro Splats 2025
//danybittel.ch comments

Notes on switching to Helix from Vim
//jvns.ca comments

Datastar: Lightweight hypermedia framework for building interactive web apps
//data-star.dev comments

Just talk to it – A way of agentic engineering
//steipete.me comments

Your data model is your destiny
//notes.mtb.xyz comments

#Ask HN


Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?

What are you working on?

Has AI stolen the satisfaction from programming?

#Show HN


Halloy – Modern IRC client //github.com comments

IRS open sources its fact graph //github.com comments

JustSketchMe – Digital Posing Tool //justsketch.me comments

Firm, a text-based work management system //github.com comments

Semantic search over the National Gallery of Art //nga.demo.mixedbread.com comments

I extracted BASIC listings for Tim Hartnell's 1986 book //github.com comments

Modeling the human body in Rust so I can cmd+click through it //github.com comments

#Code


Hyperflask – Full stack Flask and Htmx framework //hyperflask.dev comments

Devpush – Open-source and self-hostable alternative to Vercel, Render, Netlify //github.com comments

Environment variables are a legacy mess: Let's dive deep into them //allvpv.org comments

Syntax highlighting is a waste of an information channel //buttondown.com comments

Switch to Jujutsu Already: A Tutorial //stavros.io comments

#Data


SQLite Online – 11 years of solo development, 11K daily users //sqliteonline.com comments

Pipelining in psql (PostgreSQL 18) //postgresql.verite.pro comments

SQLYac – Structured SQL files you can run from the terminal //github.com comments

#Design


Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26 //nngroup.com comments

Legends of the games industry: Roger Dean //spillhistorie.no comments

HP1345A (and wargames) //phk.freebsd.dk comments

#Books


Anthropic's Prompt Engineering Tutorial //github.com comments

Recreating the Canon Cat document interface //lab.alexanderobenauer.com comments

#Working


I almost got hacked by a 'job interview' //blog.daviddodda.com comments

Chief Bookmark Officer //nklswbr.com comments

#Learn


I invented a new generative model and got accepted to ICLR //discrete-distribution-networks.github.io comments

Flies keep landing on North Sea oil rigs //theconversation.com comments

Lace: A New Kind of Cellular Automata Where Links Matter //novaspivack.com comments

#Watching


Don't Be a Sucker //youtube.com comments

Learn Turbo Pascal – a video series originally released on VHS //youtube.com comments

Build a Superscalar 8-Bit CPU (YouTube Playlist) //youtube.com comments

America’s semiconductor boom //youtube.com comments

#Startup News


Discord says 70k users may have had their government IDs leaked in breach //theverge.com comments

Claude Haiku 4.5 //anthropic.com comments

Claude Skills //anthropic.com comments

Meta Superintelligence Labs' first paper is about RAG //paddedinputs.substack.com comments

DoorDash and Waymo launch autonomous delivery service in Phoenix //about.doordash.com comments

#Fun


I built a simple ambient sound app with no ads or subscriptions //ambisounds.app comments

I made an esoteric programming language that's read like a spellbook //github.com comments

Mac Source Ports – Run old games on new Macs //macsourceports.com comments

Lights Out: my 2D Rubik's Cube-like Game //raymondtana.github.io comments

A 4k-Room Text Adventure Written by One Human in QBasic No AI //the-ventureweaver.itch.io comments

I made a math puzzle game inspired Wordle, Sudoko, and a 2D Rubiks Cube //playthreesum.com comments

1D Rubiks Cube Game //playpivots.com comments