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Hacker Newsletter #768

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October 24, 11:43 am

Hacker Newsletter #768

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Issue #768 // 2025-10-24 // View in your browser

#Favorites


AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1 (and postmortem)
//health.aws.amazon.com comments

Scripts I wrote that I use all the time
//evanhahn.com comments

Andrej Karpathy – It will take a decade to work through the issues with agents
//dwarkesh.com comments

Migrating from AWS to Hetzner
//digitalsociety.coop comments

The Rapper 50 Cent, Adjusted for Inflation
//50centadjustedforinflation.com comments

Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP
//simonwillison.net comments

Build your own database
//nan.fyi comments

Programming with Less Than Nothing
//joshmoody.org comments

./watch
//dotslashwatch.com comments

The Lottery-fication of Everything
//dopaminemarkets.com comments

The Spilhaus Projection-A World Map According to Fish
//southernwoodenboatsailing.com comments

Derek Sivers's database and web apps
//github.com comments

#Ask HN


How to stop an AWS bot sending 2B requests/month?

Our AWS account got compromised after their outage

What are some impressive vibe coding projects?

#Classifieds


Deploy your app before your coffee gets cold. The cloud for developers who ship. Sevalla. $50 free credit. //sevalla.com

Automate your business with AI agents with Tasklet //tasklet.ai

Nango - Integrate your product or AI agent with 500+ APIs //nango.dev

☝️ Never forget birthdays. Automate: WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram.... //schedulemessages.online

Book a classified ad for $150 //airtable.com

#Show HN


Rivian's TM-B electric bike //theverge.com comments

Roc Camera //roc.camera comments

I built a tech news aggregator that works the way my brain does //deadstack.net comments

OpenSnowcat – A fork of Snowplow to keep open analytics alive //opensnowcat.io comments

Silly Morse code chat app using WebSockets //noamtamir.github.io comments

#Code


IDEs we had 30 years ago and lost //blogsystem5.substack.com comments

Forth: The programming language that writes itself //ratfactor.com comments

Why I Chose Elixir Phoenix over Rails, Laravel, and Next.js //akarshc.com comments

Living Dangerously with Claude //simonwillison.net comments

Go Subtleties You May Not Know //harrisoncramer.me comments

#Data


DeepSeek OCR //github.com comments

SQL Anti-Patterns //datamethods.substack.com comments

/dev/null is an ACID compliant database //jyu.dev comments

How count-min sketches work – frequencies, but without the actual data //instantdb.com comments

#Design


What happened to Apple's legendary attention to detail? //blog.johnozbay.com comments

New Work by Gary Larson //thefarside.com comments

ASCII Automata //hlnet.neocities.org comments

Our Paint – a featureless but programmable painting program //WellObserve.com comments

#Books


Free Programing Books //github.com comments

20,858 Public Domain Audio Books //librivox.org comments


#Learn


What Americans die from vs. what the news reports on //ourworldindata.org comments

Doing well in your courses: Andrej's advice for success //cs.stanford.edu comments

Root System Drawings //images.wur.nl comments

60k kids have avoided peanut allergies due to 2015 advice, study finds //cbsnews.com comments

Radios, how do they work? //lcamtuf.substack.com comments

The game theory of how algorithms can drive up prices //quantamagazine.org comments

#Watching


A laser pointer at 2B FPS //youtube.com comments

Live Stream from the Namib Desert //bookofjoe2.blogspot.com comments

EQ: A video about all forms of equalizers //youtube.com comments

The Hidden Engineering of Niagara Falls //practical.engineering comments

MIT 6.001 Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, Lecture 1A //youtube.com comments

#Startup News


ChatGPT Atlas //chatgpt.com comments

Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock //techcrunch.com comments

Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division //theverge.com comments

Language Support for Marginalia Search //marginalia.nu comments

OpenAI acquires Sky.app //openai.com comments

#Fun


Space Elevator //neal.fun comments

Replacement.ai //replacement.ai comments

I'm making a detective game built on Wikipedia //detective.wiki comments

StarGrid: A new Palm OS strategy game //quarters.captaintouch.com comments

Doomsday scoreboard //doomsday.march1studios.com comments

C64 Blood Money //lemmings.info comments

Metropolis 1998 lets you design every building in an isometric, pixel-art city //arstechnica.com comments

Solving the NYTimes Pips puzzle with a constraint solver //righto.com comments

Play abstract strategy board games online with friends or against bots //abstractboardgames.com comments