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Hacker Newsletter #770

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November 7, 1:44 pm

Hacker Newsletter #770

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Issue #770 // 2025-11-07 // View in your browser

# Sponsor


WorkOS logo Drop-In API Key Management for SaaS Apps WorkOS API Keys lets developers add secure key management with a drop-in widget for creating, rotating, and revoking keys. Keys tie into WorkOS Organizations and Roles, providing scoped permissions and straightforward validation through the API or SDKs.

#Favorites


URLs are state containers
//alfy.blog comments

Facts about throwing good parties
//atvbt.com comments

Why aren't smart people happier?
//theseedsofscience.pub comments

AI's Dial-Up Era
//wreflection.com comments

When stick figures fought
//animationobsessive.substack.com comments

Two billion email addresses were exposed
//troyhunt.com comments

Nearly 90% of Windows Games Now Run on Linux
//tomshardware.com comments

You should write an agent
//fly.io comments

Carice TC2 – A non-digital electric car
//caricecars.com comments

The profitable startup
//linear.app comments

No Socials November
//bjhess.com comments

Game design is simple
//raphkoster.com comments

#Ask HN


Who uses open LLMs and coding assistants locally? Share setup and laptop

My family business runs on a 1993-era text-based-UI (TUI). Anybody else?

Tell HN: Mechanical Turk is twenty years old today

What are you working on?

#Classifieds


Show HN: Trendlists Digest of AI, App & Tech topics! <1 min read //trendscout.com

Authentication and user management, built for B2B SaaS //propelauth.com

Friends don't let friends use QuickBooks. //puzzle.io

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

Book a classified ad for $150

#Show HN


Strange Attractors //blog.shashanktomar.com comments

Why write code if the LLM can just do the thing? (web app experiment) //github.com comments

A CSS-Only Terrain Generator //terra.layoutit.com comments

Pomelli //blog.google comments

qqqa – A fast, stateless LLM-powered assistant for your shell //github.com comments

#Code


How I use every Claude Code feature //blog.sshh.io comments

Learning to read Arthur Whitney's C to become smart //needleful.net comments

Ruby and Its Neighbors: Smalltalk //noelrappin.com comments

#Data


The Case Against PGVector //alex-jacobs.com comments

SQLite concurrency and why you should care about it //jellyfin.org comments

Pg_lake: Postgres with Iceberg and data lake access //github.com comments

Use DuckDB-WASM to query TB of data in browser //lil.law.harvard.edu comments

Bloom filters are good for search that does not scale //notpeerreviewed.com comments

Pipelined Relational Query Language, PRQL: a simple, powerful, pipelined SQL rep //prql-lang.org comments

#Design


Mr TIFF //inventingthefuture.ghost.io comments

My Truck Desk //theparisreview.org comments

The 512KB Club //512kb.club comments

Gallery of wonderful drawings our little thermal printer received //guestbook.goodenough.us comments

#Books


I scraped 3B Goodreads reviews to train a better recommendation model //book.sv comments

An Illustrated Introduction to Linear Algebra, Chapter 2: The Dot Product //ducktyped.org comments

The Art of Atari //artofatari.com comments

#Working


Ask HN: Who is hiring? //news.ycombinator.com

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? //news.ycombinator.com

I analyzed 180M jobs to see what jobs AI is replacing today //bloomberry.com comments

Why Your Best Engineers Are Interviewing Elsewhere, CodeGood //codegood.co comments

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? //news.ycombinator.com

#Learn


Solarpunk is happening in Africa //climatedrift.substack.com comments

Attention lapses due to sleep deprivation due to flushing fluid from brain //news.mit.edu comments

Tiny electric motor can produce more than 1,000 horsepower //supercarblondie.com comments

Things you can do with diodes //lcamtuf.substack.com comments

#Watching


I was right about dishwasher pods and now I can prove it //youtube.com comments

Paris had a moving sidewalk in 1900, and a Thomas Edison film captured it //openculture.com comments

Skyfall-GS – Synthesizing Immersive 3D Urban Scenes from Satellite Imagery //skyfall-gs.jayinnn.dev comments

Bending Emacs – Episode 05: Ready Player Mode //youtube.com comments

#Startup News


Amazon confirms 14,000 job losses in corporate division //bbc.com comments

OpenAI signs $38B cloud computing deal with Amazon //nytimes.com comments

Guideline has been acquired by Gusto //help.guideline.com comments

#Fun


S.A.R.C.A.S.M: Slightly Annoying Rubik's Cube Automatic Solving Machine //github.com comments

HyperRogue – A non-Euclidean roguelike //roguetemple.com comments

Learn German with Games //learngermanwithgames.com comments

Build your own Bracket City puzzle //builder.bracket.city comments

Board: New game console recognizes physical pieces, with an open SDK //board.fun comments

DeepShot – NBA game predictor with 70% accuracy using ML and stats //github.com comments