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Hacker Newsletter #776

Hacker Newsletter <kale@hackernewsletter.com>

January 2, 12:55 pm

Hacker Newsletter #776

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Issue #776 // 2026-01-02 // View in your browser

🎊 Happy New Year! – kale

#Favorites


Simulate your financial future and start 2026 off on the right path
//projectionlab.com sponsored

What an unprocessed photo looks like
//maurycyz.com comments→

Calendar
//neatnik.net comments→

2025: The Year in LLMs
//simonwillison.net comments→

Growing up in β€œ404 Not Found”: China's nuclear city in the Gobi Desert
//substack.com comments→

I sell onions on the Internet (2019)
//deepsouthventures.com comments→

Non-Zero-Sum Games
//nonzerosum.games comments→

A website to destroy all websites
//henry.codes comments→

Publishing your work increases your luck
//github.com comments→

Rob Pike got spammed with an AI slop "act of kindness"
//simonwillison.net comments→

You can't design software you don't work on
//seangoedecke.com comments→

Cycling Game (Mini Neural Net Demo)
//doc.ic.ac.uk comments→

#Ask HN


What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth?

Tell HN: Happy New Year

What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026?

Any example of successful vibe-coded product?

#Show HN


Witr – Explain why a process is running on your Linux system //github.com commentsβ†’

Vibium – Browser automation for AI and humans, by Selenium's creator //github.com commentsβ†’

Use Claude Code to Query 600 GB Indexes over Hacker News, ArXiv, etc. //exopriors.com comments→

Stop Claude Code from forgetting everything //github.com comments→

Private blogging and journaling with a simulated audience //tempblog-psi.vercel.app comments→

Viral Potential Predictor //hn-ph.vercel.app comments→

#Code


Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never works out //nesbitt.io comments→

You can make up HTML tags //maurycyz.com comments→

Everything as code: How we manage our company in one monorepo //kasava.dev comments→

Project ideas to appreciate the art of programming //codecrafters.io comments→

Charm Ruby – Glamorous Terminal Libraries for Ruby //charm-ruby.dev commentsβ†’

#Data


22 GB of Hacker News in SQLite //hackerbook.dosaygo.com comments→

Instant database clones with PostgreSQL 18 //boringsql.com comments→

Scaffolding to Superhuman: How Curriculum Learning Solved 2048 and Tetris //kywch.github.io comments→

#Design


Netflix Open Content //opencontent.netflix.com comments→

Times New American: A Tale of Two Fonts //hsu.cy comments→

Python numbers every programmer should know //mkennedy.codes comments→

One clean, developer-focused page for every Unicode symbol //fontgenerator.design comments→

Panoramas of Star Trek Sets //mijofr.github.io comments→

Funes.world //funes.world comments→

#Books


Maybe the default settings are too high //raptitude.com comments→

I canceled my book deal //austinhenley.com comments→

Ask HN: What did you read in 2025? //news.ycombinator.com

Vibe coding a bookshelf with Claude Code //balajmarius.com comments→

LearnixOS //learnix-os.com comments→

Happy Public Domain Day 2026 //publicdomainreview.org comments→

#Working


Software engineers should be a little bit cynical //seangoedecke.com comments→

How I Left YouTube //zhach.news comments→

My role as a founder-CTO: year 8 //miguelcarranza.es comments→

#Learn


Alzheimer’s disease can be reversed in animal models? Study //case.edu commentsβ†’

Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design (2011) [pdf] //ece.uvic.ca comments→

Feynman's Hughes Lectures: 950 pages of notes //thehugheslectures.info comments→

Pokémon Team Optimization //nchagnet.pages.dev comments→

High school student discovers 1.5M potential new astronomical objects //smithsonianmag.com comments→

Notes on Taiwan //thefitzwilliam.com comments→

#Watching


Animated AI //animatedai.github.io comments→

Who Watches the Waymos? I do //youtube.com comments→

I Genetically Engineered *Myself* to Fix Lactose Intolerance //youtube.com comments→

Gaming on a Receipt Printer //youtube.com comments→

#Startup News


GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder //gog.com comments→

Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO after six decades //latimes.com comments→

Nvidia's $20B antitrust loophole //ossa-ma.github.io comments→

OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble questions of 2026 //economist.com comments→

Google's year in review: areas with research breakthroughs in 2025 //blog.google comments→

#Fun


Floor796 //floor796.com comments→

All Delisted Steam Games //delistedgames.com comments→

GeneGuessr – a daily biology web puzzle //geneguessr.brinedew.bio commentsβ†’

A 45x45 Connections Puzzle To Commemorate 2025=45*45 //thomaswc.com comments→

Wario Synth – Turn any song into Game Boy version //wario.style commentsβ†’

Tidy Baby is a SET game but with words //tidy.baby comments→

Dittytoy – Generative Music Playground //dittytoy.net commentsβ†’