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Hacker Newsletter #777

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January 9, 12:34 pm

Hacker Newsletter #777

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Issue #777 // 2026-01-09 // View in your browser

#Favorites


Airtable - From idea to app in an instant
//airtable.com sponsored

Lessons from 14 years at Google
//addyosmani.com comments

Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere
//indieweb.org comments

Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far
//burkeholland.github.io comments

The unbearable joy of sitting alone in a café
//candost.blog comments

Daft Punk Easter Egg in the BPM Tempo of Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger?
//madebywindmill.com comments

The Most Popular Blogs of Hacker News in 2025
//refactoringenglish.com comments

Stop Doom Scrolling, Start Doom Coding: Build via the terminal from your phone
//github.com comments

Google broke my heart
//perishablepress.com comments

Pebble Round 2
//repebble.com comments

The suck is why we're here
//nik.art comments

An interactive guide to how browsers work
//howbrowserswork.com comments

Moiré Explorer
//play.ertdfgcvb.xyz comments

#Ask HN


What tech job would let me get away with the least real work possible?

How did you learn to code?

#Show HN


DoNotNotify – Log and intelligently block notifications on Android //donotnotify.com comments

Tailsnitch – A security auditor for Tailscale //github.com comments

Website that plays the lottery every second //lotteryeverysecond.lffl.me comments

Server-rendered multiplayer games with Lua (no client code) //cleoselene.com comments

Make audio loops online //makeloops.online comments

#Code


FracturedJson //github.com comments

Go away Python //lorentz.app comments

Prism.Tools – Free and privacy-focused developer utilities //blgardner.github.io comments

JavaScript engines zoo – Compare every JavaScript engine //zoo.js.org comments

#Data


Databases in 2025: A Year in Review //cs.cmu.edu comments

65% of Hacker News posts have negative sentiment, and they outperform //philippdubach.com comments

Why does a least squares fit appear to have a bias when applied to simple data? //stats.stackexchange.com comments

The Q, K, V Matrices //arpitbhayani.me comments

DDL to Data – Generate realistic test data from SQL schemas //news.ycombinator.com

#Design


It's hard to justify Tahoe icons //tonsky.me comments

Public Sans – A strong, neutral typeface //public-sans.digital.gov comments

GBC Boot Animation 88×31 Web Button //zakhary.dev comments

Video Game Websites in the early 00s //webdesignmuseum.org comments

#Books


10 years of personal finances in plain text files //sgoel.dev comments

Public Sans – A strong, neutral typeface //public-sans.digital.gov comments

Readings in Database Systems (5th Edition) //redbook.io comments

How to Win Friends and Influence People: Unrevised Version //socialskillswisdom.com comments

#Working


Try to take my position: The best promotion advice I ever got //andrew.grahamyooll.com comments

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

The Napoleon Technique: Postponing things to increase productivity //effectiviology.com comments

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

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

#Learn


Eat Real Food //realfood.gov comments

Six-decade math puzzle solved by Korean mathematician //koreaherald.com comments

Oral microbiome sequencing after taking probiotics //blog.booleanbiotech.com comments

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of the Fourier Transform //joshuawise.com comments

#Watching


Hyundai Introduces Its Next-Gen Atlas Robot at CES 2026 //youtube.com comments

The first new compass since 1936 //youtube.com comments

I'm making a game engine based on dynamic signed distance fields (SDFs) //youtube.com comments

#Startup News


Bose has released API docs and opened the API for its EoL SoundTouch speakers //arstechnica.com comments

Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time //data.stackexchange.com comments

Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team //github.com comments

How Google got its groove back and edged ahead of OpenAI //wsj.com comments

#Fun


enclose.horse //enclose.horse comments

Spherical Snake //kevinalbs.com comments

SQLNet A social network that looks like Twitter but you write SQL to do anything //sqlnet.cc comments

Ripple, a puzzle game about 2nd and 3rd order effects //ripplegame.app comments

A Daily Bible Game //bibdle.com comments

llmgame.ai – The Wikipedia Game but with LLMs //llmgame.ai comments