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Hacker Newsletter #778

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January 16, 1:29 pm

Hacker Newsletter #778

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Issue #778 // 2026-01-16 // View in your browser

#Favorites


Edwin AI automates the entire playbook process—from generation to execution—to reduce MTTR, prevent outages, and free teams from repetitive incident work
//logicmonitor.com sponsored

Don't fall into the anti-AI hype
//antirez.com comments

CLI agents make self-hosting on a home server easier and fun
//fulghum.io comments

Shipmap
//shipmap.org comments

Postal Arbitrage
//walzr.com comments

How Markdown took over the world
//anildash.com comments

London–Calcutta bus service
//en.wikipedia.org comments

Inside The Internet Archive's Infrastructure
//hackernoon.com comments

LLM Problems Observed in Humans
//embd.cc comments

First impressions of Claude Cowork
//simonw.substack.com comments

No management needed: anti-patterns in early-stage engineering teams
//ablg.io comments

#Ask HN


Share your personal website

How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?

How are you doing RAG locally?

What are you working on?

What's the current state of paraphrasing anonymyty tools?

#Classifieds


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

More SQL Antipatterns //pragprog.com

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

End recipe clutter. Scan, import, & generate with AI //grandmasrecipes.app

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#Show HN


I made a memory game to teach you to play piano by ear //lend-me-your-ears.specr.net comments

Scroll Wikipedia like TikTok //quack.sdan.io comments

AI in SolidWorks //trylad.com comments

Webctl – Browser automation for agents based on CLI instead of MCP //github.com comments

Self-host Reddit – 2.38B posts, works offline, yours forever //github.com comments

AsciiSketch a free browser-based ASCII art and diagram editor //files.littlebird.com.au comments

#Code


I hate GitHub Actions with passion //xlii.space comments

The next two years of software engineering //addyosmani.com comments

Scaling long-running autonomous coding //cursor.com comments

The Gleam Programming Language //gleam.run comments

Bubblewrap: A nimble way to prevent agents from accessing your .env files //patrickmccanna.net comments

#Data


TimeCapsuleLLM: LLM trained only on data from 1800-1875 //github.com comments

How much of my observability data is waste? //usetero.com comments

Data is the only moat //frontierai.substack.com comments

Generate QR Codes with Pure SQL in PostgreSQL //tanelpoder.com comments

#Design


Eulogy for Dark Sky, a data visualization masterpiece //nightingaledvs.com comments

Volkswagen Brings Back Physical Buttons //caranddriver.com comments

ASCII Clouds //caidan.dev comments

Meet ski map artist James Niehues, the 'Monet of the mountains' //adventure.com comments

#Books


I used Claude Code to discover connections between 100 books //trails.pieterma.es comments

The Concise TypeScript Book //github.com comments

Crafting Interpreters //craftinginterpreters.com comments

#Working


To those who fired or didn't hire tech writers because of AI //passo.uno comments

Why senior engineers let bad projects fail //lalitm.com comments

Just Get a Better Job //idiallo.com comments

#Learn


Ozempic is changing the foods Americans buy //news.cornell.edu comments

Exercise can be nearly as effective as therapy for depression //sciencedaily.com comments

Why some clothes shrink in the wash – and how to 'unshrink' them //swinburne.edu.au comments

Are two heads better than one? //eieio.games comments

#Watching


Scott Adams has died //youtube.com comments

The chess bot on Delta Air Lines will destroy you //youtube.com comments

39c3: In-house electronics manufacturing from scratch: How hard can it be? //media.ccc.de comments

#Startup News


Apple picks Gemini to power Siri //cnbc.com comments

Ford F-150 Lightning outsold the Cybertruck and was then canceled for poor sales //electrek.co comments

Apple is fighting for TSMC capacity as Nvidia takes center stage //culpium.com comments

Flock Hardcoded the Password for America's Surveillance Infrastructure 53 Times //nexanet.ai comments

SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation //sparkfun.com comments

Google AI Studio is now sponsoring Tailwind CSS //twitter.com comments

Anthropic invests $1.5M in the Python Software Foundation //discuss.python.org comments

#Fun


JavaScript Demos in 140 Characters //beta.dwitter.net comments

This game is a single 13 KiB file that runs on Windows, Linux and in the Browser //iczelia.net comments

Uncrossy //uncrossy.com comments

Rocket Launch and Orbit Simulator //donutthejedi.com comments

Sun Position Calculator //drajmarsh.bitbucket.io comments

TinyCity – A tiny city SIM for MicroPython (Thumby micro console) //github.com comments