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Hacker Newsletter #743

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April 25, 1:45 pm

Hacker Newsletter #743

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Issue #743 // 2025-04-25 // View in your browser

#Favorites


Carrd is a platform for building simple, responsive, one-page sites for pretty much anything
//carrd.co sponsored

Getting forked by Microsoft
//philiplaine.com comments

AI Horseless Carriages
//koomen.dev comments

Claude Code: Best practices for agentic coding
//anthropic.com comments

OpenAI Codex CLI: Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal
//github.com comments

The movie mistake mystery from "Revenge of the Sith"
//fxrant.blogspot.com comments

The Gruen Transfer is consuming the internet
//sebs.website comments

How I blog with Obsidian, Hugo, GitHub, and Cloudflare
//ingau.me comments

AI assisted search-based research works now
//simonwillison.net comments

Hypertext TV
//hypertext.tv comments

AMP and why emails are not (and should never be) interactive
//buttondown.com comments

#Ask HN


Share your AI prompt that stumps every model

How do you talk about past jobs you regret in interviews?

#Show HN


I built an AI that turns GitHub codebases into easy tutorials //github.com comments

My from-scratch OS kernel that runs DOOM //github.com comments

Undercutf1 – F1 Live Timing TUI with Driver Tracker, Variable Delay //github.com comments

JuryNow – Get an anonymous instant verdict from 12 real people //jurynow.app comments

Hyperwood – Open-Source Furniture //hyperwood.org comments

Rowboat – Open-source IDE for multi-agent systems //github.com comments

#Code


Python’s new t-strings //davepeck.org comments

15,000 lines of verified cryptography now in Python //jonathan.protzenko.fr comments

Advanced Python Features //blog.edward-li.com comments

Pipelining might be my favorite programming language feature //herecomesthemoon.net comments

YAGRI: You are gonna read it //scottantipa.com comments

What do I think about Lua after shipping a project with 60k lines of code? //blog.luden.io comments

Graphics livecoding in Common Lisp //kevingal.com comments

#Data


Dia, an open-weights TTS model for generating realistic dialogue //github.com comments

I analyzed chord progressions in 680k songs //cantgetmuchhigher.com comments

Instant SQL for results as you type in DuckDB UI //motherduck.com comments

Abusing DuckDB-WASM by making SQL draw 3D graphics (Sort Of) //hey.earth comments

#Design


You wouldn't steal a font //fedi.rib.gay comments

CSS Hell //csshell.com comments

The raccoons who made computer magazine ads great //technologizer.com comments

#Books


Careless People //pluralistic.net comments

Darwin's children drew all over the “On the Origin of Species” manuscript //theappendix.net comments

More Everything Forever //nytimes.com comments

Libro: a command-line tool to track your books //github.com comments

The Cold Start Problem: Using Network Effects to Scale Your Product – A Review //madhavajay.com comments

Perplexingly Book-Learned Emacs //lars.ingebrigtsen.no comments

#Working


On loyalty to your employer //medium.com comments

Ask HN: What did you learn too late in your tech career? //news.ycombinator.com

How to Tell Your Boss They're Wrong–Tactfully //hbr.org comments

#Learn


Shortest-possible walking tour to 81,998 bars in South Korea //math.uwaterloo.ca comments

Kezurou-Kai #39 //bigsandwoodworking.com comments

How a yacht works: sailboat physics and design //onemetre.net comments

Algebraic Semantics for Machine Knitting //uwplse.org comments

#Watching


I thought I bought a camera, but no DJI sold me a license to use it //youtube.com comments

We Diagnosed and Fixed the 2023 Voyager 1 Anomaly from 15B Miles Away //youtube.com comments

How much math is knowable? //youtube.com comments

Dissecting a British wartime night vision tank periscope //youtube.com comments

#Startup News


Kagi Assistant is now available to all users //blog.kagi.com comments

Apple and Meta fined millions for breaching EU law //ca.finance.yahoo.com comments

FTC takes action against Uber for deceptive billing and cancellation practices //ftc.gov comments

Supabase raises $200M Series D at $2B valuation //finance.yahoo.com comments

OpenAI is building a social network? //theverge.com comments

Why is OpenAI buying Windsurf? //theahura.substack.com comments

#Fun


Which year: guess which year each photo was taken //whichyr.com comments

I made a Doom-like game fit inside a QR code //github.com comments

Find the Odd Disk //colors2.alessandroroussel.com comments

101 BASIC Computer Games //github.com comments

Dosidicus – A digital pet with a simple neural network //github.com comments

Trailmarks – Huge, browser-based, Carmen Sandiego-style travel game //trailmarks.earth comments