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Hacker Newsletter #746

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May 16, 12:28 pm

Hacker Newsletter #746

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Issue #746 // 2025-05-16 // View in your browser

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#Favorites


Plain Vanilla Web
//plainvanillaweb.com comments

AlphaEvolve: A Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithms
//deepmind.google comments

Human
//quarter--mile.com comments

Internet Artifacts
//neal.fun comments

A simple 16x16 dot animation from simple math rules
//tixy.land comments

Bus stops here: Shanghai lets riders design their own routes
//sixthtone.com comments

Writing that changed how I think about programming languages
//bernsteinbear.com comments

The unreasonable effectiveness of an LLM agent loop with tool use
//sketch.dev comments

Itter.sh – Micro-Blogging via Terminal
//itter.sh comments

How to start a school with your friends
//prigoose.substack.com comments

The History and Legacy of Visual Basic
//retool.com comments

#Ask HN


How are you acquiring your first hundred users?

Cursor or Windsurf?

How do you store the knowledge gained in a day?

#Show HN


Real-time AI Voice Chat at ~500ms Latency //github.com comments

Hyvector – A fast and modern SVG editor //hyvector.com comments

VectorVFS, your filesystem as a vector database //vectorvfs.readthedocs.io comments

Scraperr – A Self Hosted Webscraper //github.com comments

Google Doc Templates for Startups //templatesbypaul.com comments

Undetectag, track stolen items with AirTag //undetectag.com comments

#Code


Debug & visualize Redis instances in real time—for free. //redis.iosponsored

Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo //github.com comments

Flattening Rust’s learning curve //corrode.dev comments

I don't like NumPy //dynomight.net comments

I built a native Windows Todo app in pure C (278 KB, no frameworks) //github.com comments

PDF to Text, a challenging problem //marginalia.nu comments

#Data


Embeddings are underrated //technicalwriting.dev comments

Gmail to SQLite //github.com comments

Migrating to Postgres //engineering.usemotion.com comments

Nao Labs – Cursor for Data //news.ycombinator.com

ToyDB rewritten: a distributed SQL database in Rust, for education //github.com comments

#Design


What is HDR, anyway? //lux.camera comments

The Barbican //arslan.io comments

Reviving a modular cargo bike design from the 1930s //core77.com comments

An online exhibition of pretty software bugs //glitchgallery.org comments

#Books


The Death of Daydreaming //afterbabel.com comments

Business books are entertainment, not strategic tools //theorthagonist.substack.com comments

Inventing the Adventure Game //warrenrobinett.com comments

How “The Great Gatsby” took over high school //newyorker.com comments

#Working


In a high-stress work environment, prioritize relationships //wqtz.bearblog.dev comments

Why Bell Labs Worked //1517.substack.com comments

Malicious compliance by booking an available meeting room //clientserver.dev comments

Persuasion methods for engineering managers //newsletter.manager.dev comments

#Learn


Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editing treatment //nytimes.com comments

LegoGPT: Generating Physically Stable and Buildable Lego //avalovelace1.github.io comments

Changes since congestion pricing started in New York //nytimes.com comments

Continuous Thought Machines //pub.sakana.ai comments

A leap year check in three instructions //hueffner.de comments

#Watching


How to Build a Smartwatch: Picking a Chip //ericmigi.com comments

Terence Tao started a YouTube channel //youtube.com comments

Doom song on the Oldest Digital Computer in America //youtube.com comments

Critical Program Reading //youtube.com comments

I built a free energy engine and show how it works //youtube.com comments

#Startup News


Databricks acquires Neon //databricks.com comments

Coinbase says hackers bribed staff to steal customer data, demanding $20M ransom //cnbc.com comments

Airbnb is in midlife crisis mode //wired.com comments

Uber to introduce fixed-route shuttles in major US cities //techcrunch.com comments

OpenAI for Countries //openai.com comments

Microsoft is Cutting 3% of All Workers //cnbc.com comments

#Fun


Replicube: A puzzle game about writing code to create shapes //store.steampowered.com comments

Reverse Pac-Man //reverse-pacman.staticrun.app comments

Easel – Code multiplayer games like singleplayer //easel.games comments

Golf Course Game Made in TypeScript with Kaplay //erikgxdev.itch.io comments