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Issue #793

by @hnl · last added 2026-05-08 · 6 items

tags: [favorites] [ask_hn] [show_hn] [code] [data] [design] [books] [working] [learn] [watching] [startup_news] [fun] [clear]

filtered by: [design]

─── Favorites (12) ─────────────────────────────────────

* Talking to strangers at the gym

thienantran.com · node›

* Appearing productive in the workplace

nooneshappy.com · node›

* Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like

simonwillison.net · node›

* Train Your Own LLM from Scratch

github.com · node›

* CARA 2.0 – “I Built a Better Robot Dog”

aaedmusa.com · node›

* A desktop made for one

isene.org · node›

* The Burning Man MOOP Map

not-ship.com · node›

* Six years perfecting maps on watchOS

david-smith.org · node›

* Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data

theverge.com · node›

* Agents need control flow, not more prompts

bsuh.bearblog.dev · node›

* What I Learned Making an App for My Family

mendelgreenberg.com · node›

* I have officially retired from Emacs

nullprogram.com · node›

─── Ask Hn (2) ─────────────────────────────────────────

* I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

news.ycombinator.com · node›

* Is the Job Market Actually Bad?

news.ycombinator.com · node›

─── Show Hn (6) ────────────────────────────────────────

* StarFighter 16-Inch

us.starlabs.systems · node›

* WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables

github.com · node›

* Empty Screenings – Finds AMC movie screenings with few or no tickets sold

walzr.com · node›

* Hallucinopedia

halupedia.com · node›

* Tilde.run – Agent sandbox with a transactional, versioned filesystem

tilde.run · node›

* Airbyte Agents – context for agents across multiple data sources

news.ycombinator.com · node›

─── Code (6) ───────────────────────────────────────────

* Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions

red-squares.cian.lol · node›

* Before GitHub

lucumr.pocoo.org · node›

* Agentic Coding Is a Trap

larsfaye.com · node›

* For thirty years I programmed with Phish on, every day

christophermeiklejohn.com · node›

* What I'm Hearing About Cognitive Debt (So Far)

margaretstorey.com · node›

* CLI Printing Press – create go CLI tool from any API

github.com · node›

─── Data (4) ───────────────────────────────────────────

* DeepSeek V4 – almost on the frontier

simonwillison.net · node›

* Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters

blog.google · node›

* How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale

openai.com · node›

* SQLite Is a Library of Congress Recommended Storage Format

sqlite.org · node›

─── Design (6) ─────────────────────────────────────────

* Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license

digitalfoundry.net · node›

* New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag

smithsonianmag.com · node›

* Multi-stroke text effect in CSS

yuanchuan.dev · node›

* Your website is not for you

websmith.studio · node›

* Explore color palettes inspired by 3000 master painter artworks

paletteinspiration.com · node›

* Why most product tours get skipped

productonboarding.com · node›

─── Books (2) ──────────────────────────────────────────

* Boris Cherny: TI-83 Plus Basic Programming Tutorial

ticalc.org · node›

* Little Magazines Are Back

wsjfreeexpression.substack.com · node›

─── Working (4) ────────────────────────────────────────

* Ask HN: Who is hiring?

news.ycombinator.com · node›

* Ask HN: Who wants to be hired?

news.ycombinator.com · node›

* Ask HN: Who wants to be fired?

news.ycombinator.com · node›

* Meetings Are Forcing Functions

mooreds.com · node›

─── Learn (5) ──────────────────────────────────────────

* Ted Turner has died

cnn.com · node›

* A Theory of Deep Learning

elonlit.com · node›

* Newton's law of gravity passes its biggest test

science.org · node›

* Using “underdrawings” for accurate text and numbers

samcollins.blog · node›

* AI Self-preferencing in Algorithmic Hiring: Empirical Evidence and Insights

arxiv.org · node›

─── Watching (6) ───────────────────────────────────────

* EEVblog: The 555 Timer is 55 years old

youtube.com · node›

* Flock cameras keep telling police a man who doesn't have a warrant has a warrant

youtube.com · node›

* I recreated the Apple Lisa computer inside an FPGA

youtube.com · node›

* World's biggest RC A380

youtube.com · node›

* I made a vertical-pedalling bike with a novel drivetrain

youtube.com · node›

* Y-Zipper: 3D Printing Flexible-Rigid Transitions in One Click

youtube.com · node›

─── Startup News (6) ───────────────────────────────────

* GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay

bbc.co.uk · node›

* Let's Buy Spirit Air

letsbuyspiritair.com · node›

* Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%

twitter.com · node›

* Ask.com has closed

ask.com · node›

* Roblox shares plummet 18% as child safety measures weigh on bookings

cnbc.com · node›

* Google Plans to Invest Up to $40B in Anthropic

bloomberg.com · node›

─── Fun (5) ────────────────────────────────────────────

* Hand Drawn QR Codes

sethmlarson.dev · node›

* A playable DOOM MCP app

chrisnager.com · node›

* I built a new word game, Wordtrak

wordtrak.com · node›

* Stop playing my matchstick puzzles, start building your own in seconds

mathstick.github.io · node›

* Simulating Cells Fighting to the Death

jamiesimon.io · node›