Hacker Newsletter #780
January 30, 2026
Hacker Newsletter #780
You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need. //Vernon Howard
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#Favorites
Airtable - From idea to app in an instant //airtable.com sponsored Airfoil //ciechanow.ski comments→ Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds //blog.google comments→ Gas Town's agent patterns, design bottlenecks, and vibecoding at scale //maggieappleton.com comments→ How I estimate work //seangoedecke.com comments→ OpenClaw - open source personal AI assistant //github.com comments→ Moltbook //moltbook.com comments→The browser is the sandbox //simonwillison.net comments→ The tech monoculture is finally breaking //jasonwillems.com comments→ Mental Models //fs.blog comments→ Doing the thing is doing the thing //softwaredesign.ing comments→ Making niche solutions is the point //ntietz.com comments→
#Ask HN
What's the current best local/open speech-to-speech setup? Gmail spam filtering suddenly marking everything as spam? How are you automating your coding work?
#Classifieds
Localize iOS & Android apps with LLMs — right on your Mac //apps.apple.com Keep your customers in the loop with Onset, an all-in-one platform for release notes, roadmaps and more. //onset.io Debug MCP servers fast with the free MCP Workbench tool //orkes.io 👉 Buy a classified ad
#Show HN
A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch //github.com comments→ A MitM proxy to see what your LLM tools are sending //github.com comments→ Flameshot //github.com comments→ An interactive map of US lighthouses and navigational aids //lighthouses.app comments→ Elo ranking for landing pages //landingleaderboard.com comments→ Transcribee: YouTube transcriber that builds a knowledge base //github.com comments→
#Code
Mermaid ASCII: Render Mermaid diagrams in your terminal //github.com comments→ The future of software engineering is SRE //swizec.com comments→ Make.ts //matklad.github.io comments→ Notes on starting to use Django //jvns.ca comments→ Draig, a Welsh Programming Language //raku.land comments→
#Data
Introduction to PostgreSQL Indexes //dlt.github.io comments→ The challenges of soft delete //atlas9.dev comments→ OpenAI's In-House Data Agent //openai.com comments→ Scaling PostgreSQL to power 800M ChatGPT users //openai.com comments→
#Design
New YC homepage //ycombinator.com comments→ Web-based image editor modeled after Deluxe Paint //github.com comments→ San Francisco Graffiti //walzr.com comments→ Dithering – Part 2: The Ordered Dithering //visualrambling.space comments→
#Books
The Agentic AI Handbook: Production-Ready Patterns //nibzard.com comments→ Ask HN: Books to learn 6502 ASM and the Apple II //news.ycombinator.com Shelvy Books //shelvybooks.com comments→
#Working
AI’s impact on engineering jobs may be different than expected //semiengineering.com comments→ What “The Best” Looks Like //kuril.in comments→ Employers, please use postmarked letters for job applications //soapstone.mradford.com comments→ The Uncomfortable Math of Working for Yourself //thomasunise.com comments→
#Learn
Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants //blog.ncase.me comments→ Television is 100 years old today //diamondgeezer.blogspot.com comments→ 430k-year-old well-preserved wooden tools are the oldest ever found //nytimes.com comments→ A lot of population numbers are fake //davidoks.blog comments→ Maine’s ‘Lobster Lady’ who fished for nearly a century dies aged 105 //theguardian.com comments→
#Watching
I built a light that reacts to radio waves //youtube.com comments→ After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand //youtube.com comments→ The all new Mecha Comet, live on Kickstarter //youtube.com comments→ The Engineer who invented the Mars Rover Suspension in his garage //youtube.com comments→ I Overengineered a Spinning Top //youtube.com comments→
#Startup News
Amazon cuts 16k jobs //reuters.com comments→ Tell HN: Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday //news.ycombinator.com Amazon closing its Fresh and Go stores //finance.yahoo.com comments→ TikTok settles just before social media addiction trial to begin //bbc.com comments→ TSMC Risk //stratechery.com comments→ Notice of collective action lawsuit against Workday, Inc. //workdaycase.com comments→
#Fun
Doom has been ported to an earbud //doombuds.com comments→ The HN Arcade //andrewgy8.github.io comments→ Super Monkey Ball ported to a website //monkeyball-online.pages.dev comments→ Video Games as Art //gwern.net comments→ Maze Algorithms //jamisbuck.org comments→
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