Hacker Newsletter #781
February 6, 2026
Hacker Newsletter #781
The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging. //Warren Buffett
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Issue #781 // 2026-02-06 // View in your browser Hello! If you use something like Pinboard, or you just enjoy curating the web, hit reply and let me know. I'm looking for a few people to join a beta I'm working on. – kale
#Favorites
Optimize your website for AI answer engines with Webflow //webflow.com sponsored Claude Opus 4.6 //anthropic.com comments→ I miss thinking hard //jernesto.com comments→ GPT-5.3-Codex //openai.com comments→ Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors //notepad-plus-plus.org comments→ Surely the crash of the US economy has to be soon //wilsoniumite.com comments→ What I learned building an opinionated and minimal coding agent //mariozechner.at comments→ My AI Adoption Journey //mitchellh.com comments→ Company as Code //blog.42futures.com comments→ Tractor //incoherency.co.uk comments→ Moltbook is the most interesting place on the internet right now //simonwillison.net comments→
#Ask HN
Do you also "hoard" notes/links but struggle to turn them into actions? Is there anyone here who still uses slide rules? Any real OpenClaw (Clawd Bot/Molt Bot) users? What's your experience? Anyone else struggle with how to learn coding in the AI era?
#Show HN
Voxtral Transcribe 2 //mistral.ai comments→ NanoClaw – “Clawdbot” in 500 lines of TS with Apple container isolation //github.com comments→ Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site ( //safe-now.live [comments→](http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46868479) Rentahuman – The Meatspace Layer for AI //rentahuman.ai comments→ Phage Explorer //phage-explorer.org comments→ See how many words you have written in Hacker News comments //serjaimelannister.github.io comments→
#Code
Deno Sandbox //deno.com comments→ We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler //anthropic.com comments→ Orchestrate teams of Claude Code sessions //code.claude.com comments→ GitHub Actions is slowly killing engineering teams //iankduncan.com comments→
#Data
It's 2026, Just Use Postgres //tigerdata.com comments→ AliSQL: Alibaba's open-source MySQL with vector and DuckDB engines //github.com comments→ Deep dive into Turso, the “SQLite rewrite in Rust” //kerkour.com comments→ Sqldef: Idempotent schema management tool for MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite //sqldef.github.io comments→
#Design
Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings //antirender.com comments→ Buttered Crumpet, a custom typeface for Wallace and Gromit //jamieclarketype.com comments→ How to choose colors for your CLI applications //blog.xoria.org comments→
#Books
The Book of PF, 4th edition //nostarch.com comments→ Julia //borretti.me comments→ Review of 1984 by Isaac Asimov //newworker.org comments→
#Working
Ask HN: Who is hiring? //news.ycombinator.com Why more companies are recognizing the benefits of keeping older employees //longevity.stanford.edu comments→ Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? //news.ycombinator.com Management as AI superpower: Thriving in a world of agentic AI //oneusefulthing.org comments→
#Learn
Banning lead in gas worked. The proof is in our hair //attheu.utah.edu comments→ Geologists may have solved mystery of Green River's 'uphill' route //phys.org comments→ China Moon Mission: Aiming for 2030 lunar landing //spectrum.ieee.org comments→ The largest number representable in 64 bits //tromp.github.io comments→
#Watching
I trapped an AI model inside an art installation //youtube.com comments→ John Romero: Making Catacomb 3-D //youtube.com comments→
#Startup News
xAI joins SpaceX //spacex.com comments→ Tesla ending Models S and X production //cnbc.com comments→ Waymo seeking about $16B near $110B valuation //bloomberg.com comments→ Pinterest sacks two engineers for creating software to identify fired workers //theguardian.com comments→
#Fun
List animals until failure //rose.systems comments→ Adventure Game Studio: OSS software for creating adventure games //adventuregamestudio.co.uk comments→ Nintendo DS code editor and scriptable game engine //crl.io comments→ Micropolis/SimCity Clone in Emacs Lisp //github.com comments→ I wrapped the Zorks with an LLM //infocom.tambo.co comments→
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