Hacker Newsletter #785
March 6, 2026
Hacker Newsletter #785
Never let yesterday use up too much of today. //Will Rogers
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Issue #785 // 2026-03-06 // View in your browser
#Favorites
Stripe Sessions: The internet economy conference, April 29-30 //stripesessions sponsored Microgpt //karpathy.github comments→ MacBook Neo //apple comments→ The Xkcd thing, now interactive //editor.p5js comments→ Nobody gets promoted for simplicity //terriblesoftware comments→ GPT-5.4 //openai comments→ Decision trees – the unreasonable power of nested decision rules //mlu-explain.github comments→ Agentic Engineering Patterns //simonwillison comments→ Cognitive Debt: When Velocity Exceeds Comprehension //rockoder comments→ Good software knows when to stop //ogirardot.writizzy comments→ The Brand Age //paulgraham comments→ How to record and retrieve anything you've ever had to look up twice //ellanew comments→ The View from RSS //carolinecrampton comments→
#Ask HN
What sources like HN do you consume? What's it like working in big tech recently with all the AI tools?
#Classifieds
The student behind a phishing empire //dispatch-media Ship your startup in days, not weeks //shipfa Bit&R – The coding playground you wished you had as a kid //bitandr Become a StockAnalysis.com affiliate. Earn 60% //stockanalysis
#Show HN
Google Workspace CLI //github comments→ MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max //apple comments→ Now I Get It – Translate scientific papers into interactive webpages //nowigetit comments→ Does that use a lot of energy? //hannahritchie.github comments→ Govbase – Follow a bill from source text to news bias to social posts //govbase comments→ Omni – Open-source workplace search and chat, built on Postgres //github comments→
#Code
Ghostty – Terminal Emulator //ghostty comments→ If AI writes code, should the session be part of the commit? //github comments→ A CPU that runs entirely on GPU //github comments→ A case for Go as the best language for AI agents //getbruin comments→ You need to rewrite your CLI for AI agents //justin.poehnelt comments→ The next generations of Bubble Tea, Lip Gloss, and Bubbles are available now //charm comments→
#Data
Right-sizes LLM models to your system's RAM, CPU, and GPU //github comments→ Timber – Ollama for classical ML models, 336x faster than Python //github comments→ Better JIT for Postgres //github comments→
#Design
The Windows 95 user interface: A case study in usability engineering //dl.acm comments→ Moss is a pixel canvas where every brush is a tiny program //moss comments→ Mondrian Entered the Public Domain. The Estate Disagrees //copyrightlately comments→ AI-generated art can't be copyrighted after Supreme Court declines review //theverge comments→ Writing a Guide to SDF Fonts //redblobgames comments→
#Books
Dan Simmons, author of Hyperion, has died //dignitymemorial comments→ Little Free Library //littlefreelibrary comments→ "That Shape Had None" – A Horror of Substrate Independence (Short Fiction) //starlightconvenience comments→
#Working
Don't become an engineering manager //newsletter.manager comments→ Ask HN: Who is hiring? //news.ycombinator My spicy take on vibe coding for PMs //ddmckinnon comments→ Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? //news.ycombinator The happiest I've ever been //ben-mini comments→
#Learn
British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time //cbc comments→ How to talk to anyone and why you should //theguardian comments→ Following 35% growth, solar has passed hydro on US grid //arstechnica comments→ The Space Race's Forgotten Theme Park //daily.jstor comments→
#Watching
Physics Girl: Super-Kamiokande – Imaging the sun by detecting neutrinos //youtube comments→ Simple screw counter //mitxela comments→ HyperCard Changed Everything //youtube comments→ Should You Be a Carpenter? //youtube comments→ Living Human Brain Cells Play Doom on a Cortical Labs CL1 //youtube comments→
#Startup News
Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS //motorolanews comments→ Wikipedia was in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise //wikimediastatus comments→ OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation //techcrunch comments→ Jensen Huang says Nvidia is pulling back from OpenAI and Anthropic //techcrunch comments→
#Fun
Voxile: A ray-traced game made in its own engine and programming language //elbowgreasegames.substack comments→ I converted 2D conventional flight tracking into 3D //aeris.edbn comments→ Stacked Game of Life //stacked-game-of-life.koenvangilst comments→ Elevator Saga: The elevator programming game //play.elevatorsaga comments→ Decided to play god this morning, so I built an agent civilisation //github comments→ Swarm – Program a colony of 200 ants using a custom assembly language //dev.moment comments→
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