Hacker Newsletter #787
March 27, 2026
Hacker Newsletter #787
We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run. //Roy Amara
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#Favorites
Stripe Sessions: The internet economy conference, April 29-30 //stripesessions.com sponsored Personal Encyclopedias //whoami.wiki comments→ Some things just take time //lucumr.pocoo.org comments→ The 49MB web page //thatshubham.com comments→ We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do //derekthompson.org comments→ Shell Tricks That Make Life Easier (and Save Your Sanity) //blog.hofstede.it comments→ The “small web” is bigger than you might think //kevinboone.me comments→ Wander – A tiny, decentralised tool to explore the small web //susam.net comments→ Allow me to get to know you, mistakes and all //sebi.io comments→ My minute-by-minute response to the LiteLLM malware attack //futuresearch.ai comments→
#Ask HN
What is it like being in a CS major program these days? How do you deal with people who trust LLMs? AI productivity gains – do you fire devs or build better products?
#Classifieds
Frontend Hero – Replace 11 browser extensions with one //frontend-hero.com Brand and marketing for startup speeds and budgets //leapday.ai Bit&R – The coding playground you wished you had as a kid //bitandr.com ➡️Book a classified ad for $150
#Show HN
Tinybox – A powerful computer for deep learning //tinygrad.org comments→ Flighty Airports //flighty.com comments→ I built 48 lightweight SVG backgrounds you can copy/paste //svgbackgrounds.com comments→ Email.md – Markdown to responsive, email-safe HTML //emailmd.dev comments→ Hammerspoon //github.com comments→ A plain-text cognitive architecture for Claude Code //lab.puga.com.br comments→ Ichinichi – One note per day, E2E encrypted, local-first //news.ycombinator.com I put an AI agent on a $7/month VPS with IRC as its transport layer //georgelarson.me comments→ Fio: 3D World editor/game engine – inspired by Radiant and Hammer //github.com comments→ Thermal Receipt Printers – Markdown and Web UI //github.com comments→
#Code
Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming //cs.unc.edu comments→ Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web //hacks.mozilla.org comments→ Give Django your time and money, not your tokens //better-simple.com comments→ A Decade of Slug //terathon.com comments→ Cook: A simple CLI for orchestrating Claude Code //rjcorwin.github.io comments→ Java 26 is here //hanno.codes comments→
#Data
Can I run AI locally? //canirun.ai comments→ LLM Architecture Gallery //sebastianraschka.com comments→ Quantization from the Ground Up //ngrok.com comments→ Turbolite – a SQLite VFS serving sub-250ms cold JOIN queries from S3 //github.com comments→ Executing programs inside transformers with exponentially faster inference //percepta.ai comments→
#Design
TUI Studio – visual terminal UI design tool //tui.studio comments→ The pleasures of poor product design //inconspicuous.info comments→ Obsolete Sounds //citiesandmemory.com comments→ The day I discovered type design //marksimonson.com comments→ My Astrophotography in the Movie Project Hail Mary //rpastro.square.site comments→
#Books
Five Years of Running a Systems Reading Group at Microsoft //armaansood.com comments→ Library of Short Stories //libraryofshortstories.com comments→ Learning Creative Coding //stigmollerhansen.dk comments→
#Working
US Job Market Visualizer //karpathy.ai comments→ Why I may ‘hire’ AI instead of a graduate student //science.org comments→
#Learn
Why so many control rooms were seafoam green //bethmathews.substack.com comments→ Data centers are transitioning from AC to DC //spectrum.ieee.org comments→ Generating All 32-Bit Primes (Part I) //hnlyman.github.io comments→ The Math That Explains Why Bell Curves Are Everywhere //quantamagazine.org comments→ Using calculus to do number theory //hidden-phenomena.com comments→
#Watching
Sci-Fi Short Film "There Is No Antimemetics Division" //youtube.com comments→ Reverse Engineering Apple's GPU Energy Model on the M4 Max //youtube.com comments→ The Los Angeles Aqueduct Is Wild //youtube.com comments→
#Startup News
Astral to Join OpenAI //astral.sh comments→ Goodbye to Sora //twitter.com comments→ Epic Games to cut more than 1k jobs as Fortnite usage falls //reuters.com comments→ Clockwise acquired by Salesforce //getclockwise.com comments→ Mistral AI Releases Forge //mistral.ai comments→
#Fun
Kagi Translate now supports LinkedIn Speak as an output language //translate.kagi.com comments→ Hormuz Minesweeper – Are you tired of winning? //hormuz.pythonic.ninja comments→ Conway's Game of Life, in real life //lcamtuf.substack.com comments→ Playing LongTurn FreeCiv with Friends //github.com comments→ What's my JND? – a colour guessing game //keithcirkel.co.uk comments→ Off By – a daily game about how wrong we are about the American economy //offby.io comments→
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