Hacker Newsletter #788
April 3, 2026
Hacker Newsletter #788
It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it. //John Wooden
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#Favorites
Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry //twitter.com comments→ Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan //stepsecurity.io comments→ Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies //sytse.com comments→ The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode //alex000kim.com comments→ Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide //ccunpacked.dev comments→ Spanish legislation as a Git repo //github.com comments→ AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice //news.stanford.edu comments→ How to turn anything into a router //nbailey.ca comments→ Do your own writing //alexhwoods.com comments→ EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security //blog.cloudflare.com comments→ A dot a day keeps the clutter away //scottlawsonbc.com comments→ Slop is not necessarily the future //greptile.com comments→ Seeing like a spreadsheet //davidoks.blog comments→
#Ask HN
Client took over development by vibe coding. What to do? What was it like in the era of BBS before the internet?
#Classifieds
EstateClear – Probate case management for small firms //estateclear.org Unlimited free postgres databases. spin up, throw away, repeat //ghost.build A social network for tech startups. Get early access now //industrysocial.net End recipe clutter. Scan, import, & generate with AI //grandmasrecipes.app Book a classified ad for $150
#Show HN
I took back Video.js after 16 years and we rewrote it to be 88% smaller //videojs.org comments→ Gemini can now natively embed video, so I built sub-second video search //github.com comments→ Open source CAD in the browser //solvespace.com comments→ 30u30.fyi – Is your startup founder on Forbes' most fraudulent list? //30u30.fyi comments→ OpenGridWorks: Electricity infrastructure, mapped //opengridworks.com comments→ Gridland: make terminal apps that also run in the browser //gridland.io comments→
#Code
Anatomy of the .claude/ folder //blog.dailydoseofds.com comments→ Pretext: TypeScript library for multiline text measurement and layout //github.com comments→ TruffleRuby //chrisseaton.com comments→ Build123d: A Python CAD programming library //github.com comments→
#Data
Google releases Gemma 4 open models //deepmind.google comments→ 1-Bit Bonsai, the First Commercially Viable 1-Bit LLMs //prismml.com comments→ Good CTE, Bad CTE //boringsql.com comments→ Modern SQLite: Features You Didn't Know It Had //slicker.me comments→ The revenge of the data scientist //hamel.dev comments→
#Design
CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font //codingfont.com comments→ The curious case of retro demo scene graphics //datagubbe.se comments→ The road signs that teach travellers about France //bbc.com comments→
#Books
ISBN Visualization //annas-archive.gd comments→ 'Backrooms' and the Rise of the Institutional Gothic //thereader.mitpress.mit.edu comments→ What major works of literature were written after age of 85? 75? 65? //statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu comments→ The Little Book of C //little-book-of.github.io comments→ Almighty Lisp: Lisp and Emacs Essentials Book //almightylisp.com comments→ Memo: A language that remembers only the last 12 lines of code //danieltemkin.com comments→
#Working
I wanted to build vertical SaaS for pest control, so I took a technician job //onhand.pro comments→ I quit. The clankers won //dbushell.com comments→ Ask HN: Who is hiring? //news.ycombinator.com The ladder is missing rungs – Engineering Progression When AI Ate the Middle //negroniventurestudios.com comments→ Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? //news.ycombinator.com
#Learn
Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics //news.umich.edu comments→ Antimatter has been transported for the first time //nature.com comments→ Intuiting Pratt Parsing //louis.co.nz comments→
#Watching
Artemis II Launch Day Updates //nasa.gov comments→ I Built an Open-World Engine for the N64 //youtube.com comments→ Reverse engineering GTA San Andreas with autonomous LLM agents //youtube.com comments→ Clojure: The Documentary, official trailer //youtube.com comments→
#Startup News
Oracle slashes 30k jobs //rollingout.com comments→ Apple Business //apple.com comments→ SpaceX files to go public //nytimes.com comments→ OpenAI Acquires TBPN //openai.com comments→
#Fun
CSS is DOOMed //nielsleenheer.com comments→ 4D Doom //github.com comments→ Chess in SQL //dbpro.app comments→ Payphone Tag is territory game using Australia's 15,000 payphones //payphonetag.com comments→ Wageslave – I quit my soul sucking job to make a game about it //cauldron.itch.io comments→ Skub – a sliding puzzle browser game //skub.app comments→
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