Hacker Newsletter #792
May 1, 2026
Hacker Newsletter #792
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. //Lily Tomlin
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Issue #792 // 2026-05-01 // View in your browser
#Favorites
Earn an Ivy League master’s degree in AI, data science, computer science, or software systems and cybersecurity––100% online taught by Penn’s world-renowned faculty //upenn sponsored Ghostty is leaving GitHub //mitchellh comments→ Zed 1.0 //zed comments→ Cursor Camp //neal comments→ How ChatGPT serves ads //buchodi comments→ Men who stare at walls //alexselimov comments→ Where the goblins came from //openai comments→ How an oil refinery works //construction-physics comments→ I built a Game Boy emulator in F# //nickkossolapov.github comments→ Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish //blog.matthewbrunelle comments→ OpenTrafficMap //opentrafficmap comments→ Letting AI play my game – building an agentic test harness to help play-testing //blog.jeffschomay comments→ Biology is a Burrito: A text- and visual-based journey through a living cell //burrito comments→ Getting my daily news from a dot matrix printer 2024 //aschmelyun comments→
#Ask HN
What skills are future proof in an AI driven job market? Am I getting old, or is working with AI juniors becoming a nightmare?
#Classifieds
"The Guild" is Back - Help us Make a Reunion Movie! //launchoracle You bring the domain, we host the email. $10/year. //purelymail Algotutor - AI personal tutor for Go developers //algotutor 👉 Book a classified ad
#Show HN
Localsend: An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop //github comments→ I aggregated 28 US Government auction sites into one search //bidprowl comments→ A Karpathy-style LLM wiki your agents maintain (Markdown and Git) //github comments→ Live Sun and Moon Dashboard with NASA Footage //lumara-space comments→ Rocky – Rust SQL engine with branches, replay, column lineage //github comments→ A terminal spreadsheet editor with Vim keybindings //github comments→ Study Bible MCP – scholarly Greek/Hebrew lexicons and morphology //github comments→
#Code
Quarkdown – Markdown with Superpowers //quarkdown comments→ I don't want your PRs anymore //dpc comments→ Why I still reach for Lisp and Scheme instead of Haskell //jointhefreeworld comments→ Self-updating screenshots //interblah comments→ Remix 3 Beta Preview //remix comments→
#Data
Durable queues, streams, pub/sub, and a cron scheduler – inside your SQLite file //honker comments→ Talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930 //talkie-lm comments→ Rocky – Rust SQL engine with branches, replay, column lineage //github comments→ Full-Text Search with DuckDB //peterdohertys.website comments→
#Design
Is my blue your blue? //ismy comments→ A 1960s art school experiment that redefined creativity //thereader.mitpress.mit comments→ Creating a Color Palette from an Image //amandahinton comments→
#Books
How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt] //thereader.mitpress.mit comments→ Britannica11.org – a structured edition of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica //britannica11 comments→ Integrated by Design //vivianvoss comments→ FreeBSD Device Drivers Book //github comments→
#Working
Sabotaging projects by overthinking, scope creep, and structural diffing //kevinlynagh comments→ Work with the garage door up //notes.andymatuschak comments→ I did no work for a year and no one noticed //leylakazim.substack comments→ Adding a team was the wrong strategic decision //learnings.aleixmorgadas comments→
#Learn
Can you stop beans from making you gassy? //seriouseats comments→ Jumping into cold water can stop your heart //jorgenmelau.substack comments→ Exposing Floating Point – Bartosz Ciechanowski //ciechanow comments→
#Watching
How to Build the Future: Demis Hassabis //youtube comments→ Nicholas Carlini – Black-hat LLMs //youtube comments→ Neal Stephenson: The Real Threat Isn't AI, It's Us //youtube comments→
#Startup News
Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal //bloomberg comments→ China blocks Meta's acquisition of AI startup Manus //cnbc comments→ OpenAI models coming to Amazon Bedrock: Interview with OpenAI and AWS CEOs //stratechery comments→ Alphabet Announces First Quarter 2026 Results //abc comments→
#Fun
The Classic American Diner //blogs.loc comments→ Live Sun and Moon Dashboard with NASA Footage //lumara-space comments→ Google Flow Music //flowmusic comments→ DataCenter.FM – background noise app featuring the sound of the AI bubble //datacenter comments→ I built "Middle Class Museum", a tour of things that used to be affordable //ideagames comments→ Realmz – Reviving a Classic Macintosh Game //danapplegate comments→
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