Hacker Newsletter #793
May 8, 2026
Hacker Newsletter #793
Either you run the day or the day runs you. //Jim Rohn
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#Favorites
Earn an Ivy League master’s degree in AI //upenn sponsored Talking to strangers at the gym //thienantran comments→ Appearing productive in the workplace //nooneshappy comments→ Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like //simonwillison comments→ Train Your Own LLM from Scratch //github comments→ CARA 2.0 – “I Built a Better Robot Dog” //aaedmusa comments→ A desktop made for one //isene comments→ The Burning Man MOOP Map //not-ship comments→ Six years perfecting maps on watchOS //david-smith comments→ Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data //theverge comments→ Agents need control flow, not more prompts //bsuh.bearblog comments→ What I Learned Making an App for My Family //mendelgreenberg comments→ I have officially retired from Emacs //nullprogram comments→
#Ask HN
I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA Is the Job Market Actually Bad?
#Classifieds
A social network for tech startups. Get early access now //industrysocial "The Guild" is Back - Help us Make a Reunion Movie! //launchoracle End recipe clutter. Scan, import, & generate with AI //grandmasrecipes Buttondown Email - the last email platform you'll migrate to //buttondown ✨ Share your project with 70,000 others
#Show HN
StarFighter 16-Inch //us.starlabs.systems comments→ WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables //github comments→ Empty Screenings – Finds AMC movie screenings with few or no tickets sold //walzr comments→ Hallucinopedia //halupedia comments→ Tilde.run – Agent sandbox with a transactional, versioned filesystem //tilde comments→ Airbyte Agents – context for agents across multiple data sources //news.ycombinator
#Code
Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions //red-squares.cian comments→ Before GitHub //lucumr.pocoo comments→ Agentic Coding Is a Trap //larsfaye comments→ For thirty years I programmed with Phish on, every day //christophermeiklejohn comments→ What I'm Hearing About Cognitive Debt (So Far) //margaretstorey comments→ CLI Printing Press – create go CLI tool from any API //github comments→
#Data
DeepSeek V4 – almost on the frontier //simonwillison comments→ Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters //blog comments→ How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale //openai comments→ SQLite Is a Library of Congress Recommended Storage Format //sqlite comments→
#Design
Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license //digitalfoundry comments→ New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag //smithsonianmag comments→ Multi-stroke text effect in CSS //yuanchuan comments→ Your website is not for you //websmith comments→ Explore color palettes inspired by 3000 master painter artworks //paletteinspiration comments→ Why most product tours get skipped //productonboarding comments→
#Books
Boris Cherny: TI-83 Plus Basic Programming Tutorial //ticalc comments→ Little Magazines Are Back //wsjfreeexpression.substack comments→
#Working
Ask HN: Who is hiring? //news.ycombinator Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? //news.ycombinator Ask HN: Who wants to be fired? //news.ycombinator Meetings Are Forcing Functions //mooreds comments→
#Learn
Using “underdrawings” for accurate text and numbers //samcollins comments→ AI Self-preferencing in Algorithmic Hiring: Empirical Evidence and Insights //arxiv comments→ Ted Turner has died //cnn comments→ A Theory of Deep Learning //elonlit comments→ Newton's law of gravity passes its biggest test //science comments→
#Watching
EEVblog: The 555 Timer is 55 years old //youtube comments→ Flock cameras keep telling police a man who doesn't have a warrant has a warrant //youtube comments→ I recreated the Apple Lisa computer inside an FPGA //youtube comments→ World's biggest RC A380 //youtube comments→ I made a vertical-pedalling bike with a novel drivetrain //youtube comments→ Y-Zipper: 3D Printing Flexible-Rigid Transitions in One Click //youtube comments→
#Startup News
GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay //bbc.co comments→ Let's Buy Spirit Air //letsbuyspiritair comments→ Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14% //twitter comments→ Ask.com has closed //ask comments→ Roblox shares plummet 18% as child safety measures weigh on bookings //cnbc comments→ Google Plans to Invest Up to $40B in Anthropic //bloomberg comments→
#Fun
Hand Drawn QR Codes //sethmlarson comments→ A playable DOOM MCP app //chrisnager comments→ I built a new word game, Wordtrak //wordtrak comments→ Stop playing my matchstick puzzles, start building your own in seconds //mathstick.github comments→ Simulating Cells Fighting to the Death //jamiesimon comments→
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