Hacker Newsletter #795
May 29, 2026
Hacker Newsletter #795
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month. //Theodore Roosevelt
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Issue #795 // 2026-05-29 // View in your browser
#Favorites
Choose Gusto for payroll, benefits, and more—built for small businesses //gusto sponsored I'm Tired of Talking to AI //orchidfiles comments→ Can we have the day off? //mlsu comments→ I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit //simonwillison comments→ Why Japanese companies do so many different things //davidoks comments→ What we lost when we stopped letting kids leave the front yard //stevemagness.substack comments→ Time to talk about my writerdeck //veronicaexplains comments→ Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations //noslopgrenade comments→ Mini Micro Fantasy Computer //miniscript comments→ How to convert between wealth and income tax //paulgraham comments→ Squares in Squares //kingbird.myphotos comments→
#Ask HN
Is anyone working at least 4 hours daily on an Apple Vision Pro? Entrepreneurs, how long did it take you to succeed? When and why did you start believing in God?
#Classifieds
Hire a talented full-time web developer with SuperBuilt //wearesuperbuilt "The Guild" is Back - Help us Make a Reunion Movie! //launchoracle End recipe clutter. Scan, import, & generate with AI //grandmasrecipes 📣 Book a classified ad for $150
#Show HN
Magnifica Humanitas //vatican comments→ Audiomass – a free, open-source multitrack audio editor for the web //audiomass comments→ Hacker News front page as a site //thefrontpage comments→ Hallucinate – Massively Multiplayer Online Rave //hallucinate comments→ Continue? Y/N: A 60-second game about AI agent permission fatigue //llmgame.scalex comments→
#Code
Using AI to write better code more slowly //nolanlawson comments→ Microsoft open-sources “the earliest DOS source code discovered to date” //arstechnica comments→ Use boring languages with LLMs //jry comments→
#Data
Claude Opus 4.8 //anthropic comments→ Disagreement among frontier LLMs on real-world fact-checks //lenz comments→ Building durable workflows on Postgres //dbos comments→
#Design
Ferrari Luce //ferrari comments→ A few interesting modern pixel fonts //unsung.aresluna comments→
#Books
The Art of Money Getting //kk comments→ You’re not burnt out, you’re existentially starving //neilthanedar comments→ Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore //unix comments→ Usborne 1980s Computer Books //usborne comments→ A new book about humanity's obsession with gold //economist comments→ All Lean Books and Where to Find Them //lakesare.brick comments→ Incorruptible: Why Good Companies Go Bad and How Great Companies Stay Great //incorruptible comments→
#Working
The worst job interview I ever had //oliverio comments→ The four-day workweek in Australia: insights from early adopters of 100:80:100 //scienceaim comments→ The Companies Cutting Headcount for AI Will Lose to the Ones Who Didn't //libertas.software comments→ How to be successful interviewing for big tech //blog.postman comments→
#Learn
Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting, study finds //apa comments→ A successful Japanese trial of a ramjet engine designed for Mach‑5 aircraft //bgr comments→ Why is almost everyone right-handed? A new study connects it to bipedalism //ox.ac comments→
#Watching
Wake up! 16b //hellmood.111mb comments→ Zero Lines Maze: What the 8-Bit Guy's One-Liner Can Still Teach Us //retrogamecoders comments→ IBM Confidential: System/360 File Organization //youtube comments→ You Only Use 10% of Printf() – Here Are Things They Didn't Teach You //youtube comments→ John Cleese on Creativity in Management //youtube comments→
#Startup News
DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode //pcgamer comments→ Last.fm is now independent //support.last comments→ Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down //cnbc comments→ Mistral AI acquires Emmi AI //emmi comments→ Valve raises Steam Deck prices //theverge comments→ Clickup Reduced Headcount by 22% //twitter comments→
#Fun
SimCity 3k in 4k //thran comments→ Earthion: A New Mega Drive-Style Shoot-Em-Up //earthiongame comments→ The Permanent Upper Crow //permanent-upper-crow.jasonwu comments→ My new obsession: A horse-racing board game of pure luck //alexanderbjoy comments→ Bitburner, programming-based incremental game //bitburner-official.github comments→
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