Hacker Newsletter #796
June 5, 2026
Hacker Newsletter #796
If you want something you've never had, you must be willing to do something you've never done. //Thomas Jefferson
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#Favorites
Airtable - the path to 10x every person in your organization //airtable sponsored The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen //0xsid comments→ The dead economy theory //owenmcgrann comments→ They’re made out of weights //maxleiter comments→ Domain expertise has always been the real moat //brethorsting comments→ I am retiring from tech to live offline //openpath comments→ Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing //simonwillison comments→ Stop Ruining It //seths comments→ Mechanical Pencil: An illustrated celebration of the engineering around us //mechanical-pencil comments→ The Speed of Prototyping in the Age of AI //darylcecile comments→ Retro-Tech Parenting //havenweb comments→
#Ask HN
What Is the State of App Development in 2026? So what happened to Facebook "localhost" tracking? What game have you replayed more times than any other?
#Show HN
The Website Specification //specification.website comments→ Eyeball //eyeball.rory comments→ Muxcard, a DIY credit card size computer //github comments→ Cheese Paper: a text editor specifically designed for writing //brie comments→
#Code
Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs //arps18.github comments→ Love systemd timers //blog.tjll comments→ My thoughts after using Clojure for about a month //acdw comments→ On Rendering Diffs //pierre.computer comments→
#Data
SQLite is all you need for durable workflows //obeli comments→ Learn SQL Once, Use It for 30 Years //fagnerbrack comments→
#Design
DaVinci Resolve 21 //blackmagicdesign comments→ 3D-printed book turns its own G-code into raised lettering //designboom comments→ 12,060 piece, $799.99, Sagrada Família is the largest Lego building set to date //lego comments→ The Tenfold Playground //inkandswitch comments→ Ford 021C Concept Car //marc-newson comments→
#Books
High Density Living, 2000 Years Ago: Inside the Roman Apartment Building //commonedge comments→ Linux Basics for Hackers //github comments→ A Man Who Reads Books for a Living //lithub comments→ Book Dedications //walzr comments→ Textbooks in Tokenland //systemsapproach comments→
#Working
The Last Technical Interview //steve-yegge.medium comments→ Ask HN: Who is hiring? //news.ycombinator Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? //news.ycombinator Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? //news.ycombinator
#Learn
Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes //dailycal comments→ Creatine raises brain energy levels and slows cognitive decline: study //thesciverse comments→ Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot //fieggen comments→ The Unreasonable Redundancy of Nature's Protein Folds //research.ligo comments→ What it takes to transpose a matrix //gudok comments→
#Watching
It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12 //jeffgeerling comments→ Zig 2026: No-AI Policy, $670K Foundation, Left GitHub and Why Zig Isn't 1.0 //youtube comments→ But It Happened //youtube comments→ Loading Sega Games Off a Vinyl Record //youtube comments→ Meteor strike captured on volcano livestream //youtube comments→
#Startup News
Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI? //economist comments→ OpenRouter raises $113M Series B //openrouter comments→ MacBook Neo is so popular that Apple doubled production //macrumors comments→ Accenture to acquire Ookla //newsroom.accenture comments→ Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions //techcrunch comments→ VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare //blog.cloudflare comments→
#Fun
Chipotlai Max //github comments→ Lemmings for Picotron //sophiehoulden comments→ Getting Claude to extract data from a 1997 football manager game //bennuttall comments→ Usagi – Simple 2D Game Engine for Rapid Prototyping //github comments→ SkiFreedle, a daily game version of SkiFree //skifreedle comments→
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