Issue #813

by @hnl · 63 nodes · curated

favorites

Margaret Hamilton has died news.mit.edu · Oct 9 news.mit.edu · Oct 9

We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything simonwillison.net · Oct 9 simonwillison.net · Oct 9

Animated ASCII Art for Web Pages ascii.rest · Oct 9 ascii.rest · Oct 9

Anti-patterns in software blogging refactoringenglish.com · Oct 9 refactoringenglish.com · Oct 9

Yes, and htmx.org · Oct 9 htmx.org · Oct 9

Apple and a hacker's future stratechery.com · Oct 9 stratechery.com · Oct 9

Wood Tape (2004) gamesbyemail.com · Oct 9 gamesbyemail.com · Oct 9

Vibecoding isn't as fun as writing code by hand autodidacts.io · Oct 9 autodidacts.io · Oct 9

City building games have a Soul Problem pt.2 radical-elements.com · Oct 9 radical-elements.com · Oct 9

Hacking SimCity 2000 saved games log.schemescape.com · Oct 9 log.schemescape.com · Oct 9

ask_hn

What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7? news.ycombinator.com · Oct 9 news.ycombinator.com · Oct 9

What games do you religiously play on your phone browser? news.ycombinator.com · Oct 9 news.ycombinator.com · Oct 9

show_hn

Bigwords.page – Turn any screen into a sign. The URL is the app bigwords.page · Oct 9 bigwords.page · Oct 9

Find the flattest route between any two points in SF flattensf.com · Oct 9 flattensf.com · Oct 9

A walkable 3D art history museum built from Wikipedia artmuseum.artfrompixels.com · Oct 9 artmuseum.artfrompixels.com · Oct 9

Made an open-source Lego AI generator github.com · Oct 9 github.com · Oct 9

Jevman – AI decision models play Pac-Man opper.ai · Oct 9 opper.ai · Oct 9

SVG Spark – 10 client-side SVG design and dev tools svg-spark.vercel.app · Oct 9 svg-spark.vercel.app · Oct 9

code

A browser-native classic Visual Basic VB6 IDE wieslawsoltes.github.io · Oct 9 wieslawsoltes.github.io · Oct 9

The Slow Formation of Durable Software newsletter.dancohen.org · Oct 9 newsletter.dancohen.org · Oct 9

What is Codemode lucumr.pocoo.org · Oct 9 lucumr.pocoo.org · Oct 9

Pyxel – A Python retro game engine with built-in art and sound editors github.com · Oct 9 github.com · Oct 9

data

Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash? dgt.is · Oct 9 dgt.is · Oct 9

Polars 2.0 pola.rs · Oct 9 pola.rs · Oct 9

Agents don't need memory, they need documentation liao.gg · Oct 9 liao.gg · Oct 9

From the creator of Redis; run LLM locally with ds4 dwarfstar.sh · Oct 9 dwarfstar.sh · Oct 9

DuckDB Ducklake github.com · Oct 9 github.com · Oct 9

Demystifying Tufte's data-ink ratio tuftesrazor.scienceux.org · Oct 9 tuftesrazor.scienceux.org · Oct 9

design

Apple Pass Designer developer.apple.com · Oct 9 developer.apple.com · Oct 9

I hired an illustrator to draw my house. Now it's my Home Assistant dashboard antonfrolov.substack.com · Oct 9 antonfrolov.substack.com · Oct 9

A font recreated from photographs of classic Commodore 64 keycaps github.com · Oct 9 github.com · Oct 9

Example.com just launched the biggest redesign in decades debugbear.com · Oct 9 debugbear.com · Oct 9

The lamps in my house arslan.io · Oct 9 arslan.io · Oct 9

Beauty in DVD Menus vale.rocks · Oct 9 vale.rocks · Oct 9

books

I gave Opus 5.5 one prompt and six hours to visualize Invisible Cities quesma.com · Oct 9 quesma.com · Oct 9

Competitive Programmer's Handbook (2018) [pdf] cses.fi · Oct 9 cses.fi · Oct 9

Anne Carson wins Nobel Prize in literature 2026 theguardian.com · Oct 9 theguardian.com · Oct 9

working

Reasons I didn't become an EMT, ranked ben.stolovitz.com · Oct 9 ben.stolovitz.com · Oct 9

To grieve, or not to grieve? xenaproject.wordpress.com · Oct 9 xenaproject.wordpress.com · Oct 9

The people holding up the internet sheets.works · Oct 9 sheets.works · Oct 9

Forever junior: Skills AI can't develop for you tech.criteo.com · Oct 9 tech.criteo.com · Oct 9

learn

Nobel Prize in Physics 2026: Francis Halzen nobelprize.org · Oct 9 nobelprize.org · Oct 9

What's Earth's dominant species by mass? signoregalilei.com · Oct 9 signoregalilei.com · Oct 9

Teams in Vienna and Beijing have built the first thorium nuclear clocks nytimes.com · Oct 9 nytimes.com · Oct 9

Brownian Motion gregorygundersen.com · Oct 9 gregorygundersen.com · Oct 9

watching

Greg Kroah-Hartman – Security in the LLM Age youtube.com · Oct 9 youtube.com · Oct 9

How to scale intent, quality, and artistry with AI youtube.com · Oct 9 youtube.com · Oct 9

LGTM (Looks Good to Me) – Claude Opus 5.5 Music Video youtube.com · Oct 9 youtube.com · Oct 9

You Are an Expert Software Engineer [Krazam] youtube.com · Oct 9 youtube.com · Oct 9

startup_news

Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program apnews.com · Oct 9 apnews.com · Oct 9

Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge techspot.com · Oct 9 techspot.com · Oct 9

JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025 helgilibrary.com · Oct 9 helgilibrary.com · Oct 9

OpenAI annualised revenues $20B less than previously signalled cnbc.com · Oct 9 cnbc.com · Oct 9

Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery arstechnica.com · Oct 9 arstechnica.com · Oct 9

Supabase is acquiring Turso supabase.com · Oct 9 supabase.com · Oct 9

Orkut.com orkut.com · Oct 9 orkut.com · Oct 9

fun

Newgrounds.com – A community of games, music, and art newgrounds.com · Oct 9 newgrounds.com · Oct 9

Hole Punch: Sling your spaceship around gravitational fields notoriousbfg.com · Oct 9 notoriousbfg.com · Oct 9

We ported the original Doom to SQL cedardb.com · Oct 9 cedardb.com · Oct 9

Our space game has a built-in RISC-V emulator that runs Linux againstallodds.games · Oct 9 againstallodds.games · Oct 9

Quake ported to safe Rust, playable in browser quake-srp.pages.dev · Oct 9 quake-srp.pages.dev · Oct 9

A tribute to one of the best games on the Atari 2600 plicerin.github.io · Oct 9 plicerin.github.io · Oct 9

Wordminos – Crosswords Meet Dominos wordminos.com · Oct 9 wordminos.com · Oct 9