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Issue #793 // 2026-05-08 // View in your browser

#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