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Issue #796 // 2026-06-05 // View in your browser

#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