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Issue #789 // 2026-02-27 // View in your browser

#Favorites


Modern financial planning tool to simplify your journey to financial independence
//projectionlab.com sponsored

I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard
//hawksley.org comments

Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War
//anthropic.com comments

I'm helping my dog vibe code games
//calebleak.com comments

How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution
//boristane.com comments

Facebook is cooked
//pilk.website comments

I pitched a roller coaster to Disneyland at age 10 in 1978
//wordglyph.xyz comments

The Missing Semester of Your CS Education – Revised for 2026
//missing.csail.mit.edu comments

What Claude Code Chooses
//amplifying.ai comments

Diode – Build, program, and simulate hardware
//withdiode.com comments

#Ask HN


Share your productive usage of OpenClaw

Have top AI research institutions just given up on the idea of safety?

How do you know if AI agents will choose your tool?

#Classifieds


Caligra c100 Developer Terminal //caligra.com

End recipe clutter. Scan, import, & generate with AI //grandmasrecipes.app

MCP authentication in minutes //docs.propelauth.com

Nango: Integrate your product & AI agents with 600+ APIs //nango.dev

👉 Book a classified ad and share your project

#Show HN


Loops is a federated, open-source TikTok //joinloops.org comments

Nearby Glasses //github.com comments

Terminal Phone – E2EE Walkie Talkie from the Command Line //gitlab.com comments

X86CSS – An x86 CPU emulator written in CSS //lyra.horse comments

Respectify – A comment moderator that teaches people to argue better //respectify.org comments

Babyshark – Wireshark made easy (terminal UI for PCAPs) //github.com comments

#Code


Pi – A minimal terminal coding harness //pi.dev comments

Turn Dependabot Off //words.filippo.io comments

The JavaScript Oxidation Compiler //oxc.rs comments

What does " 2>&1 " mean? //stackoverflow.com comments

Racket v9.1 //blog.racket-lang.org comments

#Data


PgDog – Scale Postgres without changing the app //github.com comments

What is a database transaction? //planetscale.com comments

AI Timeline – 171 LLMs from Transformer (2017) to GPT-5.3 //llm-timeline.com comments

#Design


The peculiar case of Japanese web design //sabrinas.space comments

Artist who “paints” portraits on glass by hitting it with a hammer //simonbergerart.com comments

Japanese Woodblock Print Search //ukiyo-e.org comments

3D Mahjong, Built in CSS //voxjong.com comments

Museum of Plugs and Sockets //plugsocketmuseum.nl comments

#Books


CIA World Factbook Archive (1990–2025), searchable and exportable //cia-factbook-archive.fly.dev comments

Six Math Essentials //terrytao.wordpress.com comments

#Working


Jimi Hendrix was a systems engineer //spectrum.ieee.org comments

I found a Vulnerability. They found a Lawyer //dixken.de comments

Writing code is cheap now //simonwillison.net comments

#Learn


‘Viking’ was a job, not a matter of heredity: ancient DNA study //science.org comments

Half million 'Words with Spaces' missing from dictionaries //linguabase.org comments

The Physics and Economics of Moving 44 Tonnes at 56mph //mikeayles.com comments

The Hunt for Dark Breakfast – Can we derive breakfasts we have never observed? //moultano.wordpress.com comments

#Watching


So you want to build a tunnel //practical.engineering comments

Story of XZ Backdoor //youtube.com comments

AI is destroying open source, and it's not even good yet //youtube.com comments

The Weird OS Built Around a Database //youtube.com comments

#Startup News


Ggml.ai joins Hugging Face to ensure the long-term progress of Local AI //github.com comments

Amazon accused of widespread scheme to inflate prices across the economy //thebignewsletter.com comments

Layoffs at Block //twitter.com comments

Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model //blog.google comments

Stripe valued at $159B, 2025 annual letter //stripe.com comments

Stripe reportedly makes offer to acquire PayPal //cnbc.com comments

#Fun


A real-time strategy game that AI agents can play //llmskirmish.com comments

Linex – A daily challenge: placing pieces on a board that fights back //playlinex.com comments

Ed's Stratego Site //edcollins.com comments

Snakes.run: rendering 100M pixels a second over SSH //eieio.games comments

0 A.D. Release 28: Boiorix //play0ad.com comments