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Issue #781 // 2026-02-06 // View in your browser

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#Favorites


Optimize your website for AI answer engines with Webflow
//webflow.com sponsored

Claude Opus 4.6
//anthropic.com comments

I miss thinking hard
//jernesto.com comments

GPT-5.3-Codex
//openai.com comments

Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors
//notepad-plus-plus.org comments

Surely the crash of the US economy has to be soon
//wilsoniumite.com comments

What I learned building an opinionated and minimal coding agent
//mariozechner.at comments

My AI Adoption Journey
//mitchellh.com comments

Company as Code
//blog.42futures.com comments

Tractor
//incoherency.co.uk comments

Moltbook is the most interesting place on the internet right now
//simonwillison.net comments

#Ask HN


Do you also "hoard" notes/links but struggle to turn them into actions?

Is there anyone here who still uses slide rules?

Any real OpenClaw (Clawd Bot/Molt Bot) users? What's your experience?

Anyone else struggle with how to learn coding in the AI era?

#Show HN


Voxtral Transcribe 2 //mistral.ai comments

NanoClaw – “Clawdbot” in 500 lines of TS with Apple container isolation //github.com comments

Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site (<10KB) //safe-now.live comments

Rentahuman – The Meatspace Layer for AI //rentahuman.ai comments

Phage Explorer //phage-explorer.org comments

See how many words you have written in Hacker News comments //serjaimelannister.github.io comments

#Code


Deno Sandbox //deno.com comments

We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler //anthropic.com comments

Orchestrate teams of Claude Code sessions //code.claude.com comments

GitHub Actions is slowly killing engineering teams //iankduncan.com comments

#Data


It's 2026, Just Use Postgres //tigerdata.com comments

AliSQL: Alibaba's open-source MySQL with vector and DuckDB engines //github.com comments

Deep dive into Turso, the “SQLite rewrite in Rust” //kerkour.com comments

Sqldef: Idempotent schema management tool for MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite //sqldef.github.io comments

#Design


Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings //antirender.com comments

Buttered Crumpet, a custom typeface for Wallace and Gromit //jamieclarketype.com comments

How to choose colors for your CLI applications //blog.xoria.org comments

#Books


The Book of PF, 4th edition //nostarch.com comments

Julia //borretti.me comments

Review of 1984 by Isaac Asimov //newworker.org comments

#Working


Ask HN: Who is hiring? //news.ycombinator.com

Why more companies are recognizing the benefits of keeping older employees //longevity.stanford.edu comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? //news.ycombinator.com

Management as AI superpower: Thriving in a world of agentic AI //oneusefulthing.org comments

#Learn


Banning lead in gas worked. The proof is in our hair //attheu.utah.edu comments

Geologists may have solved mystery of Green River's 'uphill' route //phys.org comments

China Moon Mission: Aiming for 2030 lunar landing //spectrum.ieee.org comments

The largest number representable in 64 bits //tromp.github.io comments

#Watching


I trapped an AI model inside an art installation //youtube.com comments

John Romero: Making Catacomb 3-D //youtube.com comments

#Startup News


xAI joins SpaceX //spacex.com comments

Tesla ending Models S and X production //cnbc.com comments

Waymo seeking about $16B near $110B valuation //bloomberg.com comments

Pinterest sacks two engineers for creating software to identify fired workers //theguardian.com comments

#Fun


List animals until failure //rose.systems comments

Adventure Game Studio: OSS software for creating adventure games //adventuregamestudio.co.uk comments

Nintendo DS code editor and scriptable game engine //crl.io comments

Micropolis/SimCity Clone in Emacs Lisp //github.com comments

I wrapped the Zorks with an LLM //infocom.tambo.co comments