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Issue #785 // 2026-03-06 // View in your browser

#Favorites


Stripe Sessions: The internet economy conference, April 29-30
//stripesessions sponsored

Microgpt
//karpathy.github comments

MacBook Neo
//apple comments

The Xkcd thing, now interactive
//editor.p5js comments

Nobody gets promoted for simplicity
//terriblesoftware comments

GPT-5.4
//openai comments

Decision trees – the unreasonable power of nested decision rules
//mlu-explain.github comments

Agentic Engineering Patterns
//simonwillison comments

Cognitive Debt: When Velocity Exceeds Comprehension
//rockoder comments

Good software knows when to stop
//ogirardot.writizzy comments

The Brand Age
//paulgraham comments

How to record and retrieve anything you've ever had to look up twice
//ellanew comments

The View from RSS
//carolinecrampton comments

#Ask HN


What sources like HN do you consume?

What's it like working in big tech recently with all the AI tools?

#Classifieds


The student behind a phishing empire //dispatch-media

Ship your startup in days, not weeks //shipfa

Bit&R – The coding playground you wished you had as a kid //bitandr

Become a StockAnalysis.com affiliate. Earn 60% //stockanalysis

#Show HN


Google Workspace CLI //github comments

MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max //apple comments

Now I Get It – Translate scientific papers into interactive webpages //nowigetit comments

Does that use a lot of energy? //hannahritchie.github comments

Govbase – Follow a bill from source text to news bias to social posts //govbase comments

Omni – Open-source workplace search and chat, built on Postgres //github comments

#Code


Ghostty – Terminal Emulator //ghostty comments

If AI writes code, should the session be part of the commit? //github comments

A CPU that runs entirely on GPU //github comments

A case for Go as the best language for AI agents //getbruin comments

You need to rewrite your CLI for AI agents //justin.poehnelt comments

The next generations of Bubble Tea, Lip Gloss, and Bubbles are available now //charm comments

#Data


Right-sizes LLM models to your system's RAM, CPU, and GPU //github comments

Timber – Ollama for classical ML models, 336x faster than Python //github comments

Better JIT for Postgres //github comments

#Design


The Windows 95 user interface: A case study in usability engineering //dl.acm comments

Moss is a pixel canvas where every brush is a tiny program //moss comments

Mondrian Entered the Public Domain. The Estate Disagrees //copyrightlately comments

AI-generated art can't be copyrighted after Supreme Court declines review //theverge comments

Writing a Guide to SDF Fonts //redblobgames comments

#Books


Dan Simmons, author of Hyperion, has died //dignitymemorial comments

Little Free Library //littlefreelibrary comments

"That Shape Had None" – A Horror of Substrate Independence (Short Fiction) //starlightconvenience comments

#Working


Don't become an engineering manager //newsletter.manager comments

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

My spicy take on vibe coding for PMs //ddmckinnon comments

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

The happiest I've ever been //ben-mini comments

#Learn


British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time //cbc comments

How to talk to anyone and why you should //theguardian comments

Following 35% growth, solar has passed hydro on US grid //arstechnica comments

The Space Race's Forgotten Theme Park //daily.jstor comments

#Watching


Physics Girl: Super-Kamiokande – Imaging the sun by detecting neutrinos //youtube comments

Simple screw counter //mitxela comments

HyperCard Changed Everything //youtube comments

Should You Be a Carpenter? //youtube comments

Living Human Brain Cells Play Doom on a Cortical Labs CL1 //youtube comments

#Startup News


Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS //motorolanews comments

Wikipedia was in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise //wikimediastatus comments

OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation //techcrunch comments

Jensen Huang says Nvidia is pulling back from OpenAI and Anthropic //techcrunch comments

#Fun


Voxile: A ray-traced game made in its own engine and programming language //elbowgreasegames.substack comments

I converted 2D conventional flight tracking into 3D //aeris.edbn comments

Stacked Game of Life //stacked-game-of-life.koenvangilst comments

Elevator Saga: The elevator programming game //play.elevatorsaga comments

Decided to play god this morning, so I built an agent civilisation //github comments

Swarm – Program a colony of 200 ants using a custom assembly language //dev.moment comments