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Issue #793 // 2026-03-13 // View in your browser

#Favorites


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

Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans
//news.ycombinator.com comments

Tony Hoare has died
//blog.computationalcomplexity.org comments

Malus – Clean Room as a Service
//malus.sh comments

Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns
//geohot.github.io comments

Building a Procedural Hex Map with Wave Function Collapse
//felixturner.github.io comments

Shall I implement it? No
//gist.github.com comments

Cloudflare crawl endpoint
//developers.cloudflare.com comments

The dead Internet is not a theory anymore
//adriankrebs.ch comments

Files are the interface humans and agents interact with
//madalitso.me comments

#Ask HN


Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion

Please restrict new accounts from posting

How to be alone?

What Are You Working On?

#Classifieds


Rendi - FFmpeg as a Service //rendi.dev

VSCode.Email: Tips, tools, news, etc. on Visual Studio Code. //vscode.email

Pleopods - A weekly digest of the top links from Lobste.rs //pleopods.com

Buttondown Email - the last email platform you'll migrate to //buttondown.com

👉 Buy a classified ad

#Show HN


I built a tool that watches webpages and exposes changes as RSS //sitespy.app comments

I built a real-time OSINT dashboard pulling 15 live global feeds //github.com comments

Autoresearch: Agents researching on single-GPU nanochat training automatically //github.com comments

DenchClaw – Local CRM on Top of OpenClaw //github.com comments

Vanilla JavaScript refinery simulator built to explain job to my kids //fuelingcuriosity.com comments

Understudy – Teach a desktop agent by demonstrating a task once //github.com comments

#Code


Temporal: The 9-year journey to fix time in JavaScript //bloomberg.github.io comments

No right to relicense this project //github.com comments

Returning to Rails in 2026 //markround.com comments

Writing my own text editor, and daily-driving it //blog.jsbarretto.com comments

I built a programming language using Claude Code //ankursethi.com comments

Pushing and Pulling: Three reactivity algorithms //jonathan-frere.com comments

#Data


Big data on the cheapest MacBook //duckdb.org comments

The surprising whimsy of the Time Zone Database //muddy.jprs.me comments

Optimizing Top K in Postgres //paradedb.com comments

#Design


FontCrafter: Turn your handwriting into a real font //arcade.pirillo.com comments

Put the zip code first //zipcodefirst.com comments

LibreSprite – open-source pixel art editor //libresprite.github.io comments

The Met releases high-def 3D scans of 140 famous art objects //openculture.com comments

Learnings from paying artists royalties for AI-generated art //kapwing.com comments

Ask HN: Most beautiful personal blog UI you have ever seen? //news.ycombinator.com

Art Bits from HyperCard //archives.somnolescent.net comments

#Books


Practical Guide to Bare Metal C++ //arobenko.github.io comments

The stagnancy of publishing and the disappearance of the midlist //honest-broker.com comments

Science Fiction Is Dying. Long Live Post Sci-Fi? //typebarmagazine.com comments

Typst Examples Book //sitandr.github.io comments

Nobody finishes reading my books //smallpotatoes.paulbloom.net comments

#Working


Workers who love ‘synergizing paradigms’ might be bad at their jobs //news.cornell.edu comments

I was interviewed by an AI bot for a job //theverge.com comments

The Gervais Principle, or the Office According to “The Office” //ribbonfarm.com comments

ATMs didn't kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did //davidoks.blog comments

Levels of Agentic Engineering //bassimeledath.com comments

#Learn


Lego's 0.002mm specification and its implications for manufacturing //thewave.engineer comments

3D-Knitting: The Ultimate Guide //oliver-charles.com comments

Runners who churn butter on their runs //runnersworld.com comments

#Watching


Microscopes can see video on a laserdisc //youtube.com comments

Living human brain cells play DOOM on a CL1 //youtube.com comments

Terence Tao: Formalizing a proof in Lean using Claude Code //youtube.com comments

#Startup News


After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes //arstechnica.com comments

Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world //wired.com comments

Meta acquires Moltbook //axios.com comments

Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down //bsky.social comments

Google closes deal to acquire Wiz //wiz.io comments

Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AI //reuters.com comments

#Fun


Bubble Sorted Amen Break //parametricavocado.itch.io comments

Printf-Tac-Toe //github.com comments

1v1 coding game that LLMs struggle with //yare.io comments