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Issue #764 // 2025-09-26 // View in your browser

#Favorites


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

Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image
//bitbytebit.substack.com comments

Always Invite Anna
//sharif.io comments

Terence Tao: The role of small organizations in society has shrunk significantly
//mathstodon.xyz comments

Brutalita Sans: An Experimental Font and Font Editor
//brutalita.com comments

Show HN: Dayflow – A git log for your day
//github.com comments

Raspberry Pi 500+
//raspberrypi.com comments

Resurrect the Old Web
//stevedylandev.bearblog.dev comments

Choose Your Own Adventure
//filfre.net comments

Show HN: Vibe Linking
//vb.lk comments

Walking Michigan City (Indiana)
//walkingtheworld.substack.com comments

#Ask HN


Has anyone else been unemployed for over two years?

Generalists, when do you say "I know enough" about any particular topic?

#Show HN


Find SF parking cops //walzr.com comments

Ultrasonic Chef's Knife //seattleultrasonics.com comments

Fall Foliage Map 2025 //explorefall.com comments

Vibe Linking //vb.lk comments

Web-based Hands-free mouse control //trackymouse.js.org comments

#Code


Getting AI to work in complex codebases //github.com comments

Knotty: A domain-specific language for knitting patterns //t0mpr1c3.github.io comments

Java 25 officially released //mail.openjdk.org comments

Top Programming Languages 2025 //spectrum.ieee.org comments

Mesh: I tried Htmx, then ditched it //ajmoon.com comments

How fast is Go? Simulating particles on a smart TV //dgerrells.com comments

#Data


PlanetScale for Postgres is now GA //planetscale.com comments

Ollama Web Search //ollama.com comments

Data Viz Color Palette Generator (For Charts and Dashboards) //learnui.design comments

PostgreSQL 18 Released //postgresql.org comments

Zip Code Map of the UnitedStates //engaging-data.com comments

#Design


Apple Photos app corrupts images //tenderlovemaking.com comments

Is a movie prop the ultimate laptop bag? //blog.jgc.org comments

Quicksort explained IKEA-style //idea-instructions.com comments

#Books


Is life a form of computation? //thereader.mitpress.mit.edu comments

The Beginner's Textbook for Fully Homomorphic Encryption //arxiv.org comments

An untidy history of AI across four books //hedgehogreview.com comments

Gamebooks and graph theory //notes.atomutek.org comments

#Working


Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says //reuters.com comments

How to Lead in a Room Full of Experts //idiallo.com comments

How to be a leader when the vibes are off //chaoticgood.management comments

When the job search becomes impossible //jeffwofford.com comments

#Learn


The health benefits of sunlight may outweigh the risk of skin cancer //economist.com comments

Learning Persian with Anki, ChatGPT and YouTube //cjauvin.github.io comments

How did sports betting become legal in the US? //shreyashariharan.substack.com comments

New study shows plants and animals emit a visible light that expires at death //pubs.acs.org comments

New bacteria, and two potential antibiotics, discovered in soil //rockefeller.edu comments

The Wind, a Pole, and the Dragon //entropicthoughts.com comments

800 Years of English Handwriting //artsandculture.google.com comments

#Watching


Aaron Levie: Startups win in the AI era //youtube.com comments

Rupert's Snub Cube and Other Math Holes //youtube.com comments

#Startup News


Cloudflare Email Service: private beta //blog.cloudflare.com comments

OpenAI and Nvidia announce partnership to deploy 10GW of Nvidia systems //openai.com comments

ChatGPT Pulse //openai.com comments

Amazon fined $2.5B for using deceptive methods to sign up consumers for Prime //ftc.gov comments

#Fun


A Beautiful Maths Game //sinerider.com comments

TV Time Machine: A Raspberry Pi That Plays Random 90s TV //quarters.captaintouch.com comments

A PSX/DOS style 3D game written in Rust with a custom software renderer //totenarctanz.itch.io comments

Continuum Game (68k Mac) Ported to JavaScript //continuumjs.com comments

DataGuessr – a daily quiz that teaches global statistics through play //dataguessr.com comments

Low Earth Orbit Visualization //platform.leolabs.space comments