Hacker Newsletter editorial roundup

Whoever pays the consultant gets pretty much what they want to hear. //Matthew Stewart hackernewsletter Issue #813 // 2026-10-09 // View in your browser #Favorites Poppulo - Reach people wherever they are //poppulo sponsored Margaret Hamilton has died //news.mit comments→ We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything //simonwillison comments→ Animated ASCII Art for Web Pages //ascii comments→ Anti-patterns in software blogging //refactoringenglish comments→ Yes, and //htmx comments→ Apple and a hacker's future //stratechery comments→ Wood Tape (2004) //gamesbyemail comments→ Vibecoding isn't as fun as writing code by hand //autodidacts comments→ City building games have a Soul Problem pt.2 //radical-elements comments→ Hacking SimCity 2000 saved games //log.schemescape comments→ #Ask HN What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7? What games do you religiously play on your phone browser? #Classifieds All US-based recruiter jobs. Updated daily. //workintalent Founders: this+that is the ops team you haven't hired yet //thisandthat End recipe clutter. Scan, import, & generate with AI. //grandmasrecipes Simulate your financial future today //projectionlab 👉 Book a classified ad and find your audience #Show HN Bigwords.page – Turn any screen into a sign. The URL is the app //bigwords comments→ Find the flattest route between any two points in SF //flattensf comments→ A walkable 3D art history museum built from Wikipedia //artmuseum.artfrompixels comments→ Made an open-source Lego AI generator //github comments→ Jevman – AI decision models play Pac-Man //opper comments→ SVG Spark – 10 client-side SVG design and dev tools //svg-spark.vercel comments→ #Code Founding Forward Deployed Engineer at Lunos //lunos sponsored A browser-native classic Visual Basic VB6 IDE //wieslawsoltes.github comments→ The Slow Formation of Durable Software //newsletter.dancohen comments→ What is Codemode //lucumr.pocoo comments→ Pyxel – A Python retro game engine with built-in art and sound editors //github comments→ #Data Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash? //dgt comments→ Polars 2.0 //pola comments→ Agents don't need memory, they need documentation //liao comments→ From the creator of Redis; run LLM locally with ds4 //dwarfstar comments→ DuckDB Ducklake //github comments→ Demystifying Tufte's data-ink ratio //tuftesrazor.scienceux comments→ #Design Apple Pass Designer //developer.apple comments→ I hired an illustrator to draw my house. Now it's my Home Assistant dashboard //antonfrolov.substack comments→ A font recreated from photographs of classic Commodore 64 keycaps //github comments→ Example.com just launched the biggest redesign in decades //debugbear comments→ The lamps in my house //arslan comments→ Beauty in DVD Menus //vale comments→ #Books I gave Opus 5.5 one prompt and six hours to visualize Invisible Cities //quesma comments→ Competitive Programmer's Handbook (2018) [pdf] //cses comments→ Anne Carson wins Nobel Prize in literature 2026 //theguardian comments→ #Working Reasons I didn't become an EMT, ranked //ben.stolovitz comments→ To grieve, or not to grieve? //xenaproject.wordpress comments→ The people holding up the internet //sheets comments→ Forever junior: Skills AI can't develop for you //tech.criteo comments→ #Learn Nobel Prize in Physics 2026: Francis Halzen //nobelprize comments→ What's Earth's dominant species by mass? //signoregalilei comments→ Teams in Vienna and Beijing have built the first thorium nuclear clocks //nytimes comments→ Brownian Motion //gregorygundersen comments→ #Watching Greg Kroah-Hartman – Security in the LLM Age //youtube comments→ How to scale intent, quality, and artistry with AI //youtube comments→ LGTM (Looks Good to Me) – Claude Opus 5.5 Music Video //youtube comments→ You Are an Expert Software Engineer [Krazam] //youtube comments→ #Startup News Trump admin