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Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution. //Clay Shirky hackernewsletter Issue #814 // 2026-10-16 // View in your browser #Favorites Poppulo - Reach people wherever they are //poppulo sponsored Things to know when you get cancer //jjmaxwell4 comments→ Passkeys are a trap //nonfunctional.substack comments→ How Amazon pushes up prices all across the Internet //not-ship comments→ Redesigning source control at Anthropic //anthropic comments→ AI is a tool and using it well takes skill //yyhh comments→ Tiny Little Office //tinylittleoffice comments→ The Lightbulb Computer //lightbulbcomputer comments→ Tesla Roadster //tesla comments→ How random are you? //lab.specr comments→ Fancy Curl Sites //nytpu comments→ #Ask HN Do you want a router that has DD-WRT pre-installed? CAD for wood working with LLM support? Why aren't Americans rising up against tipping? What is the current trajectory of a senior engineer? #Classifieds Compete. Code. Win Cash. QHack 2026 Quantum Challenge Awaits! //qhack Founding Forward Deployed Engineer at Lunos //lunos Simulate your financial future today //projectionlab Build one-page sites for pretty much anything //carrd 📢 Post a job or share your side project #Show HN Guitoro, a virtual guitar you strum with your keyboard //guitoro comments→ Carrier-Explode: iPhone, Pixel and Galaxy carrier settings decoded //carrierexplode comments→ Let your AI agents paint big arrows, boxes and text on your screen //github comments→ Unfenced – Land for sale that borders public land //unfenced comments→ I wrote an email app that accepts only one sender per inbox //clova comments→ #Code A Modern Web App in C //prophitt comments→ I paid people to try and follow my README //shkspr comments→ Python 3.15 //python comments→ The tilde in your PATH may not be your HOME //disconnect3d comments→ #Data Muse Wonder //research.meta comments→ Muse Spark Open //research.meta comments→ Jev meets the Trolley Problem //zachlandes comments→ Why DuckDB 2.0 is faster //motherduck comments→ Postgres isn't slow, your storage is //clickhouse comments→ #Design Iosevka is an open-source, sans-serif and slab-serif monospace font //typeof comments→ 'Wallace and Gromit,' 90% Alone //animationobsessive.substack comments→ The Origin Story of Kid Pix //red-green-blue comments→ The Dock on Mac, from OS 10 to macOS 27 //blog.jim-nielsen comments→ #Books So, you’d like to sell your print issues of The Onion? //theonion comments→ 900-Page Pre-Pantone Guide to Color from 1692 (With Complete High-Res Scan) //openculture comments→ Publishers Killed the Paperback, Then Blamed Readers //jacobin comments→ A Book That Will Never Be Read //forbetterscience comments→ Ask HN: What's your favorite children's books? //ycombinator #Working I know why the mathematicians weep //derekthompson comments→ A Remote Employee Refused 160 Webcam Photos a Day. Her Employer Fired Her //inc comments→ The cost of getting a job today //weli comments→ #Learn The baffling intelligence of a single cell //jsomers comments→ MIT class project turns into an FDA-cleared treatment for tremors //news.mit comments→ Sound //ciechanow comments→ How machines learned precision //glinscott.github comments→ #Watching GameBoy on E-Paper ESP32 at 30FPS //youtube comments→ Every US Electrical Outlet Explained //youtube comments→ Martin Odersky – Keynote: The End of Programming? //youtube comments→ #Startup News Cloudflare acquires Deno //deno comments→ Our $445M Series D //oxide.computer comments→ Typesafe AI raises $870M at $7.5B //typesafe comments→ #Fun Triple-A Minesweeper //minesweeper.mikelacher comments→ Sorry, I'm in a meeting //iminafleeting comments→ Total Annihilation, rebuilt for modern computers //nanolathe comments→ Brickbrag – A multiplayer brick-building world in the browser //brickbrag comments→ A city-building game in which the city would prefer you didn't //housing.ov