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Issue #738 // 2025-03-20 // View in your browser

#Favorites


Meet @clerk/agent-toolkit – our new experimental package for using Clerk in your AI agent workflows. Manage users, orgs, and more with Vercel AI SDK + LangChain support.
//clerk sponsored

Docs – Open source alternative to Notion or Outline
//github comments

Two new PebbleOS watches
//ericmigi comments

Happy 20th birthday, Y Combinator
//twitter comments

GIMP 3.0
//gimp comments

How fast the days are getting longer
//joe-antognini.github comments

The Lost Art of Research as Leisure
//kasurian comments

IO Devices and Latency
//planetscale comments

Milk Kanban
//brodzinski comments

Stamina Is a Quiet Advantage
//kupajo comments

How many artists' careers did the Beatles kill?
//cantgetmuchhigher comments

Learning about Innovation from Half a Century of Conway's Game of Life
//writings.stephenwolfram comments

#Ask HN


Any insider takes on Yann LeCun's push against current architectures?

How Do I Escape Homelessness After Rebuilding My Mental Health?

I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

#Show HN


Nash, I made a standalone note with single HTML file //keepworking.github comments

Briar: Peer to Peer Encrypted Messaging //briarproject comments

A personal YouTube frontend based on yt-dlp //github comments

"Git who" – A new CLI tool for industrial-scale Git blaming //github comments

Cascii – A portable ASCII diagram builder written in vanilla JavaScript //github comments

OpenTimes – Free travel times between U.S. Census geographies //opentimes comments

Metacheck – preview how any link appears on social media and chat apps //metacheck.appstate comments

Daylight – track sunrise / sunset times in your terminal //github comments

#Code


fd: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find' //github comments

RubyLLM: A delightful Ruby way to work with AI //github comments

The Pain That Is GitHub Actions //feldera comments

AI Blindspots – Blindspots in LLMs I've noticed while AI coding //ezyang.github comments

The Frontend Treadmill //polotek comments

I use Cursor daily - here's how I avoid the garbage parts //nickcraux comments

#Data


DiceDB //dicedb comments

Making Postgres scale //pgdog comments

Building AI agents to query your databases //blog.dust comments

Preview: Amazon S3 Tables and Lakehouse in DuckDB //duckdb comments

Life Altering PostgreSQL Patterns //mccue comments

#Design


US appeals court rules AI generated art cannot be copyrighted //reuters comments

Canon EF and RF Lenses – All Autofocus Motors //exclusivearchitecture comments

Minding the gaps: A new way to draw separators in CSS //blogs.windows comments

Kerning, the Hard Way //home.octetfont comments

Past and Present Futures of User Interface Design //datagubbe comments

Dithering in Colour //obrhubr comments

#Books


So Long and Thanks for All the Words: A Toast to Douglas Adams //multiverseemployeehandbook comments

Edgar Allan Poe's life was a mess. But his work was in his command //washingtonpost comments

A Tiny Press Took a Big Risk on Experimental Books. It Paid Off //nytimes.com comments

Book Review: "Abundance" //noahpinion comments

#Working


The Burnout Machine //unionize comments

Career Advice in 2025 //lethain comments

The good times in tech are over //seangoedecke comments

Ask HN: Any jobs that don't force you to always be advancing career wise? //news.ycombinator

Khan Academy Engineering Career Development //docs.google comments

#Learn


The Origin of the Pork Taboo //archaeology comments

Magpies and crows are using “anti-bird spikes” to make nests //audubon comments

Powers of 2 with all even digits //oeis comments

Did the Particle Go Through the Two Slits, or Did the Wave Function? //profmattstrassler comments

Oxygen discovered in most distant known galaxy //eso comments

The Last Drops of Mexico City //mexicocitywater.longlead comments

#Watching


Crew-9 Returns to Earth //spacex comments

Mathematical Foundations of Reinforcement Learning //github comments

The Biggest Glitch in Final Fantasy VII Explained //youtube comments

The smallest ESP32 drone you can fly with your phone Powered by XIAO ESP32S3 //youtube comments

How is a Bike Tunnel this Freak'n Great? //youtube comments

#Startup News


Google to buy Wiz for $32B //reuters comments

Rippling sues Deel over spying //twitter comments

Alphabet spins out Taara – Internet over lasers //x comments

Amazon plans to lay off 14,000 managerial positions to save $3.5B yearly //techstartups comments

#Fun


Generate impressive-looking terminal output, look busy when stakeholders walk by //github comments

I made a live multiplayer Minesweeper game //minesweeperpro comments

Honey Bunnies //mameson comments

A new Sudoku layout with 81 uniquely shaped cells //danielchasehooper comments

The Collective Ambition Behind Odysseus, a Game-Changing Sci-Fi Larp //mssv comments

I built a MCP server so Claude can play Minesweeper //github comments

SpaceWord – word game, build crosswords while minimizing space //spaceword comments