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Issue #602 // May 06, 2022 // View in your browser

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#Favorites


Mechanical Watch
//ciechanow comments

How to professionally say
//akashrajpurohit comments

I accidentally loaned all my money to the US government
//vercel comments

Teen mental health is plummeting and social media is a major contributing cause [pdf]
//senate comments

The strange business of hole-in-one insurance
//thehustle comments

I won free load testing
//fasterthanli comments

Bash-oneliner: A collection of handy Bash one-liners and terminal tricks
//github comments

Brendan at Intel.com
//brendangregg comments

An illustrated guide to plastic straws
//substack comments

Cool things people do with their blogs
//brainbaking comments

Founding Uber SRE
//lethain comments

#Show HN


Actual is going open-source //actualbudget comments

Fig – Adds IDE-style autocomplete to your existing terminal //fig comments

Radiopaper – Troll-resistant public conversations //radiopaper comments

Create awkward situations with a fake iMessage Popup //github comments

Mermaid: Create diagrams and visualizations using text and code //github comments

Prevent your computer sleeping with just a webpage //nosleep comments

Pitivi, a free and open source video editor for Linux //pitivi comments

#Code


Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang //fasterthanli comments

Microsoft 3D Movie Maker Source Code //github comments

7GUIs //github comments

DALL-E 2 open source implementation //github comments

I fell in love with low-JS //edofic comments

Web scraping via JavaScript runtime heap snapshots //adriancooney comments

Writing for Engineers //heinrichhartmann comments

#Data


OPT: Open Pre-trained Transformer Language Models //arxiv comments

PostgresML, now with analytics and project management //postgresml comments

How to Corrupt an SQLite Database File //sqlite comments

Sqldiff: SQLite Database Difference Utility //sqlite comments

rq: Universal convertor between structured data (JSON, MessagePack, CBOR, etc.) //github comments

#Design


Please stop disabling zoom //matuzo comments

Noto emoji, a new black and white emoji font with less color //googleblog comments

Best Font for Online Reading: No Single Answer //nngroup comments

#Learn


Nature has enormous emotional and cognitive benefits on people //npr comments

A first for Canada: New type of nuclear plant opening by 2028 //theweathernetwork comments

#Books


Crafting Interpreters //craftinginterpreters comments

Writing a book for O'Reilly //thecodepainter comments

The Gitlab Team Handbook //gitlab comments

Ask HN: Which books in your field do you think are perfect for self study? //ycombinator

Find books set in your hometown //lithub comments

#Watching


Kaketsugi – A technique for repairing holes or tears in fabric //nhk comments

Ultorg: A user interface for relational databases //hytradboi comments

Swedish slow TV: The great moose migration //svtplay comments

UIs are streaming DAGs //hytradboi comments

Five Lems //lrb comments

#Working


Airbnb’s design to live and work anywhere //airbnb comments

IBM's Asshole Test //mataroa comments

3,200-year-old Egyptian tablet records excuses for why people missed work //openculture comments

The Niche Programmer //ano comments

Preventing Burnout: A Manager's Toolkit //gitlab comments

Getting hired after fifty //aarp comments

#Startup News


Tailscale raises $100M //tailscale comments

Heroku Security Notification //heroku comments

Post-incident review on the Atlassian April 2022 outage //atlassian comments

#Fun


Including “And. And. And. And. And.” in a Google doc causes it to crash //google comments

We think this cool study we found is flawed. Help us reproduce it //pudding comments

When I made another Monkey Island //grumpygamer comments

The Game: A continually-run D&D campaign, since 1982 //thegamednd comments

Porting Zelda Classic to the web //hoten comments

The Owen Wilson Wow API //herokuapp comments

#Cutting Room Floor


Bits of advice I wish I had known //kk comments

My upgrade to 25 Gbit/s Fiber To The Home //stapelberg comments

What are your most used self-hosted applications? //noted comments

I got a computer science degree in 3 months for less than $5000 //miguelrochefort comments

90% of software engineering done today is integrating poorly documented APIs //twitter comments

I've used all the notebooks //tylercipriani comments

USB Cheat Sheet //fabiensanglard comments

What game are you playing? //autodidacts comments

Experience Report: 6 months of Go //typesanitizer comments

Hush, a modern shell scripting language //github comments

What we can deduce from a leaked PDF //matthewbutterick comments

Lirebird – a simple and powerful voice changer for Linux, written in GTK 3 //github comments

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