Hacker Newsletter - Hacker Newsletter #604

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Issue #604 // May 20, 2022 // View in your browser

#Favorites


Stytch is building the all-in-one platform for passwordless auth
//stytch sponsored

I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone
//smallandroidphone comments

The new and upgraded Framework Laptop
//frame comments

I spent two years launching tiny projects
//tinyprojects comments

Fly.io: The reclaimer of Heroku's magic
//christine comments

Framedeck: A Cyberdeck built with the framework mainboard
//github comments

Y Combinator's Message to Founders
//twitter comments

Duck Chess
//duckchess comments

Cron-based backup for SQLite
//litestream comments

Thoughts on OKRs
//joeblu comments

Cities with Nice Weather
//github comments

Mainboard Terminal – A Retro-Style Computer with a Modern Core
//github comments

Making fifty TIC-80 carts in a weekend
//blinry comments

#Ask HN


How to break anxiety/fear-avoidance cycle?

Is it true that any community that grows big enough, gets ruined?

Thoughts on being “boring”

#Show HN


Bike – macOS Native Outliner //hogbaysoftware comments

`curl wttr.in`: Weather in your terminal //github comments

Computer work lying down comfortably with a home-made stand over the bed //cambridgeclarion comments

Gophie – modern gopher client for Windows, Mac, Linux //gophie comments

Fruits – Sell digital products via your website, newsletter, etc //fruits comments

Nota: A Document Language for the Browser //nota-lang comments

#Code


A Full-Stack Web Framework for Go //github comments

A Visual IDE for React //aspect comments

RSS Feed Best Practices //kevincox comments

Shopify invests in research for Ruby at scale //shopify comments

You say “cave dweller debugging”, I say debug logging //sicpers comments

#Data


D1: Our SQL database //cloudflare comments

Let's build a distributed Postgres proof of concept //eatonphil comments

JSON and Virtual Columns in SQLite //antonz comments

Unfinished Business with Postgres //craigkerstiens comments

Jailer – Data Browsing //github comments

#Design


Living Worlds: 8 Bit art animated with palette cycling //effectgames comments

Roboto but Make It Flex //material comments

We asked 100 humans to draw the DALL·E prompts //surgehq comments

Meta-Perceptual Helmets //connolly-cleary comments

Collection of Sun Workstation boot logos //github comments

EightBit-Atari-Fonts: Fonts generated from bitmaps from Atari 8bit computers //github comments

#Learn


Cats learn the names of their friend cats in their daily lives //nature comments

Andrew Ng updates his Machine Learning course //deeplearning comments

When is a ‘tank’ not a tank? //acoup comments

Why Does Pepperoni Curl? //seriouseats comments

‘Machine Scientists’ Distill the Laws of Physics from Raw Data //quantamagazine comments

#Books


Linux Insides //gitbooks comments

The Unix-Haters Handbook (1994) [pdf] //mit comments

The Tools I Use to Write Books //thorstenball comments

A PDF zine readable in any plain text editor, and it's also an MP3 [pdf] //lab6 comments

Google Online SRE Books //sre comments

Book Review: Progress and Poverty //gameofrent comments

#Watching


Shaped Charges – Sheet of copper going through 1ft of solid steel //youtube comments

Introduction to Microsoft Excel //youtube comments

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of JPEG: A Signal Processing Approach //youtube comments

I Made Minecraft, but It's 4D //youtube comments

#Working


I’m going to miss you, but I am taking a sabbatical //kottke comments

A dev's thoughts on developer productivity //sourcegraph comments

Jeffrey Snower was originally demoted over PowerShell //twitter comments

Success in Canada means moving to America //thewalrus comments

The business case for fewer developers in meetings //shimin comments

#Startup News


Netflix lays off about 150 employees //reuters comments

Fastly Announces Acquisition of Glitch //fastly comments

Microsoft Opens New HQ in Toronto //techbomb comments

#Fun


HTTP Cats //http comments

The overengineered solution to my pigeon problem //maxnagy comments

Coloring computers: non-electronic computers that work when you color them //ipfs comments

Master of Orion //filfre comments

Hacking F-117A //github comments

If Programming Languages Were Futurama Characters //netmeister comments

#Cutting Room Floor


Using a "proper" camera as a webcam //tratt comments

I stopped to watch kids playing at recess – security was called //reason comments

Tell HN: I probably spend more on piracy than if I just paid for content //ycombinator comments

Off-Grid Cyberdeck with RPI and Pelican Case //back7 comments

User Disengagement //zerodha comments

The future of search is boutique //a16z comments

“Blown Away Guy”: Iconic music image //vintag comments

Triangle frenzy //github comments

Half Baked //seths comments

My thoughts about Fly.io (so far) and other newish technology I'm getting into //hartleybrody comments

Tylr: A tiny tile-based editor //tylr comments

Sound Blaster (DOS) //vgmpf comments

Advanced techniques for reducing Emacs startup time //d46 comments

BERTopic: The Future of Topic Modeling //pinecone comments

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