Hacker Newsletter - Hacker Newsletter #493

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Issue #493 // February 28, 2020 // View in your browser

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#Favorites


Smithsonian Releases 2.8M Images into Public Domain
//smithsonianmag comments

Which of these Amazon Prime purchases are real?
//thewirecutter comments

Let's Encrypt Has Issued a Billion Certificates
//letsencrypt comments

How to Write Usefully
//paulgraham comments

Real-time, in-camera background compositing in The Mandalorian
//ascmag comments

To get good, go after the metagame
//commoncog comments

Hard Startups
//samaltman comments

The Simpsons in CSS
//github comments

What Happened with Lego
//realityprose comments

Mapping Coronavirus, Responsibly
//esri comments

How to Design Mobile Apps for One-Hand Usage
//smashingmagazine comments

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#Ask HN


How are you preparing for COVID-19 disruptions?

What's your latest failed side project and why?

#Show HN


Tailwind UI //tailwindui comments

Search code in GitHub repos using regular expressions //grep comments

MSPaint in JavaScript //jspaint comments

Pwn.college //pwn comments

Materialize: A Streaming Data Warehouse //materialize comments

Citroën introduces a two-seat EV that costs €2,644 and then €19.99 a month //techcrunch comments

Proxyman – native HTTP/HTTPS requests observation and manipulation app //proxyman comments

#Code


Guide to running Elasticsearch in production //facinating comments

Requirements volatility is the core problem of software engineering //stackoverflow comments

The Zen of Go //cheney comments

Unix Toolbox //cb comments

Dispatch – Open-source release of Netflix's crisis management framework //medium comments

#Data


SQL query to generate the Mandelbrot Set as ASCII-art //sqlite comments

Goodreads Data Pipeline //github comments

Modern Data Lakes Overview //developer comments

#Design


Why the Gov.uk Design System team changed the input type for numbers //blog comments

Monobloc chair //wikipedia comments

Routed Gothic Font //webonastick comments

Undiscoverable UI Madness //birchtree comments

Windows Icons Redesign //medium comments

#Learn


An Intuitive Guide to Linear Algebra //betterexplained comments

Year Without a Summer //wikipedia comments

Peter Norvig's Economic Simulation //github comments

75½ Bedford Street //wikipedia comments

List of assets owned by The Walt Disney Company //wikipedia comments

#Books


Mathematics for the Adventurous Self-Learner //neilwithdata comments

‘People You May Know’ helped Facebook grow exponentially //medium comments

Famicom Party: Making NES Games in Assembly //famicom comments

Big Ball of Mud //laputan comments

#Watching


Vue.js Documentary //youtube comments

NYC 1911, 60fps, 4k, colorized //youtube comments

Rob Pike – Simplicity is Complicated //youtube comments

#Working


More bosses give four-day workweek a try //npr comments

The Open Guide to Equity Compensation //github comments

Google interviewing process for software developer role in 2020 //habr comments

Levels of Seniority //roadmap comments

GitLab Handbook //gitlab comments

The Body Shop will start hiring the first person who applies for any retail job //fastcompany comments

#Startup News


Hasura raises $9.9M Series A to simplify GraphQL for developers //techcrunch comments

Revolut raises $500M at a $5.5B valuation //techcrunch comments

Udemy raises $50M at a $2B valuation from Japanese publisher Benesse //techcrunch comments

#Fun


Poolside.fm //poolside comments

Spain builds submarine 70 tons too heavy due to wrong decimal //canada comments

A video game that lets you make video games //newyorker comments

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