Hacker Newsletter - Hacker Newsletter #491

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Issue #491 // February 14, 2020 // View in your browser

Happy Valentine's Day! Speaking of love, we love our sponsors - big thanks to BugHerd for making this issue possible. kale

#Favorites


BugHerd: Get great visual feedback & bug reports, even from non-technical folk
//datadog sponsored

Gears
//ciechanow comments

Ultimate Electronics
//ultimateelectronicsbook comments

I ordered a box of boxes from The Packaging Wholesalers via Amazon.ca
//twitter comments

Free OpenStreetMap tile library: watercolor, black and white, terrain
//stamen comments

95th percentile isn't that hard to reach
//danluu comments

I've screwed up plenty of things too
//rachelbythebay comments

Setting Up Your Webcam, Lights, and Audio for Remote Work
//mattstauffer comments

Costco Capitalism
//bryanlehrer comments

How to grip a pen?
//mlu comments

One Hundred Ideas for Computing
//github comments

Tools you’d miss if you left a company
//rachelbythebay comments

Combinatris: Tetris with SKI Combinators
//rave comments

#Ask HN


Advice for a new and inexperienced tech lead?

What are good solo developer blogs that you enjoy reading?

#Show HN


GitHub CLI is now in beta //github comments

Burnoutindex.org //burnoutindex comments

Nextspace – NeXTSTEP-like desktop environment for Linux //github comments

All about Birds //allaboutbirds comments

OpenPush: A Free, Decentralized Push Messaging Framework for Android //f-droid comments

#Code


Sh!t – An implementation of Git using POSIX shell //sr.ht comments

Python dicts are now ordered //softwaremaniacs comments

Stage is a minimalistic 2D, cross-platform HTML5 game engine //piqnt comments

Performant Front-End Architecture //debugbear comments

Mint: A programming language for writing single page applications //mint-lang comments

Experience report on a large Python-to-Go translation //gitlab comments

Actix – Actor Framework for Rust //github comments

#Data


CS246: Mining Massive Data Sets //stanford comments

Is a Dataframe Just a Table? [pdf] //plateau-workshop comments

HiPlot: High-dimensional interactive plots made easy //facebook comments

#Design


Where are all the animated SVGs? //getmotion comments

Old book illustrations from the 19th and 20th centuries: an online database //openculture comments

Bizcat: An 8x16 Bitmap Font //lag comments

#Learn


Li Wenliang //wikipedia comments

Frankenstein Veto //wikipedia comments

Dead Sea dates grown from 2000-year-old seeds //sciencemag comments

Stepping Feet Illusion //wikipedia comments

#Books


Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building projects? //ycombinator

Jules Verne’s Most Famous Books Were Part of a 54-Volume Masterpiece //openculture comments

My Book, Hands-On Software Engineering with Golang //packtpub comments

We need a book about naming //namingthings comments

Published my first novel, Blue Screen, how a young Linux hacker saves the world //amazon comments

#Watching


Siggraph2019 Geometric Algebra //youtube comments

Copyrighting melodies to avoid accidental infringement //youtube comments

#Working


Open-plan offices decrease face-to-face collaboration: study //inc comments

The 2020 State of Remote Work //buffer comments

Modern workers are at the mercy of ratings //economist comments

#Fun


“We already store data. In a database. It works well” //twitter comments

Rotary Cellphone //justine-haupt comments

Space Frigates //spacefrigates comments

Visual 6502 in JavaScript //visual6502 comments

Single div Sierpinski triangle //yuanchuan comments

In Case You Ever Want to Unicycle 21,000 Miles //outsideonline comments

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