Hacker Newsletter - Hacker Newsletter #683

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Issue #683 // 2024-01-12 // View in your browser

#Favorites


Stripe Sessions: The global internet economy conference, April 23-25
//stripesessions.com sponsored

An app can be a home-cooked meal
//robinsloan.com comments

9 years of Apple text editor solo dev
//papereditor.app comments

The Internet Is Full of AI Dogsh!t
//aftermath.site comments

I quit my job to work full time on my open source project
//ellie.wtf comments

Where Have All the Websites Gone?
//fromjason.xyz comments

LLMs and Programming in the first days of 2024
//antirez.com comments

What does the cerebellum do?
//sarahconstantin.substack.com comments

Apple Vision Pro available in the U.S. on February 2
//apple.com comments

What I've learned about flow fields so far
//damoonrashidi.me comments

Stuff we figured out about AI in 2023
//simonwillison.net comments

#Ask HN


Programming Courses for Experienced Coders?

What software/tech blogs/magazines should I be reading in 2024?

#Show HN


I made an app that consolidated 18 apps (doc, sheet, form, site, chat…) //nino.app comments

I made a tool to compare time zones //time.fyi comments

Sit. //sonnet.io comments

GodotOS – Fake operating system interface made in the Godot engine //github.com comments

Ambiphone, no-nonsense ambient music and white noise //ambiph.one comments

#Code


Python 3.13 Gets a JIT //tonybaloney.github.io comments

Go: What we got right, what we got wrong //commandcenter.blogspot.com comments

I made a HTMX Playground 100% in the browser //lassebomh.github.io comments

GitUI //github.com comments

Shoelace: A library of web components //shoelace.style comments

Is htmx Just Another JavaScript Framework? //htmx.org comments

#Data


Polars //pola.rs comments

Pocketbase: Open-source back end in one file //pocketbase.io comments

Csvlens: Command line CSV file viewer. Like less but made for CSV //github.com comments

A Technical Dive into PostgreSQL's replication mechanisms //airbyte.com comments

#Design


Golden Rules of Interface Design //cs.umd.edu comments

Database of artists used to train Midjourney AI garners criticism //artnews.com comments

UIDesignDaily 4 years later, 1600 open-source designs //uidesigndaily.com comments

#Books


Asking your customers what they want doesn't work //techbooks.substack.com comments

Ask HN: Good book to learn modern networking? //news.ycombinator.com

50 Algorithms Every Programmer Should Know (Second Edition) //oreilly.com comments

#Working


Fixing Macs door to door //matduggan.com comments

Fired comedian ordered to get day job back after jokes ruled 'simply funny' //vice.com comments

IT employment grew by just 700 jobs in 2023 //wsj.com comments

Getting things done in small increments //dubroy.com comments

How to get coworkers to stop giving me ChatGPT-generated suggestions? //workplace.stackexchange.com comments

#Learn


Wikihouse: Open-Source Houses //wikihouse.cc comments

Ants recognise infected wounds and treat them with antibiotics //uni-wuerzburg.de comments

Does DNA have the equivalent of IF-statements, WHILE loops, or function calls? //biology.stackexchange.com comments

Rue de l'Avenir //en.wikipedia.org comments

Heat pumps, more than you wanted to know //calv.info comments

Thomas Cochrane //sergey.substack.com comments

#Watching


The step-by-step mechanical logic of old pinball machines //youtube.com comments

How An ASML Lithography Machine Moves a Wafer //youtube.com comments

The First Precision Lathe – Constructing the Antikythera Mechanism //youtube.com comments

#Startup News


Google Cuts Jobs in Engineering and Other Divisions //nytimes.com comments

Twitch to Cut 500 Employees, About 35% of Staff //bloomberg.com comments

Discord is laying off 17 percent of employees //theverge.com comments

Jeff Lawson steps down as CEO of Twilio //cnbc.com comments

U.S. moves closer to filing antitrust case against Apple //nytimes.com comments

Unity Software plans to reduce its workforce by 25%, eliminating ~1,800 jobs //bloomberg.com comments

#Fun


Drawing.garden //drawing.garden comments

Nestflix //nestflix.fun comments

Turing Complete is a game about computer science //turingcomplete.game comments

Teachable Machine //teachablemachine.withgoogle.com comments

Super Mario 64 on the Web //probablykam.github.io comments

Hexcodle //hexcodle.com comments

I made a game to improve my typing speed //keysmash.no comments

Tree.fm: Tune in to Forests Around the World //tree.fm comments

#Cutting Room Floor


I pwned half of America's fast food chains simultaneously //mrbruh.com comments

FAA orders grounding of more than 170 Boeing 737 Max 9s //cnbc.com comments

DNS Toys //dns.toys comments

Understand how transformers work by demystifying the math behind them //osanseviero.github.io comments

I'm skeptical of low-code //nick.scialli.me comments

Original Age of Empires 2 dev talks about its usage of assembly code //old.reddit.com comments

The curious case of the Raspberry Pi in the network closet //blog.haschek.at comments

Mario Maker 2 API //tgrcode.com comments

Think more about what to focus on //henrikkarlsson.xyz comments

The Curious Case of MD5 //katelynsills.com comments

Korea to welcome 'digital nomads' with new visa starting Jan. 1 //koreajoongangdaily.joins.com comments

Hidden gems of moreutils //jpospisil.com comments

Lego Mechanical Computer //drmoron.org comments

How random is xkcd? //hardmath123.github.io comments

The best way to get unstuck //ggnotes.com comments

Designing bridge trusses with Pytorch autograd //github.com comments

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