Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. //Will Rogers

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Too many good reads this week, so grab another cup of tea and enjoy! – kale

#Favorites

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

What's that touchscreen in my room?
//laplab.me comments→

Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source
//zed.dev comments→

Reading QR codes without a computer
//qr.blinry.org comments→

Random Animations
//bleuje.com comments→

Relearning math as an adult
//gmays.com comments→

Surf the web like it's 1999
//billsworld.neocities.org comments→

Backlog size is inversely proportional to how often we talk to customers
//bitbytebit.substack.com comments→

Should I open source my company?
//supabase.com comments→

What I learned selling my company
//harryglaser.com comments→

Lowercase letters save data
//endtimes.dev comments→

#Ask HN

Where can I find good legal documents?

Why am I suddenly unemployable?

Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

#Show HN

Spotube: Open-source Spotify-Youtube client //github.com comments→

Startup funding simulator //fundingsimulator.com comments→

U.S. National Park Service API //nps.gov comments→

I wished for a site with a growing list of math problems, I built it //teachyourselfmath.app comments→

ArchiveBox: Open-source self-hosted web archiving //github.com comments→

Coffeehouse, one-on-one voicechat with random HN users //coffeehouse.chat comments→

Bernard – a link checker for your website //bernard.app comments→

ONCE Campfire //once.com comments→

#Code

Ollama releases Python and JavaScript Libraries //ollama.ai comments→

Why are we templating YAML? //leebriggs.co.uk comments→

Ceph: A Journey to 1 TiB/s //ceph.io comments→

The Bun Shell //bun.sh comments→

RubyWM – an X11 window manager in pure Ruby //rubyflow.com comments→

Performance Analysis of Python's Dict() and {} //madebyme.today comments→

#Data

Slashing data transfer costs in AWS //bitsand.cloud comments→

Placemark is now open source – web-based geospatial data editor //github.com comments→

Learn Datalog Today //learndatalogtoday.org comments→

An open source DuckDB text to SQL LLM //motherduck.com comments→

Sqlite3 Utility in the Browser //sqlite.org comments→

#Design

I realized chess pieces can be redesigned to be geometric attack directions //twitter.com comments→

The humble brilliance of Italy's moka coffee pot //atlasobscura.com comments→

Please don't make me use another QR code restaurant menu //thewalrus.ca comments→

#Books

ML Engineering Online Book //github.com comments→

Ask HN: Good books on philosophy of engineering? //news.ycombinator.com

#Working

Culture Change at Google //social.clawhammer.net comments→

Balancing engineering cultures: Debate everything vs. just tell me what to build //fishmanafnewsletter.com comments→

Office politics is not optional: learn to play the game or you'll be its victim //ft.com comments→

#Learn

AlphaGeometry: An Olympiad-level AI system for geometry //deepmind.google comments→

Researchers claim first functioning graphene-based chip //spectrum.ieee.org comments→

French cheese under threat from lack of microbial diversity //news.cnrs.fr comments→

Too much serendipity //lesswrong.com comments→

Some fish live beyond 100 and get healthier as they age //nationalgeographic.com comments→

#Watching

We made an animated movie in 8kB //ctrl-alt-test.fr comments→

Japan's first-ever soft lunar landing with SLIM spacecraft //youtube.com comments→

Mr. Rogers' music was intricate //youtube.com comments→

Can You Live Code a Church Organ? //youtube.com comments→

Feynman Sprinkler //youtube.com comments→

The evolution of C64 games 1982–2023 //linusakesson.net comments→

Caltech Machine Learning Video Library //work.caltech.edu comments→

#Startup News

Hertz to sell 20k EVs in shift back to gas-powered cars //bloomberg.com comments→

Kagi search reached 20k paying members //blog.kagi.com comments→

Microsoft lays off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees //theverge.com comments→

Apple dials back car's self-driving features and delays launch to 2028 //bloomberg.com comments→

Changes at Riot Games and the road ahead //riotgames.com comments→

#Fun

Modder re-creates Game Boy Advance games using the audio from crash sounds //arstechnica.com comments→

Only 90s Web Developers Remember This //zachholman.com comments→

The NSA Furby Documents //404media.co comments→

Wokwi – Simulate IoT Projects in the Browser //wokwi.com comments→

Checkmate Champ – a training tool for chess tactics //checkmatechamp.net comments→

Improbable Island, one of the largest and longest-running online text adventures //improbableisland.com comments→

Open Source Paper Airplane Designs //foldnfly.com comments→

#Cutting Room Floor

Boeing whistleblower: MAX 9 production line has "enormous volume of defects" //viewfromthewing.com comments→

Mourning Google //tbray.org comments→

Fujitsu bugs that sent innocent people to prison were known "from the start" //arstechnica.com comments→

Waterway Map //waterwaymap.org comments→

Framework Laptop 16 Review //phoronix.com comments→

Americans are spending billions on stuff they forget to cancel //wsj.com comments→

Thousands of small businesses are struggling because of R&D amortization //twitter.com comments→

Free Godot engine port for Nintendo Switch //rawrlab.com comments→

TinyML: Ultra-low power machine learning //ikkaro.net comments→

Faircamp is a free Bandcamp alternative //wedistribute.org comments→

Modeless Vim //github.com comments→

scrapscript.py //bernsteinbear.com comments→

Good DevEx increases productivity. Here is the data //github.blog comments→

Free and Open Source Alternative to Airdrop //sharedrop.io comments→

Responses to unicycling //ncbi.nlm.nih.gov comments→

Keeping a long shell history //registerspill.thorstenball.com comments→

The Hawai’i Seaglider Initiative: A new approach to travel between the islands //hawaiiseaglider.org comments→

Proposed Oklahoma skyscraper gets redesign to become USA's new tallest building //newatlas.com comments→

Starship.rs: minimal, fast prompt for any shell //starship.rs comments→

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