Hacker Newsletter - Hacker Newsletter #684

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Issue #685 // 2024-01-26 // View in your browser

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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