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Issue #686 // 2024-02-02 // View in your browser

#Favorites


Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union
//apple.com comments

Infinite Craft
//neal.fun comments

Making a PDF that's larger than Germany
//alexwlchan.net comments

Intel's Humbling
//stratechery.com comments

My favourite Git commit (2019)
//dhwthompson.com comments

My toddler still loves planes, so I upgraded her radar
//jacobbartlett.substack.com comments

Pong Wars
//pong-wars.koenvangilst.nl comments

I need to grow away from these roots
//vitling.xyz comments

Rook to XSS: How I hacked chess.com with a rookie exploit
//skii.dev comments

Why you've never been in a plane crash
//asteriskmag.com comments

CNC lasers for cutting and engraving
//jacquesmattheij.com comments

Arctic Adventure: A Lost 1981 TRS-80 Adventure Game
//arctic81.com comments

#Ask HN


Those who've joined a friend's startup as an employee, how did that go?

What happened to startups, why is everything so polished?

#Classifieds


A free newsletter for improving your product skills. //posthog.com

Jellypod AI: Transform your inbox into a personalized daily podcast //jellypod.ai

RFPs Suck, AutoRFP.ai fixes this //autorfp.ai

Simple uptime monitoring, since 2012, from an indie hacker //updown.io

How secure is your cloud? Let us be your security partner //cloudsecuritypartners.com

👉 Buy a classified ad

#Show HN


Boardzilla, a framework for making web-based board games //boardzilla.io comments

Untranslatable //untranslatable.co comments

A simple ChatGPT prompt builder //mitenmit.github.io comments

Open SaaS – An open-source alternative to paid boilerplate starters //github.com comments

Nutrient insights through your grocery receipts //nutri.adrianstobbe.com comments

Twine – Open source multiplatform RSS app //github.com comments

#Code


--libcurl //everything.curl.dev comments

Quickemu: Quickly run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux virtual machines //github.com comments

A Tour of the Lisps //fosskers.ca comments

Ruby's exceptional creatures //exceptionalcreatures.com comments

Modern CSS One-Line Upgrades //moderncss.dev comments

Visual Analysis of Binary Files //binvis.io comments

#Data


Meta AI releases Code Llama 70B //twitter.com comments

Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster //adamdrake.com comments

Multi-database support in DuckDB //duckdb.org comments

Stanchion – Column-oriented tables in SQLite //github.com comments

Build an open data stack with Airbyte, dbt and Dagster //github.com comments

Becoming Data Driven, from First Principles //commoncog.com comments

#Design


In loving memory of square checkbox //tonsky.me comments

Why is everything so ugly? //nplusonemag.com comments

Artist trained rats to take selfies to make a point about social media //cbc.ca comments

#Books


Implementing a ChatGPT-like LLM from scratch, step by step //github.com comments

How we crowdfunded $750k for a giant book about keyboard history //glennf.medium.com comments

How Euler Did It, by Ed Sandifer //eulerarchive.maa.org comments

Ask HN: Any good Silicon Valley Photo coffee table books? //news.ycombinator.com

#Working


Ask HN: Who is hiring? //news.ycombinator.com

CEOs Are Using Return to Office Mandates to Mask Poor Management //forbes.com comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? //news.ycombinator.com

Ask HN: Looking for a project to volunteer on? //news.ycombinator.com

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? //news.ycombinator.com

#Learn


Researchers have found a faster way to do integer linear programming //quantamagazine.org comments

Why flying insects gather at artificial light //nature.com comments

Brains are not required to think or solve problems – simple cells can do it //scientificamerican.com comments

Scientists tame chaotic protein fueling 75% of cancers //phys.org comments

The quest to decode the Mandelbrot set //quantamagazine.org comments

#Watching


Disney unveils the HoloTile floor //ign.com comments

Apple Vision Pro review: magic, until it's not //theverge.com comments

The KGB, the Computer and Me – The Cuckoo's Egg Story //youtube.com comments

I built my own 16-Bit CPU in Excel //youtube.com comments

Tractor cab looks like a space ship //youtube.com comments

#Startup News


Google search drops cache link from search results //seroundtable.com comments

Thanksgiving 2023 security incident //blog.cloudflare.com comments

Amazon and iRobot call off their planned acquisition //cnbc.com comments

Adobe gives up on web-design product to rival Figma after deal collapse //bloomberg.com comments

#Fun


The Far Side – By Gary Larson //thefarside.com comments

Epitaph – Fermi Paradox Simulator //mkremins.github.io comments

Qwertle, yet another daily word game //qwertle.friedman.in comments

Control Mark Zuckerbergs smile property //terkelg.github.io comments

Watch Life – A compact "analog" watch in Conway's Game of Life //github.com comments

Dead Horse, a real time online text adventure //deadhorse.eurydice.me comments

#Cutting Room Floor


Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards //apps.ankiweb.net comments

I looked through attacks in my access logs //nishtahir.com comments

I just wanted Emacs to look nice – Using 24-bit color in terminals //chadaustin.me comments

Florida House of Representatives approves bill to ban social media for kids < 16 //abcnews.go.com comments

Rclone syncs your files to cloud storage //rclone.org comments

Edsger Dijkstra carried computer science on his shoulders //inference-review.com comments

How to do things if you're not that smart and don't have any talent //adaobi.substack.com comments

Harmonics Explorer //teropa.info comments

What happens when an astronaut in orbit says he's not coming back? //arstechnica.com comments

Macaroons Escalated Quickly //fly.io comments

The business of check cashing //bitsaboutmoney.com comments

Kando: The Cross-Platform Pie Menu //github.com comments

linefont: Font for rendering line chart data //github.com comments

Crafting a Handheld Game Console with RP2040 – An Open Source PCB Design Journey //codetiger.github.io comments

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