Hacker Newsletter - Hacker Newsletter #689

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Issue #689 // 2024-02-23 // View in your browser

#Favorites


Airtable - Build powerful work apps, without code
//airtable.com sponsored

The killer app of Gemini Pro 1.5 is using video as an input
//simonwillison.net comments

Gemma: New Open Models
//blog.google comments

My sixth year as a bootstrapped founder
//mtlynch.io comments

htmz – a low power tool for HTML
//leanrada.com comments

Stable Diffusion 3
//stability.ai comments

LED Matrix Earrings
//mitxela.com comments

YC: Requests for Startups
//ycombinator.com comments

My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file
//jeffhuang.com comments

Original WWW proposal is a Word for Macintosh 4 file from 1990, can we open it?
//blog.jgc.org comments

Popular Git config options
//jvns.ca comments

USGS Historical Topographic Maps
//esri.com comments

#Ask HN


How many of you Apple developers still use Objective C?

Best resources on starting a lifestyle business?

How do you come up with side project ideas in 2024?

#Classifieds


Yellowbrick Road - Get the best stock pitch summaries each day //newsletter.theyellowbrickroad.email

Get the top data links every Tue with Quantum of Sollazzo //puntofisso.net

Podcast Review: The week's best podcasts, delivered to your inbox. //podcastreview.org

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

👉 Buy a classified ad

#Show HN


Kagi Sidekick (alpha) //sidekick.kagi.com comments

Magika: AI powered fast and efficient file type identification //opensource.googleblog.com comments

Pages CMS – A CMS for GitHub //pagescms.org comments

RAM Prices //ramstickprices.com comments

A platform for remote piano lessons based on the Web MIDI API //keyboardconnect.com comments

CodeRev.app – Code Review as Interview //coderev.app comments

Linen.team – A lightweight, thread-first Slack alternative //news.ycombinator.com

#Code


Freenginx: Core Nginx developer announces fork //mailman.nginx.org comments

Uv: Python packaging in Rust //astral.sh comments

Lapce //lapce.dev comments

Castle Engine – Free open-source cross-platform 3D/2D game engine using Pascal //castle-engine.io comments

We Have to Start Over: From Atom to Zed //zed.dev comments

#Data


My notes on Gitlab's Postgres schema design //shekhargulati.com comments

Wddbfs – Mount a SQLite database as a filesystem //adamobeng.com comments

PRQL in PostgreSQL //github.com comments

Warning: $14k BigQuery charge in 2 hours //discuss.httparchive.org comments

#Design


Every default macOS wallpaper //512pixels.net comments

Game Font Forensics //int10h.org comments

Ink/Stitch: An open-source machine embroidery design platform based on Inkscape //inkstitch.org comments

Reverse graffiti //en.wikipedia.org comments

The Morgan Motor Company designed a modern coupe, the Aeromax //arstechnica.com comments

#Books


Think Python, 3rd Edition //allendowney.github.io comments

Science fiction authors were excluded from awards for fear of offending China //nbcnews.com comments

Reading "A Programmer's Guide to Common Lisp" //journal.paoloamoroso.com comments

Graphic Presentation //archive.org comments

Exploring JavaScript: JavaScript books for programmers //exploringjs.com comments

#Working


If architects had to work like programmers //gksoft.com comments

The Layoff //xeiaso.net comments

Paying people to work on open source is good //jacobian.org comments

#Learn


Biologists discover four new octopus species //smithsonianmag.com comments

Tiny, tamper-proof ID tag can authenticate almost anything //news.mit.edu comments

Learning resources for curious software engineers //github.com comments

Implants and other technologies that decode neural activity //nature.com comments

#Watching


Let's Build the GPT Tokenizer //youtube.com comments

Jeff Dean: Trends in Machine Learning //youtube.com comments

GoPro Ride Through an Electron Beam Irradiator at Full Beam Power //youtube.com comments

Canned air is unexpectedly supersonic //youtube.com comments

Primer: Facebook's Htmx from 2010 //blog.williammanley.net comments

#Startup News


Apple confirms it's breaking iPhone web apps in the EU on purpose //techcrunch.com comments

Walmart to buy TV maker Vizio for $2.3B //cnbc.com comments

Reddit S1 //sec.gov comments

Nvidia Announces Financial Results for Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2024 //nvidianews.nvidia.com comments

An Expanded Partnership with Reddit //blog.google comments

#Fun


Driftmania – an open source PICO-8 racing game //frenchie14.itch.io comments

Domino Fit – Domino Tiling Puzzle //dominofit.isotropic.us comments

Star Trek: Borg – Remastered //borgremastered.com comments

I made a simple daily word puzzle //triword.net comments

WordHoop – A Daily Word Game //wordhoop.com comments

#Cutting Room Floor


SSDs have become fast, except in the cloud //databasearchitects.blogspot.com comments

In Defense of Simple Architectures //danluu.com comments

Considerations for a long-running Raspberry Pi //dzombak.com comments

DJI – The ART of obfuscation //blog.quarkslab.com comments

Tech has graduated from the Star Trek era to the Douglas Adams age //interconnected.org comments

Pimp Your Board Games //brainbaking.com comments

Kagi Smallweb [a directory of small/personal websites] //kagi.com comments

A decent VS Code and Ruby on Rails setup //railsnotes.xyz comments

Open Source Games //project-awesome.org comments

Okay, Color Spaces //ericportis.com comments

The History Chronicle – daily historical facts in newspaper form //pedrosbmartins.github.io comments

A Tiny Grammar of Graphics //observablehq.com comments

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