Hacker Newsletter - Hacker Newsletter #690

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Issue #690 // 2024-03-01 // View in your browser

#Favorites


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

Airfoil
//ciechanow.ski comments

Thanks FedEx, this is why we keep getting phished
//troyhunt.com comments

Institutions try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution
//effectiviology.com comments

Big media publishers are inundating the web with subpar product recommendations
//housefresh.com comments

I turned my open-source project into a full-time business
//docs.emailengine.app comments

Private company landing on the moon today
//intuitivemachines.com comments

New York medical school eliminates tuition after $1B gift
//bbc.com comments

Satoshi – Sirius emails 2009-2011
//mmalmi.github.io comments

JavaScript Bloat in 2024
//tonsky.me comments

Marginalia: 3 Years
//marginalia.nu comments

The internet turned into a crowded mall. Now you need a corner shop
//pithandpip.com comments

#Ask HN


Slow thinkers, how do you compensate for your lack of quick-wittedness?

Did you encounter any leap year bugs today?

How do you learn and research every day?

#Show HN


AboutIdeasNow – search /about, /ideas, /now pages of 7k+ personal sites //aboutideasnow.com comments

I made an app to use local AI as daily driver //recurse.chat comments

OK-Robot: open, modular home robot framework for pick-and-drop anywhere //ok-robot.github.io comments

Nekoweb – a retro static web hosting //nekoweb.org comments

AI dub tool I made to watch foreign language videos with my 7-year-old //speakz.ai comments

Firefly III: A free and open source personal finance manager //firefly-iii.org comments

Refractify – Optical software against myopia //refractify.io comments

Struct – A Feed-Centric Chat Platform //struct.ai comments

We built the fastest spreadsheet //rowzero.io comments

#Code


Testcontainers //testcontainers.com comments

How to find the AWS account ID of any S3 bucket //tracebit.com comments

If you're just going to sit there doing nothing, at least do nothing correctly //devblogs.microsoft.com comments

Architecture.md //matklad.github.io comments

The Billion Row Challenge (1BRC) – Step-by-Step from 71s to 1.7s //questdb.io comments

I worry our Copilot is leaving some passengers behind //joshcollinsworth.com comments

Go run //breadchris.com comments

Readability.js //github.com comments

#Data


GPT in 500 Lines of SQL //explainextended.com comments

Apache Superset //superset.apache.org comments

Pql, a pipelined query language that compiles to SQL //pql.dev comments

Blazer: Business intelligence made simple //github.com comments

I built an open-source data copy tool called ingestr //github.com comments

A Font that Renders 14 types of Charts //vectrotype.com comments

Is Tableau Dead? //mergeyourdata.com comments

#Design


A beginner's guide to making beautiful slides for talks //ines.io comments

GIMP 2.99.18: The last development preview before 3.0 //gimp.org comments

Blender Open Movies. Featuring all the production files, assets, and artwork //studio.blender.org comments

#Books


Apple is turning William Gibson's Neuromancer into a TV series //theverge.com comments

"Dune" and the Delicate Art of Making Fictional Languages //newyorker.com comments

I asked ChatGPT to summarize 14501 books in 5 bullet points. Here's the result //bookpecker.com comments

#Working


Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened [pdf] //web.mit.edu comments

Stop postponing things by embracing the mess //deprocrastination.co comments

So long, and thanks for all the bytes //chethaase.medium.com comments

Working with Purpose, Forever //hakaimagazine.com comments

Algorithms Interviews: Theory vs. Practice //danluu.com comments

#Learn


Look, ma, no matrices //enkimute.github.io comments

Generative Models: What do they know? Do they know things? Let's find out //intrinsic-lora.github.io comments

Inside North Korea's Forced Labor Program //newyorker.com comments

Children need risk, fear, and excitement in play //afterbabel.com comments

Heinz’s sustainable ketchup cap //lumafield.com comments

Learn to Read Korean in 15 Minutes //ryanestrada.com comments

Beautiful Probability //readthesequences.com comments

#Watching


Varda Capsule Reentry – Five Minutes from LEO to Earth //youtube.com comments

Africa is building a Great Green Wall to prevent expansion of the Sahara //youtube.com comments

Stephen Wolfram – 4-Hour Conversational Documentary on My Entire Arc of Life //youtube.com comments

2024 MIT Integration Bee – Finals //youtube.com comments

#Startup News


Apple to wind down electric car effort after decadelong odyssey //bloomberg.com comments

Nintendo is suing the creators of Switch emulator Yuzu //overkill.wtf comments

Vice website is shutting down //writing.exchange comments

Microsoft strikes deal with Mistral in push beyond OpenAI //ft.com comments

#Fun


Happy Birthday Lemmings //scottishgames.net comments

Does this 8088 code in the Leisure Suit Larry 2 game do anything? //retrocomputing.stackexchange.com comments

SuperTux //github.com comments

DOOM rendered via console.log() in a web browser //github.com comments

#Cutting Room Floor


Netlify just sent me a $104k bill for a simple static site //old.reddit.com comments

Alexei Navalny has died //reuters.com comments

Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds //openrss.org comments

Testing the F-35C Tailhook //the-engi-nerd.github.io comments

How Does Bluesky Work? //steveklabnik.com comments

Form to DB //formtodb.com comments

Coding the anime "woosh" screen on Amiga //dansalva.to comments

YouTube dominates TV streaming in US, per Nielsen's latest report //techcrunch.com comments

The floppy disk music scene //theverge.com comments

Dune: Part Two Is the Best Sci-Fi Film of the Decade //esquire.com comments

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