Hacker Newsletter - Hacker Newsletter #691

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Issue #691 // 2024-03-08 // View in your browser

#Favorites


Elon Musk sues Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and OpenAI [pdf]
//courthousenews.com comments

OpenAI and Elon Musk
//openai.com comments

3 years and 1M users later, I just open-sourced my "Internet OS"
//github.com comments

Kagi and Wolfram
//blog.kagi.com comments

ShotSpotter: listening in on the neighborhood
//computer.rip comments

The end of Airplane.dev
//yolken.net comments

Autogenerating a Book Series from Three Years of iMessages
//benkettle.xyz comments

Interesting ideas in Observable Framework
//simonwillison.net comments

I Spent a Week with Gemini Pro 1.5–It's Fantastic
//every.to comments

Realtime telemetry from ISS internal components
//iss-mimic.github.io comments

#Ask HN


How can I learn about performance optimization?

Anyone use a code to mindmap/flowchart tool?

#Classifieds


WorkOS is the modern API for authentication & user identity //workos.com

Frontend Engineering - Newsletter with a focus on frontend //frontendengineering.substack.com

LinuxFest Northwest: April 26 - 28 in Bellingham, WA //linuxfestnorthwest.org

New Release: High Performance PostgreSQL for Rails //pragprog.com

πŸ‘‰ Buy a classified ad

#Show HN


Detect when your installed Chrome extensions have changed owners //github.com comments

New 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with M3 chip //apple.com comments

dockerc – Docker image to static executable "compiler" //github.com comments

Astro App //astro.sshh.io comments

Workout Tracker – self-hosted, single binary web application //github.com comments

Don't Mess with Paste //github.com comments

Elodin – A better framework for physics simulation //github.com comments

#Code


How I keep myself alive using Golang //bytesizego.com comments

The One Billion Row Challenge in Go: from 1m45s to 4s in nine solutions //benhoyt.com comments

Dada, an experimental new programming language //dada-lang.org comments

Gamedev in Lisp. Part 1: ECS and Metalinguistic Abstraction //awkravchuk.itch.io comments

Hancho – A simple and pleasant build system in ~500 lines of Python //github.com comments

Mountaineer – Webapps in Python and React //github.com comments

Alpine Ajax – If Htmx and Alpine.js Had a Baby //alpine-ajax.js.org comments

#Data


The hunt for the missing data type //hillelwayne.com comments

Training LLMs from ground zero as a startup //yitay.net comments

The "missing" graph datatype already exists. It was invented in the '70s //tylerhou.com comments

Interactive SQLite Documentation: Experiment with Queries in Real-Time //blog.sqlitecloud.io comments

#Design


European crash tester says carmakers must bring back physical controls //arstechnica.com comments

CSS for printing to paper //voussoir.net comments

Please make your table headings sticky //btxx.org comments

#Books


Eloquent JavaScript 4th edition //eloquentjavascript.net comments

Bash Debugging //wizardzines.com comments

Google's SRE Book //sre.google comments

Bookish Diversions: Do Audiobooks Count? //millersbookreview.com comments

#Working


Study: 61 UK firms tried a 4-day workweek and after a year, they still love it //npr.org comments

Our Company Is Doing So Well That You're All Fired //mcsweeneys.net comments

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

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

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

#Learn


'Mathematically perfect' star system being investigated for potential alien tech //space.com comments

Why time seems to pass faster as we age //invertedpassion.com comments

Antarctic English //en.wikipedia.org comments

#Watching


Wintergatan Marble Machine //youtube.com comments

Alan Kay's talk at UCLA – Feb 2024 //youtube.com comments

I made a bad camera lens from some old glasses //youtube.com comments

Chicken Egg Production //youtube.com comments

Feature: Morphcat Games, the New-Gen NES Devs Pushing the 8-Bit Envelope //nintendolife.com comments

#Startup News


Apple terminates Epic Games developer account, calling it a 'threat' to iOS //techcrunch.com comments

Apple reverses course on death of Progressive Web Apps in EU //appleinsider.com comments

Nikon to acquire RED //nikon.com comments

Fugitive Wirecard COO Jan Marsalek exposed as decade-long GRU spy //theins.ru comments

TinyLetter: Looking back on the humblest newsletter platform //theverge.com comments

#Fun


Pikachu Volleyball //gorisanson.github.io comments

The Lost Universe: NASA's Tabletop Role-Playing Game Adventure //science.nasa.gov comments

Can you solve it? The word game at the cutting edge of computer science //theguardian.com comments

Riddler – Autonomous Word Game //riddler.game comments

Stig – a sokoban-style puzzle game //lageb.itch.io comments

Central bank simulator game with a realistic economic model //benoitessiambre.com comments

#Cutting Room Floor


Sweden Is a NATO Member //government.se comments

Nerdy internals of an Apple text editor //papereditor.app comments

A bad day at the office //airminded.org comments

Weather.gov 2.0 //github.com comments

Pains of building your own billing system //arnon.dk comments

Serving my blog posts as Linux manual pages //jamesg.blog comments

Writing a Minecraft server from scratch in Bash //sdomi.pl comments

Where I'm at on the whole CSS-Tricks thing //chriscoyier.net comments

LilyPond: Music notation for everyone //lilypond.org comments

Twenty years is nothing //deprogrammaticaipsum.com comments

New car buying guide: the algorithm //github.com comments

NY Times issues DMCA takedowns of Wordle clones //github.com comments

2x2 Games Will Change Your Life //wyclif.substack.com comments

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