A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any slower. //Kin Hubbard

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#Favorites

Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative)
//usebruno.com comments→

Spreadsheets are all you need
//spreadsheets-are-all-you-need.ai comments→

JSON Canvas – An open file format for infinite canvas data
//jsoncanvas.org comments→

I made a free animator. Think Adobe Illustrator but for animation
//trangram.com comments→

Devin: AI Software Engineer
//cognition-labs.com comments→

How the Devteam Conquered the iPhone
//fabiensanglard.net comments→

Weather forecasts have become more accurate
//ourworldindata.org comments→

Reverse engineering a car key fob signal
//0x44.cc comments→

Breaking down tasks
//jacobian.org comments→

Teable – Open-Source No-Code Database Fusion of Postgres and Airtable
//github.com comments→

#Ask HN

What underrated open source project deserves more recognition?

What is not going to change in future?

#Show HN

Monodraw //monodraw.helftone.com comments→

LocalSend: Open-source, cross-platform file sharing to nearby devices //localsend.org comments→

Flox 1.0 – Open-source dev env as code with Nix //github.com comments→

Flyde – an open-source visual programming language //github.com comments→

Wallstreetlocal – View investments from America's biggest companies //github.com comments→

Timelock.dev – Send a secret into the future using timelock encryption //timelock.dev comments→

#Code

Radicle: Open-Source, Peer-to-Peer, GitHub Alternative //app.radicle.xyz comments→

Building Meta's GenAI infrastructure //engineering.fb.com comments→

Hatchet – Open-source distributed task queue //github.com comments→

Nvtop: Linux Task Monitor for Nvidia, AMD and Intel GPUs //github.com comments→

Byte-Sized Swift: Building Tiny Games for the Playdate //swift.org comments→

#Data

Claude 3 model family //anthropic.com comments→

Fine tune a 70B language model at home //answer.ai comments→

DBeaver – open-source database client //github.com comments→

How Figma's databases team lived to tell the scale //figma.com comments→

Pg_vectorize: Vector search and RAG on Postgres //github.com comments→

Using PostgreSQL for military geoanalytics tasks //klioba.com comments→

Query Your Sheets with SheetSQL //sheetsql.io comments→

#Design

My favourite animation trick: exponential smoothing //lisyarus.github.io comments→

A formula for responsive font-size //jameshfisher.com comments→

#Books

What Monks Know about Focus //millersbookreview.com comments→

Digital Superpowers, a free book highlighting various FOSS tools //digitalsuperpowers.com comments→

The spreadsheet is a simulation machine //arbesman.substack.com comments→

The Atlantic's great American novels of the last 100 years //theatlantic.com comments→

#Working

Leaving LinkedIn //corecursive.com comments→

Leadership is a hell of a drug //ludic.mataroa.blog comments→

How do you find employment opportunities in 2024? //news.ycombinator.com

Context-switching – one of the worst productivity killers //newsletter.eng-leadership.com comments→

Most HR data is bad data //hbr.org comments→

#Learn

Monte-Carlo graph search from first principles //github.com comments→

Simpson's paradox //en.wikipedia.org comments→

Paul Alexander, ‘the man in the iron lung’, has died //bbc.com comments→

Where is Noether's principle in machine learning? //cgad.ski comments→

Pi Day //en.wikipedia.org comments→

The American Fotoplayer //silentcinemasociety.org comments→

#Watching

How photos were transmitted by wire in the 1930s //kottke.org comments→

Starship's Third Flight Test //spacex.com comments→

A world from a sheet of paper //youtube.com comments→

Remaking Super Mario World in Godot //youtube.com comments→

The Black-Scholes/Merton equation //youtube.com comments→

How engineers straightened the Leaning Tower of Pisa //youtube.com comments→

#Startup News

Apple hit with over 1.8B euro EU antitrust fine in Spotify case //reuters.com comments→

Ex-Google engineer charged with stealing trade secrets //apnews.com comments→

Airbnb is banning indoor security cameras //theverge.com comments→

European Commission's use of Microsoft 365 infringes data protection law for EU //edps.europa.eu comments→

#Fun

Downpour is the game creation tool I have been working on for the past few years //v21.io comments→

Picotron is a Fantasy Workstation for making pixelart games //picotron.net comments→

Piano on Paper //github.com comments→

Pi Day Challenge: draw a perfect circle freehand //matrix67.itch.io comments→

ZakuChess, an open source web game built with Django, htmx and Tailwind //zakuchess.com comments→

Mars After Midnight, a New Game from Lucas Pope //marsaftermidnight.com comments→

#Cutting Room Floor

FDA clears first over-the-counter continuous glucose monitor //fda.gov comments→

The Best Essay //paulgraham.com comments→

Building an Open Source Decentralized E-Book Search Engine //github.com comments→

I summarized my understanding of Linux systems //github.com comments→

Chyrp Lite – An Ultra-Lightweight Tumblelogging Engine Using PHP and SQLite //chyrplite.net comments→

Antarctic Explorers Wrote Cute, Funny Stories to Hide Dangerous Stunts //atlasobscura.com comments→

Any Technology Indistinguishable from Magic Is Hiding Something //fromjason.xyz comments→

Following the Lean Startup Method //june.so comments→

Read it never //prertik.com comments→

Hacker News Stats: 2007–2022 //my.causal.app comments→

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