Hacker Newsletter - Hacker Newsletter #693

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Issue #693 // 2024-03-22 // View in your browser

#Favorites


Stripe Sessions - The global internet economy conference, April 23-25
//stripesessions.com sponsored

U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly
//nytimes.com comments

How web bloat impacts users with slow devices
//danluu.com comments

Flightradar24's new GPS jamming map
//flightradar24.com comments

Vision Pro: What we got wrong at Oculus that Apple got right
//hugo.blog comments

Why are most sofas so bad?
//dwell.com comments

How to Start Google
//paulgraham.com comments

House passes bill to force TikTok sale from Chinese owner or ban the app
//nytimes.com comments

Show HN: Memories – FOSS Google Photos alternative built for high performance
//memories.gallery comments

The Reddits
//ycombinator.com comments

IAM Is the Worst
//matduggan.com comments

Let's create a Tree-sitter grammar
//jonashietala.se comments

DuckDB as the New jq
//pgrs.net comments

#Ask HN


Do you also marvel at the complexity of everyday objects?

How to onboard yourself to a new product/industry in a new job?

How did you get yourself out of a rut?

#Show HN


Skyvern – Browser automation using LLMs and computer vision //github.com comments

TextSnatcher: Copy text from images, for the Linux Desktop //github.com comments

jnv: interactive JSON filter using jq //github.com comments

Godspeed is a fast, 100% keyboard oriented todo app for Mac //godspeedapp.com comments

A user-friendly UI for viewing and editing Markdown files //marker.pages.dev comments

Causal 2.0 – Modern Financial Planning for Startups //causal.app comments

TimeLapze: Open-source screen recorder //github.com comments

#Code


Difftastic, a structural diff tool that understands syntax //difftastic.wilfred.me.uk comments

The return of the frame pointers //brendangregg.com comments

Regex character "$" doesn't mean "end-of-string" //sethmlarson.dev comments

More powerful Go execution traces //go.dev comments

Java 22 Released //mail.openjdk.org comments

Django REST framework 3.15.0 //django-rest-framework.org comments

#Data


Grok //github.com comments

The Pile is a 825 GiB diverse, open-source language modelling data set //pile.eleuther.ai comments

Transpile Any SQL to PostgreSQL Dialect //gitlab.com comments

Soul: A SQLite REST and Realtime Server //thevahidal.github.io comments

#Design


The Getty makes nearly 88k art images free to use //openculture.com comments

Nanofont3x4: Smallest readable 3x4 font with lowercase //github.com comments

Homepage Design: 5 Fundamental Principles //nngroup.com comments

Turn Images into Contour Maps //benjdd.com comments

#Working


The Mythical Non-Roboticist //generalrobots.substack.com comments

Interviewing at Canonical //hachyderm.io comments

Return to Office Is a Mistake //infoworld.com comments

#Learn


Webb and Hubble confirm Universe's expansion rate //esa.int comments

Brain waves appear to wash out waste during sleep in mice //jamanetwork.com comments

Parrots love playing tablet games. That's helping researchers understand them //news.northeastern.edu comments

Great ideas in theoretical computer science //cs251.com comments

Hurried Thoughts: You're Wrong About Tidal-Locking //worldbuildingpasta.blogspot.com comments

#Watching


4T transistors, one giant chip (Cerebras WSE-3) //youtube.com comments

Interview with Robert Garner, Lead Designer of SPARC at Sun Microsystems //youtube.com comments

Rigid Body Physics in Minecraft without mods //youtube.com comments

The Brewintosh, a 3D Printed Full-Size Macintosh //youtube.com comments

Building an Arduino Car Gear Shifter Indicator Display //youtube.com comments

#Startup News


Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announces new AI chips: ‘We need bigger GPUs’ //cnbc.com comments

Intel to Receive $8.5B in Grants to Build Chip Plants //nytimes.com comments

Cloudflare loses 22% of its domains in Freenom .tk shutdown //netcraft.com comments

The New Inflection //inflection.ai comments

#Fun


Shattered Pixel Dungeon is an open-source traditional roguelike dungeon crawler //github.com comments

2600.network Dialup Service //2600.network comments

BreakTime: Running Breakout inside Google Calendar //eieio.games comments

Gravitational Collapse of Spongebob //twitter.com comments

How to Play Renju //renju.net comments

Conway's Game of Hope //alex.miller.garden comments

Playing with Code: Programming-Adjacent Games //marianoguerra.org comments

#Cutting Room Floor


Lego price per part over the years //brickinsights.com comments

The Oregon Outback International Dark Sky Sanctuary //hereisoregon.com comments

Elegant open source project tracking, Trello like but self-hosted //github.com comments

HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 explained //alexandrehtrb.github.io comments

Affordable Wheel Based Refreshable Braille Display //jacquesmattheij.com comments

How do neural networks learn? //phys.org comments

Heinlein's Fan Mail Solution //kk.org comments

Are We Watching the Internet Die? //wheresyoured.at comments

Lego's 3,745-piece D&D set comes with its own playable adventure //theverge.com comments

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