Hacker Newsletter - Hacker Newsletter #694

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Issue #694 // 2024-03-29 // View in your browser

Happy Easter if you celebrate it! Heads up - we're taking next week off, so see you in two weeks. kale

#Favorites


Game of Life, simulating itself, infinitely zoomable
//oimo.io comments

Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison
//cnn.com comments

Baltimore's Key Bridge struck by cargo ship, collapses
//wbaltv.com comments

Picotron Is a Fantasy Workstation
//lexaloffle.com comments

What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane
//prospect.org comments

The baffling intelligence of a single cell: The story of E. coli chemotaxis
//jsomers.net comments

Redis adopts dual source-available licensing
//redis.com comments

Real-time map of every Starlink satellite in orbit
//starlinkmap.org comments

Jasmin Paris Becomes First Woman to Finish Hardest Race
//run.outsideonline.com comments

VCard and RSS as an alternative to social media
//nfraprado.net comments

Claude and ChatGPT for ad-hoc sidequests
//simonwillison.net comments

#Ask HN


What non-AI products are you working on?

What things are happening in ML that we can't hear over the din of LLMs?

How common is developer burnout? Have you ever been burnt out?

#Show HN


Monolith – CLI tool for saving complete web pages as a single HTML file //github.com comments

Dropflow, a CSS layout engine for node or //github.com comments

NotepadNext – a cross-platform reimplementation of Notepad++ //github.com comments

I made a cheap alternative to college-level math & physics tutoring //news.ycombinator.com

Glossarie – a new, immersive way to learn a language //glossarie.app comments

Free Plain-Text Bookmarking //webtag.io comments

#Code


Why choose async/await over threads? //notgull.net comments

Tech Debt: My Rust Library Is Now a CDO //lucumr.pocoo.org comments

Jampack – Optimizes static websites as a post-processing step //github.com comments

Lcl.host: fast, easy HTTPS in your local dev environment //anchor.dev comments

#Data


DBRX: A new open LLM //databricks.com comments

SQLite Schema Diagram Generator //gitlab.com comments

LLMs use a surprisingly simple mechanism to retrieve some stored knowledge //news.mit.edu comments

SQL is syntactic sugar for relational algebra //scattered-thoughts.net comments

#Design


magick.css – Minimalist CSS for Wizards //css.winterveil.net comments

Pure CSS Website //pure-css-site.netlify.app comments

The Bulma CSS framework reaches 1.0 //github.com comments

I built an interactive plotter art exhibit for SIGGRAPH //lostpixels.io comments

Figr Identity – Generate Design Systems in Figma Instantly //figma.com comments

#Books


Vernor Vinge has died //file770.com comments

A Spark Extinguished //chinabooksreview.com comments

Cliff Stoll, the mad scientist who wrote the book on how to hunt hackers //wired.com comments

I made a books recommendation app based on your mood //booksbymood.com comments

Vast Archive of Rare Japanese Textbooks Now Online to Explore Free //mymodernmet.com comments

Ask HN: Books about sales for indie hackers and small SaaS businesses //news.ycombinator.com

#Working


Peter principle //en.wikipedia.org comments

Take Ownership of Your Future Self //hbr.org comments

Best engineering interview question I've gotten //quuxplusone.github.io comments

Being laid off in 2023-2024 as an early-career developer //fpsvogel.com comments

#Learn


Radios, how do they work? //lcamtuf.substack.com comments

When Armor Met Lips //crookedtimber.org comments

New Aztec Codices Discovered: The Codices of San Andrés Tetepilco //tlacuilolli.com comments

Two nights of broken sleep can make people feel years older, finds study //theguardian.com comments

#Watching


'Data Is Rectangular' and Other Common Misconceptions //youtube.com comments

I Put 4M Suns in a Black Hole over New York //youtube.com comments

This 1990 NES soundtrack just blew my mind //youtube.com comments

Building a 7 Axis Robot from Scratch //youtube.com comments

#Startup News


Google ordered to identify who watched certain YouTube videos //forbes.com comments

Emad Mostaque resigned as CEO of Stability AI //stability.ai comments

Canva has acquired Affinity in an effort to compete with Adobe //finance.yahoo.com comments

Mozilla Drops Onerep After CEO Admits to Running People-Search Networks //krebsonsecurity.com comments

Amazon spends another $2.7B on Anthropic //cnbc.com comments

#Fun


Everyone is John: A competitive roleplaying game for three or more people //rtwolf.github.io comments

Rotary Phone Project //github.com comments

Doom Captcha //vivirenremoto.github.io comments

Zebrapuzzles.com – Daily Logic Puzzles //zebrapuzzles.com comments

List of games and puzzles I made to teach my kid programming //punkx.org comments

#Cutting Room Floor


Daniel Kahneman has died //washingtonpost.com comments

Stability.ai – Introducing Stable Video 3D //stability.ai comments

Hackintosh is almost dead //aplus.rs comments

Boom announces successful flight of XB-1 demonstrator aircraft //boomsupersonic.com comments

What I learned from looking at 900 most popular open source AI tools //huyenchip.com comments

Low-tech Magazine underscores the potential of past technologies //solar.lowtechmagazine.com comments

Friends don't let friends export to CSV //kaveland.no comments

Hyprland Crash Course //xd1.dev comments

Livebook: Elixir's Swiss Army Knife //thestackcanary.com comments

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