Not all those who wander are lost. //J.R.R. Tolkien

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We'll be back on schedule this Friday, but until then - a ton of great reads from the last two weeks. – kale

#Favorites

Mario meets Pareto
//mayerowitz.io comments→

Anatomy of a credit card rewards program
//bitsaboutmoney.com comments→

Yes, social media is a cause of the epidemic of teenage mental illness
//afterbabel.com comments→

The Wi-Fi only works when it's raining
//predr.ag comments→

Obituary for a quiet life
//bittersoutherner.com comments→

Tips for linking shell companies to their secret owners
//gijn.org comments→

I made a new sensor out of 3D printer filament for my PhD
//paulbupejr.com comments→

Avoid blundering: 80% of a winning strategy
//longform.asmartbear.com comments→

Low Cost Robot Arm
//github.com comments→

So you wanna de-bog yourself
//experimental-history.com comments→

The Rise and Fall of Silicon Graphics
//abortretry.fail comments→

Blog posts, sorted by sleep
//breckyunits.com comments→

xkcd 2916: The Credible Machine
//xkcd.com comments→

#Ask HN

What is the most useless project you have worked on?

What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?

SQLite in Production?

#Show HN

I've built a locally running Perplexity clone //github.com comments→

I made a discrete logic network card //qdiv.dev comments→

We built PriceLevel to find out what companies pay for SaaS //pricelevel.com comments→

5 Years Ago I made the Recovery Kit, I just made the RK2 //doscher.com comments→

Kobo announces color e-readers //theverge.com comments→

I just made my profitable online form builder open-sourced //github.com comments→

Loki: An open-source tool for fact verification //github.com comments→

#Code

Timeline of the xz open source attack //research.swtch.com comments→

Aider: AI pair programming in your terminal //github.com comments→

Deep Bug //marginalia.nu comments→

Llm.c – LLM training in simple, pure C/CUDA //github.com comments→

The UX of UUIDs //unkey.dev comments→

Embed Crystal code directly in Ruby //github.com comments→

#Data

An open source initiative to share and compare heat pump performance data //heatpumpmonitor.org comments→

A MySQL compatible database engine written in pure Go //github.com comments→

PostgreSQL index advisor //github.com comments→

Online database diagram editor //github.com comments→

Redis re-implemented with SQLite //github.com comments→

#Design

The design philosophy of Great Tables //posit-dev.github.io comments→

Ask HN: Happy 404 Day. Whats your favorite 404 error page? //news.ycombinator.com

Brutalist Hacker News – A HN reader inspired by brutalist web design //brutalisthackernews.com comments→

Creative flash websites that dominated web design at the turn of the millennium //webdesignmuseum.org comments→

Design fiction 1/2/3 by Casey Cripe //socks-studio.com comments→

Playwrite: Create Primary School Cursive Font //github.com comments→

#Books

A Gentle Introduction to the Art of Mathematics //giam.southernct.edu comments→

Open Circuits Book //opencircuitsbook.com comments→

I "Blitzed" 50 Books in 50 Days – My Experiment in Language Learning //buttondown.email comments→

Six books that shaped Japanese philosophy //bigthink.com comments→

Chapter-level summaries of bestselling books using LLMs //book-summary-pro.vercel.app comments→

#Working

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

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

A day in the life of a Walmart manager //wsj.com comments→

#Learn

Lore Harp McGovern built a microcomputer empire from her suburban home //every.to comments→

Cow Magnets //stanfordmagnets.com comments→

Roll-Invert-Unroll: An easier way to replace a duvet cover //danverbraganza.com comments→

1.18k drawings of plant root systems //images.wur.nl comments→

#Watching

But what is a GPT? Visual intro to Transformers //youtube.com comments→

Re-creating Disney's sodium vapor process //youtube.com comments→

A Japanese hikikomori released a game after 6 years of development //youtube.com comments→

The Graph of Wikipedia //youtube.com comments→

#Startup News

I Lost Faith in Kagi //d-shoot.net comments→

Beeper acquired by Automattic //blog.beeper.com comments→

Amazon ditches 'just walk out' checkouts at its grocery stores //gizmodo.com comments→

Postman Has Acquired Orbit //blog.postman.com comments→

#Fun

Guess my RGB //susam.net comments→

Faces.js, a JavaScript library for generating vector-based cartoon faces //zengm.com comments→

Mazelit - My wife and I released our first game //news.ycombinator.com

Oh My Git: An open source game about learning Git //ohmygit.org comments→

World_sim: LLM prompted to act as a sentient CLI universe simulator //worldsim.nousresearch.com comments→

Here's a puzzle game. I call it Reverse the List of Integers //mathstodon.xyz comments→

Truncate, a word-based strategy game //truncate.town comments→

Dimity Jones in Puzzle Castle: An Electronic Escape Novel //github.com comments→

#Cutting Room Floor

'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing in Gaza //972mag.com comments→

How to found a company in Germany: 14 "easy" steps and lots of pain //eidel.io comments→

The darker side of being a doctor //drericlevi.substack.com comments→

3D + 2D: Testing out my cross-platform WASM graphics engine //news.ycombinator.com

Double-entry bookkeeping as a directed graph //matheusportela.com comments→

After AI beat them, professional Go players got better and more creative //henrikkarlsson.xyz comments→

Bay Area workers charged for building secret apartments inside train stations //therealdeal.com comments→

The Great American Rail-Trail //railstotrails.org comments→

DNS over Wikipedia //github.com comments→

Pretty Eight Machine //leadedsolder.com comments→

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