Hacker Newsletter - Hacker Newsletter #697

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Issue #697 // 2024-04-26 // View in your browser

#Favorites


Lattice is the AI-powered people platform that simplifies HR operations
//lattice.com sponsored

The man who killed Google Search?
//wheresyoured.at comments

Equinox.space
//equinox.space comments

FTC announces rule banning noncompetes
//ftc.gov comments

Biden signs TikTok bill into law, starting clock for ByteDance to divest
//theverge.com comments

Inside the Super Nintendo cartridges
//fabiensanglard.net comments

When do we stop finding new music?
//statsignificant.com comments

Simulating Jupiter
//emildziewanowski.com comments

The beautiful dissociation of the Japanese language
//aethermug.com comments

I made a programmable computer from NAND gates
//github.com comments

Open Sourcing DOS 4
//hanselman.com comments

AI for Data Journalism: demonstrating what we can do with this stuff
//simonwillison.net comments

#Ask HN


AMA: I'm Dave Greene, an accidental expert on Conway's Game of Life

How to manage phones and PCs for elderly parents?

What rabbit hole(s) did you dive into recently?

How do you ask users about their pain point?

#Show HN


Tiny World Map //github.com comments

I made an open source Windows app to rewind and search everything on screen //tonoko.notion.site comments

I made a programmable computer from NAND gates //github.com comments

Podlite - a lightweight markup language for organizing knowledge //podlite.org comments

MonsterWriter – Write a thesis, post, or organize notes //news.ycombinator.com

LLM Scraper – turn any webpage into structured data //github.com comments

#Code


Programming Is Mostly Thinking //agileotter.blogspot.com comments

Piet: Programming language in which programs look like abstract paintings //dangermouse.net comments

Coroutines and effects //without.boats comments

No Abstractions: our API design principle //increase.com comments

Building a full Django project, starting with a single file //mostlypython.com comments

#Data


Mixtral 8x22B //mistral.ai comments

BeeBase, a programmable relational database with graphical user interface //beebase.sourceforge.io comments

MemoryDB: A fast and durable memory-first cloud database //amazon.science comments

Hashquery, a Python library for defining reusable analysis //hashquery.dev comments

A Logic Language for Distributed SQL Queries //osohq.com comments

#Design


Help us invent CSS Grid Level 3, a.k.a. "Masonry" layout //webkit.org comments

The Basics of Legibility: A Short Guide for Non-Typographers //nubero.ch comments

Painting app with many brushes, reference drawing and auto color picker //kreska.art comments

#Books


No one buys books //elysian.press comments

Which books/resources to understand modern Assembler? //news.ycombinator.com

A storybook designed to teach kids about how computers work //lostlanguageofthemachines.com comments

Shepherd 3.0 – Like wandering the aisles of your favorite bookstore //news.ycombinator.com

#Working


From a lorry driver to Ruby on rails developer at 38 //writesoftwarewell.com comments

The biggest source of waste is untapped skilled pragmatists //cutlefish.substack.com comments

Google fires more workers after CEO says workplace isn’t for politics //washingtonpost.com comments

10x Engineers vs. -10x Burdens //vadimkravcenko.com comments

#Learn


U-M finds students with alphabetically lower-ranked names receive lower grades //record.umich.edu comments

Scientists discover first nitrogen fixing organelle //newscenter.lbl.gov comments

Erdos Problems Collection //erdosproblems.com comments

#Watching


Visualizing Attention, a Transformer's Heart //3blue1brown.com comments

Super Mario 64's invisible walls explained //youtube.com comments

Interview with Senior JavaScript Developer 2024 //youtube.com comments

#Startup News


Apple has reportedly acquired Datakalab //9to5mac.com comments

Google Earning Q1 2024 [pdf] //abc.xyz comments

TSMC's debacle in the desert: Missed deadlines and tension among coworkers //restofworld.org comments

Jeff Lawson Buys The Onion //nytimes.com comments

Why We're Doing This //flickr.org comments

#Fun


Doomscroller.xyz //doomscroller.xyz comments

Balancing game for the mobile browser with increasing difficulty //balanc3dgame.com comments

My mother declared my bedroom a disaster area //news.lettersofnote.com comments

Doom-htop: The classic DOOM game over htop //github.com comments

Talk to Me Human – my game about social persuasion //talktomehuman.com comments

Cubic Life: Conway's Game of Life in 3D //github.com comments

#Cutting Room Floor


Supabase Storage now supports the S3 protocol //supabase.com comments

An electric new era for Atlas //bostondynamics.com comments

Quill v2 – Rich text editor //quilljs.com comments

Our biggest ever river catch? //theoceancleanup.com comments

Network visualization of 50k blogs and links //graph.henryn.ca comments

HTML-first, framework-agnostic implementation of shadcn/UI – franken/UI //franken-ui.dev comments

Other People’s Problems //seths.blog comments

Start Your Own ISP //startyourownisp.com comments

What a difference four years makes //ianbetteridge.com comments

Erdos Problems Collection //erdosproblems.com comments

Internet of Desks: How I Connected My Standing Desk to the Internet //kn100.me comments

Learning Pathways //learning-pathways.org comments

The Web Data Landscape Map //github.com comments

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