Hacker Newsletter - Hacker Newsletter #500

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Issue #500 // April 17, 2020 // View in your browser

Hey all! We hit issue #500 with this one. Kind of bittersweet to hit this mark with all that is going on in the world. I imagine many of you may be trying to figure out next steps because of layoffs or companies closing. Or, maybe you need a change and it’s time to scratch an itch of yours. I don’t have a magical answer, but maybe I can offer a bit of advice from what I've learned.

Step one is to find something little that you can breathe life into. Put some work into it, and start sharing it with people. It could take a few tries, but know that you’ll have to stick with it for way longer than you think you should. A year in, your brain will tell you to stop when you haven’t reached the goals you thought you would when you started (it is too easy to dream big). However, the way to succeed is to listen to your heart and keep at it. It doesn’t have to be something you love, you’ll end up loving it. It doesn’t have to be sexy, nothing really is. It doesn’t have to be perfect, it just has to be your own work. You’ll learn a ton of things. You’ll meet a lot of great people, make friends, and might even end up getting an amazing job from it. Start with step one and keep at it - the 500th step comes a lot quicker than you can imagine. Thanks for helping me get here and take care! kale

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GitHub is now free for teams
//github comments

John Conway has died
//twitter comments

New iPhone SE
//apple comments

What Happened to Lee
//wired comments

Renaming files with mv without typing the name two times
//github comments

Bored? How about trying a Linux speed run?
//rachelbythebay comments

How to Edit Your Own Writing
//nytimes comments

Hours
//cutebouncingbunnies comments

Apple, Amazon, and Common Enemies
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#Ask HN


Programs that saved you 100 hours?

Recommend me a course on Coursera

How to rediscover the joy of programming?

#Show HN


Senate Stock Watcher //senatestockwatcher comments

Convert Markdown to a Mind Map //js comments

Turning my obsession in the stock market into a side project //eduardosasso comments

Online Town – A better way to gather online //siempre comments

Zappy – Screen capture tool //zapier comments

Braid – A team-chat app with a novel UI for better conversations //github comments

Tablist – a chrome extension to copy and paste lists of open tabs //google comments

#Classics


2048 //github comments

Kind of Screwed //waxy comments

Make a “Literary Clock” from a Jailbroken Kindle //instructables comments

#Code


Pointless //ptls comments

Open-Source Virtual Background //elder comments

Writing a SQL database from scratch in Go //eatonphil comments

The Power of Prolog //metalevel comments

Nbdev: Use Notebooks for Literate Programming //github comments

#Data


Falcon is a free, open-source SQL editor with inline data visualization //github comments

DeltaPy – Tabular Data Augmentation //google comments

Why we do machine learning engineering with YAML, not notebooks //towardsdatascience comments

Comparison of Joins: MongoDB vs. PostgreSQL //enterprisedb comments

#Design


Inkscape 1.0 Release Candidate //inkscape comments

A collaborative effort to name all 16.7M colors //colornames comments

The Webpage, an online RSS reader and news aggregator, styled like a newspaper //russellsaw comments

#Learn


Guédelon Castle //wikipedia comments

Does time really flow? New clues from intuitionist math //quantamagazine comments

Soil gets its smell from bacteria trying to attract invertebrates //newscientist comments

#Books


Writing a Book with Pandoc, Make, and Vim //keleshev comments

mdBook – A utility to create modern online books from Markdown files //github comments

A book on algorithmic programming in Lisp //leanpub comments

Our New Book “Building Secure and Reliable Systems” //googleblog comments

The Digital Storytelling Handbook //microsoft comments

#Watching


How to Speak //mit comments

John Conway – The Free Will Lectures //youtube comments

Using a 1930 Teletype as a Linux Terminal //youtube comments

Game of Life, Simulated in the Game of Life //youtube comments

Connections Episode 1: The Trigger Effect //archive comments

#Working


Ask HN: Who Is Firing? //ycombinator

Google to Slow Hiring for Rest of 2020 //bloomberg comments

What does a Director of Engineering do? //hashtagcoder comments

#Fun


Tom Nook's Laptop //bert comments

Bouncing DVD Logo //bouncingdvdlogo comments

Office noise generator //imisstheoffice comments

Things That Turbo Pascal Is Smaller Than //dadgum comments

#Cutting Room Floor


We’re working on 1M Covid-19 testing capacity per day //billiontoone comments

Stripe raises $600M at nearly $36B valuation //axios comments

The Wolfram Physics Project //stephenwolfram comments

I can't keep up with idiomatic Rust //github comments

ArduBee – A micro drone for open source development //ardupilot comments

Moving Away from Gmail //rolisz comments

Build versus Buy //lethain comments

Tips for Founders Sales: Lessons from Starting Two B2B Startups //philstrazzulla comments

Building a ternary computer at home: a software emulator //github comments

I watched the movie that astronauts must view before launch //arstechnica comments

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