Hacker Newsletter - Hacker Newsletter #699

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Issue #699 // 2024-05-10 // View in your browser

#Favorites


Turbocharging Low-Code Development with AI
//outsystems.com sponsored

Apple introduces M4 chip
//apple.com comments

Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software
//alinpanaitiu.com comments

Development Notes from xkcd's "Machine"
//chromakode.com comments

Cold brew coffee in 3 minutes using acoustic cavitation
//unsw.edu.au comments

Deep Reinforcement Learning: Zero to Hero
//github.com comments

The best way to have complex discussions?
//cq2.co comments

The Nature of Code (2nd Edition)
//natureofcode.com comments

Pyspread – Pythonic Spreadsheet
//pyspread.gitlab.io comments

Flying planes in Microsoft Flight Simulator with a JavaScript autopilot
//pomax.github.io comments

A useful productivity measure?
//jamesshore.com comments

How LLMs Work, Explained Without Math
//blog.miguelgrinberg.com comments

Radius Full Page Display
//32by32.com comments

#Ask HN


Interesting TUIs (text user interfaces), maybe forgotten ones?

How to handle user file uploads?

What's the most life-changing blog post you've ever read?

#Show HN


BandMatch – “Tinder” but for finding musicians to create bands/collab //bandmatch.app comments

I built a non-linear UI for ChatGPT //grafychat.com comments

A free site to explore and discover 6k plants //getanyplant.com comments

Exploring HN by mapping and analyzing 40M posts and comments for fun //blog.wilsonl.in comments

AI climbing coach – visualize how to climb any route based on your body //climbing.ai comments

An extension to track your Wikipedia adventures //chromewebstore.google.com comments

#Code


It's always TCP_NODELAY //brooker.co.za comments

Caniemail.com – like caniuse but for email content //caniemail.com comments

Design docs at Google //industrialempathy.com comments

How Python asyncio works: recreating it from scratch //jacobpadilla.com comments

I made a better Perplexity for developers //devv.ai comments

At some point, JavaScript got good //jonbeebe.net comments

#Data


Peerdb Streams – Simple, native Postgres change data capture //news.ycombinator.com

Ask HN: What's the best charting library for customer-facing dashboards? //news.ycombinator.com

How not to change PostgreSQL column type //notso.boringsql.com comments

#Design


Apple apologizes for iPad 'Crush' ad that 'missed the mark' //theverge.com comments

Visiting the annual Braun collectors fair //arslan.io comments

Industrial Design Student Work: "How Long Should Objects Last?" //core77.com comments

Designing furniture using the CSS grid //alnvdl.github.io comments

A Portal Connecting NYC to Dublin Opens in Flatiron Today //secretnyc.co comments

#Books


Unique volumes of Brothers Grimm fairy tales discovered in Poland //english.nv.ua comments

Book people think they know why 9-year-olds stop reading for fun //slate.com comments

Ask HN: What nonfiction books do you keep rereading? //news.ycombinator.com

A book Stanley Kubrick didn’t want anyone to read is being published //theguardian.com comments

J.G. Ballard predicted the rise of social media //openculture.com comments

'To-day and To-morrow': The 100-year-old book series that predicted a wild //bbc.com comments

#Working


MIT abandons requirement of DEI statements for hiring and promotions //whyevolutionistrue.com comments

Coding interviews are stupid (ish) //darrenkopp.com comments

Spending an afternoon in the Sizewell control-room simulator //bentasker.co.uk comments

Everyone Hates Workday //businessinsider.com comments

Dell responds to return-to-office resistance with VPN, badge tracking //arstechnica.com comments

Dont have F-You money? Build an F-You Network //softwaredoug.com comments

#Learn


Deaf girl is cured in world first gene therapy trial //independent.co.uk comments

Cardio fitness is a strong, consistent predictor of morbidity and mortality //bjsm.bmj.com comments

Drug resistant bacteria found on ISS mutating to become functionally distinct //nasa.gov comments

No "Zero-Shot" Without Exponential Data //arxiv.org comments

Nukefix: Simulating your nuclear weapons program //nukefix.org comments

Depth of Field Simulator //jherr.github.io comments

#Watching


Road resurfacing during the daytime without stopping traffic //youtube.com comments

Boeing engineer tells senate about 'manufacturing shortcuts' //youtube.com comments

Largest model railway launches inductive Formula 1 circuit //youtube.com comments

#Fun


Hackers discover how to reprogram NES Tetris from within the game //arstechnica.com comments

40 years later, a game for the ZX Spectrum will be again broadcast over FM radio //racunalniski-muzej.si comments

Beautiful 3D ISS tracker with live video and near-realtime clouds //iss.matteason.co.uk comments

Multiplayer Zork on Telnet //multizork.icculus.org comments

Funance – An Investment Simulator Game //funance.lol comments

Estimating Pi with Kafka Streams //fredrikmeyer.net comments

#Cutting Room Floor


DNS traffic can leak outside the VPN tunnel on Android //mullvad.net comments

Social engineering takeovers of open source projects //openssf.org comments

Making a 3D modeler in C in a week //danielchasehooper.com comments

Bollards: Why and What //josh.works comments

Got an old Raspberry Pi spare? Try RISC OS. It is, something else //theregister.com comments

In Praise of Idleness //harpers.org comments

A little index card typewriter simulator //card.zjm.me comments

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