Hacker Newsletter - Hacker Newsletter #704

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Issue #704 // 2024-06-14 // View in your browser

#Favorites


Build a modern authenticated chat application with Next.js, Ably, and Clerk
//clerk.com sponsored

Silicon Valley's best kept secret: Founder liquidity
//stefantheard.com comments

I built an ROV to solve missing person cases
//suanto.com comments

Apple Intelligence for iPhone, iPad, and Mac
//apple.com comments

Designing a Lego orrery
//marian42.de comments

ASCII Silhouettify
//meatfighter.com comments

Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders ID'd in WA plane crash
//fox13seattle.com comments

Don Estridge: A misfit who built the IBM PC
//every.to comments

Self-Serve Dashboards
//briefer.cloud comments

South Pole Water Infrastructure
//brr.fyi comments

Anti-patterns in event-driven architecture
//codeopinion.com comments

#Ask HN


Machine learning engineers, what do you do at work?

What macOS apps/programs do you use daily and recommend?

How to handle a senior hire turning out to be junior?

#Show HN


Ice – open source menu bar manager for macOS //github.com comments

AeroSpace is an i3-like tiling window manager for macOS //github.com comments

Markdown HN profiles at {user}.at.hn //at.hn comments

Revideo – Create Videos with Code //github.com comments

Unforget, the note-taking app I always wanted: offline first, encrypted //unforget.computing-den.com comments

#Code


Piku: Allows git push deployments to your own servers //github.com comments

An Introduction to ARM64 Assembly on Apple Silicon Macs //github.com comments

Shpool, a Lightweight Tmux Alternative //github.com comments

Understanding HTTP Server by Implementing in Python //muhammadraza.me comments

#Data


How Meta trains large language models at scale //engineering.fb.com comments

How to get the most out of Postgres memory settings //tembo.io comments

A nanoGPT pipeline packed in a spreadsheet //github.com comments

Postgres 17: Streaming I/O for sequential scans and ANALYZE //pganalyze.com comments

SQLSync: A collaborative offline-first wrapper around SQLite //github.com comments

My workflow for writing SQL(ite) queries //jvt.me comments

#Design


Sphere Rendering: Flat Planets //emildziewanowski.com comments

Designing the avocado of uncertainty visualization //stamen.com comments

Photographer Disqualified from AI Image Contest After Winning with Real Photo //petapixel.com comments

Menu-Design Checklist //nngroup.com comments

#Books


Scratchapixel 4.0, Learn Computer Graphics Programming //scratchapixel.com comments

Generative AI Handbook: A Roadmap for Learning Resources //genai-handbook.github.io comments

How Mount Everest killed George Mallory //thespectator.com comments

EbookFoundation/Free-Programming-Books //github.com comments

The Paris Review Interviews //theparisreview.org comments

#Working


Why Triplebyte Failed //otherbranch.com comments

How Alexa dropped the ball on being the top conversational system //mihaileric.com comments

Senior employees, ordered back to the office, are jumping ship //computerworld.com comments

Senior to Staff Engineer //blog.alexewerlof.com comments

#Learn


Ultrasonic investigations in shopping centres //windytan.com comments

Indian startup 3D prints rocket engine in 72 hours //spectrum.ieee.org comments

Diffractive Chocolate //wp.optics.arizona.edu comments

Pyrophone //en.wikipedia.org comments

Slow-spinning radio neutron star breaks all the rules //sydney.edu.au comments

#Watching


Tom 7: Badness 0 (Three ways) //tom7.org comments

Gerald Sussman: Programming is (should be) fun //youtube.com comments

The rarest move in chess //youtube.com comments

When Water Flows Uphill //youtube.com comments

#Startup News


OpenAI and Apple Announce Partnership //openai.com comments

Intel is trucking a 916k-pound 'Super Load' across Ohio to its new fab //tomshardware.com comments

Mistral AI raises $640M at $6B valuation //generalcatalyst.com comments

Restate raises $7M for its lightweight workflows-as-code platform //techcrunch.com comments

#Fun


Probabilistic Tic-Tac-Toe //csun.io comments

E-Paper 7-color display showing the current weather //github.com comments

I made a web game that makes practicing basic arithmetic fun //worchle.com comments

Solving Probabilistic Tic-Tac-Toe //louisabraham.github.io comments

Printable Popup Horizontal Sundials //blocklayer.com comments

#Cutting Room Floor


The Backrooms of the Internet Archive //blog.archive.org comments

What Is PID 0? //blog.dave.tf comments

Draw an iceberg and see how it will float //joshdata.me comments

Flameshot – Open-source screenshot software //flameshot.org comments

Feynman’s Razor //defenderofthebasic.substack.com comments

Twenty, a modern CRM alternative to Salesforce //twenty.com comments

Claude's Character //anthropic.com comments

Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-8 Max Experienced Dutch Roll //avherald.com comments

HN-text: an easy-to-use, text-first Hacker News terminal client //github.com comments

ht: Headless Terminal //github.com comments

Sending emails to my three-year-old //blog.haschek.at comments

The Sword of Kumdor //lynn.github.io comments

A keyboard-centric clipboard history app for macOS //clipbook.app comments

Google Dataset Search Engine //datasetsearch.research.google.com comments

A cartoon intro to how the attention mechanism works //ai-explained.yoko.dev comments

Tell HN: Hacker News BigQuery dataset is updated daily again //news.ycombinator.com

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