Happiness is having a rare steak, a bottle of whisky, and a dog to eat the rare steak. //Johnny Carson

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#Favorites

Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free
//nbcnews.com comments→

I am using AI to drop hats outside my window onto New Yorkers
//dropofahat.zone comments→

Ball: A ball that lives in your dock
//github.com comments→

Microfeatures I love in blogs and personal websites
//danilafe.com comments→

The tiny chip that powers Montreal subway tickets
//righto.com comments→

Local First, Forever
//tonsky.me comments→

Liquid Layers
//grantkot.com comments→

HyperCard Simulator
//hcsimulator.com comments→

Aster shootdown over Sydney in 1955
//navyhistory.au comments→

A railroad simulation using discrete event simulation
//picolisp-explored.com comments→

#Ask HN

Those of you who've left the SWE world, what did you transition into?

Could AI be a dot com sized bubble?

Who has had a successful PWA product?

#Show HN

I built a JavaScript-powered flipdisc display //flipdisc.io comments→

I made tool that let's you see everything about any website //v1.web-check.xyz comments→

From dotenv to dotenvx – better config management //dotenvx.com comments→

Eidos – Offline alternative to Notion //github.com comments→

Eplot: A new package for making charts in Emacs //lars.ingebrigtsen.no comments→

Carabiner Collection //carabinercollection.com comments→

#Code

Ruby: A great language for shell scripts //lucasoshiro.github.io comments→

I learned Haskell in just 15 years //duckrabbit.tech comments→

LINQPad – The .NET Programmer's Playground //linqpad.net comments→

Wc2: Investigates optimizing 'wc', the Unix word count program //github.com comments→

Corcel – Use WordPress backend with Laravel or any PHP application //github.com comments→

Fuzz Map //fuzzmap.io comments→

#Data

Claude 3.5 Sonnet //anthropic.com comments→

I've stopped using box plots //nightingaledvs.com comments→

Open Source Python ETL //amphi.ai comments→

Every Way to Get Structured Output from LLMs //boundaryml.com comments→

Qq: like jq, but can transcode between many formats //github.com comments→

#Design

Llama.ttf: A font which is also an LLM //fuglede.github.io comments→

Figma Slides //figma.com comments→

Round Rects Are Everywhere //folklore.org comments→

Figma AI //figma.com comments→

Atkinson Dithering //beyondloom.com comments→

The album art of Phil Hartmann //conorherbert.com comments→

#Books

Internet Archive forced to remove 500k books after publishers' court win //arstechnica.com comments→

Hypermedia Systems //hypermedia.systems comments→

Let Readers Read //blog.archive.org comments→

The rarest book in American literature: Poe's Tamerlane //lithub.com comments→

#Working

6 months ago, I left the bullshit industrial complex //joanwestenberg.com comments→

Half of Workers Around the World Are Struggling with Burnout //bcg.com comments→

Security is not part of most people's jobs //utcc.utoronto.ca comments→

Hard work wins in business (a.k.a. it ain't just about luck) //anandsanwal.me comments→

#Learn

Bouba/kiki effect //en.wikipedia.org comments→

Researchers invent 100% biodegradable 'barley plastic' //phys.org comments→

Aphantasia: I can not picture things in my mind //theguardian.com comments→

Oldest white wine in the world found in a first-century tomb in Spain //doi.org comments→

Notes on Tajikistan //mattlakeman.org comments→

How electronic ignition works and also how to make a spark plug play music //theautopian.com comments→

How to build your own CNC-machine from scratch //github.com comments→

#Watching

Porting Python to a $3 smartwatch //youtube.com comments→

APL Demonstration //youtube.com comments→

The Alternate Reality Kit //youtube.com comments→

How Cathode Ray Tubes Work //youtube.com comments→

#Startup News

Apple found in breach of EU competition rules //theguardian.com comments→

Microsoft breached antitrust rules by bundling Teams and Office, EU says //apnews.com comments→

Waymo One is now open to everyone in San Francisco //waymo.com comments→

OpenAI Acquires Rockset //openai.com comments→

#Fun

One Million Checkboxes //onemillioncheckboxes.com comments→

DOS game "F15 SE II" reversing: more stories and now on GitHub //github.com comments→

Numpty Physics – FOSS physics simulations game ported for the web //midzer.de comments→

Conway's Game of Life, in checkboxes for some reason //huth.me comments→

#Cutting Room Floor

25 years of video clips gone as Paramount axes Comedy Central wesbite //latenighter.com comments→

Start all of your commands with a comma //rhodesmill.org comments→

Spending 3 months investigating a 7-year old bug and fixing it in 1 line of code //lemmy.world comments→

Google Sheets ported its calculation worker from JavaScript to WasmGC //web.dev comments→

Barcelona will eliminate tourist apartments //theolivepress.es comments→

An interview with AMD CEO Lisa Su about solving hard problems //stratechery.com comments→

Timeliness without datagrams using QUIC //quic.video comments→

Why your brain is 3 milion more times efficient than GPT-4 //grski.pl comments→

Three ways to think about Go channels //dolthub.com comments→

Lnav Logfile Navigator //lnav.org comments→

IPC in Rust – A Ping Pong Comparison //3tilley.github.io comments→

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