Hacker Newsletter - Hacker Newsletter #710

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Issue #710 // 2024-08-02 // View in your browser

#Sponsor


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#Favorites


CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike
//clownstrike.lol comments

One-man SaaS, 9 Years In
//blog.healthchecks.io comments

How I got my laser eye injury
//funraniumlabs.com comments

Hundred Rabbits is a small collective exploring the failability of modern tech
//100r.co comments

Why doesn't advice work?
//dynomight.substack.com comments

TOTP tokens on my wrist with the smartest dumb watch
//blog.singleton.io comments

Scaling One Million Checkboxes to 650M checks
//eieio.games comments

Troubleshooting: Terminal Lag
//lock.cmpxchg8b.com comments

Re: Do people IRL know you have a blog?
//lars-christian.com comments

Bash-Oneliners: A collection of terminal tricks for Linux
//github.com comments

My Obsidian note-taking workflow
//ssp.sh comments

#Ask HN


Weirdest Computer Architecture?

Best way to learn robotics with a 10 year old?

#Show HN


Semantic Grep – A Word2Vec-powered search tool //github.com comments

MeTube: Self-hosted YouTube downloader //github.com comments

I built an open-source tool to make on-call suck less //github.com comments

Turn any website into a knowledge base for LLMs //embedding.io comments

Create diagrams of complex data flows in software systems //github.com comments

A football/soccer pass visualizer made with Three.js //statsbomb-3d-viz.vercel.app comments

Stempad – Fast Online Scientific Writing //stempad.io comments

NoteTech – Create personal automations by writing notes //simpltech.ai comments

#Code


FastHTML – Modern web applications in pure Python //fastht.ml comments

How simultaneous multithreading works under the hood //blog.codingconfessions.com comments

I recreated Shazam's algorithm with Go //github.com comments

Tea-tasting, a Python package for the statistical analysis of A/B tests //e10v.me comments

#Data


Suspicious data pattern in recent Venezuelan election //statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu comments

SQLite: 35% Faster Than the Filesystem //sqlite.org comments

Database Design for Google Calendar: A Tutorial //kb.databasedesignbook.com comments

#Design


An experiment in UI density created with Svelte //cybernetic.dev comments

A eulogy for Dark Sky, a data visualization masterpiece //nightingaledvs.com comments

The effect of CRTs on pixel art //datagubbe.se comments

Pixel Art Articles //saint11.org comments

Doodle Nation: Notes on Distracted Drawing //theparisreview.org comments

#Books


What Is Entropy? //johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com comments

The Truth About Linear Regression //stat.cmu.edu comments

Introduction to Machine Learning Interviews Book //huyenchip.com comments

Calculus for Beginners and Artists //math.mit.edu comments

I'm writing an interactive book on Go concurrency //antonz.org comments

#Working


Ask HN: Who is hiring? //news.ycombinator.com

Perfectionism – one of the biggest productivity killers in the eng industry //newsletter.eng-leadership.com comments

Back to our roots //honnibal.dev comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? //news.ycombinator.com

Things I said as a manager part 3: Code review is your job //reactiverobot.com comments

#Learn


If we want a shift to walking, we need to prioritize dignity //strongtowns.org comments

Four billion years in four minutes – Simulating worlds on the GPU //davidar.io comments

Butterflies accumulate static electricity to attract pollen without contact //bristol.ac.uk comments

Oxygen discovery defies knowledge of the deep ocean //bbc.co.uk comments

#Watching


Aphex Twin gave us a peek inside a 90s classic //cdm.link comments

A simple procedural animation technique //youtube.com comments

Repulsive Shells //youtube.com comments

Fish in remote tank made into fractals with Video Feedback Device //youtube.com comments

#Startup News


Meta to pay Texas $1.4B for using facial recognition without users' permission //texastribune.org comments

Stripe acquires Lemon Squeezy //lemonsqueezy.com comments

Coinbase awarded a $500k bug bounty //hackerone.com comments

Meta Launches AI Studio in US //ai.meta.com comments

Intel to cut 15% of headcount, reports quarterly guidance miss //cnbc.com comments

#Fun


Apex Surplus – A movie industry props and parts source //apexsurplus.com comments

I built an RPG and LLM jailbreaking adventure game //sabrina.dev comments

My New Puzzle Game //shovemedia.com comments

I made an explanation party game in Electric Clojure //explaingame.com comments

#Cutting Room Floor


A Swiss town banned billboards. Zurich, Bern may soon follow //bloomberg.com comments

The New Internet //tailscale.com comments

Porffor: A from-scratch experimental ahead-of-time JS engine //porffor.dev comments

Creativity fundamentally comes from memorization? //shwin.co comments

Llama 3.1 //llama.meta.com comments

`find` + `mkdir` is Turing complete //ogiekako.vercel.app comments

Just disconnect the internet //computer.rip comments

I prefer rST to Markdown //buttondown.email comments

Fake job interviews are securities fraud //bloomberg.com comments

Understanding the design of the the Super Nintendo video system //fabiensanglard.net comments

My favorite tools and techniques for procedural gamedev //cprimozic.net comments

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