What I cannot build, I do not understand. //Richard Feynman

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#Favorites

"We ran out of columns"
//jimmyhmiller.github.io comments→

Our audit of Homebrew
//blog.trailofbits.com comments→

How French Drains Work
//practical.engineering comments→

How to build quickly
//learnhowtolearn.org comments→

Tony Hawk's Pro Strcpy
//icode4.coffee comments→

Porting my JavaScript game engine to C for no reason
//phoboslab.org comments→

p5.js
//p5js.org comments→

Tracking supermarket prices with Playwright
//sakisv.net comments→

Attribution is dying, clicks are dying
//sparktoro.com comments→

Do quests, not goals
//raptitude.com comments→

Slingcode – App platform in a single HTML file, QR-code transmittable apps
//slingcode.net comments→

#Ask HN

Should we bring software dev in-house?

How different is AWS/GCP/Azure in everyday work

#Show HN

Airhart Aeronautics – A modern personal airplane //news.ycombinator.com

I've spent nearly 5y on a web app that creates 3D apartments //roometron.com comments→

1-FPS encrypted screen sharing for introverts //1fps.video comments→

BudgetFlow – Budget planning using interactive Sankey diagrams //budgetflow.cc comments→

Hanon Pro – piano technique and exercises for the digital age //furnacecreek.org comments→

Ell – A command-line interface for LLMs written in Bash //github.com comments→

Play with an interactive heatmap of SF crime (and other cities) //safemap.io comments→

ThinkPost – split-panel note taking & brainstorming app for devs //thinkpost.io comments→

#Code

Puppeteer Support for Firefox //hacks.mozilla.org comments→

Visual A* pathfinding and maze generation in Python //github.com comments→

Back dating Git commits based on file modification dates //til.simonwillison.net comments→

Go structs are copied on assignment (and other things about Go I'd missed) //jvns.ca comments→

#Data

SAM 2: Segment Anything in Images and Videos //github.com comments→

Structured Outputs in the API //openai.com comments→

How Postgres stores data on disk – this one's a page turner //drew.silcock.dev comments→

Sqlite-vec: Work-in-progress vector search SQLite extension that runs anywhere //github.com comments→

Hexsheets: Hexagonal Spreadsheets //github.com comments→

#Design

Andy Warhol's lost Amiga art found //dfarq.homeip.net comments→

Everything that turned out well in my life followed the same design process //henrikkarlsson.xyz comments→

Linux for UX Designers: What I learn after a year of doing design work on Linux //chris-wood.design comments→

#Books

Free e-book about WebGPU Programming //shi-yan.github.io comments→

Written by a 16 year old, a book on how computers work //github.com comments→

#Working

I was a 20-something dethroned dotcom ceo that went to work at mcdonald's //web.archive.org comments→

Jeff Bezos' management rules are slowly unraveling inside Amazon //fortune.com comments→

Tours of Duty: The New Employer-Employee Compact //hbr.org comments→

#Learn

The Marshmallow Test does not reliably predict adult functioning //srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com comments→

East Germany invented 'unbreakable' drinking glasses //theguardian.com comments→

Airlines are running out of 4-digit flight numbers //viewfromthewing.com comments→

Carvings at Gobekli Tepe may be oldest calendar //tandfonline.com comments→

Gangs in the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department //en.wikipedia.org comments→

#Watching

Building Lego Machines to Destroy Tall Lego Towers //kottke.org comments→

A Two-Stroke Engine Made from Scratch Using Basic Hardware Store Parts //hackaday.com comments→

Imitation Intelligence, my keynote for PyCon US 2024 //simonwillison.net comments→

Speedrunning 30yrs of lithography technology //youtube.com comments→

From React to Htmx on a real-world SaaS product //youtube.com comments→

#Startup News

Google loses antitrust suit over search deals on phones //bloomberg.com comments→

Twitter kills its San Francisco headquarters, will relocate to South Bay //sfstandard.com comments→

Google and Meta struck secret ads deal to target teenagers //ft.com comments→

OpenAI co-founder John Schulman says he will leave and join rival Anthropic //cnbc.com comments→

Dell lays off 12,500 people //theregister.com comments→

#Fun

Medieval //teenage.engineering comments→

Hackberry-Pi_Zero – A handheld Linux terminal using Raspberry Pi Zero 2W //github.com comments→

Eyechat //neal.fun comments→

Sega Jet Rocket: The '70s arcade game with no computer or screen //newatlas.com comments→

Metropolis 1998 lets you design every building in an isometric, pixel-art city //arstechnica.com comments→

Off––line: a functional retro Facebook clone //off---line.com comments→

#Cutting Room Floor

Starting Hospice //jakeseliger.com comments→

After 10 years, Yelp gave my app 4 days //observationalhazard.com comments→

Open Source Farming Robot //farm.bot comments→

Moments in Chromecast's history //blog.google comments→

The real "Wolf of Wall Street" sales script //jointhefollowup.com comments→

Jailbroke my Kindle to use it as an e-ink monitor //gist.github.com comments→

NASA says Boeing Starliner astronauts may fly home on SpaceX in 2025 //nytimes.com comments→

Children should be allowed to get bored //bbc.com comments→

To preserve their work journalists take archiving into their own hands //niemanlab.org comments→

Friendly Google and Enemy Remedies //stratechery.com comments→

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