Not everything's a lesson. Sometimes you just fail. //Dwight Schrute

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#Favorites

I've built my first successful side project, and I hate it
//switowski.com comments→

Verso – Web browser built on top of the Servo web engine
//github.com comments→

Toasts are bad UX
//maxschmitt.me comments→

Artificial intelligence is losing hype
//economist.com comments→

The semantic web is now widely adopted
//csvbase.com comments→

Bug squash: An underrated interview question
//blog.jez.io comments→

How to build a 50k ton forging press
//construction-physics.com comments→

Alien – CUDA-powered artificial life simulation program
//github.com comments→

Crafting a 13KB Game: The Story of Space Huggers
//frankforce.com comments→

Migrating Mess with DNS to Use PowerDNS
//jvns.ca comments→

#Ask HN

Do we need to pay billions in fees to Stripe, Block, PayPal and Visa/MC?

How do you work as a tech lead?

Tired of software career. What now?

Determine sound quality of a file, objectively?

#Show HN

Mpv – A free, open-source, and cross-platform media player //mpv.io comments→

InstantDB – A Modern Firebase //github.com comments→

Srcbook – A TypeScript notebook for rapid prototyping //github.com comments→

Learn Blender shortcuts with lots of tiny videos //hollisbrown.github.io comments→

Tmpmail: Temporary email right from your terminal written in POSIX sh //github.com comments→

Spine – 2D skeletal animation for games, with physical secondary motions //en.esotericsoftware.com comments→

Grug Notes, a simple take on text notes //grugnotes.com comments→

PinkArrows – An open-source Skitch alternative on the web //github.com comments→

#Code

VanillaJSX.com //vanillajsx.com comments→

PgQueuer – Transform PostgreSQL into a Job Queue //github.com comments→

Transformers for Ruby //github.com comments→

Pragtical: Practical and pragmatic code editor //pragtical.dev comments→

Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships //softwareengineering.stackexchange.com comments→

I Just Cracked $1M on GitHub Sponsors //calebporzio.com comments→

#Data

Data Exfiltration from Slack AI via indirect prompt injection //promptarmor.substack.com comments→

Dasel: Select, put and delete data from JSON, TOML, YAML, XML and CSV //github.com comments→

Just use Postgres //mccue.dev comments→

Build your own SQLite, Part 1: Listing tables //blog.sylver.dev comments→

What If Data Is a Bad Idea? //schmud.de comments→

I Trained a 2D Game Animation Generation Model(Fully Open-Source) //github.com comments→

#Design

Blockbuster Video VHS insert template //github.com comments→

Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone //midjourney.com comments→

Renderings Created with Only a Pencil //core77.com comments→

Designing my own watch //willem.com comments→

#Books

Discrete Mathematics – An Open Introduction, 4th edition //discrete.openmathbooks.org comments→

I wag, therefore I am: the philosophy of dogs //theguardian.com comments→

Tales from the Far Side //kleefeldoncomics.com comments→

#Working

Postmortem of my 9 year journey at Google //tinystruggles.com comments→

On Being a Senior Engineer //kitchensoap.com comments→

Biggest productivity killers in the engineering industry //newsletter.eng-leadership.com comments→

#Learn

A Texas "moth man" photographed 550 species in his own yard //texasmonthly.com comments→

The waiting time paradox: why is my bus always late? //jakevdp.github.io comments→

Breaking down a record-setting day on the Texas grid //blog.gridstatus.io comments→

The brain simulates actions and their consequences during REM sleep //biorxiv.org comments→

Juice rerouted to Venus in first lunar-Earth flyby //esa.int comments→

#Watching

Basic Mechanisms In Fire Control Computers //youtube.com comments→

The YouTube like button glows when you say "smash that like button" //youtube.com comments→

How I Became the EEVBlog Guy //youtube.com comments→

A $36,000 Graphical Workstation from 1993 – SGI Indigo 2 //youtube.com comments→

#Startup News

Roblox is the biggest game in the world, but is unprofitable //matthewball.co comments→

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt's Leaked Stanford Talk //github.com comments→

Sorcerer – Weather balloons that collect more data //news.ycombinator.com

#Fun

Notris: A Tetris clone for the PlayStation 1 //github.com comments→

Lenticular Clock //instructables.com comments→

Ditch the sim rig and use your car instead //outlandnish.com comments→

#Cutting Room Floor

Magic Wormhole: get things from one computer to another, safely //github.com comments→

13ft – A site similar to 12ft.io but self-hosted //github.com comments→

Calling All Hackers //phrack.org comments→

How I won $2,750 using JavaScript, AI, and a can of WD-40 //davekiss.com comments→

MIT leaders describe the experience of not renewing Elsevier contract //sparcopen.org comments→

Markov chains are funnier than LLMs //emnudge.dev comments→

The gigantic and unregulated power plants in the cloud //berthub.eu comments→

FindMy Flipper – AirTag and SmartTag Emulator //github.com comments→

Slackdump //github.com comments→

FUTO //futo.org comments→

Archiving "The Famous Computer Cafe" //blog.archive.org comments→

Hardware Virtualization //haiku-os.org comments→

ThreadPlotter – toolkit for punch needle embroidery with X-Y plotters //github.com comments→

Code as Art //awwsmm.com comments→

TiddlyWiki5 – A self-contained JavaScript wiki for the browser //github.com comments→

Llamafile v0.8.13 (and Whisperfile) //simonwillison.net comments→

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