It’s better to go slowly in the right direction, than to go speeding off in the wrong direction. //Simon Sinek

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#Favorites

Automate Neon schema changes with Drizzle and GitHub Actions
//clerk.com sponsored

Bypassing airport security via SQL injection
//ian.sh comments→

Diffusion models are real-time game engines
//gamengen.github.io comments→

Did you lose your AirPods?
//alexyancey.com comments→

Dokku: My favorite personal serverless platform
//hamel.dev comments→

OpenAI is good at unminifying code
//glama.ai comments→

You are not dumb, you just lack the prerequisites
//lelouch.dev comments→

The secret inside One Million Checkboxes
//eieio.games comments→

The Monospace Web
//owickstrom.github.io comments→

Blitzortung – real time lightning strikes around the world
//blitzortung.org comments→

Google's new pipe syntax in SQL
//simonwillison.net comments→

Anthropic's Prompt Engineering Interactive Tutorial
//github.com comments→

#Ask HN

What are you working on?

Why Is Stack Overflow Fading Away?

Did you regret staying at a job for too long?

#Show HN

Low Cost Mini PCs //lowcostminipcs.com comments→

Hot Page – a graphical site builder //hot.page comments→

A Ghidra extension for exporting parts of a program as object files //github.com comments→

Homemade automated solar concentrator //github.com comments→

Claude Artifacts but creating real web apps //gptengineer.app comments→

A discovery-focused search engine for Hacker News //hn.trieve.ai comments→

turn videos into ASCII art (open source, js+canvas) //collidingscopes.github.io comments→

#Code

A Collection of Free Public APIs That Is Tested Daily //freepublicapis.com comments→

Playing Sudoku in TypeScript while the type checker highlights mistakes //github.com comments→

Typing lists and tuples in Elixir //elixir-lang.org comments→

Golang Interpreter Written in PHP //github.com comments→

Code review antipatterns //chiark.greenend.org.uk comments→

Kubernetes the Harder Way //github.com comments→

#Data

Vega – A declarative language for interactive visualization designs //vega.github.io comments→

ChartDB – Free and open source, database design editor //chartdb.io comments→

Ruby in Jupyter Notebook //nbviewer.org comments→

Kotlin for data analysis //kotlinlang.org comments→

Stripe Data vs. Open‐Source Alternatives: A MRR Example //github.com comments→

Every open source tool from the "What's HN working on" thread //github.com comments→

#Design

Web Design Museum //webdesignmuseum.org comments→

Departure Mono – a monospaced pixel font with lo-fi technical vibe //departuremono.com comments→

This behavior is by design //blog.gingerbeardman.com comments→

#Books

Love them or hate them, this couple reign in Russian literature //nytimes.com comments→

I published a book to save you from my software architecture mistakes //leanpub.com comments→

Ask HN: What books should I read to improve as a software engineer? //news.ycombinator.com

'The Cheese and the Worms': Carlo Ginzburg Launches Microhistory //thereader.mitpress.mit.edu comments→

The 2nd Edition of Designing Data Intensive Applications //oreilly.com comments→

#Working

Australian employees now have the right to ignore work emails, calls after hours //reuters.com comments→

A dishwasher can make or break a restaurant //washingtonpost.com comments→

Why does getting a job in tech suck? //ryxcommar.com comments→

Contempt for the glue people //surfingcomplexity.blog comments→

Manager Antipatterns //blogs.newardassociates.com comments→

Why you should fail our interview //otherbranch.com comments→

#Learn

Cleaning up the aging brain: Scientists restore brain's trash disposal system //sciencedaily.com comments→

What Life Means to Einstein (1929) [pdf] //saturdayeveningpost.com comments→

Cleaning up after WWII //wwiiafterwwii.wordpress.com comments→

This is MIT and yes, we have bananas //technologyreview.com comments→

#Watching

NSA releases 1982 Grace Hopper lecture //nsa.gov comments→

The Sustained Two Shot by Every Frame a Painting //youtube.com comments→

Popular introduction to Huffman, arithmetic, ANS coding //youtube.com comments→

#Startup News

Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team //mono-project.com comments→

DOJ sues realpage for algorithmic pricing scheme that harms renters //justice.gov comments→

Dutch DPA fines Uber €290M because of transfers of drivers’ data to the US //autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl comments→

Judge dismisses majority of GitHub Copilot copyright claims //developer-tech.com comments→

Nvidia Announces Financial Results for Second Quarter Fiscal 2025 //nvidianews.nvidia.com comments→

#Fun

All text in Brooklyn //brooklyn.alltexts.nyc comments→

Scanned page by page: 67 years worth of old Radio Shack catalogs //radioshackcatalogs.com comments→

Catcher plays for both teams in same game //bbc.com comments→

Pilet: A modular tablet-console based on pi5 with 7-hour battery life //soulscircuit.com comments→

I made a game to show how bad the NYC rental market is //leaseswap.nyc comments→

#Cutting Room Floor

Air Con: $1697 for an on/off switch //blog.hopefullyuseful.com comments→

Zen, a Arc-like open-source browser based on the Firefox engine //zen-browser.app comments→

Zuckerberg claims regret on caving to White House pressure on content //politico.com comments→

Judges rule Big Tech's free ride on Section 230 is over //thebignewsletter.com comments→

Database “sharding” came from Ultima Online? //raphkoster.com comments→

Taskwarrior – CLI Task Management //taskwarrior.org comments→

Server Setup Basics for Self Hosting //becomesovran.com comments→

Emulating the Early Macintosh Floppy Drive //thomasw.dev comments→

Many small queries are efficient in SQLite //sqlite.org comments→

Dogsheep: Tools for personal analytics using SQLite and Datasette //dogsheep.github.io comments→

Warren Buffet's Missed Opportunity //city-journal.org comments→

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