Hacker Newsletter - Hacker Newsletter #716

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Issue #716 // 2024-09-20 // View in your browser

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#Favorites


How to succeed in MrBeast production (Leaked PDF)
//simonwillison comments

Learning to Reason with LLMs
//openai comments

Why wordfreq will not be updated
//github comments

We spent $20 to achieve RCE and accidentally became the admins of .mobi
//labs.watchtowr comments

Notes on OpenAI's new o1 chain-of-thought models
//simonwillison comments

Why GitHub won
//blog.gitbutler comments

Nothing: Simply Do Nothing
//usenothing comments

Carpentopod: A Walking Table Project
//decarpentier comments

Be a thermostat, not a thermometer
//larahogan comments

They don't make 'em like that any more: the 3.5mm headphone jack socket
//kevinboone comments

#Ask HN


Why is Pave legal?

Does anyone use sound effects in their dev environment?

How do you organize work as a solo developer?

How To: Internal Documentation?

#Show HN


iFixit created a new USB-C, repairable soldering system //hackaday comments

Wealthfolio: Private, open-source investment tracker //wealthfolio comments

Meet.hn – Meet the Hacker News community in your city //news.ycombinator

Infinity – Realistic AI characters that can speak //news.ycombinator

Konty – A Balsamiq-alternative lo-fi wireframe tool for modern apps //konty comments

300μs typo detection for 1.3M words //trieve comments

Repogather – copy relevant files to clipboard for LLM coding workflows //github comments

Ultrafocus CLI to reclaim your time //github comments

#Code


Windows NT vs. Unix: A design comparison //blogsystem5.substack comments

A good day to trie-hard: saving compute 1% at a time //blog.cloudflare comments

Reclaim the Stack //reclaim-the-stack comments

Why Haskell? //gtf comments

Techniques I use to create a great user experience for shell scripts //nochlin comments

YourNextStore – an open-source Shopify with Stripe as the back end //github comments

SQLite on Rails: The how and why of optimal performance //fractaledmind.github comments

Why bother with argv[0]? //wietzebeukema comments

#Data


Wordllama – Things you can do with the token embeddings of an LLM //github comments

B-Trees and Database Indexes //planetscale comments

Visual DB – Web front end for your database //visualdb comments

Data Engineering Vault: A 1000 Node Second Brain for DE Knowledge //ssp.sh comments

#Design


Atkinson Hyperlegible Font //brailleinstitute comments

The Pentium as a Navajo Weaving //righto comments

Comic Mono //dtinth.github comments

What you can get out of a high-quality font //sinja comments

Gnome Files: A detailed UI examination //datagubbe comments

Things to know about the Great Wave //artic comments

Diatom Arrangements //trebeljahr comments

#Books


Google Illuminate: Books and papers turned into audio //illuminate.google comments

I mapped HN's favorite books with GPT-4o //hnbooks.pieterma comments

Ask HN: Must-Read Books for Startups? //news.ycombinator.com

Old Computing Books //computinghistory comments

Chess Fun For Little Ones – An interactive book to introduce chess //chessfunforlittleones comments

#Working


Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week //cnbc comments

How to Lead Your Team When the House Is on Fire //peterszasz comments

My job is to watch dreams die //old.reddit comments

#Learn


Synthetic diamonds are now purer, more beautiful, and cheaper than mined //worksinprogress.co comments

Cruise ships chopped in half are a license to print money //newatlas comments

The first nuclear clock will test if fundamental constants change //quantamagazine comments

If I could dissect a sauropod //svpow comments

#Watching


Have you ever seen soldering this close? //youtube comments

Krazam: High Agency Individual Contributor //youtube comments

The Cheating Device (ChatGPT on a TI-84) //youtube comments

Steve Ballmer: facts on the US federal budget //youtube comments

Heavy Construction of a Sewage Pump Station – Ep 3 //youtube comments

#Startup News


Apple mobile processors are now made in America by TSMC //timculpan.substack comments

2M users but no money in the bank //exercism comments

Independent directors of 23andMe resign from board //investors.23andme comments

Apple must pay 13B euros in back taxes, EU's top court rules //cnbc comments

A Post-Google World? //thebignewsletter comments

Pivotal Tracker will shut down //pivotaltracker comments

#Fun


A MiniGolf game for Palm OS //ctrl-c.club comments

Core: an experimental new way to write videogames //github comments

Hacker League – Open-Source Rocket League on Linux //github comments

I made a digital circuit drawing and simulation game //github comments

OpenScope Air Traffic Control Simulator //openscope comments

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