Hacker Newsletter - Hacker Newsletter #506

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Issue #506 // May 29, 2020 // View in your browser

Hello! What are a few of your favorite blogs that you think most other subscribers wouldn't know about? What makes it your favorite? kale

#Favorites


Datadog's platform provides a unified view of your infrastructure, app performance and logs enabling fast MTTR and minimal impact on your business. See for yourself with a 14-day free trial
//datadog sponsored

AWS services explained in one line each
//adayinthelifeof comments

Product Marketing for Engineers
//github comments

Ray tracing in notepad.exe at 30 FPS
//kylehalladay comments

Software will eat software in a remote-first world
//substack comments

Rediscovering the Small Web
//neustadt comments

Solving the “Miracle Sudoku” in Prolog
//benjamincongdon comments

Tools for Better Thinking
//untools comments

Using `make` and `git diff` for a simple and powerful test harness
//chrismorgan comments

Just some red flags. No big deal. Just ignore them
//rachelbythebay comments

Examining Windows 1.0 Hello.c
//virtuallyfun comments

Tour of My Roof
//elliott comments

#Ask HN


What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list?

If you could work remote where would you live?

#Show HN


Bear – Minimal blogging platform //bearblog comments

Supabase – An open source Firebase alternative //supabase comments

Obsidian – A knowledge base that works on local Markdown files //obsidian comments

A Firefox add-on to strip Google search results of 'blacklisted' URLs //github comments

RoughNotation – create and animate hand-drawn annotations on a web page //roughnotation comments

Kiss Linux – A distribution with a focus on less is more //k1ss comments

PageMarker – Organize, annotate and revisit your bookmarks //pagemarker comments

#Code


Htmx – high power tools for HTML //htmx comments

Hypermodern Python //github comments

Diving into Go by building a CLI application //eryb comments

GW-BASIC from 1983 released under MIT license //github comments

REPL Driven Design //cleancoder comments

A dependently-typed programming language with static memory management //github comments

#Data


Pac-Man recreated with a GAN trained on 50k game episodes //nvidia comments

DuckDB: SQLite for Analytics //github comments

PgTyped – Typesafe SQL in TypeScript and Postgres //github comments

Using SQL to find my best photo of a pelican according to Apple Photos //simonwillison comments

#Design


LaTeX.css – Make your website look like a LaTeX document //now comments

The Vintage Beauty of Soviet Control Rooms //designyoutrust comments

Blunt – A CSS Layout Framework for Minimalists //github comments

#Learn


The US Army's earth-shaking, off-road land trains //thedrive comments

Two capacitor paradox //wikipedia comments

Can 1/3 and 1/3 = 2/6? It seemed so //marilynburnsmathblog comments

Learn Genetics //utah comments

Pelorus Jack //wikipedia comments

Duff's device //wikipedia comments

#Books


Reading habits that changed my life //usejournal comments

How to write a programming book //aquicarattino comments

Tales of the marvelous machine: 35 stories of computing //archive comments

#Watching


New two-stroke engine design could help keep internal combustion around longer //roadandtrack comments

The Most Dangerous Dams //youtube comments

Nissan Figaro – Retro-inspired convertible from Japan //youtube comments

#Working


Habits of High-Functioning Teams //deniseyu comments

Remote work has its perks, until you want a promotion //wired comments

Employers are rethinking open-plan office design //citylab comments

Why remote work is hard and how it can be fixed //newyorker comments

#Fun


Straight2Spam – Send your email right to someone's spam folder //straight2spam comments

Exiting VIM is hard; sometimes we need to take drastic measures //github comments

How I made a game played in Notepad //sheepolution comments

Arduino Pinball Machine That Plays Itself //instructables comments

Simulate 2^100 live automata cells in milliseconds, in your browser //ekzhang comments

#Cutting Room Floor


MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design? //macromates comments

Why Is This Website Port Scanning Me? //nullsweep comments

I wrote Task Manager and I just remembered something //reddit comments

Push-Button Installer of macOS Guests in VirtualBox for Windows, Linux, macOS //github comments

Today’s Javascript, from an outsider’s perspective //verou comments

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