You just gotta find the fun in what you're doing. //Blue Davis

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#Favorites

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Moon
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Map of GitHub
//github.com comments→

Always go to the funeral
//npr.org comments→

GitHub Copilot is now available for free
//github.com comments→

MIT study explains why laws are written in an incomprehensible style
//news.mit.edu comments→

1-800-ChatGPT
//help.openai.com comments→

Preferring throwaway code over design docs
//softwaredoug.com comments→

Windshield pitting incidents in Washington reach fever pitch on April 15, 1954
//historylink.org comments→

Natural Number Game: build the basic theory of the natural numbers from scratch
//adam.math.hhu.de comments→

Kelly Can't Fail
//win-vector.com comments→

Kowloon Walled City: Heterotopia in a Space of Disappearance
//mascontext.com comments→

A pilot crashed a full passenger jet into the bay, didn't lose his job
//sfgate.com comments→

A Decade Without a Drink
//eieio.games comments→

#Ask HN

SWEs how do you future-proof your career in light of LLMs?

How do you find part time work?

#Classifieds

Authentication and user management, built for B2B SaaS //propelauth.com

The funny rules of SpamAssassin (deep dive) //updown.io

Nango: Open-source product integrations with 300+ APIs //nango.dev

Automatio.ai - No code web automation //automatio.ai

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#Show HN

MarkItDown: Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown //github.com comments→

Nullboard: Kanban board in a single HTML file //github.com comments→

ImPlot3D – A 3D Plotting Library for Dear ImGui //github.com comments→

I spent 4 years bootstrapping a financial planning tool to 30k MAUs //projectionlab.com comments→

#Code

Java in the Small //horstmann.com comments→

Ergo Chat – A modern IRC server written in Go //github.com comments→

Optimizing Ruby's JSON, Part 1 //byroot.github.io comments→

Genesis – a generative physics engine for general-purpose robotics //genesis-world.readthedocs.io comments→

How we centralized and structured error handling in Golang //olivernguyen.io comments→

Jupyter Notebooks as E2E Tests //rakhim.exotext.com comments→

#Data

In Search of a Faster SQLite //avi.im comments→

Fast LLM Inference From Scratch (using CUDA) //andrewkchan.dev comments→

I built an open-source data pipeline tool in Go //github.com comments→

Postgres as a VectorDB GUI //github.com comments→

Leadership Power Tools: SQL and Statistics //matt.blwt.io comments→

#Design

I made a free Figma library packed with components for fast prototyping //veryfront.com comments→

My favourite colour is Chuck Norris red //htmhell.dev comments→

Clay – UI Layout Library //nicbarker.com comments→

Silk – Interactive Generative Art //weavesilk.com comments→

#Books

Consider the Shipwreck: Ten Books on Maritime Disasters and Ecological Collapse //lithub.com comments→

The Ineffable Concept of Thought Leadership //ineffable.deanebarker.net comments→

So You Want to Be a Wizard [pdf] //jvns.ca comments→

#Working

Updates to H-1B //uscis.gov comments→

Fractional Jobs – Job Board for Fractional Work //fractionaljobs.io comments→

Starting a Business at 60: My Father's Story //thoughts.jatintiwari.com comments→

Companies issuing RTO mandates "lose their best talent": Study //arstechnica.com comments→

An Engineering Leader's Job Search Algorithm //docs.google.com comments→

#Learn

ISO 8583: The language of credit cards //increase.com comments→

Algebraic Geometry for Computer Graphics //courses.cs.washington.edu comments→

The 1955 Le Mans disaster changed motorsport //essesmag.com comments→

Lou's Pseudo 3D Page //extentofthejam.com comments→

Music and Geometry: Intervals and Scales //roelsworld.eu comments→

Plotting Prime Numbers //jaketae.github.io comments→

How the Samuel Smith beer baron built Britain's strangest pub chain //theguardian.com comments→

#Watching

Alignment faking in large language models //anthropic.com comments→

Half My Life with Perl //perladvent.org comments→

Nvidia Jetson Orin Nano Super //youtube.com comments→

Building the steepest cable car in the world 85-ATW Stechelberg-Mürren //youtube.com comments→

#Startup News

Amazon workers to strike at multiple US warehouses during busy holiday season //reuters.com comments→

US lawmakers tell Apple, Google to be ready to remove TikTok from stores Jan. 19 //reuters.com comments→

Waymo will bring autonomous vehicles to Tokyo //waymo.com comments→

Vultr Raises $333M at $3.5B Valuation //wsj.com comments→

#Fun

SmartHome – An Adventure Game //smarthome.steviep.xyz comments→

3D-Printed Dune Chess Set //parametric-architecture.com comments→

A simple web game to help learn chords and basic progressions //chords.yottanami.com comments→

Advent of Code on the Nintendo DS //sailor.li comments→

Markov Keyboard: keyboard layout that changes by Markov frequency //github.com comments→

Aldren Quest – Browser RPG //whimsicalwyrm.itch.io comments→

1x111 //abagames.itch.io comments→

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