Hacker Newsletter - Hacker Newsletter #508

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Issue #508 // June 12, 2020 // View in your browser

#Favorites


Consolidate all your monitoring needs to one, integrated platform bringing real-time analytics to your engineering teams to determine root cause. Give Datadog a try
//datadog sponsored

Thank HN: My startup was born here and is now 10 years old
//ycombinator

SimRefinery Recovered
//obscuritory comments

After 10 years in tech isolation, I’m now outsider to things I once had mastered
//forklog comments

Woodworking for Engineers
//woodgears comments

Ideas That Changed My Life
//perell comments

Mental Wealth
//jjbeshara comments

Pharaoh Ramesses VI Tomb
//matterport comments

Tacit Knowledge Is a Real Thing
//commoncog comments

It is as if you were doing work
//github comments

The social obligation to be bad at things
//drmaciver comments

I made a font based on my handwriting
//sachachua comments

Online Text to Diagram Tools
//github comments

Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone
//capitolhillautonomous comments

#Ask HN


Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?

Which tools have made you a much better programmer?

Are my expectations on code quality and professionalism too high?

Moving from a startup to a big co, what should I be aware of?

#Show HN


Radio Garden – Explore live radio by rotating the globe //radio comments

Google Chromium, sans integration with Google //github comments

Logic.ly – Digital logic simulator for teaching logic gates and digital circuits //logic comments

Weylus – Use your tablet as graphic tablet/touch screen on Linux //github comments

Larder.io – Bookmarking for Developers //larder comments

I made an app for large group video calls where people shuffle around //mixaba comments

#Code


Create diagrams with code using Graphviz //ncona comments

There Are No Bugs, Just TODOs //almad comments

25 Years of PHP //jetbrains comments

Tensorflow.js: Machine Learning in JavaScript //tensorflow comments

A guide to writing a DNS Server from scratch in Rust //github comments

Speeding up a Git monorepo //dropbox comments

Rubyists, we must do better //timriley comments

#Data


Google sued for secretly amassing vast trove of user data //bloomberg comments

Stanford Class on Deep Multi-Task and Meta-Learning //stanford comments

SQLancer, a tool to automatically test DBMSs to find logic bugs //github comments

CubeWeaver, a collaborative multidimensional web-based spreadsheet //cubeweaver comments

#Design


NoDesign.dev – Tools and resources for non-artistic developers //nodesign comments

The Al Jaffee / Mad Magazine Fold-In Effect in CSS //thomaspark comments

Mad magazine legend Al Jaffee retires at age 99 //washingtonpost comments

Download Hi-Res Public Domain Art, Posters and Illustrations //artvee comments

Helvetica, a documentary //hustwit comments

#Learn


Wuhan hospital traffic, search engine data indicate virus activity in Fall 2019 //harvard comments

Jurassic Park Dinosaurs Illustrated with Modern Science //jurassicparkterror comments

Learn to read Middle English //plover comments

Mysterious deep-space flashes repeat every 157 days //space comments

Toki Pona – An attempt to understand the meaning of life in 120 words //wikipedia comments

#Watching


New slats make the Golden Gate Bridge sound like a David Lynch movie //kqed comments

Cloudflare TV //cloudflare comments

Toto’s “Africa” Played on Tesla Coils //nerdist comments

Editors (Vim) //mit comments

How We Solved the Worst Minigame in Zelda's History //youtube comments

Recovering the Lost Apollo 10 LM Software //youtube comments

#Working


Advice to new managers: don't joke about firing people //staysaasy comments

No Recent Automation Revolution //overcomingbias comments

Benefits comparison across tech companies //benefits comments

#Startup News


Just Eat Takeaway to acquire Grubhub for $7.3B //nytimes comments

Lemonade files S1 //sec comments

#Fun


Shan, Shui: Procedurally generated Chinese landscape painting //github comments

Maze Algorithms //jamisbuck comments

Genetic Drawing //github comments

If it ain't broke: Share your oldest working gadgets //bbc comments

Edge of Emulation: Game Boy Sewing Machines //github comments

#Cutting Room Floor


A Facebook crawler was making 7M requests per day to my stupid website //napolux comments

America is giving up on the pandemic? //theatlantic comments

Choose Boring Technology //mcfunley comments

Interactive Map of Linux Kernel //github comments

First U.S. woman to walk in space dives to deepest point in the ocean //npr comments

Why I Use Suckless Tools //christine comments

Receiving images of Earth from satellites with software defined radio //l-o-o-s-e-d comments

Bookmarklets I Use //ph-uhl comments

Scraping Roger Ebert’s reviews and finding his favorite movies on Amazon Prime //linisnil comments

What the Hell Is a Deno? //substack comments

The Contagion of Concern: Game theory of how anxiety spreads //adamjuliangoldstein comments

The “Majority Illusion” in Social Networks //plos comments

In Defense of Bad Ideas //substack comments

A world that's designed to make you sad and angry //github comments

Street View Simple – Explore Street View Data in a Browser //github comments

The Center of the Pixel is (0.5, 0.5) //realtimerendering comments

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