Hacker Newsletter - Hacker Newsletter #509

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Issue #509 // June 18, 2020 // View in your browser

#Favorites


Part spreadsheet, part database, and entirely flexible, teams use Airtable to organize their work, their way
//airtable sponsored

Time to Upgrade Your Monitor
//tonsky comments

Adobe to remove Flash Player from web site after December 2020
//adobe comments

Drive through cities in the browser while listening to local radio stations
//herokuapp comments

For black CEOs in Silicon Valley, humiliation is a part of doing business
//bloomberg comments

The American Press Is Destroying Itself
//substack comments

Zsh and Fish’s simple but clever trick for highlighting missing linefeeds
//vidarholen comments

How to create a video call application with WebRTC
//phuaxueyong comments

How the most popular Chrome extensions affect browser performance
//debugbear comments

Music Grid
//surge comments

The Return of the 90s Web
//mxb comments

YC's Startup School Relaunching as Continuous Program
//ycombinator comments

We need to do the math, even on “small” projects
//strongtowns comments

Questions to help people decide what to learn
//jvns comments

Apple Is Trying to Shut Down Hey
//hey comments

#Ask HN


A way to adblock “we're using cookies” popups?

What are some good resources to learn how electricity works?

#Show HN


My daughter and I made a site to explore the photos from the ISS //github comments

Collected Notes – A note-taking blogging app I made //collectednotes comments

Quotebacks – Quote the Web //quotebacks comments

I am trying to start a webring for geeks //geekring comments

#Code


The Next Step for Generics //golang comments

On Coding, Ego and Attention //josebrowne comments

GitHub Super Linter: one linter to rule them all //github comments

A tiny static full-text search engine using Rust and WebAssembly //endler comments

Robpike/Lisp: Toy Lisp 1.5 interpreter in Go //github comments

Flatend – Quickly build microservices using p2p networking in NodeJS/Go //github comments

#Design


Bootstrap 5 alpha //getbootstrap comments

Gimp 2.10.20 //gimp comments

Bicycles from Sketches //gianlucagimini comments

#Learn


Bicycle Geometry Terms //99spokes comments

Fountain pen ink properties //crlf comments

12 Billion-year-old signal from the end of the universe's 'dark age' //phys comments

Basics of Pneumatic Logic //hydraulicspneumatics comments

Transmeta Crusoe //wikipedia comments

#Books


Free Textbooks from Springer, Categorised //github comments

LibriVox: Free Public Domain Audiobooks //librivox comments

The Book of Shaders //thebookofshaders comments

Readings in Database Systems, 5th Edition //redbook comments

Ask HN: What, in your opinion, are the greatest and most useful textbooks? //ycombinator

Making Databases Work: The Pragmatic Wisdom of Michael Stonebraker //acm comments

#Watching


A grandmaster who got Twitch hooked on chess //wired comments

A File Format Led to a Crossword Scandal //youtube comments

DIY True 4K Projector //youtu comments

Dwarf Fortress Creator Explains Its Complexity and Origins //youtube comments

#Working


Trying a Startup Again //cynically comments

Storytelling Tips for Technical Interviews //stanete comments

#Fun


Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser //cs-online comments

No Paint //nopaint comments

Build yourself a weather station //kdubovikov comments

Design electronics like it is 70s at CERN //google comments

Realtime Starlink Satellite Map //satellitemap comments

Paper Airplane Designs //foldnfly comments

#Cutting Room Floor


You can bypass YouTube ads by adding a dot after the domain //reddit comments

Reverse Engineering Snapchat: Obfuscation Techniques //github comments

AWS Snowcone //amazon comments

SageMath – Open-Source Mathematical Software System //sagemath comments

New Lego Mindstorms Robot Inventor //lego comments

Excalidraw whiteboard – easily sketch diagrams with a hand-drawn feel //github comments

Apollo – Funding for Moonshots //apolloprojects comments

A Guy Named Craig May Soon Have Control over a Large Swath of Utah //newyorker comments

Geany – The Flyweight IDE //geany comments

No Code //vas3k comments

How I Make Yogurt //github comments

An exploratory statistical analysis of the 2014 World Cup Final //deepnote comments

How I made $3,300 on a short niche philosophy book //theotherlifenow comments

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