Hacker Newsletter - Hacker Newsletter #510

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Issue #510 // June 26, 2020 // View in your browser

Quick programming note - there won't be an issue next week as we celebrate 4th of July. Take care and enjoy this full issue! kale

#Favorites


Use Datadog's unified platform to configure SLOs using infrastructure metrics, traces, logs, synthetic tests, or network data to ensure you are delivering the best end user experience
//datadog sponsored

I Just Hit $100k/year On GitHub Sponsors
//calebporzio comments

Written communication is remote work super power
//snir comments

I Am Deleting the Blog
//slatestarcodex comments

Google Blew a Ten-Year Lead
//secondbreakfast comments

Video Games Are the Future of Education
//nabeelqu comments

A little bit of plain JavaScript can do a lot
//jvns comments

A/B Street: A simulation game to fix Seattle's traffic
//abstreet comments

Ego Graphs
//adsp comments

Syncthing is everything I used to love about computers
//tonsky comments

Do the Real Thing
//scotthyoung comments

The largest city in each 10x10 degree latitude/longitude box
//plover comments

What Comes After Zoom?
//ben-evans comments

#Ask HN


Thoughts on new GitHub layout?

What did you make during lockdown?

#Show HN


RSS Box – RSS for websites that do not support RSS //herokuapp comments

Amazon Honeycode – build web and mobile apps without writing code //amazon comments

Dungeon Scrawl: Old school maps in minutes //dungeonscrawl comments

Hypothes.is: An Open Annotations Platform //hypothes comments

Tasks.org – Open-source ToDo app for Android with CalDAV sync //tasks comments

Random Roads //repl comments

Learn Regular Expressions with simple, interactive exercises //regexone comments

Text-Only Websites //sjmulder comments

#Code


Teach Yourself Computer Science //teachyourselfcs comments

Learning operating system development using Linux kernel and Raspberry Pi //github comments

Software reuse is more like an organ transplant than snapping Lego blocks //johndcook comments

Announcing Perl 7 //perl comments

Practical Python Programming by David Beazley Released Under CC Licence //github comments

IHP, a batteries-included web framework built on Haskell and Nix //digitallyinduced comments

What happens when you update your DNS //jvns comments

#Design


Goldman Sans //gs comments

Exploration of Generative Art //generativeartistry comments

Procedural Lake Village //anastasiaopara comments

How normie minimalism and farmhouse chic took over contemporary design //hyperallergic comments

#Learn


Discovering Dennis Ritchie’s Lost Dissertation //computerhistory comments

Ghoti //wikipedia comments

The Magnetic Amplifier – A Lost Technology of the 1950s //nutsvolts comments

Micromort //wikipedia comments

Autopen //wikipedia comments

#Books


Deep JavaScript: Theory and Techniques //exploringjs comments

Street-Fighting Mathematics //mit comments

The Art of Prolog //mit comments

The History That James Baldwin Wanted America to See //newyorker comments

BBC: Why you should re-read “Paradise Lost” //bbc comments

Tolkien’s Mythic Plan for England //unherd comments

All of Statistics Free eBook //springer comments

#Watching


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

Slo Mo Guys created a great video of the Apple Watch water-ejection system //9to5mac comments

Euthanizing of a Dangerous Hive //youtube comments

#Startup News


We’ve decided to rename Riot //riot comments

Why did Facebook acquire Mapillary? //medium comments

Apple Acquires Fleetsmith //fleetsmith comments

#Fun


Elevator.js – A “back to top” button that behaves like a real elevator //tholman comments

Bye //bye comments

London tube map made from a working circuit board //ianvisits comments

Deus Ex at 20: The oral history of a pivotal PC game //rockpapershotgun comments

#Cutting Room Floor


You download the app and it doesn’t work //youdownloadtheappanditdoesntwork comments

When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to realtor.com //facebook comments

Andrew Yang's Data Dividend Project is pushing Big Tech to pay users for data //theverge comments

Cleaning My MacBook After 16800 Hours of Use //quanticdev comments

Facebook’s dominance is built on anti-competitive behavior //yale comments

What vertical farming and ag startups don't understand about agriculture //thinkingagriculture comments

macOS Big Sur Preview //apple comments

“This resentment runs deep and is stunningly widespread” //daringfireball comments

The Art of the Possible //hypercritical comments

Create No-JavaScript friendly sites //garron comments

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