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Issue #516 // August 14, 2020 // View in your browser

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#Favorites


Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on commercial products
//mozilla comments

Germany plans to dim lights at night to save insects
//msn comments

Unbricking a $2k bike with a $10 Raspberry Pi
//ptx2 comments

Single Page Applications using Rust
//sheshbabu comments

Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store
//theverge comments

Apple takes legal action against small company with pear logo
//iphoneincanada comments

Dorking: the use of search engines to find very specific data
//alec comments

Oatly: The New Coke?
//substack comments

How long does a freezer stay frozen when the power goes out?
//woodgears comments

Satellite images of the Beirut explosion site – before and after
//knightlab comments

An attempt to make a font look more handwritten
//jvns comments

A website to make 3D geometry shapes out of paper
//github comments

#Ask HN


What feature did you find after years of using macOS?

What are some available force multipliers that most people don't know?

Films that made you see the world differently?

#Show HN


Hndex.org – a full-text search engine of articles submitted to HN //hndex comments

Firefox Voice //mozilla comments

I'm 15 and made a bedtime calculator with React JavaScript //sleepsources comments

Infinity: open-source search engine //infinitysearch comments

Kinopio.club – visual thinking, brainstorming tool //kinopio comments

Kowl – An Open Source WebUI for Apache Kafka with a good UI and UX //github comments

#Code


Crush: A command line shell that is also a powerful modern programming language //github comments

Typing Is Hard //typing-is-hard comments

Pysa: An open source tool to detect and prevent security issues in Python code //fb comments

Simple SQL in Python //github comments

Tripping over the potholes in too many libraries //rachelbythebay comments

#Design


Microsoft Fast Design //fast comments

UX design: Tools, methods and frameworks for generalists //substack comments

Shipshape RenderMan Art Challenge //yiningkarlli comments

#Learn


Young children would rather explore than get rewards //osu comments

Planet Ceres is an 'ocean world' with sea water beneath surface, mission finds //theguardian comments

Some Fundamental Theorems in Mathematics (2019) [pdf] //harvard comments

C.I.A. Lacing //fieggen comments

#Books


Classic books for tech leads or those aspiring to be //sourcelevel comments

A Poetic, Mind-Bending Tour of the Fungal World //scientificamerican comments

Judging a Book by Its Cover: Protecting words, now and then //laphamsquarterly comments

#Watching


Epic Games releases "Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite" ad //youtube comments

Chrysler's Radical Space Shuttle Design Was 50 Years Ahead of Its Time //thedrive comments

Christopher Alexander: A Primer //youtube comments

#Working


Mozilla Lifeboat //mozillalifeboat comments

Atlassian tells employees they can work from home forever //cnbc comments

Why is this idiot running my engineering org? //medium comments

People work longer and different hours under lockdown //workplaceinsight comments

A College Degree Is No Guarantee of a Good Life //theatlantic comments

#Startup News


Uber and Lyft ordered by California judge to classify drivers as employees //theverge comments

Blizzard workers share salaries in revolt over wage disparities //bloomberg comments

Stripe Hires AWS' Mike Clayville as Chief Revenue Officer //stripe comments

New Relic changes business model, open-sources agents and instrumentation //thenewstack comments

#Fun


A crash course on hacking satellites //nyan-sat comments

I made an app that lets you split a file into horcruxes //github comments

Photos from Bell Labs Datacenter in 1960s //rarehistoricalphotos comments

Men rescued from Pacific island after writing SOS in sand //apnews comments

#Cutting Room Floor


Thank You MDN //ilovemdn comments

Belarus has shut down the internet amid a controversial election //wired comments

Microsoft President: We Need a Hippocratic Oath for Software Engineers //capitalandgrowth comments

Fire your bad customers //preetamnath comments

The German front in rare color photos, 1914-1918 //rarehistoricalphotos comments

Stories and lessons from working with Jeff Bezos on the original Kindle //twitter comments

Derek Sivers and the Art of Enough //brendancahill comments

Wiki Bankruptcy //critter comments

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