Hacker Newsletter - Hacker Newsletter #523

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Issue #523 // October 02, 2020 // View in your browser

#Favorites


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//datadog sponsored

Social Cooling
//socialcooling comments

How to Get Promoted
//substack comments

Six Figures in 6 days
//tr comments

Compact nuclear fusion reactor is 'very likely to work,' studies suggest
//nytimes comments

How to say no, for the people pleaser who always says yes
//npr comments

PG and Jessica
//samaltman comments

My wife recently passed away. I used my time off to build her a giant bookshelf
//imgur comments

A Short Story for Engineers
//txstate comments

The SaaS website content you need to close sales
//mikesonders comments

When Fonts Fall
//figma comments

How to take meeting notes
//substack comments

Bringing the Mona Lisa Effect to Life with Tensorflow.js
//tensorflow comments

#Ask HN


How to learn sales?

Teaching kids how to think?

What are good life skills for people to learn?

#Show HN


Universal Split Screen //github comments

OB–4 – Portable high fidelity loudspeaker //teenage comments

Wireflow – an open-source flowchart real-time collaboration tool //github comments

Scrimba – Interactive video for learning to code //ycombinator

DevUtils.app – Developer Utilities for macOS //devutils comments

Firetable – Spreadsheet-like UI for Firestore //firetable comments

Duf: Disk Usage/Free Utility //github comments

Actionsflow – IFTTT/Zapier free alternative based on GitHub Actions //github comments

#Code


Amnesia is now open source //frictionalgames comments

Vue.js 3 //github comments

Ruby 3.0 Preview 1 //ruby-lang comments

Swift System Is Now Open Source //swift comments

Kitty – A fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator //kovidgoyal comments

Things I Was Wrong About: Types //chriskrycho comments

#Data


CRDTs are the future //josephg comments

DuckDB – An embeddable SQL database like SQLite, but supports Postgres features //duckdb comments

A SQL database implemented purely in TypeScript type annotations //github comments

Database Version Control with Liquibase //turtle-techies comments

#Design


Studio Ghibli releases 400 free-to-use images //ghibli comments

Parametric lamp design using circle packings //stuffmatic comments

3270font: A Font for the Nostalgic //github comments

Jack Sharp works of amateur photographer circa 1950-1970 //jacksharp comments

Typography in 8 bits: System fonts //damieng comments

#Learn


Crows possess higher intelligence long thought a primarily human attribute //statnews comments

Acorn Woodpeckers Have Multi-Day Wars, and Birds Come from All Around to Watch //atlasobscura comments

Iron, How Did They Make It? Part II //acoup comments

Mouse found atop a 22,000-foot volcano, breaking world record //nationalgeographic comments

How to Drive on Sand Without Getting Stuck //offroaddiscovery comments

#Books


Writing a book: is it worth it? //kleppmann comments

Seeing Theory: A Visual Introduction to Probability and Statistics //brown comments

Ruby One-Liners Cookbook //github comments

Compiling to Assembly from Scratch: the book, released //keleshev comments

Words from Old Books //fromoldbooks comments

#Watching


YouTube Channels to Level Up Your Programming Skills //codegiant comments

Writing System Software //youtube comments

Calculus 1 in 12 Hours //youtube comments

#Working


Ask HN: Who is hiring? //ycombinator

We need young programmers; We need old programmers //ploeh comments

Ask HN: How to find “senior” jack of all trades jobs? //ycombinator

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? //ycombinator

Research: Average Age of a Successful Founder is 45 //hbr comments

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? //ycombinator

#Startup News


Gitter is joining Matrix //matrix comments

Epic’s decision to bypass Apple’s App Store policies was dishonest, says judge //theverge comments

Six indicted in multimillion dollar scheme to bribe Amazon staff //justice comments

Why is Snowflake so Valuable? //freshpaint comments

Uber Wasted $2.5B on Self-Driving Cars //theinformation comments

#Fun


foo@bar.com //bar comments

Conditions of ACME's Unconditional Guarantee //kleinbottle comments

Keyboard Simulator – virtual keyboard designer //keyboardsimulator comments

Pac-Man Maze Generation //github comments

The Art of PNG Glitch //github comments

#Cutting Room Floor


The Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Cognitive Capacity //uchicago comments

DigitalOcean's Hacktoberfest Is Hurting Open Source //domenic comments

Say goodbye to hold music //blog comments

The Era of Visual Studio Code //robenkleene comments

USB-C was supposed to simplify our lives, but instead it’s a total mess //medium comments

LEd: Open-Source 2D Level Editor //deepnight comments

The High Privacy Cost of a “Free” Website //themarkup comments

Cloudflare Radar //cloudflare comments

You're enlightened – now what? //substack comments

City of Amsterdam’s Algorithm Register //amsterdam comments

How poker and a spaceship imposter game make you better at life //substack comments

How we built a $1m ARR SaaS startup //canny comments

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