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Grab more coffee, this issue is probably too long. Also, we're looking for a designer for some new projects - know anyone? Assuming some of you might be looking for freelancers as well, so we'll publish a list in a future issue - so whatever freelancing you do, add yourself! –kale

#Favorites

This page is a truly naked, brutalist HTML quine
//github comments→

How Discord Won
//ianvanagas comments→

Hands-Free Coding: How I develop software using dictation and eye-tracking
//joshwcomeau comments→

“I reverse engineered mcdonald's internal API”
//twitter comments→

Early Work
//paulgraham comments→

Reading too much political news is bad for your well-being
//theatlantic comments→

Notes on My Colon Cancer
//charlieharrington comments→

Monospace: A JavaScript demo in 1021 bytes, winner of the demo competition
//p01 comments→

Analyzing the Design of Unusual Japanese Butter Tableware
//core77 comments→

United States vs. Google
//stratechery comments→

40 Milliseconds of latency that just would not go away
//rachelbythebay comments→

How to answer questions in a helpful way
//jvns comments→

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#Ask HN

How do you deal with chronic illness?

What did you purchase that measurably improved your quality of life?

What is your passive income 2020?

#Show HN

Facebook Container for Firefox //mozilla comments→

1Password for Linux beta //1password comments→

Krita 4.4.0 //krita comments→

StartPlaying.Games – Tabletop RPGs run by pro game masters //startplaying comments→

HomePod Mini //apple comments→

Pitch: Collaborative presentation software for teams //pitch comments→

Rdrview – Firefox Reader View as a Linux command line tool //github comments→

Mapipedia – Map your geotagged photos //mapipedia comments→

Slab – Knowledge base and wiki for teams //slab comments→

#Code

Just Write the Parser //github comments→

Python For Feature Film //gfx comments→

Webpack 5 //js comments→

Sentimental Versioning //sentimentalversioning comments→

Talking, Typing, Thinking: Software Is Not a Desk Job //fone comments→

Bubbletea: A fun, functional and stateful Go framework to build terminal apps //github comments→

Glow: Markdown reader for the terminal with a TUI and encrypted cloud stash //github comments→

#Data

The Excel warriors saving the world from spreadsheet disaster //wired comments→

Visidata 2.0 //visidata comments→

Applying Textbook Data Structures for Real Life Wins //heap comments→

Differential Dataflow //github comments→

A gentle introduction to the Wikidata Query Service //wikidata comments→

Data Organization in Spreadsheets //tandfonline comments→

#Design

Layoutit Grid – CSS Grids layouts made easy //layoutit comments→

Design Stripe or Hacker News-like favicons in seconds //formito comments→

NYC’s new digital subway map //curbed comments→

#Learn

How does a gas pump know to shut itself off? //straightdope comments→

Cat Gap //wikipedia comments→

/* You Are Not Expected to Understand This */ //cadence comments→

Diolkos //wikipedia comments→

Baumol Effect //wikipedia comments→

Asterisk //github comments→

#Books

I wrote a book on writing good developer resumes //thetechresume comments→

Lisp from Nothing //t3x comments→

To write better, develop a habit of writing //bookpub comments→

Climbing the cosmic distance ladder: Terence Tao book announcement //terrytao comments→

Book of Lost Books Discovered in Danish Archive //smithsonianmag comments→

#Watching

Animation of how bridges were built in Central Europe in the Middle Ages //youtube comments→

An oil tanker with 60M gallons of oil aboard is currently sinking //youtube comments→

An hour and a half of backseat footage inside self-driving Waymo //youtube comments→

#Working

Advice to my young self: forget side projects and focus on your job //darcemont comments→

America's True Unemployment Rate //axios comments→

My platonic ideal for how engineering hiring should work //alinelerner comments→

Forklift truck drivers who never leave their desks //bbc comments→

#Startup News

Retool Raises $50M from Sequoia //retool comments→

Stripe acquires Nigeria’s Paystack for $200M+ //techcrunch comments→

California appeals court rules Uber, Lyft must reclassify drivers as employees //reuters comments→

#Fun

Hum to Search Song //blog comments→

Welcome to the Old Internet Again //theoldnet comments→

EULA Found on a Package of Fruit //twitter comments→

Top games from the JS13K 2020 competition //github comments→

Building a computer in Conway's game of life //nicolasloizeau comments→

#Cutting Room Floor

2.1M of the oldest Usenet posts are now online for anyone to read //vice comments→

Tom Lehrer releases song lyrics to public domain //tomlehrersongs comments→

Chaos Ink //scottdarby comments→

My Eight-Year Quest to Digitize 45 Videotapes //mtlynch comments→

IKEA to buy back used furniture in recycling push //bbc comments→

We Institutionalized Incompetence //charleshughsmith comments→

Chess’s Cheating Crisis //theguardian comments→

A case for using punctuation in Slack //mitchjlee comments→

The Story Behind Markdown //capiche comments→

Army Dissects Black Hawk Helicopter, Scans Parts for 3D Printing //breakingdefense comments→

The Graphing Calculator Story //pacifict comments→

Img2css – Convert any image to pure CSS //github comments→

Two-sided messages: they sound stupid. And they work //substack comments→

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