Hacker Newsletter - Hacker Newsletter #526

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Issue #526 // October 23, 2020 // View in your browser

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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