Hacker Newsletter - Hacker Newsletter #527

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Issue #527 // October 30, 2020 // View in your browser

#Favorites


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//datadog sponsored

RIAA’s YouTube-dl takedown ticks off developers and GitHub’s CEO
//torrentfreak comments

My Resignation from the Intercept
//substack comments

Type in the exact number of machines to proceed
//rachelbythebay comments

Microsoft Tilecode
//github comments

Ruby on Rails in a Week
//simplethread comments

The Laptev Sea hasn't frozen
//economist comments

Being prolific leads to higher quality work
//chrismytton comments

SparkFun À La Carte
//sparkfun comments

Introduction to the Zettelkasten Method
//zettelkasten comments

Choosing the Management Track
//danielna comments

#Ask HN


Good C++ code bases to read?

Why isn’t finance a part of the core curriculum at schools?

How to Become a Consultant?

#Show HN


What would mechanical programming look like? //mockmechanics comments

Dendron – A Hierarchical Tool for Thought //dendron comments

Which DNS servers are you pointing to? //nameserve comments

Tara – A modern Jira alternative, now with Gitlab sync //tara comments

Personal CRM: Note taking, the way it should be //nat comments

Polar 2.0 – Integrated reading environment for EPUBs, PDFs, & web pages //getpolarized comments

#Code


Next.js 10 //nextjs comments

Vanilla-todo: A case study on viable techniques for vanilla web development //github comments

Node.js 15.0 //medium comments

Web Scraping with JavaScript //qoob comments

A Youtube video downloader written in Go //github comments

Ninja: A simple way to do builds //jvns comments

#Data


SQLite now allows multiple recursive SELECT statements in a single recursive CTE //fossil-scm comments

What ORMs Have Taught Me: Just Learn SQL //wozniak comments

Books in .txt format for AI training purposes //twitter comments

TimescaleDB 2.0 released, now distributed multi-node //timescale comments

Csql – Python lib for composeable SQL queries //github comments

#Design


Google's new logos are bad //techcrunch comments

Sketch: Proud to Build a Truly Native Mac App //sketch comments

#Learn


The physiological effects of slow breathing in the healthy human //ersjournals comments

Taikyoku Shogi //wikipedia comments

Lloyd's Coffee House //wikipedia comments

How to Read a Surface Weather Map //outsideonline comments

1593 Transported Soldier Legend //wikipedia comments

Intonarumori //wikipedia comments

#Books


Linear Algebra by Jim Hefferon //hefferon comments

The Chaos Engineering Book //verica comments

My book, The Common Lisp Condition System //amazon comments

Planet eBook – Classic literature publications formatted for popular devices //planetebook comments

The Ghidra Book //nostarch comments

#Watching


Making a robot to carve photos into pumpkins //youtube comments

Caterpillar creates 2,700 square metre Pac-Man gameboard //equipmentjournal comments

Shopify – Overview of Internal Project Tool //vimeo comments

#Working


How to waste your career, one comfortable year at a time //substack comments

Ask HN: Jack-of-all-trades of HN, how do you approach job search? //ycombinator

Evolving Reddit’s Workforce //redditblog comments

Permanently remote workers seen doubling in 2021 due to pandemic productivity //reuters comments

Freelancer? Add yourself to our Freelancer Directory

#Fun


Bongo Cat //bongo comments

Origami Simulator //origamisimulator comments

You had a productive day, until now //netlify comments

Rocketcrab: Party Games for Phones //rocketcrab comments

Build your own isometric city //victorribeiro comments

#Cutting Room Floor


A small but complete JavaScript engine //bellard comments

ARM chips have an instruction with JavaScript in the name //stackoverflow comments

The Right to Read //gnu comments

Four features that justify a new Unix shell //oilshell comments

Business Operations – Tech Stack //gitlab comments

Coinbase Card //coinbase comments

Data engineering learning path with recommended resources //awesomedataengineering comments

$30 Wind Turbine //opensourcelowtech comments

Vassal, the open-source boardgame engine //vassalengine comments

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Hacker Newsletter #526

Friday, October 23, 2020

You can't use up creativity. The more you use the more you have. //Maya Angelou hackernewsletter Issue #526 // October 23, 2020 // View in your browser Grab more coffee, this issue is probably too

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Monday, October 19, 2020

There are years that ask questions and years that answer. //Zora Neale Hurston hackernewsletter Issue #525 // October 16, 2020 // View in your browser Meta question for you today - when and where do

Hacker Newsletter #523

Friday, October 2, 2020

The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long. //Ludwig Wittgenstein hackernewsletter Issue #523 // October 02, 2020 // View in your browser #

Hacker Newsletter #522

Friday, September 25, 2020

I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me. //Ralph Waldo Emerson hackernewsletter Issue #522 // September 25, 2020 // View in your

Hacker Newsletter #521

Friday, September 18, 2020

So often people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard. //Caterina Fake hackernewsletter Issue #521 // September 18, 2020 // View

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