Hacker Newsletter - Hacker Newsletter #532

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Issue #532 // December 04, 2020 // View in your browser

#Favorites


Reduce MTTR using a single, integrated platform for monitoring your infrastructure, traces, and logs. Give Datadog a try today
//datadog sponsored

AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in biology
//deepmind comments

Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack
//salesforce comments

I Made a Self-Quoting Tweet
//oisinmoran comments

NandGame – Build a Computer from Scratch
//nandgame comments

Chess tactics explained
//chesstactics comments

The Birth of Unix with Brian Kernighan
//corecursive comments

I created an alternative to the YouTube algorithm to stop me wasting time
//towardsdatascience comments

A chain cuts through a capsized cargo ship filled with cars
//jalopnik comments

Advent of Code 2020
//adventofcode comments

Wyze $20 Smart Watch
//wyze comments

QuickPYTHON
//github comments

Pandemic Stories from Around the World
//kottke

#Ask HN


Top Coursera Courses?

What are some of your favorite journals or magazines?

How do you work through large ideas?

#Show HN


I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007 //spacehey comments

Stripe Treasury //stripe comments

Rga: Ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, zips, and more //github comments

Alternative to Google Alerts that listens to social media //pmalerts comments

Raspberry Pi Webcam //github comments

Create Slides with Plain Text //presenta comments

#Code


PostgREST: REST API for any Postgres database //github comments

PHP 8 //php comments

An ex-Googler’s guide to dev tools //sourcegraph comments

Tips for Performant TypeScript //github comments

1.5 is the midpoint between 0 and infinity in Ruby //peterzhu comments

Lisp Koans //github comments

#Data


Jane Street Market Prediction ($100k Kaggle competition) //kaggle comments

Babelfish: SQL Server-to-Postgres Translation Layer //amazon comments

Apple Create ML: Creating an Image Classifier Model //apple comments

Console Spreadsheets //cmpxchg8b comments

#Learn


UVB-76 //wikipedia comments

Holodomor //wikipedia comments

Interval Tree Clocks //ferd comments

Siteswap //wikipedia comments

#Books


H. G. Wells reviews "Metropolis" //tsudao comments

Red Star //wikipedia comments

I read 100 books in the last 2 years – here are 10 thoughts on reading //durmonski comments

#Watching


Drone Footage of Arecibo Observatory Collapse //nsf comments

Edward Snowden on the Dangers of Silicon Valley Censorship //youtube comments

video game lets you do nothing in particular in a suburban Russian tower block //calvertjournal comments

Painting a Selfie Girl, with Maths //youtube comments

#Working


Ask HN: Who is hiring? //ycombinator

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

Amazon reportedly has Pinkerton agents surveil workers who try to form unions //npr comments

Five Second Feedback //critter comments

How the CCP Does Job Promotions //substack comments

#Startup News


U.S. states plan to sue Facebook next week: sources //reuters comments

Materialize Raises a $32M Series B //materialize comments

Front: The $1.3B Startup Slackifying Email //sacra comments

Wish S-1 //sec comments

#Fun


Artist releases album called “Ok Google Play Music” on Spotify //spotify comments

How to Run a Ponzi Scheme for Tech People //callmenish comments

I made a Mahjong browser game //jongmah comments

Flappy Bird in 228 bytes //github comments

Infinite Bad Guy //withyoutube comments

Tiny mobile-friendly interactive fiction game //github comments

#Cutting Room Floor


How to buy gifts that people actually want //willpatrick comments

Writing well //julian comments

SQLite as a Document Database //dgl comments

Secret Trig Functions Your Math Teachers Never Taught You //scientificamerican comments

Aurora 7 Prototype – 7 Screen Laptop //expanscape comments

I Hired a Freelance Editor for My Blog //mtlynch comments

DIY Smart Doorbell with a Raspberry Pi //technicallywizardry comments

The Truth About Starting a Startup //posthaven comments

Misfit Tractors a Money Saver for Arkansas Farmer //agweb comments

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