Hacker Newsletter - Hacker Newsletter #536

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Issue #536 // January 08, 2021 // View in your browser

Big thanks to Datadog for supporting this newsletter for another year. Speaking of newsletters, my friend Cass and I are launching a new one next week around growing older and wiser. It will be mix of current reads and classics - sign-up if that sounds useful. Stay safe! kale

#Favorites


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//datadog sponsored

Ditherpunk: The article I wish I had about monochrome image dithering
//surma comments

Uber discovered they’d been defrauded out of 2/3 of their ad spend
//twitter comments

DALL·E: Creating Images from Text
//openai comments

What I’ve Learned in 45 Years in the Software Industry
//bti360 comments

No meetings, no deadlines, no full-time employees
//sahillavingia comments

I logged my activities at 15-minute intervals for the whole year
//samplesize comments

Horrifying PDF Experiments
//github comments

The Mayron Cole Piano Method is now free
//freepianomethod comments

New Defaults
//stratechery comments

What Shape Are You?
//tynan comments

One Year of Excalidraw
//excalidraw comments

#Ask HN


Why does Pinterest dominate Google text search results?

What does mastery look like in Software Engineering?

Predictions for 2021?

#Show HN


I made an alternative platform for professional profiles //read comments

Upptime – GitHub-powered uptime monitor and status page //js comments

Descript – A collaborative audio/video editor that works like a doc //descript comments

OpenScan – open-source document scanner app //github comments

Life Dashboard: Heads-up display for everyday life //github comments

TiddlyWiki 5.1.23 //tiddlywiki comments

#Code


A half-hour to learn Rust //fasterthanli comments

Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows //hanselman comments

On Repl-Driven Programming //github comments

NumPy Illustrated: The Visual Guide to NumPy //medium comments

Learn Go in five minutes //github comments

Building My Own Chess Engine //healeycodes comments

#Design


Truck Art in Pakistan //mymodernmet comments

Kit FUI – User interfaces found in films //saji8k comments

#Learn


Talking out loud to yourself is a technology for thinking //psyche comments

Clams filter and check whether the water is polluted or clean //polishnews comments

Mealworms can compost styrofoam //livingearthsystems comments

Eagle Cash //wikipedia comments

Bulverism //wikipedia comments

#Books


Rust Design Patterns as a Book //github comments

George Orwell is out of copyright. What happens now? //theguardian comments

System Design Interview book review //pragmaticengineer comments

Gene Wolfe Turned Science Fiction into High Art //theringer comments

#Watching


Nuclear lighthouses built by the Soviets in the Arctic //bbc comments

MIT 6.172: Performance Engineering of Software Systems //mit comments

The World's current and next Innovations depend on a single country, Taiwan //erickhun comments

Animal Crossing’s fake language sounds different in Japanese //polygon comments

Interview with Morris Chang, founder of TSMC //youtube comments

#Working


A group of Google workers have announced plans to unionize //theverge comments

Facebook senior software engineer interview //medium comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? //ycombinator

Ask HN: Who's looking for a co-founder? //ycombinator

Quitting a New Job //yolken comments

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

Head of Remote Work //theorg comments

#Startup News


Simple Bank Is Closing //oregonlive comments

Amazon buys 11 Boeing 767s to expand its cargo fleet //cbc comments

Epic acquires RAD Game Tools //epicgames comments

Roblox raises $520M at $29.5B valuation //venturebeat comments

#Fun


Traffic Simulator //traffic-simulation comments

“Find Satoshi” PerplexCity puzzle solved //findsatoshi comments

Zoomquilt 2 //zoomquilt2 comments

A comparison of city building games //twitter comments

Castlevania III Password Algorithm //meatfighter comments

Listen to Wikipedia //hatnote comments

Littlest Skyscraper //wikipedia comments

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