Hacker Newsletter - Hacker Newsletter #537

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Issue #537 // January 15, 2021 // View in your browser

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#Favorites


GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked
//neocities comments

Stealing Your Private YouTube Videos, One Frame at a Time
//xdavidhu comments

If it will matter after today, don't talk about it in a chat room
//critter comments

Unanswered user makes question their MS thesis and answers self 2 years later
//stackoverflow comments

I received my first donation on my open-source side project
//gourav comments

Working Off-Grid Efficiently
//100r comments

The Paradox of Abundance
//perell comments

Decoding the Peloton
//ihaque comments

Things I Didn't Learn in 2020
//substack comments

Metaballs and Marching Squares
//jamie-wong comments

#Ask HN


Show me your half baked project

What are you working on?

#Show HN


BeagleV – An affordable RISC-V computer designed to run Linux //seeed comments

Cabal: A peer-to-peer, off-grid, community-first, hackable chat platform //cabal comments

Foam: A personal knowledge management and sharing system for VSCode //github comments

I built the antithesis of Zoom. Add GIFs, stickers, BGs. Talk like IRL //reslash comments

TimeTagger: Open-Source Time Tracker //timetagger comments

Handel – A procedural programming language for writing songs in browser //github comments

#Code


I built a 4kb alternative to React, Vue, etc for building web UIs. //synergyjs comments

Artichoke is a Ruby made with Rust that compiles to WebAssembly //github comments

Build Your Own Text Editor //viewsourcecode comments

A Proposal for Adding Generics to Go //golang comments

A rabbit hole full of Lisp //murilopereira comments

#Data


An Unlikely Database Migration //tailscale comments

The Pile: An 800GB Dataset of Diverse Text for Language Modeling //eleuther comments

Idyll – toolkit for creating data-driven stories and explorable explanations //idyll-lang comments

Archiving the Capitol Hill Riots //reddit comments

World's busiest international and domestic air routes //oag comments

#Design


Noise Planets //github comments

Designing Modern Retro Computer Terminals //uri comments

#Learn


Aquafaba //aquafaba comments

Chemistry of Cast-Iron Seasoning //sherylcanter comments

The Earth has been spinning faster lately //phys comments

Greenland Sharks //howtosavetheworld comments

Snakes Found a New Way to Slither //nytimes comments

#Books


Algorithms for Decision Making //algorithmsbook comments

DevBooks – Help Developers find indy books //thesmartcoder comments

C.S. Lewis on the Reading of Old Books //reasonabletheology comments

The Now Habit //2uo comments

What Writers and Editors Do //theparisreview comments

#Watching


Computer Science Curriculum in 1000 YouTube Videos //laconicml comments

Advice from a 104-year-old PhD student //bbc comments

How America Bankrupted its Cities //youtube comments

#Working


Workaholism leads to health problems, work addiction risk depends on occupation //hse comments

How to Stop Endless Discussions //candost comments

A megacorp is not your dream job //drewdevault comments

#Startup News


Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler //nytimes comments

Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce //cnbc comments

Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics for nearly $1B //ieee comments

Fitbit is now officially part of Google //fitbit comments

#Fun


Dungeon Magazine //archive comments

2020 Game //2020game comments

Full Throttle – fan film script by Duncan Jones [pdf] //dropbox comments

Mindustry: A open-source sandbox tower defense game //github comments

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