Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful. //John Maeda

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#Favorites

Part spreadsheet, part database, and entirely flexible, teams use Airtable to organize their work, their way
//airtable sponsored

The Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company
//costplusdrugs comments→

Software engineering topics I changed my mind on
//chriskiehl comments→

The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML
//shkspr comments→

Brad Cox has died
//legacy comments→

Heavy social media use associated with lower mental health in adolescents
//bbc comments→

My 2 Year Journey to $10K MRR
//bannerbear comments→

Halt and Catch Fire Syllabus
//ashleyblewer comments→

I bought 200 Raspberry Pi Model B’s and I’m going to fix them
//jmdawson comments→

Remembering Windows 3.1 themes and user empowerment
//hisham comments→

Firecracker: Start a VM in less than a second
//jvns comments→

The high price of mistrust
//fs comments→

Losing faith in UX
//creativegood comments→

How we made Typerighter, the Guardian’s style guide checker
//theguardian comments→

How to teach technical concepts with cartoons
//jvns comments→

#Featured: GameStop

GameStop Is Rage Against the Financial Machine //bloomberg comments→

Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberry, Nokia, and GameStop //twitter comments→

Robinhood now has a 1-Star rating on the Google Play Store //google comments→

Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server, subreddit goes private //theverge comments→

We Are Preparing a Class Action Lawsuit Against Robinhood //reddit comments→

Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours //google comments→

Robinhood is said to draw on bank credit lines amid tumult //bloomberg comments→

Facebook shuts popular stock trading group amid GameStop frenzy //reuters comments→

#Ask HN

Is frugality underrated in startups?

Why aren't micropayments a thing?

#Show HN

Deskreen – Turn any device with a web browser to a second screen //github comments→

Iconduck – 100k open source icons //iconduck comments→

Nq – A simple Unix job queue system //github comments→

I made an alarm clock //stavros comments→

Low-power Kindle-based dashboard //github comments→

ffscreencast – a screencast CLI-tool with video overlay and multimonitor support //github comments→

#Code

Rust for Windows //github comments→

Big O Notation – Explained as easily as possible //thatcomputerscientist comments→

Developers spend most of their time figuring the system out //feenk comments→

Rust is a hard way to make a web API //macwright comments→

Flow-Based Programming //github comments→

Are We Really Engineers? //hillelwayne comments→

#Data

We don't need data scientists, we need data engineers //mihaileric comments→

Machine Learning: The Great Stagnation //substack comments→

Why isn't differential dataflow more popular? //scattered-thoughts comments→

Data Visualization and the Modern Imagination //stanford comments→

But how, exactly, do databases use mmap? //brunocalza comments→

#Learn

How long does a bottle of wine last after it is opened? //vinography comments→

Otokichi //wikipedia comments→

Dinosaur unearthed in Argentina could be largest land animal ever //smithsonianmag comments→

#Books

Full text search Project Gutenberg (60m paragraphs) //gutensearch comments→

The Hundred-Page Machine Learning Book //themlbook comments→

#Watching

Time-lapse of a single cell transforming into a salamander //nationalgeographic comments→

Atomic resolution video of salt crystals forming in real time //u-tokyo comments→

SpaceX Starlink Mission #17 //youtube comments→

#Working

Why Working from Home Will Stick [pdf] //stanford comments→

Management by metrics leads us astray //jakobgreenfeld comments→

Shift to Remote Work Based on 7k HN Who Is Hiring Posts //shinkim comments→

#Startup News

Coinbase announces proposed direct listing //coinbase comments→

Loon’s final flight //x comments→

Twitter acquires Revue //twitter comments→

Food delivery startup Wolt raises $530M //sifted comments→

#Fun

Sokyokuban, a puzzle game in a non-Euclidian world //sokyokuban comments→

Akiyoshi's Illusion Pages //ritsumei comments→

Game Design Perspective: Stardew Valley //pixelatedplaygrounds comments→

Crossword.el – download and play crossword puzzles in Emacs //github comments→

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