Hacker Newsletter - Hacker Newsletter #539

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Issue #539 // January 29, 2021 // View in your browser

#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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