Hacker Newsletter - Hacker Newsletter #543

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Issue #543 // February 26, 2021 // View in your browser

Lots of great reads this week, so grab a cup of coffee and cancel a meeting or two. Enjoy! kale

#Favorites


Correlate all your metrics, traces and logs using Datadog's single UI with easy to use dashboards
//datadog sponsored

The Framework Laptop
//frame comments

Draw an iceberg and see how it would float in water
//joshdata comments

Total Cookie Protection
//mozilla comments

My experience as a Gazan girl getting into Silicon Valley companies
//medium comments

Daft Punk Break Up
//pitchfork comments

“User Engagement” Is Code for “Addiction”
//medium comments

Visualization of 40M Cell Towers
//alpercinar comments

Canadians derailed a train and drove it to City Hall for power after a ice storm
//thedrive comments

We live in an age of distractions, dealing with constant mental stimulus
//lostbookofsales comments

10 Years of Open-Source Visualization: Did I learn anything from D3.js?
//observablehq comments

Learn Functional Programming Visually
//david-peter comments

My Life in E-Ink
//rgoswami comments

A Data Pipeline Is a Materialized View
//nchammas comments

#Ask HN


Why are e-ink note-taking devices so expensive compared to iPads?

What entry level telescope should I choose?

What websites do you visit every day?

#Show HN


Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob //github comments

Free for Developers //free-for comments

Pay Stack Overflow users $1/min for live programming help //calladev comments

Flameshot – Superb Screenshot Tool //github comments

Split Keyboards Gallery //github comments

Adversarial.io – Fighting mass image recognition //adversarial comments

Automatio – Visual Automated Extraction Tool //automatio comments

#Code


Tauri: An Electron alternative written in Rust //tauri comments

Git is my buddy: Effective Git as a solo developer //mikkel comments

Zsh Tricks to Blow Your Mind //twilio comments

Fluxus – A 3D game engine for live-coding worlds into existence //pawfal comments

Turbo Pascal Compiler in JavaScript //github comments

The Database Inside Your Codebase //feifan comments

#Design


Citibank just got a $500 million lesson in the importance of UI design //arstechnica comments

Stop Using Icon Fonts //irigoyen comments

#Learn


We haven’t seen a quarter of known bee species since the 1990s //nationalgeographic comments

Declassified spacecrafts and orbital weapons of the USSR //xissufotoday comments

The unusual ways Western parents raise children //bbc comments

Why Birds Don’t Get Cold Feet //medium comments

Project Xanadu //wikipedia comments

Plant Blindness //wikipedia comments

Canon Cat //wikipedia comments

#Books


I wrote a book about using data science to solve “everyday” problems //github comments

An interactive list of nonfiction books reviewed by academics //tachy comments

The name’s Ford, Alan Ford: how an Italian comic book spy became a Yugoslav hero //calvertjournal comments

#Watching


Perseverance Mission Control Live Feed //youtube comments

Perseverance rover’s descent and touchdown on Mars //youtube comments

YouTubers have to declare ads. Why doesn't anyone else? //youtube comments

BBC Micro at 40: How it inspired a generation of coders //bbc comments

#Working


The Need to Remove Bad Management //pedestrianobservations comments

Soft Skills in Engineering Leadership //codingsans comments

Unpacking Interview Questions //jacobian comments

#Startup News


DigitalOcean S-1 //sec comments

Coinbase S-1 //sec comments

LinkedIn is building a gig marketplace //aimgroup comments

#Fun


Mars becomes the 2nd planet that has more computers running Linux than Windows //twitter comments

I Miss My Bar //imissmybar comments

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy – Play Online //bbc comments

ZZT: Epic’s First Game //howtogeek comments

Diplomacy: The Board Game of the Alpha Nerds //grantland comments

I Am Bezos //iambezos comments

The Parachute Message //github comments

Older messages

Hacker Newsletter #542

Friday, February 19, 2021

I disagree strongly with whatever work this quote is attached to. //Randall Munroe hackernewsletter Issue #542 // February 19, 2021 // View in your browser #Favorites Airtable - Orchestrate powerful

Hacker Newsletter #541

Saturday, February 13, 2021

A ship in the harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. //John A. Shedd hackernewsletter Issue #541 // February 12, 2021 // View in your browser #Favorites Datadog provides a one

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Friday, February 5, 2021

Never let your schooling interfere with your education. //Mark Twain hackernewsletter Issue #540 // February 05, 2021 // View in your browser #Favorites Glitch: From idea to code in seconds, build and

Hacker Newsletter #539

Friday, January 29, 2021

Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful. //John Maeda hackernewsletter Issue #539 // January 29, 2021 // View in your browser #Favorites Part spreadsheet, part database,

Hacker Newsletter #537

Friday, January 15, 2021

At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can. //Frida Kahlo hackernewsletter Issue #537 // January 15, 2021 // View in your browser #Sponsor bf1c7a06-c675-44d2-8d1e-0ee3f252a003.

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