Hacker Newsletter - Hacker Newsletter #553

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Issue #553 // May 07, 2021 // View in your browser

Big thanks to LaunchDarkly for coming on as a sponsor. If you're a developer you should check them out. Speaking of, what side projects are you working on? kale

#Favorites


Testing in production? It's scary until it's not. Take control of software releases. Ship fast. Rest easy. And LaunchDarkly.
//launchdarkly sponsored

Internal Combustion Engine
//ciechanow comments

Bob Cassette Rewinder: Hacking Detergent DRM
//github comments

How Basecamp Blew Up
//platformer comments

Instagram ads Facebook won't show you
//signal comments

Crazy New Ideas
//paulgraham comments

The Unix Magic Poster
//jpmens comments

Why I Work on Ads
//jefftk comments

History of Techno
//beatportal comments

Tiny Wins
//joelcalifa comments

Simplifier
//neocities comments

Pts.js: a modular librairy for visualization and creative coding
//ptsjs comments

Pitching your early stage startup
//stripe comments

#Ask HN


Mobile phone addiction help

How do you generally build a product?

#Show HN


ClearURLs – automatically remove tracking elements from URLs //github comments

List of apps people pay for but have low rating //ideasfilter comments

Second-Chance Pool //ycombinator comments

Readme.so – Easiest Way to Create a Readme //readme comments

Google Dataset Search //google comments

Excalidraw+ //excalidraw comments

I put all of my comics online //jvns comments

#Code


Cinder: Instagram's performance-oriented fork of CPython //github comments

Building a Distributed Turn-Based Game System in Elixir //fly comments

How we use web components //github comments

Branchless Coding in Go //mattnakama comments

#Design


Bootstrap 5 Released //getbootstrap comments

Stack Overflow switches to system fonts //stackexchange comments

Making Generative Art with Rust //abor comments

The Psychology of Design //growth comments

#Learn


Where does a candle go when it burns? //nytimes comments

Nuclear reactions are smoldering again at Chernobyl //sciencemag comments

1700 Cascadia Earthquake //wikipedia comments

Utsuro-Bune //wikipedia comments

Adam's Apples //adamapples comments

#Books


I wrote the book Building Mobile Apps at Scale //mobileatscale comments

New book contends that Catch Me If You Can is mostly made up //whyy comments

Writing web-based interactive fiction with Ink //inklestudios comments

#Watching


Edward Snowden ousts a scammer during live stream //youtube comments

Starship SN15 flight test //spacex comments

Louis Rossmann: A Conversation with Steve Lehto on Right to Repair //youtube comments

A Lock Picking Game Changer //youtube comments

I’m now in charge of Audacity //youtube comments

#Working


Ask HN: Who is hiring? //ycombinator

New evidence that British workplaces are losing viewpoint diversity //ethicalsystems comments

A Hybrid Approach to Work //blog comments

Study shows class bias in hiring based on few seconds of speech //yale comments

Weary of Work //laphamsquarterly comments

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

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? //ycombinator

#Startup News


Peloton recalling all treadmills after reports of injuries, one death //cnbc comments

A centrifugal spin on a 500-year-old air compressor design //newatlas comments

Motorcycle airbag vest will stop working if you miss a payment //vice comments

#Fun


Hatetris – Tetris which always gives you the worst piece //qntm comments

Belgian farmer accidentally moves French border //bbc comments

CS Weapons – Counter-Strike weapon data comparison app //csweapons comments

#Cutting Room Floor


Piano teacher gets copyright claim for Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata //youtube comments

Opposition to net neutrality was faked, New York says //nytimes comments

Talk cancelled due to slides critical of Google and Facebook //twitter comments

Starting a Crypto Project //twitter comments

Beginner’s guide to mechanical keyboards //substack comments

Volta //volta comments

GitHub style split diffs in your terminal //github comments

We mailed one hundred letters to test the postal service //wgbh comments

DIY Boat Monitoring System //l-36 comments

Lumber mania is sweeping North America //vox comments

Coded Illustrations //medium comments

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I'd rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right. //Elon Musk hackernewsletter Issue #552 // April 30, 2021 // View in your browser #Favorites Improve infrastructure and app

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If we have data, let's look at data. If all we have are opinions, let's go with mine. //Jim Barksdale hackernewsletter Issue #547 // March 26, 2021 // View in your browser Hello! Close down

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