Hacker Newsletter - Hacker Newsletter #557

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Issue #557 // June 04, 2021 // View in your browser

#Favorites


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

Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B
//wsj comments

I quit my job to focus on SerenityOS full time
//github comments

Trials begin on lozenge that rebuilds tooth enamel
//washington comments

Amazon Prime inflates prices, using the false promise of ‘free shipping’
//substack comments

Employees are quitting instead of giving up working from home
//bloomberg comments

Have you ever hurt yourself from your own code?
//nikitas comments

The media's lab leak fiasco
//slowboring comments

Yamaha MOTOROiD
//yamaha-motor comments

We only ever talk about the third attack on Pearl Harbor
//butwhatfor comments

Many temptations of an open-source Chrome extension developer
//github comments

Potemkin Data Science
//medium comments

#Ask HN


Alternatives to Google Photos?

What is your current side-project?

#Show HN


Servers as they should be – shipping early 2022 //oxide comments

Fig – Autocomplete for the Terminal //fig comments

DIY Book Scanner //diybookscanner comments

Create AI videos by simply typing in text //synthesia comments

Kalk, A calculator with math syntax, complex numbers //strct comments

Paperd.ink – Open-source e-paper development board //paperd comments

Monte Carlo simulation for predicting project timelines //vistimo comments

#Code


Drunk Post: Things I've Learned as a Sr Engineer //reddit comments

Helix: a post-modern modal text editor //helix-editor comments

Best practices around creating production ready web apps with Docker Compose //nickjanetakis comments

Leaky Abstractions //textslashplain comments

Clojure by Example //github comments

#Data


NocoDB – The Open Source Airtable Alternative //github comments

JupyterLite – WASM-powered Jupyter running in the browser //github comments

Render Jupyter notebooks as interactive articles //deepnote comments

ClickHouse: An open-source column-oriented database management system //github comments

Lightdash – An open source Looker alternative //github comments

#Design


Italian Car Design History //cardesignhistory comments

Blinking Twelve Problem //wikipedia comments

#Learn


A Concrete Introduction to Probability //github comments

The Feynman Lectures on Physics Audio Collection //caltech comments

Scottish Café //wikipedia comments

Stanford Bunny //wikipedia comments

Corpus Clock //wikipedia comments

#Books


When six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months //theguardian comments

Poe’s best-selling book during his lifetime was a guide to seashells //atlasobscura comments

Book Review: Double Fold //substack comments

Vonnegut Reviews Heinlein's “Stranger in a Strange Land” //nytimes comments

#Watching


Super Mario Bros: The Human Limit //youtube comments

The 4:6 method for coffee-brewing //youtube comments

An Escalator Made of Cardboard //youtube comments

Travelling downwind faster than the wind //youtube comments

#Working


Apple asks staff to return to office 3 days a week starting in early September //theverge comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? //ycombinator

Ask HN: Negotiating Salary //ycombinator

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

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? //ycombinator

#Startup News


Booking.com gives €28m in bonuses to three top execs; Took €65m in State aid //nltimes comments

Y Combinator backed MMO metaverse game is a blatant scam //pcgamer comments

OpenAI Announces Funding for Startups //openai comments

#Fun


Overkill objects for everyday life //neil comments

The Unix Game //unixgame comments

Yare.io – game where you control units with JavaScript //yare comments

The Shortest Possible Game of Monopoly //scatter comments

#Cutting Room Floor


It's virtually impossible to read old iMessages and they take up tons of storage //keydiscussions comments

United Airlines will buy 15 planes from Boom Supersonic //cnbc comments

Japanese bookstore simulator translated into English after 24 years //rhizome comments

Donating my time to grow a VC-funded company: why I quit mentoring at Plato //pragmaticengineer comments

An experimental, people-powered search engine //ninfex comments

Google’s new popup will further weaken Facebook’s advertisement business //substack comments

Technical documentation that just works //github comments

Apple, FedEx and the cookie apocalypse //ben-evans comments

Photographer Charles Ebbets takes iconic photo “Lunch atop a skyscraper” //reddit comments

Gibbs Phenomenon //wikipedia comments

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Hacker Newsletter #556

Friday, May 28, 2021

If you really want to get along with somebody, let them be themselves. //Willie Nelson hackernewsletter Issue #556 // May 28, 2021 // View in your browser #Favorites Testing in production? It's

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Friday, May 21, 2021

Don't let the same dog bite you twice. //Chuck Berry hackernewsletter Issue #555 // May 21, 2021 // View in your browser What was one interesting thing you learned this past week? –kale #Favorites

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Friday, May 14, 2021

Only the dead have seen the end of war. //George Santayana hackernewsletter Issue #554 // May 14, 2021 // View in your browser #Favorites Break down inefficient silos with Datadog's centralized

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There's nobody in this world, nobody, that you can't learn something from. //Gordie Howe hackernewsletter Issue #553 // May 07, 2021 // View in your browser Big thanks to LaunchDarkly for

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Friday, April 30, 2021

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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