If everyone is thinking alike, someone isn’t thinking. //George Patton

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#Favorites

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

The Alexander: Why did you build such a long piano?
//alexanderpiano comments→

Huge data leak shatters the lie that the innocent need not fear surveillance
//theguardian comments→

Right or left, you should be worried about big tech censorship
//eff comments→

Why we're blind to the color blue
//calebkruse comments→

The case for banning non-competes
//slowboring comments→

Tell HN: Coming soon – “Meet the Batch” threads for parallel Launch HNs
//ycombinator

A haunting new documentary about Anthony Bourdain
//newyorker comments→

#Ask HN

Anyone here built successful SaaS/startup just for money?

Best Place to Live in 2050?

#Show HN

Looking Glass: Run a Windows VM on Linux in a Window with Native Performance //looking-glass comments→

I built an app to create repeatable checklists to help with ADHD //checkyourlist comments→

Piped: A privacy-friendly YouTube front end which is efficient by design //github comments→

I made an interactive anti-procrastination video course //deprocrastination comments→

Gorse – An Out-of-the-box open-source Recommender System //gorse comments→

Angle Grinder – A terminal app to slice, dice, and aggregate your logs //github comments→

Hypercontext – Meeting notes, actions, and OKRs in one app //ycombinator comments→

#Code

Inserting a billion rows in SQLite under a minute //avi comments→

ToyDB: Distributed SQL Database in Rust //github comments→

Tesseract OCR //github comments→

Diffsitter: A tree-sitter based AST difftool to get meaningful semantic diffs //github comments→

The database ruins all good ideas //squarism comments→

Runbooks for better incident management //substack comments→

#Design

Black 3.0 – The blackest black acrylic paint //culturehustle comments→

Photographer makes DIY lenses for her film camera using cake molds and epoxy //petapixel comments→

#Learn

Word gap: When money’s tight, parents talk less to kids //berkeley comments→

Cancer risks increase with alcohol use, leading to over 740k cases last year //npr comments→

Fasting lowers blood pressure by reshaping the gut microbiota //sciencedaily comments→

#Books

112 Gripes About the French //wikipedia comments→

A Short Guide to Iraq //navy comments→

Ask HN: Programming Audio Book Recommendations //ycombinator

Eat like Jane Austen with recipes from her sister-in-law’s cookbook //atlasobscura comments→

#Watching

Cuba jamming ham radio frequencies //youtube comments→

A man in Egypt keeping a 200-year-old tradition of tile-making //youtube comments→

New Mercedes C-Class 2022 production plant in Germany //youtube comments→

#Working

I had to give a wrong answer to get the job //dewitters comments→

I'm a Frito-Lay Factory Worker. I Work 12-Hour Days, 7 Days a Week //vice comments→

Visualizing all the vacant office space in San Francisco //socketsite comments→

Pay secrecy: Why some workers can't discuss salaries //bbc comments→

#Startup News

GM has signed an agreement to extract lithium from beneath the Salton Sea //autoweek comments→

Canonical turned a profit, back above 500 employees //phoronix comments→

Tesla is offering a $1500 upgrade for early cars to support “full self-driving” //electrek comments→

Zoom to Acquire Five9 //globenewswire comments→

#Fun

WaveFunctionCollapse: Generates bitmaps that are locally similar to the input //github comments→

The Print Shop Club: Create Apple II Print Shop Printouts in the Browser //theprintshop comments→

Full Throttle //filfre comments→

Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want //shapecatcher comments→

A CSS-Only Clock //css-tricks comments→

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