A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.
//Lewis Mumford

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Grab a cup of coffee and cancel a meeting or two as this week's issue is packed... but it didn't seem right for it to be any shorter. Enjoy! –kale

#Favorites

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//datadog sponsored

The Framework Laptop is now shipping
//frame comments→

The Insecurity Industry
//substack comments→

Windows 96
//windows96 comments→

Naval Architecture
//ciechanow comments→

Father builds exoskeleton to help wheelchair-bound son walk
//reuters comments→

700k lines of code, 20 years, and one developer: How Dwarf Fortress is built
//stackoverflow comments→

Self hosting is important
//dataswamp comments→

Starlink review, four months in
//jeffgeerling comments→

How to Learn Stuff Quickly
//joshwcomeau comments→

The Tyranny of Spreadsheets
//timharford comments→

The SaaS Org Chart
//substack comments→

It doesn't take much public creativity to stand out as a job candidate
//simonwillison comments→

Zip – How not to design a file format
//greggman comments→

#Ask HN

How did you establish and maintain relationships with your first users?

Does anyone use keyboard/mouse extra buttons for coding?

#Show HN

BirdNet – Identify Birds by Sound //cornell comments→

Curated list of personal blogs //refined comments→

A Unix-style personal search engine and web crawler for your digital footprint //github comments→

Hacker News in the Style of Teletext //github comments→

Sioyek – PDF viewer for reading research papers and technical documents //sioyek comments→

Node-RED 2.0 //nodered comments→

Should I Get a House? a better rent vs. buy calculator //shouldigetahouse comments→

WrittenRealms – a modern platform for text-based games //writtenrealms comments→

Candide – Identify Plants with a Photo //candidegardening comments→

I developed a native macOS Hacker News client //github comments→

Alias – Google Alerts for your favorite people //alias comments→

iPad app to help you learn computational science by tinkering with code //tinkerstellar comments→

#Code

How the Python import system works //tenthousandmeters comments→

Evil programmer's tip: avoid “easy” things //yosefk comments→

Planning and estimating large-scale software projects //tomrussell comments→

Coding with Character //realdougwilson comments→

Most URLs are syntactically valid JavaScript code //mand comments→

Sunflower Editor – like adding console.log to every line of your code //sunflower comments→

Blockly: A JavaScript library for building visual programming editors //google comments→

#Data

Postgres Full-Text Search: A search engine in a database //crunchydata comments→

Google results for PHP tutorials contain SQL injection vulnerabilities //waritschlager comments→

Migrating Facebook to MySQL 8.0 //fb comments→

Last Mile Redis //fly comments→

#Design

Baltimore Museum of Art will host an exhibition curated by the museum's guards //artbma comments→

The Imaginarium of a Solarpunk Architect //messynessychic comments→

Mastering the Basics of Icon Design //thenounproject comments→

Artists, shrug off that imposter syndrome – the tech world needs you //magicbell comments→

#Learn

Mammals dream about the world they are about to experience before they are born //yale comments→

Senet //wikipedia comments→

Twike //wikipedia comments→

Tomato fruits send electrical warnings to the rest of the plant when attacked //frontiersin comments→

Bouba/Kiki Effect //wikipedia comments→

What did the ancient Romans eat? //bbc comments→

The first atomic bomb created ‘forbidden’ quasicrystal //discovermagazine comments→

#Books

Crafting Interpreters is available in print //craftinginterpreters comments→

Math Problems for children from 5 to 15 (2004) [pdf] //imaginary comments→

The Realism of Our Times: Kim Stanley Robinson on how science fiction works //publicbooks comments→

One Tenth of a Second //ribbonfarm comments→

#Watching

Simulating worlds on the GPU: Four billion years in four minutes //davidar comments→

The engineer preserving the last analog motion graphics machine //youtube comments→

An Unedited, Rain-Soaked Ride on Claughton’s Aerial Ropeway //youtube comments→

#Working

Restaurant workers quit at record rate //npr comments→

Google and Facebook mandate vaccines for employees at U.S. offices //npr comments→

Amazon Is Creating Company Towns Across the United States //jacobinmag comments→

Remote Culture War Has Begun, Executives Pumping Out "Back to Work" Propaganda //substack comments→

Poll: 1.8M Americans have turned down jobs due to unemployment benefits //axios comments→

#Startup News

Element raises $30M to boost Matrix //matrix comments→

Tether executives said to face criminal probe into bank fraud //bloomberg comments→

Intrinsic, a new Alphabet company //x comments→

Julia Computing raises $24M Series A //hpcwire comments→

Square Banking //squareup comments→

Salesforce completes acquisition of Slack //slack comments→

No-code startup Bubble raises $100M //reuters comments→

EV startup Rivian announces $2.5B funding round led by Amazon, Ford //reuters comments→

#Fun

Capitol Hill's mystery soda machine //wikipedia comments→

Monkey Island PC-speaker music player //thanassis comments→

Website changes design each time you blink //glitch comments→

Live Starlink Satellite Map //satellitemap comments→

Ask a bartender a question //datasecretslox comments→

#Cutting Room Floor

Anna Kiesenhofer: Mathematician, amateur cyclist, Olympic champion //cyclingnews comments→

Kubernetes is our generation's Multics //oilshell comments→

My mindfulness practice led me to meltdown //substack comments→

Syncthing: Syncing All the Things //lwn comments→

Software engineering research is a train wreck //buttondown comments→

Nepalese student learns HTML, JavaScript, CSS using just a mobile phone //linkedin comments→

Reflections as the Internet Archive turns 25 //archive comments→

Netcat – All you need to know //ikuamike comments→

Remote code execution in cdnjs of Cloudflare //ryotak comments→

The value of doing a little //trms comments→

Magic Mushroom Map //magicmushroommap comments→

An app that helps engineers fight back against pointless meetings //github comments→

Sell.app – A simple way to sell digital goods //sell comments→

Glued to Your Phone? Here's How to Rethink Your Relationship with Social Media //npr comments→

Keep Your Internet Off My Things //medium comments→

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