Hacker Newsletter - Hacker Newsletter #565

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Issue #565 // August 06, 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

Apple's Plan to “Think Different” About Encryption Opens a Backdoor to Your Life
//eff comments

Who Owns My Name?
//medium comments

The surreal experience of my first developer job
//bennuttall comments

Life before smartphones
//substack comments

The historical accuracy of medieval city-builder video games
//leidenmedievalistsblog comments

Command line tools for productive programmers
//earthly comments

Amazon Gets Record $888M EU Fine over Data Violations
//bloomberg comments

Kid Pix as a JavaScript App
//kidpix comments

I built a business that lets me live on the beach full time
//expatsoftware comments

Pronouncing non-English names for English speakers
//github comments

Todo apps are meant for robots
//frantic comments

Winnebiko
//microship comments

What I know about cleaning and seasoning cast-iron skillets
//americastestkitchen comments

#Ask HN


Has anyone fully embraced an event-driven architecture?

Do you have a process or a framework to learn specific skills quickly?

#Show HN


Static.wiki – read-only Wikipedia using a 43GB SQLite file //static comments

Airyx OS //airyx comments

DaisyUI – Tailwind CSS Components //daisyui comments

Ssheven: A modern SSH client for Mac OS 7-9 //github comments

#Code


New in Git: switch and restore //banterly comments

The 5-Hour CDN //fly comments

Good Design is Imperfect Design, Part 1: Honest Names //domainlanguage comments

Sorbet Compiler: An experimental, ahead-of-time compiler for Ruby //sorbet comments

Visualizing a Codebase //github comments

#Data


Hosting SQLite Databases on GitHub Pages //netlify comments

Extracting Objects Recursively with Jq //simonwillison comments

What time-weighted averages are and why you should care //timescale comments

Use Spreadsheets Everywhere //simplethread comments

Recursion in SQL Explained Visually //medium comments

#Design


The Inter typeface family //rsms comments

Open by Design //openby comments

#Learn


New exotic matter particle, a tetraquark, discovered at CERN //phys comments

Red delicious apples weren’t always horrible //newengland comments

Harvey’s Casino Bomb //fbi comments

Beneath Istanbul, Archaeologists Explore an Ancient City's Byzantine Basements //npr comments

Oregon Trail Generation //wikipedia comments

#Books


Six hundred and forty pages in fifteen months //stuffwithstuff comments

Build Your Own Metal Working Shop from Scrap //gingerybookstore comments

Reading Levels: Different Ways to Read Different Books //thecuriousreader comments

#Watching


Never Gonna Give You Up (by Rick Astley) reaches one billion views //youtube comments

Billions in 'unknown' funds flowing into Canada's housing market //bnnbloomberg comments

Comma Three //youtube comments

Mario Paint Masterpiece //charlieharrington comments

#Working


The rise of never-ending job interviews //bbc comments

1 out of every 153 American workers is an Amazon employee //businessinsider comments

Why don't tech companies pay their engineers to stay? //medium comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? //ycombinator

Big tech companies are at war with employees over remote work //arstechnica comments

Cal Newport on an industrial revolution for office work //80000hours comments

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

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? //ycombinator

#Startup News


Duolingo reaches $6.5B valuation on day of IPO //reuters comments

Square to acquire Afterpay for $29B //squareup comments

#Fun


Berkeley Systems “After Dark” screensavers recreated in CSS //bryanbraun comments

A sewing page that never closed its font size HTML tags //archive comments

The Playdate store is now open //play comments

Potoooooooo //wikipedia comments

A tiny browser game where you have 45 seconds to trade a fake stock //davjhan comments

#Cutting Room Floor


The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway //alexskra comments

Introduction to open source private LTE and 5G networks //ubuntu comments

Employers bow to tech workers in hottest job market since the dot-com era //latimes comments

Stat of the day: 38% of remote workers work from bed //axios comments

My small revenge on Apple //javierantonsblog comments

My First CSS //kablamo comments

My Steam Game Revenue Stats //donislawdev comments

Fun with Unix domain sockets //simonwillison comments

South Korea: The only middle power of its kind //nationalinterest comments

Learn Python by doing fun interactive exercises //epicpython comments

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