Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough. //Mark Twain

hackernewsletter

Happy Friday the 13th! What keeps you up at night these days? –kale

#Favorites

Pinpoint and resolve issues in your stack faster with Datadog's centralized monitoring platform. Start a free trial with Datadog today.
//datadog sponsored

One Bad Apple
//hackerfactor comments→

Climate change: IPCC report is 'code red for humanity'
//bbc comments→

Apple’s Mistake
//stratechery comments→

GitHub’s engineering team has moved to Codespaces
//github comments→

Apps Getting Worse
//tbray comments→

An old hacker's tips on staying employed
//substack comments→

A future for SQL on the web
//jlongster comments→

My tiny side project has had more impact than my decade in the software industry
//zwobble comments→

Culdesac Tempe: The first car-free neighborhood built from scratch in the US
//culdesac comments→

Where are the robotic bricklayers?
//substack comments→

We Still Don’t Get Things Done
//wired comments→

Interactive introduction to game theory and trust
//ncase comments→

#Ask HN

What tiny purchases have disproportionately improved your life?

What are you using to replace shared iCloud Photos albums?

Examples of email-first projects or startups?

#Show HN

CalyxOS – De-Googled Android Alternative //calyxos comments→

Sci-Hub is fundraising //sci-hub comments→

Open-source A/B testing framework //github comments→

Visualizer for High Level System Design //github comments→

Paper Time – Listen to abstracts of CS papers, like a custom podcast //papertime comments→

#Code

New UUID Formats – IETF Draft //ietf comments→

Reflections on 10k Hours of Programming //matt-rickard comments→

LÖVR – An open source framework for rapidly building immersive 3D experiences //lovr comments→

Mastering Web Scraping in Python: Crawling from Scratch //zenrows comments→

Fundamentals of Incident Management //bitfieldconsulting comments→

Object Detection in an Hour //strayrobots comments→

Lona – Framework for responsive web apps in full Python without JS //lona-web comments→

#Data

Postgres.app //postgresapp comments→

In Praise of PostgreSQL //drewdevault comments→

Chronofold: A data structure for versioned text //arxiv comments→

How PostgreSQL aggregation works and how it inspired our hyperfunctions’ design //timescale comments→

Datafuse – Modern Real-Time Data Processing in Rust //github comments→

#Design

The World of CSS Transforms //joshwcomeau comments→

Typography in Alien //typesetinthefuture comments→

Twitter's new font, Chirp, is apparently giving some users headaches //cnet comments→

Free, Accessible AI Art Generator //google comments→

#Learn

A street snack that has baffled botanists //atlasobscura comments→

New carnivorous plant discovered in Pacific Northwest //npr comments→

The human ear detects half a millisecond delay in sound //aalto comments→

Why does it take so long to get to Mercury? //esa comments→

Tesla valve //wikipedia comments→

Ulam Spiral //wikipedia comments→

Very fast rocket //github comments→

#Books

The Pleasures of Tsundoku: How I learned to stop worrying and love book piles //lithub comments→

WeWork Book: The $10T Mirage //axios comments→

New sci-fi and fantasy books to check out this August //ghost comments→

echo 'I wrote a Bash book' >> /dev/world //paperless comments→

A mariner's handbook from the library of Sir Walter Raleigh //blogs comments→

#Watching

The first two hours of MTV //youtube comments→

The 3x+1 Problem //youtube comments→

BBC Sport's Tokyo Olympics studio //bbc comments→

NASA's “Tour of Asteroid Bennu” Selected for Siggraph Film Festival //nasa comments→

Merge-sort with Transylvanian-saxon folk dance //youtube comments→

#Working

For programmers, remote working is becoming the norm //economist comments→

Employee shortages: Where have all the workers gone? //bbc comments→

About 90% of Animators Quit Their Jobs Within 3 Years //animenewsnetwork comments→

Ask HN: Senior Software Engineer to Engineering Manager //ycombinator

#Startup News

New Leadership at Blizzard //blizzard comments→

Reddit raises $410M in new funding //nytimes comments→

Zoom to pay $85M, lying about encryption and sending data to Facebook and Google //arstechnica comments→

#Fun

Fishdraw: Procedurally Generated Fish Drawings //glitch comments→

The British Library puts 1M newspaper pages online for free //ianvisits comments→

The Rocks and Minerals of Minecraft //mindat comments→

The Lost Cat Art of Ithaca, NY //lostcatithaca comments→

#Cutting Room Floor

Messaging and chat control //patrick-breyer comments→

In internal memo, Apple addresses concerns around new Photo scanning features //9to5mac comments→

Captcha pictures force you to look at the world the way an AI does //medium comments→

Mosh: The Mobile Shell //mosh comments→

Life Improvements Since the 1990s //gwern comments→

Senators introduce bipartisan antitrust bill to promote app store competition //senate comments→

I'm reading the FT and WSJ from 100 years ago each week leading to 1929 //substack comments→

End of the line for Uber? //pluralistic comments→

Flawed data led to a connection between time spent on devices and mental health //theconversation comments→

The smart home is flailing as a concept //fastcompany comments→

Who Were the Romans, Part V: Saving and Losing an Empire //acoup comments→

Texas Instruments new TI-84 Plus CE Python graphing calculator //ti comments→

__END__

Published by Curpress from Bellingham, Washington . Hacker Newsletter is not affiliated with Y Combinator in any way.

You can update your email or unsubscribe.

Not a subscriber? Subscribe at http://hackernewsletter.com.