Hacker Newsletter - Hacker Newsletter #568

hackernewsletter

Issue #568 // August 27, 2021 // View in your browser

#Sponsor


bf1c7a06-c675-44d2-8d1e-0ee3f252a003.png The Daily Job Hunt teaches you to get a job without a resume
The job hunt sucks. We get it. 6 days a week, we send a super short email with empathy, encouragement, and no-BS advice on how to stand out to get a job. No resume or connections needed. Stay focused. Stay stoked.

#Favorites


How I Experience Web Today
//how-i-experience-web-today comments

Prettymaps: Small Python library to draw customized maps from OpenStreetMap data
//github comments

The most underused browser feature: reader mode
//frankgroeneveld comments

The Coronavirus Is Here Forever
//theatlantic comments

Chip shortage: Toyota to cut global production by 40%
//bbc comments

Patterns in Confusing Explanations
//jvns comments

My dead dad’s journal
//seanblanda comments

I switched from macOS to Linux after 15 years of Apple
//markosaric comments

An Introduction to JQ
//earthly comments

Work Hard
//terrytao comments

GitHub Issues-only project management
//placemark comments

The Mathematics of 2048: Optimal Play with Markov Decision Processes
//jdlm comments

#Ask HN


Companies of one, what is your tech stack?

Where can I live off 1k USD per month

#Show HN


The Polar Bear – Open-Source, Multipurpose CNC Machine with a Rotary Axis //kadirilkimen comments

Ploopy: open hardware trackballs and mouse //ploopy comments

With a 9-5 job and 2 kids I have finally finished my first MVP //ycombinator comments

Miller CLI – Like Awk, sed, cut, join, and sort for CSV, TSV and JSON //github comments

Duedilly.io – Accuracy of Reddit Trading Ideas //duedilly comments

Tara 2.0 – Fast Jira alternative with automation based on Git events //tara comments

#Code


Canistilluse.com //jim-nielsen comments

Closing 45% of the open Emacs bugs //ingebrigtsen comments

Harbormaster: Anti-Kubernetes for your personal server //gitlab comments

An Opinionated Guide to Xargs //oilshell comments

A collection of free/public APIs you can use to build stuff //github comments

A simple way to build collaborative web apps //zjy comments

TypeIt – A Versatile JavaScript Animated Typing Utility //typeitjs comments

#Design


Helvetica Now Variable //monotype comments

Two perspectives on a designer who Steve Jobs could not hire //arun comments

Airliner Number 4 //wikipedia comments

#Learn


Why is it so hard to be rational? //newyorker comments

America Had an Atomic Mecha Warrior Robot //orangebeanindiana comments

Fructose in diet expands the surface of the gut and promotes nutrient absorption //nature comments

South Atlantic Anomaly //wikipedia comments

Hobby Tunneling //wikipedia comments

#Books


On the link between great thinking and obsessive walking //lithub comments

How to Remember What You Read //fs comments

Book Exploring Async Basics //github comments

The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of the Past Decade //npr comments

Influential books on Computer Science and programming //github comments

#Watching


How can we make air conditioners more efficient? //youtube comments

Noam Chomsky – Startup Culture //youtube comments

Clickbait is unreasonably effective //youtube comments

#Working


Burning out and quitting //mayakaczorowski comments

We Hire Old People //relevantdb comments

How to deliver constructive feedback in difficult situations //productivityhub comments

Your devices and your employer //rachelbythebay comments

Ask HN: Managing career progression for those with no interest in progressing? //ycombinator

#Startup News


A bike parts company ditched Amazon to support indie shops instead //theverge comments

Welcoming our first riders in San Francisco //waymo comments

Plaid settled $58M lawsuit over alleged consumer data sharing //finledger comments

Tesla Announces a Humanoid Robot “Tesla Bot” //electrek comments

#Fun


Why wild foxes led you to treasure in Skyrim //twitter comments

Jeff Varasano's NY Pizza Recipe //varasanos comments

Hiding Images in Plain Sight: The Physics of Magic Windows //mattferraro comments

My Tungsten Cube //thume comments

HTML over DNS: Serving Blog Content over DNS //jacobkiers comments

Perceptual Illusions //nautil comments

#Cutting Room Floor


Facebook hacker beat my 2FA, bricked my Oculus, and hit the company credit card //codewriteplay comments

FTC files new antitrust complaint against Facebook //ftc comments

Sailfish 4 //sailfishos comments

Tools for Thinking //juliendesrosiers comments

Automating a Software Company with GitHub Actions //posthog comments

The Zettelkasten Method //lesswrong comments

Xerox Alto Emulator //loomcom comments

Older messages

Hacker Newsletter #567

Friday, August 20, 2021

Embrace what you don't know, especially in the beginning, because what you don't know can become your greatest asset. It ensures that you will absolutely be doing things different from

Hacker Newsletter #566

Friday, August 13, 2021

Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough. //Mark Twain hackernewsletter Issue #566 // August 13, 2021 // View in your browser Happy Friday the 13th! What keeps you up at

Hacker Newsletter #565

Friday, August 6, 2021

I didn't set out to beat the world; I just set out to do my absolute best. //Al Oerter hackernewsletter Issue #565 // August 06, 2021 // View in your browser #Favorites Testing in production?

Hacker Newsletter #564

Friday, July 30, 2021

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind. //Lewis Mumford hackernewsletter Issue #564 // July 30, 2021 // View in your browser Grab a cup of

Hacker Newsletter #563

Friday, July 23, 2021

If everyone is thinking alike, someone isn't thinking. //George Patton hackernewsletter Issue #563 // July 23, 2021 // View in your browser #Favorites Testing in production? It's scary until

You Might Also Like

📧 Did you want this discount?

Thursday, March 6, 2025

​ Hey, it's Milan. I want to make sure you see this today because it may be gone this weekend: There are 29 coupons left to join Pragmatic REST APIs with 30% off. After that, the price goes back to

Tiny Type On Yellow Pages ☎️

Thursday, March 6, 2025

That time phone books got a font upgrade. Here's a version for your browser. Hunting for the end of the long tail • March 5, 2025 Tiny Type On Yellow Pages Why AT&T had to redesign its primary

Simplify Kotlin Error Handling

Thursday, March 6, 2025

View in browser 🔖 Articles Goodbye try-catch, Hello runCatching! Exception handling in Kotlin just got cleaner! This article explores how runCatching can replace traditional try-catch blocks, making

JSK Daily for Mar 5, 2025

Wednesday, March 5, 2025

JSK Daily for Mar 5, 2025 View this email in your browser A community curated daily e-mail of JavaScript news Unions and intersections of object types in TypeScript In this blog post, we explore what

Daily Coding Problem: Problem #1709 [Medium]

Wednesday, March 5, 2025

Daily Coding Problem Good morning! Here's your coding interview problem for today. This problem was asked by Facebook. Given an array of integers, write a function to determine whether the array

How Swiss Tables make Go 1.24 faster

Wednesday, March 5, 2025

Plus a way to call external library functions without Cgo. | #​544 — March 5, 2025 Unsub | Web Version Together with pgAnalyze Go Weekly Faster Go Maps with Swiss Tables — One of Go's newest

Mapped | European Fertility Rates by Country 👶

Wednesday, March 5, 2025

The population replacement threshold is a fertility rate of 2.1. In 2025, all of Europe, except one small nation, is well below that level. View Online | Subscribe | Download Our App Invest in your

Trust in JS supply chain; sync vs. async code; JIT vulnerabilities; parseInt() and keycap emojis; V8

Wednesday, March 5, 2025

We have 10 links for you - the latest on JavaScript and tools Secure your JavaScript dependencies. socket.dev Sponsor Open source code makes up 90% of most codebases. Socket detects what traditional

The importance of flow state for developers

Wednesday, March 5, 2025

You are receiving this email because you subscribed to microservices.io. Considering migrating a monolith to microservices? Struggling with the microservice architecture? I can help: architecture

This beefy phone is a projector too 📽️

Wednesday, March 5, 2025

Biggest tech opps; How Firefox changed; Drone flying tips -- ZDNET ZDNET Tech Today - US March 5, 2025 GOTRAX 4 electric scooter A smartphone that's also a projector? I tested it, and it's