Hacker Newsletter - Hacker Newsletter #569

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Issue #569 // September 03, 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 and Google must allow other in-app payment systems, Korean law declares
//theverge comments

Tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics
//plausible comments

O.mg Cable
//hak5 comments

The All-Seeing “i”: Apple Just Declared War on Your Privacy
//substack comments

The red warning light on Richard Branson’s space flight
//newyorker comments

I hacked an office telephone to play Doom
//github comments

Why Are Hyperlinks Blue?
//mozilla comments

Experiments on a $50 DIY air purifier
//dynomight comments

Playdate Pulp: Zero to video game in 60 Seconds
//gamedeveloper comments

Pong Circuit-Level Simulation
//falstad comments

Big company tale: six months for a list and a button
//rachelbythebay comments

Turning satellite imagery into wall art
//ramblemaps comments

#Ask HN


What problem are you close to solving and how can we help?

Why don’t you use Linux as your daily driver OS?

#Show HN


We built an end-to-end encrypted alternative to Google Photos //ycombinator comments

Yt-dlp – A YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixes //github comments

I made a meme creator that makes around $4k a month //metameme comments

Voila – From notebooks to standalone web applications and dashboards //readthedocs comments

Open Source Illustrations Kit //illlustrations comments

I made an app to draw stickers for iMessage, Discord, and Slack //stickerdoodle comments

#Code


Weird Languages //paulgraham comments

Brooks, Wirth and Go //fredrikholmqvist comments

Ruby Is Still a Diamond //medium comments

Jsc: My New Best Friend //furbo comments

#Design


AI movie posters //noahveltman comments

Photography technology has influenced what people consider a good picture //collectorsweekly comments

Getting started with large format film photography //shootitwithfilm comments

Fake Banksy NFT sold through artist's website for £244k //bbc comments

#Learn


Train Wheels Are Cones //awesci comments

The Orbit of Planet Nine //findplanetnine comments

The Apollo Affair //wikipedia comments

Hoover (Seal) //wikipedia comments

#Books


An app called Libby and the big business of library e-books //newyorker comments

The radical power of the book index //prospectmagazine comments

#Watching


A layman’s guide to recreational mathematics videos //samenright comments

Watch Windows 95 crash live as it exceeds 49.7 days uptime //youtube comments

The Evolution of Smalltalk from Smalltalk-72 to Squeak //pldi21 comments

#Working


Ask HN: Who is hiring? //ycombinator

If software engineering is in demand, why is it so hard to get a job? //betterprogramming comments

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

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? //ycombinator

Being on-call is working. FULL STOP //reddit comments

Amazon CEO unveils 55k tech jobs in his first hiring push //reuters comments

#Startup News


Record €225m fine for WhatsApp Ireland over data protection breaches //rte comments

Allbirds S-1 IPO //sec comments

Gap acquires 3D fitting room startup Drapr //retaildive comments

#Fun


Extreme Ironing //wikipedia comments

An Open Source Multi-Player Starship Bridge Simulator for Linux //github comments

Just how far can you travel by bus from London in 24 hours? //twitter comments

Missile Base for Sale //missilebaseforsale comments

8 Bits of history: My first game is still available on the internet //smackeyacky comments

Arctic Adventure: A lost 1981 TRS-80 adventure game by Harry McCracken //arctic81 comments

#Cutting Room Floor


Another free CA as an alternative to Let's Encrypt //scotthelme comments

API Tokens: A Tedious Survey //fly comments

How I re–over-engineered my home network for privacy and security //balter comments

Old iPhones become faster if you change the region to France //gizchina comments

You want enabling CSS selectors, not disabling ones //css-tricks comments

GateBoy – a gate-level Game Boy simulator //github comments

Glean – System for collecting, deriving and querying facts about source code //glean comments

Twitter.com's HTML, which is produced by React Native for Web, explained //giuseppegurgone comments

Pico8Lisp: A toy Lisp interpreter for PICO-8 //lexaloffle comments

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Hacker Newsletter #568

Friday, August 27, 2021

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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

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