Understanding motivation is one of the most important things we can do in our lives, because it has such a bearing on why we do the things we do and whether we enjoy them or not. //Clayton Christensen

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#Favorites

Testing in production? It's scary until it's not. Take control of software releases. Ship fast. Rest easy. And LaunchDarkly.
//launchdarkly sponsored

What it's like to spend 40-50 hours in VR every week
//immersed comments→

Lithuania says throw away Chinese phones due to censorship concerns
//reuters comments→

If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs
//tttthis comments→

Nginx Playground
//jvns comments→

How big tech runs tech projects and the curious absence of Scrum
//pragmaticengineer comments→

Cloudflare's Disruption
//stratechery comments→

Designing Low Upkeep Software
//jefftk comments→

Dude, where’s my stuff
//jpmorgan comments→

Revenge Bedtime Procrastination
//substack comments→

Facebook Is Other People
//substack comments→

#Ask HN

Where are all the old Show HNs?

How do you do estimates in 2021?

#Show HN

Simula One: an office-focused, standalone VR headset built on top of Linux //simulavr comments→

Hacker News client with a twist //pabue comments→

Masked email from Fastmail and 1Password //fastmail comments→

IMGZ – Paid image sharing //imgz comments→

I wrote a local-first notes app for Mac, with data longevity in mind //noteship comments→

Data-minimal Mailchimp alternative built on top of your SQL DB //getvero comments→

#Code

Making bracket pair colorization faster //visualstudio comments→

Understanding Awk //earthly comments→

Reactive Clojure: A web language //notion comments→

Offline First //rxdb comments→

Seed – A Rust front-end framework for creating fast and reliable web apps //github comments→

Btop++ is a power resource monitor for Linux //github comments→

Code Review from the Command Line //jez comments→

Go playground powered by WASM that runs in the browser //vercel comments→

#Data

PostgreSQL 14 //postgresql comments→

A single person answered 76k questions about SQL on StackOverflow //stackoverflow comments→

Tidy Viewer – a cross-platform CSV pretty printer for viewer enjoyment //github comments→

Partitioning GitHub's databases to handle scale //github comments→

Extract Table from Image //extract-table comments→

SQLite Playground //sqlime comments→

Xata – Database service for serverless apps //xata comments→

Pgloader: A High-Speed PostgreSQL Swiss Army Knife, Written in Lisp //pgloader comments→

#Design

Moiré No More //getrevue comments→

Congratulations, Mini, you made the stupidest turn signals ever //jalopnik comments→

Art or heist? A Danish artist took $84k and sent a museum 2 blank canvases //npr comments→

#Learn

A Tunguska size burst destroyed Tall el-Hammam, Bronze Age city in Jordan Valley //nature comments→

The Art of Linear Algebra [pdf] //githubusercontent comments→

Telling the Bees //wikipedia comments→

Thermal Grill Illusion //wikipedia comments→

#Books

The Mom Test – How to talk to customers //volpee comments→

The Truth, by Stanisław Lem //mit comments→

Book review: The Checklist Manifesto //lesswrong comments→

Summarizing Books with Human Feedback //openai comments→

Fake it till you make it: Review of “Index, A History of the” //lrb comments→

Book Review: The Scout Mindset //substack comments→

#Watching

Building apps in minutes, not months //alexanderobenauer comments→

Atari ST in daily use since 1985 //youtube comments→

Building a Balloon Launcher for the “I Spy” Books //walterwick comments→

#Working

I just don’t want to be busy anymore //medium comments→

Understanding Startup Offers //withcompound comments→

What does my engineering manager do all day? //medium comments→

Doing a Job – The Management Philosophy of Adm. Hyman G. Rickover //govleaders comments→

#Startup News

Imgur Acquired by Medialab //imgur comments→

DMV approves Cruise and Waymo for commercial service in parts of Bay Area //ca comments→

RescueTime – Redesigned for wellness, balance, remote work //ycombinator

#Fun

Submarine cable map rendered onto a globe //globe comments→

Old video game advertisements //retrocgads comments→

Bomberland – An AI competition to build the best Bomberman bot //gocoder comments→

/dev/esc is an online escape room for dev teams //dev-esc comments→

Volkswagen Currywurst //wikipedia comments→

#Cutting Room Floor

You either die an MVP or live long enough to build content moderation //mux comments→

Something weird is happening on Facebook //politicalorphans comments→

That time I told my wife I wanted to quit my job //keygen comments→

The Open Book Project: open-hardware e-ink eBook reader //github comments→

The GIL and its effects on Python multithreading //tenthousandmeters comments→

Ampie – See HN or Twitter discussions mentioning the page you are on //ampie comments→

Boring SEO guide for the non-lazy //boringseo comments→

7GUIs in Vanilla HTML, CSS, JavaScript //bradwoods comments→

How I built forlater.email, my first big side project //icyphox comments→

China power crunch spreads, shutting factories and dimming growth outlook //reuters comments→

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