Hacker Newsletter - Hacker Newsletter #574

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Issue #574 // October 08, 2021 // View in your browser

#Favorites


Datadog's cloud-scale monitoring and security platform provides a unified source of truth for all IT performance data. See for yourself with a free trial today
//datadog sponsored

Ocean drone captures video from inside a hurricane
//noaa comments

E-Ink Magic Calendar that runs off a battery powered Raspberry Pi
//github comments

Always-on Processor magic: How Find My works while iPhone is powered off
//naehrdine comments

How to replace estimations and guesses with a Monte Carlo simulation
//lucasfcosta comments

The Insane Innovation of TI Calculator Hobbyists
//thirtythreeforty comments

Curiosity Is Better Than Being Smart?
//durmonski comments

Thoughts on chess improvement, after gaining 600 points in 6 months
//mbuffett comments

Tools to Explore BGP
//jvns comments

We are now Solar Powered
//andrewjvpowell comments

Tanaka Hisashige, builder of the Myriad Year Clock
//watchesbysjx comments

#Featured - Facebook


Facebook-owned sites were down //facebook comments

Understanding how Facebook disappeared from the internet //cloudflare comments

Facebook Whistleblower Leaks Thousands of Pages of Incriminating Internal Docs //npr comments

Facebook is nearing a reputational point of no return //economist comments

Whistleblower to Congress: Facebook products harm kids and democracy //npr comments

More details about the October 4 outage //fb comments

Statement from Mark Zuckerberg //facebook comments

Facebook Political Problems //stratechery comments

#Show HN


ChessCoach – A neural chess engine that comments on each player's moves //github comments

Rowy: Open-source Airtable alternative on Google Cloud //rowy comments

Hurl – Run and test HTTP requests with plain text, curl and Rust //hurl comments

Leo Editor //leoeditor comments

Futurecoder – A free online interactive Python course //futurecoder comments

#Code


It takes a PhD to develop that //royalsloth comments

Faster Python with Guido van Rossum //softwareatscale comments

The Case for ‘Developer Experience’ //a16z comments

What's New in React 18? //yagmurcetintas comments

Effective Code Browsing //noahan comments

#Design


Gentle Introduction to Realtime Fluid Simulation for Programmers and Artists //medium comments

All 16,777,216 RGB colours //davidnaylor comments

First Principles of Interaction Design //asktog comments

#Learn


Choosing the Right Wall Anchors //finewoodworking comments

Building a Theban Lattice Stool //woodenfossils comments

US Navy maintains 50k acre oak grove for 1 wooden ship //oldsaltblog comments

Retired Husband Syndrome //wikipedia comments

Atomic resolution video of salt crystals forming in real time //phys comments

Google Arts and Culture: Indonesian Spices //google comments

#Books


Stripe Press //stripe comments

I Invented Baileys //irishtimes comments

Art of Assembly Language Programming and HLA by Randall Hyde //randallhyde comments

#Watching


Moths taking flight at 6k frames per second //aeon comments

Farmer born in 1842 talks about life and change //youtu comments

The reputation economy is turning us into conformists //ccc comments

#Working


Ask HN: Who is hiring? //ycombinator

Senior developers are leading the great resignation movement //medium comments

The Skill of Org Design //commoncog comments

Eidos-Montréal Offices shifting to the 4 day work week //eidosmontreal comments

Tesla Moves HQ from California to Austin //kxan comments

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

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? //ycombinator

#Startup News


Twitch source code and customer data has reportedly been leaked //videogameschronicle comments

Rivian S-1 //sec comments

Sinch to acquire Mailgun //mailgun comments

Udemy S-1 IPO //sec comments

#Fun


Canyon.mid //canyonmid comments

PICO-8 – Fantasy Console //lexaloffle comments

Game where you build a CPU and assembly language from circuits //steampowered comments

2021 Js13kGames Winners – JavaScript games in just 13kb //js13kgames comments

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Hacker Newsletter #573

Friday, October 1, 2021

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

Hacker Newsletter #572

Friday, September 24, 2021

If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late. //Reid Hoffman hackernewsletter Issue #572 // September 24, 2021 // View in your browser #Favorites

Hacker Newsletter #571

Friday, September 17, 2021

They that are fated to be fools, have one consolation, that they are fated also to be ignorant of it. //Norm MacDonald hackernewsletter Issue #571 // September 17, 2021 // View in your browser #

Hacker Newsletter #570

Friday, September 10, 2021

Don't depend too much on anyone in this world because even your own shadow leaves you when you are in darkness. //Ibn Taymiyyah hackernewsletter Issue #570 // September 10, 2021 // View in your

Hacker Newsletter #569

Friday, September 3, 2021

It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy. //George Horace Lorimer

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