Hacker Newsletter - Hacker Newsletter #575

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Issue #575 // October 15th, 2021 // View in your browser

Little apps like Sketch Machine make my day, even though I'm a terrible artist. If you create something with it hit reply and share it! Speaking of fun apps, any others you would recommend? kale

#Favorites


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

IoT hacking and rickrolling my high school district
//whitehoodhacker comments

Things I’ve learned in my 20 years as a software engineer
//simplethread comments

Open Source Tractor
//dozuki comments

I keep making things out of checkboxes
//bryanbraun comments

Solving NP-hard puzzles with the oldest trick in the book
//davidkoloski comments

Solar-powered aircraft flown for nearly three weeks without landing
//theiet comments

And you will know us by the company we keep
//eugenewei comments

Always Do Extra
//bennorthrop comments

Sketch Machine
//sketchmachine comments

How to Build a Low-Tech Solar Panel?
//lowtechmagazine comments

#Ask HN


Solo-preneurs, how do you DevOps to save time?

People who cashed out early and stopped working: What is your life like?

#Show HN


Rancher Desktop, a Docker Desktop Replacement //rancherdesktop comments

Syncthing – a continuous file synchronization program //syncthing comments

The Frame.work Marketplace Opened //frame comments

A world map of 24x365 average temperature “fingerprints” //weatherspark comments

Identify car crash editorial anti-patterns using NLP //visionzeroreporting comments

YoHa – A practical hand tracking engine //handtracking comments

Gollum – A simple, Git-powered wiki with a sweet API and local frontend //github comments

OurBoard – free and open source online whiteboard //ourboard comments

#Code


esbuild – An extremely fast JavaScript bundler //github comments

Is this the simplest (and most surprising) sorting algorithm? //arxiv comments

Tricks I wish I knew when I learned TypeScript //cstrnt comments

Understanding Python through its builtins //sadh comments

Janet – a Lisp-like functional, imperative programming language //github comments

Python 3.11 //python comments

#Data


Lessons learned from sharding Postgres at Notion //notion comments

Neural Networks from Scratch //github comments

How to train large deep learning models as a startup //assemblyai comments

#Design


Ligne Claire //wikipedia comments

Typography of 2001: A Space Odyssey //typesetinthefuture comments

#Learn


A variable signal at heart of the Milky Way //sciencedaily comments

Kairos //wikipedia comments

Byzantine warrior with gold-threaded jaw unearthed in Greece //livescience comments

Photos from NASA's Perseverance rover indicate ancient flash floods on Mars //science comments

#Books


DPRK Textbooks //archive comments

“Command line text processing with GNU Coreutils” eBook //github comments

#Watching


Why Japan Looks the Way It Does: Zoning //youtube comments

One Man’s Dream: Building a high quality audio system //youtube comments

First USB-C iPhone //youtube comments

#Working


How to Evaluate Startup Offers //faingezicht comments

‘Give away your Legos’ and other commandments for scaling startups //firstround comments

#Startup News


Amazon will allow many employees to work remotely indefinitely //seattletimes comments

Amazon copied products and rigged search results to promote its own brands //reuters comments

Gitlab from YC to IPO //ycombinator comments

Coinbase Breach Notification //ca comments

Rent The Runway S-1 IPO //sec comments

#Fun


Cloud-to-butt plugin used in Amazon Job Posting? //archive comments

AWS S3? Cloudflare R2? We think we know what's coming next //object-storage-name-generator comments

After Dark (90's screensavers) in CSS //bryanbraun comments

“This guy is on every startup website” //twitter comments

Lego to release a 9,090-piece scale model of the Titanic //cnn comments

#Cutting Room Floor


How to permanently delete your Facebook account //facebook comments

Gentle introduction to GPUs inner workings //github comments

Google developing own CPUs for Chromebook laptops //nikkei comments

Pandora Papers: is the world’s biggest leak the world’s biggest cover-up? //michaelwest comments

SSH Tunneling Explained //goteleport comments

Laser to Kill Mosquitoes //github comments

How the biggest consumer apps got their first 1k users //lennysnewsletter comments

Dopamine, Smartphones and You: A battle for your time //harvard comments

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Hacker Newsletter #574

Friday, October 8, 2021

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else. //Margaret Mead hackernewsletter Issue #574 // October 08, 2021 // View in your browser #Favorites Datadog's cloud-scale

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

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