Hacker Newsletter - Hacker Newsletter #581

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Issue #581 // December 03, 2021 // View in your browser

#Favorites


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I resigned from Twitter
//twitter comments

Firefox is the alternative to a Chrome hegemony
//batsov comments

100 years of whatever this will be
//apenwarr comments

Advent of Code 2021
//adventofcode comments

Ideal Monitor Rotation for Programmers
//sprocketfox comments

The Stroad
//strongtowns comments

Django, HTMX and Alpine.js: Modern websites, JavaScript optional
//saaspegasus comments

Instagram Is Facebook Now
//substack comments

A toaster from 1949 is still smarter than any sold today
//theverge comments

Writing is networking for introverts
//medium comments

The unbearable fussiness of the smart home
//staceyoniot comments

Processing and P5 got newbies into coding
//medium comments

#Ask HN


Has Google search become quantitatively worse?

I feel so shallow and dumb when I see what other smart people are doing

What mental models do you use everyday?

#Show HN


Pony – a messenger for mindful correspondence //ponymessenger comments

Randomly create beautiful website layouts //shuffle comments

4K Desktop Wallpaper Generator //tanck comments

Cleanvoice – Automated Podcast Editing //cleanvoice comments

RSS-proxy: create an RSS/ATOM or JSON feed of almost any website //github comments

WildCard, a retro Hypercard/HyperTalk simulator //hypervariety comments

#Code


Fleet, a Lightweight IDE from JetBrains //jetbrains comments

Remix – A framework focused on web fundamentals and modern UX //remix comments

Lazygit: A simple terminal UI for Git commands //github comments

Functorio //bartoszmilewski comments

Code with Engineering Playbook //github comments

Improve your Python regex skills with 75 interactive exercises //github comments

#Data


Things I learned from building a production database //bitbucket comments

SQLite Release 3.37.0 //sqlite comments

PostgREST 9.0 //postgrest comments

Hamilton: A Microframework for Dataframe Generation //stitchfix comments

Deep Dive into Roam's Data Structure //zsolt comments

SQLToy – a tiny relational database for learning SQL via code //github comments

#Design


Ask HN: What are the best-designed things you've ever used? //ycombinator

How Metro Agencies Design the Letter 'M' //bloomberg comments

#Learn


People mistake the internet’s knowledge for their own //pnas comments

Darebee – A database of workouts //darebee comments

Umarell //wikipedia comments

How to Read a Jellyfish's Mind //caltech comments

#Books


Books that changed my career as a software engineer //github comments

The Joy of Cryptography //joyofcryptography comments

Free public domain audiobooks //librivox comments

Books I loved reading this year //gatesnotes comments

#Watching


Vertiwalk Vertical Walking //vertiwalk comments

Supersonic Trebuchet //hackaday comments

Saintcon: Lock Picking Lawyer Keynote //youtube comments

Introducing the Icelandverse //youtube comments

Trackers: The Sound of 16-Bit //youtube comments

Susan Kare Explains Macintosh UI Ergonomics //archive comments

The Essence operating system at Handmade Seattle 2021 //handmade-seattle comments

#Working


Boards are dangerous to founder/CEOs //reactionwheel comments

Stripe hiring issues make some lose job offers //protocol comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? //ycombinator

Ask HN: Those who quit their jobs without anything planned. How did it go? //ycombinator

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

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? //ycombinator

#Startup News


Samsung plans $17B chip plant in Taylor, Texas //datacenterdynamics comments

Zillow lost money because they weren't willing to lose money //stevenbuccini comments

Vercel raises $150M Series D //vercel comments

#Fun


Fisher Price Chatter Telephone with Bluetooth //fisher-price comments

Schemaverse, a space based strategy game to learn PostgreSQL //schemaverse comments

The Deep Sea //neal comments

Life Simulation Written in Rust //github comments

Emoji to Scale //javier comments

#Cutting Room Floor


Underrated Reasons to Be Thankful //dynomight comments

4x Smaller, 50x Faster //asciinema comments

Tiny //tinycapital comments

The fish shell is amazing //rmpr comments

Unmasking the most viral page on Facebook //garbageday comments

The slowest SR-71 Blackbird fly-by //theaviationgeekclub comments

I Test in Prod //increment comments

Bash patterns I use weekly //will-keleher comments

The reMarkable as a notebook and eBook reader //cfenollosa comments

Glitch effect on text in pure CSS //dustri comments

Ask HN: Why is machine learning easier to learn than basic social skills? //ycombinator comments

Facebook reverses Kyle Rittenhouse policy //bbc comments

Post Infocom: Boffo Games //filfre comments

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