Hacker Newsletter - Hacker Newsletter #495

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Issue #495 // March 13, 2020 // View in your browser

I hope everyone stays safe! kale

#Favorites


Spend less time discussing bugs and more time fixing them with BugHerd
//bugherd sponsored

DuckDuckGo is good enough for regular use
//bitlog comments

“Just walk out” technology by Amazon
//justwalkout comments

What's so hard about PDF text extraction?
//filingdb comments

How some good corporate engineering blogs are written
//danluu comments

I have seen things
//muratbuffalo comments

Gitlab's Guide to All-Remote
//gitlab comments

6 months in and $1k MRR: my biggest mistakes so far
//lunchbag comments

Websites have evolved back to static HTML/CSS/JS files
//substack comments

How I made a 3D game in 2 KB of JavaScript
//frankforce comments

The Brave browser is brilliant, but probably not for the reasons you think
//rudism comments

#Featured


Covid-19 update and guidance to limit spread //flattenthecurve comments

Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says //npr comments

MIT moves all classes online for the rest of the semester //mit comments

U.S. will suspend all travel from Europe for 30 days //nbcnews comments

COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator //gatesfoundation comments

Italy is extending its coronavirus quarantine measures to the entire country //bbc comments

Tell HN: How USA school closure seems to be working out //ycombinator

#Ask HN


Was the Y2K crisis real?

Do you ever truly use your revision history?

#Show HN


Fraidycat //fraidyc comments

Visual SQL //chartio comments

Waymo Via //waymo comments

OpenJSCAD //openjscad comments

Unscreen – Remove Video and GIF Backgrounds //unscreen comments

Self-hosted, super simple photo stream //github comments

Slower News //github comments

Boardist – personal workspace for all the data //boardist comments

#Code


Please stop recommending Gitflow //georgestocker comments

Redwood: An integrated, full-stack, JavaScript web framework for the JAMstack //redwoodjs comments

We have to talk about this Python, Gunicorn, Gevent thing //rachelbythebay comments

Why Svelte is our choice for a large web project //github comments

Data-Oriented Architecture //eyas comments

An ultra-simplified example of a modern compiler written in JavaScript //github comments

#Data


AutoML-Zero: Evolving Machine Learning Algorithms from Scratch //github comments

Lagrangian Neural Networks //github comments

Deep Learning Algorithms: The Complete Guide //theaisummer comments

#Design


Pure CSS Landscape – An Evening in Southwold //codepen comments

Orbit – open-source design system //orbit comments

#Learn


Knowledge Graphs //arxiv comments

The History of WD-40 //jalopnik comments

Operation Dark Winter //wikipedia comments

Project Coldfeet //wikipedia comments

Exploding Head Syndrome //wikipedia comments

#Books


“The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” turns 42 //economist comments

Paul Klee's personal notebooks on his Bauhaus teachings //openculture comments

Free eBook “Managing Remote Teams” //knowyourteam comments

#Watching


A googol-to-one gear ratio //kottke comments

Exponential Growth and Covid-19 //youtube comments

Considering Rust //youtube comments

A man launched a new ISP from his garage //youtube comments

#Working


Quarantine will normalize WFH and recession will denormalize full-time jobs //github comments

Fast-Growing Remote Startups //freedomiseverything comments

#Startup News


Magic Leap trying to sell for $10B //techcrunch comments

An Update from Robinhood’s Founders //robinhood comments

Airbnb’s loss nearly doubles in fourth quarter, before virus //bloomberg comments

#Fun


AvastSvc.exe contains a full, unsandboxed JavaScript/DOM implementation //github comments

Matrix rain, Conway's Game of Life and Mandelbrot set for terminals //github comments

Karaoke for any song in any language //github comments

First person 3D environment using CSS 3D Transforms for rendering //netlify comments

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