Hacker Newsletter - Hacker Newsletter #590

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Issue #590 // February 11, 2022 // View in your browser

#Favorites


One month away, join us for SXSW 2022 - March 11-20 in Austin, TX and online
//sxsw sponsored

SHA-256 explained step-by-step visually
//sha256algorithm comments

Heuristics that almost always work
//substack comments

Unlearning perfectionism
//arunkprasad comments

How UTF-8 Works
//sethmlarson comments

Nerdle = Like Wordle but with Equations
//nerdlegame comments

A home made PCB stepper motor
//kevinlynagh comments

Show HN: I made a little digital circuit simulator that operates on PNGs
//github comments

What Was the Ted Talk?
//thedriftmag comments

Polar bears move into abandoned Arctic weather station
//theguardian comments

Advice gathered from people smarter than me
//substack comments

#Ask HN


How do you deal with getting old and feeling lost?

Great Blogs by Programmers

Does Anyone else working in a crypto company feel this is all a scam?

What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

#Show HN


Files – Single-file photo gallery and file manager //files comments

uBlock Origin 1.41 //github comments

Postman Now Supports gRPC //postman comments

Tally Forms – A free Typeform alternative //tally comments

OneModel – Diagramming tailor-made for Software Engineers //onemodel comments

#Code


Web hacking techniques of 2021 //portswigger comments

Finding the average of two unsigned integers without overflow //microsoft comments

Django: Reformatted code with Black //github comments

Laravel 9 //laravel-news comments

Django Ninja – Fast Django REST Framework for Building APIs //github comments

Python Tools for the Semantic Web, an Overview //github comments

Mailwind – Use Tailwind CSS to design HTML emails //github comments

#Data


Datawrapper: Create charts, maps, and tables //datawrapper comments

Jo – a shell command to create JSON //jpmens comments

Where in the world are Trader Joe’s warehouses? //github comments

Building single-page-apps with PostgREST //polyglot comments

#Design


Disney Filmmaking Process //disneyanimation comments

Artist uses AI to fake 70s science fiction pulp covers – artwork and titles //cdm comments

#Learn


Major breakthrough on nuclear fusion energy //bbc comments

Nearly 1k mysterious strands revealed in Milky Way’s center //northwestern comments

What is the inverse of a circle? //mattferraro comments

Giant Pyrosome //oceana comments

Blueberry Earth or “what if the entire Earth was replaced with blueberries?“ //arxiv comments

Comparative Illusion //wikipedia comments

Starfish Prime //wikipedia comments

#Books


Open Textbook Initiative //aimath comments

PHP – The Right Way //phptherightway comments

Ask HN: Best books on managing software complexity? //ycombinator

Ask HN: What is one book you would recommend everyone to read? //ycombinator

Read “Data and Reality” //buttondown comments

Textbooks by the Faculty of the C.S. Department of Kansas State University //ksu comments

Practical Python Projects book now free to read online //yasoob comments

What If? 2: the book (by the author of Xkcd) //xkcd comments

A Medieval Book That Opens Six Different Ways //openculture comments

#Watching


Home-built Bugatti replica //youtube comments

Tesla FSD beta crashes into object //youtube comments

3Blue1Brown: The mathematically optimal Wordle strategy //youtube comments

How Amiga 500 RAM Probably Works //youtube comments

Veritasium: Busted //youtube comments

#Working


Amazon Pip Horror Story //linkedin comments

Interview questions to ask your interviewer //daveceddia comments

Managing People //klinger comments

Open Salary and Equity Database //topstartups comments

Compensation Data and Trends in the USA //sequoia comments

Deming's Red Bead Experiment //maaw comments

#Startup News


Peloton – A call for action [pdf] //blackwellscap comments

Peloton replaces CEO and lays off 2,800 people //cbc comments

Peter Thiel to step down from Meta’s board //nytimes comments

Cloudflare announces fourth quarter and fiscal year 2021 financial results //cloudflare comments

Amazon.com announces fourth quarter results [pdf] //q4cdn comments

#Fun


Mysterious aircraft spotted at Area 51 in satellite image //thedrive comments

Simutrans – Transport Simulator //simutrans comments

Three Magic Words //threemagicwords comments

Play Wordle from Your Terminal //crates comments

Flood-It game for Mac OS 9 – Released in 2021 //theztd comments

A daily math puzzle inspired by Wordle //mathler comments

Nine Letter Word – Daily Puzzle //nineletterwordgame comments

Wordle Image Maker //mcad comments

#Cutting Room Floor


The web starts on page four //christianheilmann comments

JetBlue A320 tail strike on takeoff, B350 in opposite direction //avherald comments

A Quick Introduction to R //github comments

Upcoming new HTTP QUERY method //ietf comments

Personal Stories about the TRS-80 //trs-80 comments

Angularis – like Tetris, but based on triangles //mondaybits comments

On Being Broke //substack comments

CadQuery –- A Python parametric CAD scripting framework based on OCCT //github comments

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