Grist – Open core alternative to Airtable and Google Sheets — and A Saudi woman's iPhone revealed hacking around the world

Issue #683 — February 20, 2022

You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer.

1

Grist – Open core alternative to Airtable and Google Sheets github.com \| points: 524 \| comments: 99

2

A Saudi woman’s iPhone revealed hacking around the world reuters.com \| points: 345 \| comments: 158

3

Facebook Shadow Profiles [pdf] cesifo.org \| points: 310 \| comments: 140

4

Jujutsu – A Git-compatible DVCS that is both simple and powerful github.com \| points: 281 \| comments: 115

5

Ask HN: Do you find working on large distributed systems exhausting? news.ycombinator.com \| points: 261 \| comments: 207

Our sponsors make this possible. Please support us by supporting them:

Build your dream CSV importer in minutes

Messy spreadsheets, UTF-8 encoding, Python import scripts, importing data is a pain! That’s why we built Embeds. Build a production-ready data importer complete with complex validation, automatic data mapping, and an intuitive UX in minutes.

Your side-project here? Contact us for more info

6

Show HN: Sioyek – PDF viewer for reading research papers and textbooks github.com \| points: 221 \| comments: 73

7

We shouldn’t push a positive mindset on those in poverty psyche.co \| points: 216 \| comments: 423

8

Safari now supports File System Access API with private origin webkit.org \| points: 215 \| comments: 74

9

‘Zero-click’ hacks are growing in popularity bloombergquint.com \| points: 187 \| comments: 329

10

Logging at Twitter blog.twitter.com \| points: 187 \| comments: 118

11

C meeting is over. C23 added: twitter.com \| points: 186 \| comments: 267

12

Brain doesn’t slow down until your 60s – later than we thought newscientist.com \| points: 162 \| comments: 58

13

The brain’s reading of the body’s state is key to mental health psyche.co \| points: 154 \| comments: 49

14

How to set up a blog with Hugo and Cloudflare, and why you should smaller.fish \| points: 154 \| comments: 141

15

“The Wall” Housing Structure In Fermont, Quebec houseporn.ca \| points: 153 \| comments: 78

16

Tell HN: I got 10x Hetzner storage at the same price news.ycombinator.com \| points: 149 \| comments: 118

17

Show HN: Wordle over DNS dgl.cx \| points: 144 \| comments: 16

18

Faster Python calculations with Numba pythonspeed.com \| points: 141 \| comments: 63

19

Thoughts on Intel software-defined silicon lwn.net \| points: 141 \| comments: 70

20

ZX Spectrum at 40: a look back nme.com \| points: 133 \| comments: 67

This digest was generated for you on 20 February, 6:04am for delivery at 7:00am and contains the top 20 stories between 19 February, 2:00am and 20 February, 2:00am

Your next delivery is on Monday, 21 February at 7:00am. Adjust these settings.

Privacy Policy \| Instant Unsubscribe \| Settings \| hello@hndigest.com

Happy 15th birthday Hacker News — Scientist busts myths about how humans burn calories — and Amazon sent the FBI to take my family’s bank accounts

Friday, February 18, 2022

Issue #682 — Top 20 stories of February 19, 2022 Issue #682 — February 19, 2022 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer. 1

Worldle — A new wave of Linux applications — and Apple's custom NVMes are amazingly fast – if you don't care about data integrity

Thursday, February 17, 2022

Issue #681 — Top 20 stories of February 18, 2022 Issue #681 — February 18, 2022 You receive this email because you are subscribed to Hacker News Digest. You can open it in the browser if you prefer. 1

Grist – Open core alternative to Airtable and Google Sheets — and A Saudi woman's iPhone revealed hacking around the world

Build your dream CSV importer in minutes

Older messages

Happy 15th birthday Hacker News — Scientist busts myths about how humans burn calories — and Amazon sent the FBI to take my family’s bank accounts

Worldle — A new wave of Linux applications — and Apple's custom NVMes are amazingly fast – if you don't care about data integrity

Google Search Is Dying — City Generator — and Tell HN: I let my 6-year-old daughter design my website

White hat hacker awarded $2M for fixing ETH-creation bug — and I have never read a business plan or balance sheet

Discord is a black hole for information — and Growing a mango tree from seed – one year time lapse [video]

You Might Also Like

Dissecting 'architecting for fast, sustainable flow'

Improved tree-shaking in Rollup; Node v22.1.0; Deno 1.43; npm feedback; npm script runner; refactori

What to expect at Google I/O 2024

Critical UNPATCHED Tinyproxy Flaw Opens Over 50,000 Hosts to Remote Code Execution

Post from Syncfusion Blogs on 05/07/2024

Edge 393: Understanding Planning Techniques in Autonomous Agents

Not Your Grandpa’s Hearing Device

Everything Apple will announce today

Learn How To Backlink Like a Pro, newsletterest1!

iPhone Slim 📱, more Tesla layoffs 🚗, measuring engineering productivity 👨‍💻