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Issue #595 // March 18, 2022 // View in your browser

#Favorites


Airtable: Connect everything. Achieve anything.
//airtable sponsored

US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent
//twitter comments

Why is it hard to buy things that work well?
//danluu comments

How our free plan stays free
//tailscale comments

A short conversation with a bank
//danhon comments

How To Do Less
//alexturek comments

Goldilocks Zone Finder – Find your ideal climate
//lukechampine comments

Don't ask to ask, just ask
//dontasktoask comments

How on earth I became an entrepreneur
//deepsouthventures comments

Show HN: Instantly create a GitHub repository to take screenshots of a web page
//simonwillison comments

Scan of the Month: Food Packaging
//scanofthemonth comments

A digital circuit simulator written in sed
//fideo comments

Celebrate tiny learning milestones
//jvns comments

#Ask HN


Full-text browser history search forever?

How can I prepare for hard economic times?

#Show HN


HN Avatars in 357 bytes //ycombinator comments

Zotero 6 //zotero comments

HeyWhatsThat – Calculate viewshed and panorama for any point on Earth //heywhatsthat comments

System – A resource that aims to explain how everything in the world is related //system comments

Plasticity Is CAD for Artists //github comments

Goosh //goosh comments

Google Maps Shadow Calculator //shadowcalculator comments

#Code


TUIs //github comments

Lapce – Fast open-source code editor //lapce comments

How to Design Better APIs //bluethl comments

How to use undocumented web APIs //jvns comments

Microsoft GW-Basic Interpreter Source Code //github comments

When or If //meyerweb comments

#Data


Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster //adamdrake comments

Introduction to K-Means Clustering //pinecone comments

A visual introduction to machine learning //r2d3 comments

NY energy grid: Real-time dashboard //nyiso comments

Home Depot Finds DIY Success with Vector Search //datanami comments

#Design


Typography is impossible //medium comments

Using Hamburger Menus? Try Sausage Links //tdarb comments

New cars make me want to Saab //theoutline comments

#Learn


In-flight surgery with a coat-hanger and silverware //wikipedia comments

Is there a functional reason for wizards to live in towers so often? //stackexchange comments

Negative temperature //wikipedia comments

This Is the Boke of Cokery //wikipedia comments

#Books


A non-standard book list for software developers //mihaiolteanu comments

Technical Time Travel: On Vintage Programming Books //tiemoko comments

Awful Library Books //awfullibrarybooks comments

#Watching


Modern movies teach us awful lessons //youtube comments

A volumetric display using an acoustically trapped particle //youtube comments

William Blake's printing process //youtube comments

Lenia – Mathematical Life Forms //vimeo comments

#Working


On Being Indispensable //sofingagile comments

Spending more on retaining developers reduces the cost of hiring developers //devgenius comments

CEO demanded all employees return full-time to the office. Only half showed up //yahoo comments

Levels of Technical Leadership //dr-knz comments

Diary of a first-time on-call engineer //thenewstack comments

#Startup News


DigitalOcean acquires CSS-tricks //css-tricks comments

AMD is now worth more than Intel //seekingalpha comments

AngelList Venture Raises $100M on a $4B Valuation //angellist comments

Google Cloud to acquire Mandiant for $5.4B //googlecloudpresscorner comments

#Fun


Veloren is a multiplayer voxel RPG written in Rust //veloren comments

IBM open sources fully-functional Lego microscope design //medium comments

RP2040 Doom //github comments

Roland 50 Studio //roland50 comments

#Cutting Room Floor


A beginner's guide to intermittent fasting //jamesclear comments

I can no longer compile my first Flash game //devtails comments

S.e.p.i.a. – Digital voice assistant //github comments

How Does This End? //carnegieendowment comments

To avoid Finland’s tax a 1,000HP imported Hennessey RAM is limited to 55MPH //thedrive comments

Old Age and Creativity //inference-review comments

What's my place in the world population? //population comments

QR Date – signed timestamps inside for verifying dates //qrdate comments

Smartknob – an open-source input device //github comments

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