Hacker Newsletter - Hacker Newsletter #494

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Issue #494 // March 06, 2020 // View in your browser

Are you putting on a virtual conference this year? Let me know and I'll list some of them in the next issue. kale

#Favorites


Datadog's monitoring platform allows engineers to correlate and unify data across their entire stack from their metrics, traces, and logs in a single platform
//datadog sponsored

SETI@home shuts down after 21 years
//bleepingcomputer comments

Firefox is showing the way back to a world that’s private by default
//theverge comments

A two-person startup already uses twenty-eight other tools
//acrossapp comments

Using Anki to remember what you read
//substack comments

Introduction to D3
//observablehq comments

Wildcard: Spreadsheet-Driven Customization of Web Applications
//geoffreylitt comments

Economists study what happens when people stop using Facebook
//calnewport comments

Musicians algorithmically generate melodies, release them to public domain
//vice comments

Seeing the Smoke
//putanumonit comments

#Ask HN


Good ways to capture institutional knowledge?

How to Take Good Notes?

#Show HN


Profit Hunt - Get inspired by profitable online projects //profithunt comments

Radiooooo – The Music Time Machine //radiooooo comments

Monitoror – Unified monitoring wallboard //monitoror comments

Jitsi Meet: open-source video conferencing //jit comments

A collection of support replies to make your support stand out //supportexamples comments

#Code


A half-hour to learn Rust //fasterthanli comments

Rome: An experimental JavaScript toolchain //github comments

New Features in Java 14 //oracle comments

Advanced usage of Python requests: timeouts, retries, hooks //findwork comments

Morel: A Functional Language for Data //hydromatic comments

#Data


Postgres Explain Visualizer //github comments

Facebook's Download-Your-Data Tool Is Incomplete //privacyinternational comments

Aleph: A suite of data analysis tools for investigators //alephdata comments

Johns Hopkins Covid-19 Github Data Repo //github comments

#Design


Stop using Material Design text fields //matsuko comments

This Artwork Does Not Exist //thisartworkdoesnotexist comments

BMW’s new flat logo is everything that’s wrong with modern logo design //theverge comments

#Learn


Pizza Effect //wikipedia comments

Decision fatigue //wikipedia comments

United States National Radio Quiet Zone //wikipedia comments

#Books


Draft of the Fast.ai Book //github comments

Learn Awk by Example //github comments

Algorithms from Bishop's ML book implemented in Python //github comments

#Watching


Explaining copyright broke the YouTube copyright system //nyu comments

Crash Bandicoot Hacked the Original Playstation //youtube comments

#Working


Ask HN: Who is hiring? //ycombinator

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

The Tulsa Remote Worker Experiment //citylab comments

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? //ycombinator

#Fun


Clear Your Terminal in Style //adammusciano comments

Spreadsheet Horror Stories //eusprig comments

Love Zombies? Thank the Public Domain //archive comments

Planetary – a music sequencer that looks like a simple landscape //infovore comments

Cartographers Have Been Hiding Covert Illustrations Inside Official Maps //aiga comments

Word Champions, a word game written in ClojureScript //danieljanus comments

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