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#Favorites

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

Framework Laptop Mainboard
//github comments→

Slow Social, a social network built for friends, not influencers
//slowsocial comments→

Canada bans foreign home buyers for two years
//axios comments→

An Account of the Shanghai Lockdown
//jaapgrolleman comments→

Turning scrap copper into beautiful crystals
//crystalverse comments→

Abandoned railroad routes in North America
//abandonedrails comments→

1x Programming
//tim comments→

Vancouver Zoning Map
//nicholsonroad comments→

DALL-E, the Metaverse, and Zero Marginal Content
//stratechery comments→

One-line drawings
//schollz comments→

#Ask HN

Internet magically gets faster when opening speedtest?

What’s a good laptop for software development at around $2k?

What hyper-focused industry newsletters do you enjoy?

#Show HN

Star Labs StarBook – AMD 14" Linux Laptop with coreboot and “Open warranty” //starlabs comments→

Column – a chartered bank for developers //column comments→

Make your PDF look scanned in browser //lookscanned comments→

BirdNET-Pi: Automated, locally run bird sound identification and tracking //birdnetpi comments→

I built a simulator for personal finance //projectionlab comments→

TX-6 – Teenage Engineering //teenage comments→

I created a collection of useful websites //insanelyusefulwebsites comments→

Minisleep – A Tiny Wiki Engine //halestrom comments→

Tipy – One Hand Keyboard //tipykeyboard comments→

#Code

Changing std:sort at Google’s scale and beyond //danlark comments→

The complete guide to protecting your APIs with OAuth2 //stackoverflow comments→

When to use generics //go comments→

The Unexpected Importance of the Trailing Slash //tookmund comments→

"q", a DNS query tool with support for UDP, TCP, DoT, DoH, DoQ and ODoH //github comments→

#Data

YDB – An open-source Distributed SQL Database //ydb comments→

How we upgraded our 4TB Postgres database //retool comments→

Analyzing iMessage with SQL //arctype comments→

Open Refine – working with messy data //openrefine comments→

#Design

Web color is still broken //webcolorisstillbroken comments→

Jack Dorsey’s $2.9M NFT dropped 99% in value //artnews comments→

What Artists Notice //stopa comments→

How to draw sub cutaways in MS Paint //hisutton comments→

#Learn

Mental speed is high until age sixty //nature comments→

A naked skydive inspired a way to keep pilots oriented in flight //military comments→

Interstellar object exploded over Earth in 2014, declassified govmt data reveal //livescience comments→

Primer: Statistical Armour //tanknology comments→

#Books

How to write more clearly, think more clearly, and learn complex material [pdf] //covingtoninnovations comments→

Ask HN: Good books on managing a hybrid/remote team? //ycombinator

Taiwan Military Issues Civil Defense Handbook [pdf] //mnd comments→

#Watching

Overhauling Mario 64's code to reach 30 FPS and render 6x faster on N64 //youtube comments→

A YouTuber purposely crashed his plane in California, FAA says //nytimes comments→

Drone footage of Tesla factory //youtube comments→

Overengineered Japanese Mechanical Pencils //youtube comments→

The most popular chess streamer on Twitch //newyorker comments→

Automation is the serialization of understanding //changelog comments→

#Working

When hiring developers, have the candidate read existing code //freakingrectangle comments→

The best engineering interview question I've ever gotten //github comments→

Netflix End of Series 1 //brendangregg comments→

#Startup News

Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to buy company //cnbc comments→

Insider Trading at Coinbase //twitter comments→

The Uber Bubble //braveneweurope comments→

Heroku Security Notification //heroku comments→

#Fun

27 years ago I accidentally ran the hardest, strangest Easter egg hunt //twitter comments→

Pounce: A multiplayer stealth game about hunting / tracking //pounce comments→

Can you be sure to clear a line at Tetris? //a3nm comments→

NandGame – Build a Computer from Scratch //nandgame comments→

The Dubious Art of the Dad Joke //jstor comments→

#Cutting Room Floor

Never hose out a Honda Element //fifthelementcamping comments→

‘Electric’ chopsticks that make food seem more salty //theguardian comments→

Differentiable Programming – A Simple Introduction //assemblyai comments→

Python’s “type hints” are a bit of a disappointment to me //uninformativ comments→

Vampire Attack Twitter //github comments→

K-Nearest Neighbors //pinecone comments→

How destructive are nuclear weapons really? //navalgazing comments→

How Swipe Typing Works //fleksy comments→

Taiwan should destroy TSMC if invaded, suggests US military paper //datacenterdynamics comments→

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