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Hacker Newsletter #714

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August 30, 11:17 am

Hacker Newsletter #714

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Issue #714 // 2024-08-30 // View in your browser

#Favorites


Automate Neon schema changes with Drizzle and GitHub Actions
//clerk.com sponsored

Bypassing airport security via SQL injection
//ian.sh comments

Diffusion models are real-time game engines
//gamengen.github.io comments

Did you lose your AirPods?
//alexyancey.com comments

Dokku: My favorite personal serverless platform
//hamel.dev comments

OpenAI is good at unminifying code
//glama.ai comments

You are not dumb, you just lack the prerequisites
//lelouch.dev comments

The secret inside One Million Checkboxes
//eieio.games comments

The Monospace Web
//owickstrom.github.io comments

Blitzortung – real time lightning strikes around the world
//blitzortung.org comments

Google's new pipe syntax in SQL
//simonwillison.net comments

Anthropic's Prompt Engineering Interactive Tutorial
//github.com comments

#Ask HN


What are you working on?

Why Is Stack Overflow Fading Away?

Did you regret staying at a job for too long?

#Show HN


Low Cost Mini PCs //lowcostminipcs.com comments

Hot Page – a graphical site builder //hot.page comments

A Ghidra extension for exporting parts of a program as object files //github.com comments

Homemade automated solar concentrator //github.com comments

Claude Artifacts but creating real web apps //gptengineer.app comments

A discovery-focused search engine for Hacker News //hn.trieve.ai comments

turn videos into ASCII art (open source, js+canvas) //collidingscopes.github.io comments

#Code


A Collection of Free Public APIs That Is Tested Daily //freepublicapis.com comments

Playing Sudoku in TypeScript while the type checker highlights mistakes //github.com comments

Typing lists and tuples in Elixir //elixir-lang.org comments

Golang Interpreter Written in PHP //github.com comments

Code review antipatterns //chiark.greenend.org.uk comments

Kubernetes the Harder Way //github.com comments

#Data


Vega – A declarative language for interactive visualization designs //vega.github.io comments

ChartDB – Free and open source, database design editor //chartdb.io comments

Ruby in Jupyter Notebook //nbviewer.org comments

Kotlin for data analysis //kotlinlang.org comments

Stripe Data vs. Open‐Source Alternatives: A MRR Example //github.com comments

Every open source tool from the "What's HN working on" thread //github.com comments

#Design


Web Design Museum //webdesignmuseum.org comments

Departure Mono – a monospaced pixel font with lo-fi technical vibe //departuremono.com comments

This behavior is by design //blog.gingerbeardman.com comments

#Books


Love them or hate them, this couple reign in Russian literature //nytimes.com comments

I published a book to save you from my software architecture mistakes //leanpub.com comments

Ask HN: What books should I read to improve as a software engineer? //news.ycombinator.com

'The Cheese and the Worms': Carlo Ginzburg Launches Microhistory //thereader.mitpress.mit.edu comments

The 2nd Edition of Designing Data Intensive Applications //oreilly.com comments

#Working


Australian employees now have the right to ignore work emails, calls after hours //reuters.com comments

A dishwasher can make or break a restaurant //washingtonpost.com comments

Why does getting a job in tech suck? //ryxcommar.com comments

Contempt for the glue people //surfingcomplexity.blog comments

Manager Antipatterns //blogs.newardassociates.com comments

Why you should fail our interview //otherbranch.com comments

#Learn


Cleaning up the aging brain: Scientists restore brain's trash disposal system //sciencedaily.com comments

What Life Means to Einstein (1929) [pdf] //saturdayeveningpost.com comments

Cleaning up after WWII //wwiiafterwwii.wordpress.com comments

This is MIT and yes, we have bananas //technologyreview.com comments

#Watching


NSA releases 1982 Grace Hopper lecture //nsa.gov comments

The Sustained Two Shot by Every Frame a Painting //youtube.com comments

Popular introduction to Huffman, arithmetic, ANS coding //youtube.com comments

#Startup News


Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team //mono-project.com comments

DOJ sues realpage for algorithmic pricing scheme that harms renters //justice.gov comments

Dutch DPA fines Uber €290M because of transfers of drivers’ data to the US //autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl comments

Judge dismisses majority of GitHub Copilot copyright claims //developer-tech.com comments

Nvidia Announces Financial Results for Second Quarter Fiscal 2025 //nvidianews.nvidia.com comments

#Fun


All text in Brooklyn //brooklyn.alltexts.nyc comments

Scanned page by page: 67 years worth of old Radio Shack catalogs //radioshackcatalogs.com comments

Catcher plays for both teams in same game //bbc.com comments

Pilet: A modular tablet-console based on pi5 with 7-hour battery life //soulscircuit.com comments

I made a game to show how bad the NYC rental market is //leaseswap.nyc comments