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Hacker Newsletter #718

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October 11, 1:15 pm

Hacker Newsletter #718

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Issue #718 // 2024-10-11 // View in your browser

#Favorites


How to add an Onboarding Flow for your Next.js application
//clerk.com sponsored

Bop Spotter
//walzr.com comments

I Am Tired of AI
//ontestautomation.com comments

Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT
//openai.com comments

A $1k Wheelchair
//newmobility.com comments

NotebookLM's automatically generated podcasts are surprisingly effective
//simonwillison.net comments

Getting my daily news from a dot matrix printer
//aschmelyun.com comments

Helping wikis move away from Fandom
//weirdgloop.org comments

Do AI companies work?
//benn.substack.com comments

Terminal colours are tricky
//jvns.ca comments

HTML for People
//htmlforpeople.com comments

#Ask HN


What are you working on?

Should you reply STOP to unwanted texts?

Any good essays/books/advice about software sales?

#Show HN


DeskPad – A virtual monitor for screen sharing //github.com comments

A real time AI video agent with under 1 second of latency //news.ycombinator.com

qrframe – generate beautiful qr codes with javascript code //github.com comments

Tenno – Markdown and JavaScript = a hybrid of Word and Excel //tenno.app comments

JSON For You – Visualize JSON in graph or table views //github.com comments

htmgo - build simple and scalable systems with golang + htmx //htmgo.dev comments

#Code


Git-absorb: Git commit –fixup, but automatic //github.com comments

Hy 1.0 – Lisp dialect for Python //github.com comments

Kotlin Money //blog.eriksen.com.br comments

Some Go web dev notes //jvns.ca comments

Everything you need to know about Python 3.13 – JIT and GIL went up the hill //drew.silcock.dev comments

#Data


Sq.io: jq for databases and more //sq.io comments

How Discord stores trillions of messages //discord.com comments

JSON For You – Visualize JSON in graph or table views //github.com comments

Phrase matching in Marginalia Search //marginalia.nu comments

How we built ngrok's data platform //ngrok.com comments

#Design


Meta Movie Gen //ai.meta.com comments

Nearly all of the Google images results for "baby peacock" are AI generated //twitter.com comments

A DIY photographer built his own full-frame camera and open-sourced the project //dpreview.com comments

Ask HN: Anyone learned art (drawing, caricature etc.) as an adult? //news.ycombinator.com

#Books


Amusing Ourselves to Death //web.archive.org comments

The Book of Kells, now digitized and available online //openculture.com comments

Ask HN: What's the "best" book you've ever read? //news.ycombinator.com

The Copenhagen Book: general guideline on implementing auth in web applications //thecopenhagenbook.com comments

The Little Typer //thelittletyper.com comments

#Working


Ask HN: Who is hiring? //news.ycombinator.com

Ask HN: Who is pretending to be hiring? //news.ycombinator.com

When To Do What You Love //paulgraham.com comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? //news.ycombinator.com

#Learn


An adult fruit fly brain has been mapped //economist.com comments

American WWII bomb explodes at Japanese airport, causing large crater in taxiway //cnn.com comments

What excessive screen time does to the adult brain //longevity.stanford.edu comments

Moving Bricks: Money-laundering practices in the online scam industry //globalchinapulse.net comments

#Watching


Is the world really running out of sand? //practical.engineering comments

How electric trains work and why they make interesting sounds //youtube.com comments

Make Pottery at Home Without a Kiln (Or Anything Else) //youtube.com comments

How can a jigsaw have two distinct solutions? //youtube.com comments

Rails 8: It's more fun to be competent //youtube.com comments

#Startup News


Patent troll Sable pays up, dedicates all its patents to the public //blog.cloudflare.com comments

WordPress.org bans WP Engine //techcrunch.com comments

SpaceX launches mission for 2 NASA astronauts who are stuck on the ISS //apnews.com comments

AI chipmaker Cerebras files for IPO //cnbc.com comments

#Fun


Why does man print "gimme gimme gimme" at 00:30? //unix.stackexchange.com comments

Noise //noise.jake.fun comments

I made a game you can play without anyone knowing (no visuals/sound) //apps.apple.com comments

Pooltool: A sandbox billiards game that emphasizes realistic physics //github.com comments