Friday, June 29, 2018

Hacker Newsletter #409

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Issue #409 // June 29, 2018 // View in your browser

Quick programming note - there won't be an issue next week. Hope everyone here in the U.S. of A. has a great Fourth (and for everyone else... a wonderful fourth as well)! –kale

#Favorites


Microsoft Azure - Bring your startup's ideas to life with a free account
//microsoft sponsored

The Machine Fired Me
//idiallo comments→

Apple Engineers Its Own Downfall with the Macbook Pro Keyboard
//ifixit comments→

Why nobody ever wins the car at the mall
//thehustle comments→

Facebook's patents show a commitment to collecting personal information
//nytimes comments→

The NSA's Hidden Spy Hubs in Eight U.S. Cities
//theintercept comments→

Firefox Developer Tools: Accessibility inspector
//mozilla comments→

The Legend of Nintendo
//bloomberg comments→

Bootstrapping an Online Fabric Shop and Growing to $20k per month
//starterstory comments→

Flights to Rome
//moovellab comments→

A closer look at Google Duplex
//techcrunch comments→

Break down of a C64 demo effect
//github comments→

What would happen if you had a golf ball that doubled in density once an hour?
//quora comments→

Looking for other newsletters to subscribe to? Smashing Magazine put out a great list.

#Ask HN


What are the things that you have automated in your personal life?

Have you shipped anything serious with a "serverless" architecture?

#Show HN


Material Dashboard – Free Admin for Bootstrap 4, React, Angular, Vue.js //github comments→

Mobile Airbag Deploy When Device Is Dropped //imgur comments→

Shotsnapp – Create beautiful device mockup presentation //shotsnapp comments→

Muzoti – Algorithmic Music with Web Audio/Midi and VueJS //muzoti comments→

#Code


B2blaze – A Backblaze B2 library for Python //github comments→

Python 3.7 released //python comments→

What I Learned Making My Own JIT Language //mikedrivendevelopment comments→

PostgreSQL Features You May Not Have Tried but Should //pgdash comments→

Anti-If: The missing patterns //joejag comments→

Rust 2018: an early preview //rust-lang comments→

Plume – WIP Federated Blog Engine with ActivityPub //github comments→

#Data


OpenAI Five //openai comments→

Backpropagation algorithm visual explanation //google-developers comments→

Berkeley Deep Drive Dataset //berkeley comments→

AI Can Smell Illnesses in Human Breath //nvidia comments→

I trained a neural network to write Kanji //otoro comments→

#Design


Mimicking the Bloomberg menu widget without JavaScript //github comments→

The Spacetime of Fine Art //nautil comments→

#Learn


One Island Grows 80% of the World's Vanilla //atlasobscura comments→

Negative Base //wikipedia comments→

The Board Game at the Heart of Viking Culture //atlasobscura comments→

Trachtenberg System for Rapid Mental Calculation //wikipedia comments→

#Books


The Vue.js Handbook – Free 120 pages ebook //vuehandbook comments→

Test-Driven Web Development with Python – The Book //obeythetestinggoat comments→

Ask HN: What are some great books that are relatively unknown in the US? //ycombinator

#Watching


How SQL Database Engines Work, by the Creator of SQLite //youtube comments→

DevTube: Searchable index of developer videos //dev comments→

A sad update about a scissors maker that went viral //kottke comments→

Two Vortex Rings Colliding in Slow Motion //youtube comments→

Plastic Injection Molding //youtube comments→

Shouting in the Datacenter //youtube comments→

Seximal: A better way to count //youtube comments→

#Working


Don't Provide Your References to a Recruiter Until After Your Last Interview //github comments→

How my role as CTO has changed as we've grown from 1 to 100 engineers //gusto comments→

Amazon Workers Facing Firing Can Appeal to a Jury of Their Co-Workers //bloomberg comments→

Southern Europe Has Not Seen Net Job Creation in over a Decade //thesoundingline comments→

Grand Rapids has become a midwestern economic star generating industrial jobs //city-journal comments→

#Longreads


Teens Who Hacked Microsoft's Xbox Empire and Went Too Far //wired comments→

Doing Windows, Part 1: MS-DOS and Its Discontents //filfre comments→

The Death of a Once Great City: The Fall of NYC and the Crisis of Urban Wealth //harpers comments→

Old in Art School //longreads comments→

#Startup News


Introducing A16Z Crypto //a16zcrypto comments→

Instagram Is Estimated to Be Worth More Than $100B //bloomberg comments→

Burger Robot Startup Opens First Restaurant //techcrunch comments→

#Fun


Tetris for Applesoft BASIC //paleotronic comments→

Rabbit Ear: a creative coding JavaScript library for designing origami //rabbitear comments→

How I had a bygone 72-pin connector remade just to play Duck Hunt //keacher comments→

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