Friday, August 3, 2018

Hacker Newsletter #413

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Issue #413 // August 03, 2018 // View in your browser

Lots of great posts this week, so grab a cup of coffee first. Hit reply and let me know something you've read and enjoyed lately. –kale

#Favorites


AWS re:Invent 2018 - Register Today
//amazon sponsored

A bootable CD image with a retro game in a single tweet
//quaxio comments→

Why I Ripped the Same CD 300 Times
//john-millikin comments→

Learning Dexterity
//openai comments→

Google Plans to Launch Censored Search Engine in China, Leaked Documents Reveal
//theintercept comments→

Some Amazon Reviews Are Too Good to Be Believed – They're Paid For
//npr comments→

Pyxel: A retro game development environment in Python
//github comments→

Tom Tryniski digitized nearly 50M pages of newspapers in his living room
//cjr comments→

Keep a Changelog
//keepachangelog comments→

Evolving Floorplans
//joelsimon comments→

From developer to entrepreneur: Learning to build an indie startup
//twomakers comments→

Facebook Lenses
//stratechery comments→

#Ask HN


As a CTO, what is your most frustrating problem with technical debt?

What "dumbphones" are available and viable in the US?

How to overcome fear of flying?

#Show HN


Refresh: concept for a new kind of web browser //refresh comments→

Zulip – Open-source, threading-based Slack alternative //zulipchat comments→

Make a business model canvas in your browser //github comments→

Code with Mu: a simple Python editor for beginner programmers //codewith comments→

Taskbook: Like Trello but for the Terminal //github comments→

Standup tool that works like Snapchat stories for remote teams //standups comments→

Kontext – Learn new words by watching movies in a foreign language //kontext comments→

Txxt.app – an ultra simple SMS notepad //txxt comments→

#Code


Learn how to write an emulator //emulator101 comments→

Grain: A strongly-typed functional programming language for the modern web //grain-lang comments→

Parinfer – Simpler Lisp Editing //github comments→

Termgraph: Python CLI Tool to Draw Graphs //github comments→

Glances: cross-platform system monitoring tool written in Python //github comments→

Page Lifecycle API //google comments→

How to read an RFC //mnot comments→

Prospecting for Hash Functions //nullprogram comments→

Understanding JavaScript Objects //halolabs comments→

#Data


Learning Math for Machine Learning //ycombinator comments→

Jason's Machine Learning 101 //google comments→

GitLab is working on a tool just for data teams //gitlab comments→

Google's AutoML: Cutting Through the Hype //fast comments→

Wikipedia2Vec – A tool for learning embeddings of words and entities //github comments→

#Design


Evolving the Firefox Brand //mozilla comments→

Building a Kickass Portfolio //zen-of-programming comments→

Web Typography Resources //betterwebtype comments→

StyleURL – Edit CSS via Chrome Devtools and turn the diff into a gist //styleurl comments→

#Learn


Melatonin: Much More Than You Wanted to Know //lesswrong comments→

Why a Typical Home Solar Setup Does Not Work with the Grid Down //syonyk comments→

Turbo Button //wikipedia comments→

Launch loop //wikipedia comments→

Color or Fruit? The Unlikely Etymology of "Orange" //lithub comments→

Trout Tickling //wikipedia comments→

#Books


Bandit Algorithms Book [pdf] //tor-lattimore comments→

Books found in dumpster belonged to Thomas Jefferson //msn comments→

Tsundoku: The art of buying books and never reading them //bbc comments→

The Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction //interaction-design comments→

Selfie: new book explores how we became so self-obsessed //vox comments→

#Watching


A Rogue Tesla Mechanic Resurrecting Salvaged Cars //youtube comments→

Light Painting Machine //youtube comments→

Life of an Airline Flight //systemswe comments→

Elliptic orbits explained by Albert Baez //youtube comments→

#Working


Ask HN: Who is hiring? //ycombinator

Almost 80% of US workers live from paycheck to paycheck //theguardian comments→

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

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? //ycombinator

#Longreads


How LeBron James' new public school is the first of its kind //sbnation comments→

A time in 1994 when Steve Jobs got to use a device like an iPhone //cake comments→

The Four Thieves Vinegar Collective //vice comments→

"I Have a Secret. My Father Is Steve Jobs" //vanityfair comments→

How Silicon Valley Became a Den of Spies //politico comments→

#Fun


Sonic Pi: Compose electronic music with code //sonic-pi comments→

Mandalagaba – Create mandalas and tessellations online //mandalagaba comments→

The ArdaCraft project seeks to recreate Tolkien's Middle-earth in Minecraft //ardacraft comments→

China's bike sharing bubble has burst – drone photography captures casualties //scmp comments→

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