March 3, 2024

👋 Today in HN - 2024-03-03

Good Morning, Hackers! Here are today's top stories:

1. CS 6120: Advanced Compilers: The Self-Guided Online Course
   
   
2. ShotSpotter: listening in on the neighborhood
   
   
3. David Holladay, blindness technology pioneer, dies at age 70
   
   
4. Byte Interviews the Apple Lisa Dev Team (1983)
   
   
5. Zoomable, translated version of the 15th century Mappa Mundi
   
   
6. Laurie Anderson on making AI chatbot of Lou Reed: 100%, sadly addicted
   
   
7. An Apple district manager's Macintosh Portable in 1989-91 (featuring GEIS Apple
   
   
8. How user groups made software reuse a reality
   
   
9. Ask HN: How can I learn about performance optimization?
   
   
10. The Substantiality of Spirit: Georgiana Houghton's Pictures from the Other Side
    
    
11. Algorithmic Thinking (2nd Edition)
    
    
12. First known photos of 'lost bird' captured by scientists
    
    
13. An Unbelievable Demo
    
    
14. What was life – and death – like for Roman legionaries?
    
    
15. Sequent Calculus as a Compiler Intermediate Language (2016) [pdf]
    
    
16. Telegram for America (1956)
    
    
17. Price fixing by algorithm is still price fixing
    
    
18. Sorting the Self: Assessments and the cult of personality
    
    
19. Wintergatan Marble Machine (2016) [video]
    
    
20. Ente: Open-Source, E2E Encrypted, Google Photos Alternative
    
    
21. Goodbye GUI … Hello NUI (1997)
    
    
22. Megaparsec Tutorial
    
    
23. Learning Theory from First Principles [pdf]
    
    
24. Writing a Minecraft server from scratch in Bash (2022)
    
    
25. Generating transparent images using Stable Diffusion XL
    
    
26. Mathematicians prove Pólya's conjecture for the eigenvalues of a disk
    
    
27. The Humbugs of the World (1866)
    
    
28. Ancient Texts Can Shed Light on Auroras
    
    
29. Under the Microscope: Three Dirty Dwarves
    
    
30. Homeless Mortality Data