April 6, 2024

👋 Today in HN - 2024-04-06

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

1. What I think about when I edit (2019)
   
   
2. A History of Source Control Systems: SCCS and RCS
   
   
3. I am not a supplier – Musings about software
   
   
4. The 37signals Guide to Internal Communication
   
   
5. SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine
   
   
6. NIST researchers use cellphone compass to measure glucose
   
   
7. World_sim: LLM prompted to act as a sentient CLI universe simulator
   
   
8. C++ Insights – See your source code with the eyes of a compiler
   
   
9. Why CockroachDB doesn't use EvalPlanQual
   
   
10. 65 years ago, America announced the names of its first astronauts
    
    
11. Postgres locks explorer
    
    
12. Oh No Robot: Comics search
    
    
13. Twenty years maintaining the WiX Toolset
    
    
14. The Wide Awakes: A 19th century club of cape-wearing anti-slavery activists
    
    
15. SLAC completes construction of the largest digital camera built for astronomy
    
    
16. Blink to Generate Power for Smart Contact Lenses
    
    
17. Emacs bug: describe-key and lambda too poetic
    
    
18. Interview with a blind developer on how he works (2017)
    
    
19. Starting the Journey (2022)
    
    
20. The Secret Lives of Ernest Beaux
    
    
21. NASA is working on new clock for the Moon
    
    
22. Fortran on WebAssembly
    
    
23. Scientists may have discovered a flaw in their understanding of dark energy
    
    
24. Autonomous Overhead Powerline Recharging for Uninterrupted Drone Operations [video]
    
    
25. The "Eisenhower matrix" productivity hack
    
    
26. Debugging (2003)
    
    
27. Ownership in Rust
    
    
28. Ask HN: What is the most useless project you have worked on?
    
    
29. Show HN: Kyoo – Self-hosted media browser (Jellyfin/Plex alternative)
    
    
30. Anatomy of a credit card rewards program