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Hacker Newsletter #716

Change is inevitable. Growth is optional. //John Maxwell

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#Sponsor


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#Favorites


How to succeed in MrBeast production (Leaked PDF)
//simonwillison comments→

Learning to Reason with LLMs
//openai comments→

Why wordfreq will not be updated
//github comments→

We spent $20 to achieve RCE and accidentally became the admins of .mobi
//labs.watchtowr comments→

Notes on OpenAI's new o1 chain-of-thought models
//simonwillison comments→

Why GitHub won
//blog.gitbutler comments→

Nothing: Simply Do Nothing
//usenothing comments→

Carpentopod: A Walking Table Project
//decarpentier comments→

Be a thermostat, not a thermometer
//larahogan comments→

They don't make 'em like that any more: the 3.5mm headphone jack socket
//kevinboone comments→

#Ask HN


Why is Pave legal?

Does anyone use sound effects in their dev environment?

How do you organize work as a solo developer?

How To: Internal Documentation?

#Show HN


iFixit created a new USB-C, repairable soldering system //hackaday comments→

Wealthfolio: Private, open-source investment tracker //wealthfolio comments→

Meet.hn – Meet the Hacker News community in your city //news.ycombinator

Infinity – Realistic AI characters that can speak //news.ycombinator

Konty – A Balsamiq-alternative lo-fi wireframe tool for modern apps //konty comments→

300μs typo detection for 1.3M words //trieve comments→

Repogather – copy relevant files to clipboard for LLM coding workflows //github comments→

Ultrafocus CLI to reclaim your time //github comments→

#Code


Windows NT vs. Unix: A design comparison //blogsystem5.substack comments→

A good day to trie-hard: saving compute 1% at a time //blog.cloudflare comments→

Reclaim the Stack //reclaim-the-stack comments→

Why Haskell? //gtf comments→

Techniques I use to create a great user experience for shell scripts //nochlin comments→

YourNextStore – an open-source Shopify with Stripe as the back end //github comments→

SQLite on Rails: The how and why of optimal performance //fractaledmind.github comments→

Why bother with argv[0]? //wietzebeukema comments→

#Data


Wordllama – Things you can do with the token embeddings of an LLM //github comments→

B-Trees and Database Indexes //planetscale comments→

Visual DB – Web front end for your database //visualdb comments→

Data Engineering Vault: A 1000 Node Second Brain for DE Knowledge //ssp.sh comments→

#Design


Atkinson Hyperlegible Font //brailleinstitute comments→

The Pentium as a Navajo Weaving //righto comments→

Comic Mono //dtinth.github comments→

What you can get out of a high-quality font //sinja comments→

Gnome Files: A detailed UI examination //datagubbe comments→

Things to know about the Great Wave //artic comments→

Diatom Arrangements //trebeljahr comments→

#Books


Google Illuminate: Books and papers turned into audio //illuminate.google comments→

I mapped HN's favorite books with GPT-4o //hnbooks.pieterma comments→

Ask HN: Must-Read Books for Startups? //news.ycombinator.com

Old Computing Books //computinghistory comments→

Chess Fun For Little Ones – An interactive book to introduce chess //chessfunforlittleones comments→

#Working


Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week //cnbc comments→

How to Lead Your Team When the House Is on Fire //peterszasz comments→

My job is to watch dreams die //old.reddit comments→

#Learn


Synthetic diamonds are now purer, more beautiful, and cheaper than mined //worksinprogress.co comments→

Cruise ships chopped in half are a license to print money //newatlas comments→

The first nuclear clock will test if fundamental constants change //quantamagazine comments→

If I could dissect a sauropod //svpow comments→

#Watching


Have you ever seen soldering this close? //youtube comments→

Krazam: High Agency Individual Contributor //youtube comments→

The Cheating Device (ChatGPT on a TI-84) //youtube comments→

Steve Ballmer: facts on the US federal budget //youtube comments→

Heavy Construction of a Sewage Pump Station – Ep 3 //youtube comments→

#Startup News


Apple mobile processors are now made in America by TSMC //timculpan.substack comments→

2M users but no money in the bank //exercism comments→

Independent directors of 23andMe resign from board //investors.23andme comments→

Apple must pay 13B euros in back taxes, EU's top court rules //cnbc comments→

A Post-Google World? //thebignewsletter comments→

Pivotal Tracker will shut down //pivotaltracker comments→

#Fun


A MiniGolf game for Palm OS //ctrl-c.club comments→

Core: an experimental new way to write videogames //github comments→

Hacker League – Open-Source Rocket League on Linux //github comments→

I made a digital circuit drawing and simulation game //github comments→

OpenScope Air Traffic Control Simulator //openscope comments→

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