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Hacker Newsletter #727

I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring. //David Bowie

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Issue #727 // 2025-01-03 // View in your browser

Happy New Year - looking forward to 2025 with you all! – kale

#Favorites


The daily version of Hacker Newsletter
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Happy New Year 2025
//news.ycombinator.com comments→

Things we learned about LLMs in 2024
//simonwillison.net comments→

Fish 4.0: The Fish of Theseus
//fishshell.com comments→

I keep turning my Google Sheets into phone-friendly webapps
//arstechnica.com comments→

I automated my job application process
//blog.daviddodda.com comments→

An Unreasonable Amount of Time
//allenpike.com comments→

Rails for everything
//literallythevoid.com comments→

Morris Chang and the Origins of TSMC
//construction-physics.com comments→

Building Game Prototypes with LÖVE
//healeycodes.com comments→

Zildjian, a 400-year-old cymbal-making company in Massachusetts
//wbur.org comments→

How and Why I Stopped Buying New Laptops
//solar.lowtechmagazine.com comments→

I still don't think companies serve you ads based on your microphone
//simonwillison.net comments→

#Ask HN


Where to Work After 40?

Does the Framework laptop stand the test of time?

What's Your Morning Routine?

#Show HN


Where can you go in Europe by train in 8h? //chronotrains.com comments→

Orbit by Mozilla //orbitbymozilla.com comments→

Watch 3 AIs compete in real-time stock trading //trading.snagra.com comments→

Anki AI Utils //github.com comments→

Digital gardens people maintain outside the "Big Tech" walled gardens //blogscroll.com comments→

Chorus, a Mac app that lets you chat with a bunch of AIs at once //melty.sh comments→

Kando – A cross-platform pie menu for your desktop //kando.menu comments→

#Code


MitmProxy2Swagger: Automagically reverse-engineer REST APIs //github.com comments→

API Parrot – Automatically Reverse Engineer HTTP APIs //apiparrot.com comments→

How I run LLMs locally //abishekmuthian.com comments→

Ruby 3.4 Highlights //blog.sinjakli.co.uk comments→

Performance of LLMs on Advent of Code 2024 //jerpint.io comments→

#Data


Databases in 2024: A Year in Review //cs.cmu.edu comments→

Fun facts about SQLite //avi.im comments→

Advent of Code 2024 in pure SQL //databasearchitects.blogspot.com comments→

My 25-year adventure in AI and ML //austinhenley.com comments→

#Design


Pigment Mixing into Digital Painting //scrtwpns.com comments→

Darktable 5.0.0 //darktable.org comments→

Most people don't care about quality //shkspr.mobi comments→

For four years, I photographed, indexed and classified my entire house //katalog-barbaraiweins.com comments→

#Books


Books I Loved Reading in 2024 //thoughts.wyounas.com comments→

“A Course of Pure Mathematics” – G. H. Hardy (1921) [pdf] //gutenberg.org comments→

The Nvidia Way //thechipletter.substack.com comments→

Standard Ebooks Public Domain Day 2025 in Literature //standardebooks.org comments→

A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh as an accessible eBook //tilde.zone comments→

Readest: An immersive eBook reader for deep reading //github.com comments→

#Working


Ask HN: Are you unable to find employment? //news.ycombinator.com

Ask HN: Who is hiring? //news.ycombinator.com

Dropbox Engineering Career Framework //dropbox.github.io comments→

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? //news.ycombinator.com

Glue Work Considered Harmful //seangoedecke.com comments→

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? //news.ycombinator.com

#Learn


'Obelisks': New class of life has been found in human digestive system //sciencealert.com comments→

How AI is unlocking ancient texts //nature.com comments→

Exercise may be the 'most potent medical intervention ever known' //pbs.org comments→

#Watching


38C3: Illegal Instructions //media.ccc.de comments→

Visual Algebra //math.clemson.edu comments→

I Built a Lego Treadmill That Moves in Every Direction //youtube.com comments→

#Startup News


Google's Results Are Infested, Open AI Is Using Their Playbook from the 2000s //chuckwnelson.com comments→

Deepseek: The quiet giant leading China’s AI race //chinatalk.media comments→

OpenAI’s board, paraphrased: ‘All we need is unimaginable sums of money’ //daringfireball.net comments→

Apple and Meta go to war over interoperability vs. privacy //techcrunch.com comments→

Bench to be acquired after abruptly shutting down //techcrunch.com comments→

Everything Google killed in 2024: 8 new entries to the Google Graveyard //androidpolice.com comments→

#Fun


DOOM CAPTCHA //doom-captcha.vercel.app comments→

WebGL Fluid Simulation //paveldogreat.github.io comments→

Jack Elam and the Fly in 'Once Upon a Time in the West' //pov.imv.au.dk comments→

Amiga Games Released in 2024 Index //lemonamiga.com comments→

Cave Adventure 1976 PICO-8 port //lexaloffle.com comments→

Dyson Swarm Game //compellingsciencefiction.com comments→

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