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Issue #585 // January 07, 2022 // View in your browser

#Favorites


Airtable: Connect everything. Achieve anything.
//airtable sponsored

Google no longer producing high quality search results in significant categories
//twitter comments

Elizabeth Holmes found guilty
//axios comments

Fixing stutters in Papers Please on Linux
//jhm comments

We need to reclaim our attention
//theguardian comments

Ten Years of Logging My Life
//chaidarun comments

Hacking a VW Golf Power Steering ECU
//willemmelching comments

How Dwarf Fortress is built
//stackoverflow comments

How I took my SaaS from idea to sold in 14 months
//masilotti comments

Why might you run your own DNS server?
//jvns comments

Hacker Laws
//github comments

Gameboy CT scan – design lessons learned
//scanofthemonth comments

Midwest Developer
//lanie comments

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#Show HN


Zotero: Free, easy-to-use tool to collect, organize, cite, and share research //zotero comments

Darling – Run Mac apps on Linux //darlinghq comments

OnlyRecipe.app – Remove clutter from recipe sites //onlyrecipe comments

Clone your voice and speak a foreign language //coqui comments

OpenDrop: An open Apple AirDrop implementation written in Python //github comments

Portmaster – Open-source network monitor and firewall //safing comments

Papers We Love //paperswelove comments

RSS-Bridge – The RSS feed for websites missing it //github comments

#Code


The joy of building a ray tracer, for fun, in Rust //singleton comments

A Review of the Zig Programming Language //duskborn comments

How to mentor software engineers //xdg comments

Go Fuzzing //golang comments

No code reviews by default //raycast comments

Stripe is open-sourcing the Sorbet (Ruby) VS Code Extension //sorbet comments

#Learn


Smartbolts //smartbolts comments

Jerrycan //wikipedia comments

Neural network from scratch //sirupsen comments

Turboencabulator //wikipedia comments

#Books


Summary of Atomic Habits //chrisbehan comments

Book Review: “Viral” by Alina Chan and Matt Ridley //scottaaronson comments

Book Review: The Future of Fusion Energy //kleppmann comments

Read J.D. Salinger’s first short story to feature Holden Caufield //lithub comments

#Watching


FAA investigating controversial crash video //avweb comments

We're two middle school teachers learning and teaching Python //teachingpython comments

Statistical Rethinking //youtube comments

#Working


“Play-to-Earn” and Bullshit Jobs //paulbutler comments

I took a job at Amazon, only to leave after 10 months //benadam comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? //ycombinator

Ask HN: How to find a job in 2021 if I dislike remote? //ycombinator

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

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? //ycombinator

#Fun


The UX on this small child is terrible //mcsweeneys comments

Burn My Windows //github comments

Real-Time Tokyo Subway Map //minitokyo3d comments

Update: iPhone Camera app did not replace person's head with a leaf //twitter comments

My Many Girlfriends //thedailywtf comments

ISS Docking Simulator //spacex comments

Starlink works great until the cats find out that it gives off heat //twitter comments

Burglar simulation “The Clou” from 1994 ported right in the the browser //netlify comments

Multiplayer Wikipedia Racer //vercel comments