Hacker Newsletter #484

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Issue #484 // December 20, 2019 // View in your browser

We'll be taking next week off for Christmas and will see everyone in 2020! kale

#Favorites


Having Kids
//paulgraham comments

Challenging projects every programmer should try
//utk comments

SQL Murder Mystery
//knightlab comments

Building a new Windows 3.1 app in 2019: A Slack Client
//yeokhengmeng comments

Unbearable news
//zainamro comments

How Tracking Pixels Work
//jvns comments

Cliff Stoll, the mad scientist who invented the art of hunting hackers
//wired comments

Best Practices for Designing a Pragmatic RESTful API
//vinaysahni comments

Bill Atkinson: Reflections on the 40th anniversary of my joining Apple
//folklore comments

Writing web-based interactive fiction with Ink
//inklestudios comments

Work Is a Queue of Queues
//amontalenti comments

#Ask HN


How Can I Learn Music Theory?

CS, still a good career in 3-5 years?

#Classifieds


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Weglot - The easiest way to translate a website
//weglot

Undead Institute - Learn web development, smash the zombie horde, & get a free HTML cheatsheet
//undead

Smart Google Analytics monitoring — Custom & Real-Time alerts
//statsglitch

Locate website visitors by IP Address
//ipdata

#Show HN


Hammerspoon – macOS automation with Lua //hammerspoon comments

Floatplane – Linus Tech Tips launches their own video hosting platform //floatplane comments

Tell HN: I grew Visa List to $5k per month in a year //ycombinator comments

A guitar tab viewer that listens //fatpick comments

Krabby – A keyboard interface to the web, inspired by Kakoune //netlify comments

HNTerm – Browse Hacker News in the Terminal //github comments

Run – Easily manage and invoke small scripts and wrappers //github comments

#Code


State of JavaScript 2019 //stateofjs comments

Killersheep – Silly game to show off the new features of Vim 8.2 //github comments

Lisp Macros by Example //stopa comments

Poetry – Dependency Management for Python – v1.0 //github comments

Framework Patterns //startifact comments

Pg_query: Parse PostgreSQL Queries in Ruby //pganalyze comments

#Design


Happy Hues – Curated colors in context //happyhues comments

The Cybertruck is not brutalist //inverse comments

#Learn


Cyc //wikipedia comments

A Tesla Valve //wikipedia comments

4.2 Kiloyear Event //wikipedia comments

Zugzwang //wikipedia comments

Chesapeake Bay Impact Crater //wikipedia comments

#Books


Ask HN: Books you plan to read in 2020? //ycombinator

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs – JavaScript Adaptation //nus comments

Database Internals //databass comments

Books on Thinking About Thinking //bloomberg comments

Ask HN: Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2019? //ycombinator

Ask HN: Fun Tech Book Recommendations? //ycombinator

Book Review: All Therapy Books //slatestarcodex comments

#Watching


Over 100 PBS local stations start streaming on YouTube TV //techcrunch comments

Best Illusion of the Year Contest - 2019 Finalists //illusionoftheyear comments

"Don't Try": The Philosophy of the Hardworking Charles Bukowski //openculture comments

GitHub Actions is my new favorite free programming tool //bytesized comments

#Working


A hiring test I'd like to run //shkspr comments

Biggest list of fully remote, 100% distributed companies //remotemasters comments

CalmJobs.io – Work with companies who values work-life balance //calmjobs comments

#Startup News


JetBrains: $270M revenue, 405K paying users, $0 raised //twitter comments

SF wants startups to behave, so why did it reject the 'nice guy' of e-scooters? //sfchronicle comments

Nuclear fusion startup raises $100M to design and build a demo power plant //bloomberg comments

#Fun


Music for Programming //musicforprogramming comments

Play AI Dungeon 2. Become a Dragon. Eat the Moon //aiweirdness comments

Text QR //asciiqr comments

'The Far Side' Is Back, Sort Of //nytimes comments

Uniquely Canadian Stock Photography from CIRA //cira comments

Ordinary Puzzles: An open-source mobile puzzle game //github comments

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