Hacker News TLDR: Recent Episodes
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Colin is a YC-backed founder and open-sourcer. Kenny is a human-computer interaction whiz at Apple. Two best friends report daily from the depths of Hacker News.
We discuss touchscreens in cars, text to speech, and gail.com. A rant about cross platform libraries is included free of charge.
- Study finds that buttons in cars are safer and quicker to use than touchscreens
- Lottie 4.0 for iOS: new render engine with significant performance improvements
- Building an internet-scale meme search engine
- Text to Speech: VALLE
- Text to Speech: Apple Books
- Text to Speech: This voice does not exist
- Gail dot com
September 15, 2022
- Patreon lays off 17% of Staff https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32826610
- Twilio to lay off 11% of workforce https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32837802
- Don’t be spooky https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32863175
- Increase https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32828669
- Show HN: I may have created a new type of puzzle https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32884467
- Uber investigating breach of its computer systems https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32860728
- Ask HN: How do you find the weird parts of the web? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32804832
- Gen Z never learned to read cursive https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32884213
- Dark Sky shutting down: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32817555
Queen Elizabeth has died https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32768834
dang's "royalist" comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32769925
The rise of workplace surveillance [audio] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32603565
An HN profile worth perusing https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=kennethfriedman
AirPods Pro 2nd Gen https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32754440
Globalstar SEC filing https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32754963
I Got Banned for Life from Airbnb (2018) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32761930
Excuse me but why are you eating so many frogs https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32746922
Steve Jobs emails himself (2010) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32761060
Links covered:
- Reflections on my time in Y Combinator
- Removal of Heroku free product plans
- Google Timer is back
- Design the next iPhone
- Shazam turns 20
- Fakery: An odd discovery on Spotify
- Fakery: Fake IMDB credits
- Fakery: More content by people, for people in Search
- Fakery: The coming tsunami of fakery
Engineering Festivus
Dotfiles being hidden is a UNIXv2 mistake (2012)
Is there a spiritual successor to delicious
Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars, test finds
Logistics
American Airlines agrees to purchase Boom Supersonic Overture aircraft
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Articles covered:
- Things I Have Drawn is a site in which the things kids draw are real
- Dalle-2 Prompt Book
- Part of my code makes Copilot crash
- Robinhood lays off 23% of staff
- Y Combinator narrows current cohort size by 40%, citing downturn and funding
- MIT invents $4 solar desalination device
- Put down devices, let your mind wander, study suggests
Spotify table of songs https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31618092
Apple Music is the most buggy and annoying software I use https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31618746
GitHub user sends notification to 400k users https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31627061
Coinbase “Update on hiring plans” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31600505
1x Engineer https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31568895
Show HN: Can you lose at Wordle if you tried? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31572258
Spotify podcasters are making $18k a month with nothing but white noise https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31630148
We discuss whether the metaverse is bullshit, is the internet, or is minecraft. What's Sam Altman up to today? And how much money can you lose from automating home sales?
Links
- Physics Student Earns PhD at Age 89
- The metaverse is bullshit
- The metaverse is already here, it's called the internet
- The metaverse is already here – it's Minecraft
- Review: The 14-inch MacBook Pro Resets the Timeline
- Google's infamous internal 2010 “I just want to serve 5TB” video now public
- Now you can (try to) serve five terabytes, too
- Backblaze S-1 IPO
- The 3-2-1 Backup Strategy
- HashiCorp – S1 IPO
- Zillow to stop flipping homes, loses more than $550M, lays off 25% of staff
- Keith Rabois's Twitter
- Helion
This Word Does Not Exist
macOS Monterey
Ask HN: Is the Great Resignation in tech real? If so, why?
Ask HN: Best way to host a website for 500 years?
Edward Snowden on Sam Altman's Worldcoin
Greatest single trade of all time
Architect Resigns in Protest over UCSB Mega-Dorm
Facebook Renames to Meta
MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch
Building an ULTRA-BRIGHT water-cooled TV
Willingness to look stupid
Beyond Smart
Facebook chooses profits over people
Facebook plans to change its name as part of company rebrand
Haiti’s President Is Assassinated
Tell HN: YC will help you find a co-founder
Reddit.com weighs 1.39MB. Here’s what that costs around the globe
Show HN: Side Quest – An aggregator for not full-time tech jobs
Instant water cleaning method ‘millions of times’ better: study
US companies hit by 'colossal' cyberattack
Copilot regurgitating quake code including sweary comments
GitHub Copilot is not infringing your copyright
Music for programming
No more movies
John McAfee found dead in Spanish jail after court approves extradition to US
How To Uninstall McAfee Antivirus YouTube Video
John McAfee Fled to Belize, But He Couldn't Escape Himself (2012)
JavaScript Is Weird
User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment
Show HN: iPod.js – An online iPod that connects to Spotify and Apple Music
Google executives see cracks in their company's success
Brave Search beta
What is ranked-choice voting and why is New York using it?
Disney will send you a copyright strike if you look like Loki
HBO Max accidentally sent an integration email test to users
Why I no longer contribute to Racket
Apology
What it’s like to be cancelled
Starlink dishes go into “thermal shutdown” once they hit 122° Fahrenheit
Rethining TripleByte
Reverie Labs (YC W18) Is Hiring an ML Lead in Cambridge, MA
Utopia, a visual design tool for React, with code as the source of truth
Don't just shorten your URL, make it suspicious and frightening (2010)
GitHub – nushell/nushell: A new type of shell
Gooey: Turn almost any Python command line program into a GUI application
"Please don’t add any of my stuff to this project"
Supreme Court revives LinkedIn bid to shield personal data
Universities have formed a company that looks a lot like a patent troll
Launch HN: Revery.AI (YC S21) Scalable deep learning-based virtual dressing room
'I was completely inside': Lobster diver swallowed by humpback whale
Stripe Identity
Paul Graham’s Hype Cycle
Opinion: The secret gag orders must stop
HN “Why Not Simply”
“Great resignation” wave coming for companies
Forget going back to the office – people are just quitting instead
A Project of One’s Own
iOS 15 Humane
United Airlines will buy 15 planes from Boom Supersonic
Linus Torvalds on mRNA Vaccines
Stripe Tax
Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project
How Universal Control on macOS Monterey Works
iOS 15 adds offline Siri for faster query recognition
Highlights of new technologies introduced at WWDC 2021
Facebook plans first smartwatch for next summer with two cameras
Beef Ransomware Followup
Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B
Kinda a big announcement
Etsy to buy fashion reseller Depop
Apple asks staff to return to office 3 day a week
Almost half of local Twitter trending topics in Turkey are fake – study
California Bill to Decriminalize Psychedelics Is Approved by Senate
Employees are quitting instead of giving up working from home
Making $100k as an Employee versus Being Self-Employed
America Has a Drinking Problem
One-Fifth of U.S. Beef Capacity Wiped Out by JBS Cyberattack
GQless: A GraphQL client built for rapid iteration
W3.org cert expired
youtude-dl can no longer download age restricted videos
Twitter confirms Twitter Blue
Wikipedia is swimming in money–why is it begging people to donate?
Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?
Boring Avatars – React library to generate custom avatars
Radar data confirms: USS Omaha was surrounded by swarm of UFOs
The media's lab leak fiasco
Paul Graham Article-Edit Tweet
Second-guessing the modern web (2020)
Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering
OpenAI announces funding for startups
MDN Plus
Have you ever hurt yourself from your own code?
Collusion rings threaten the integrity of CS research
Launch HN: Fig - Autocomplete for the terminal
Stripe Payment Links
Upheaval at freenode
One week at Libera Chat
Amazon acquires MGM for $8.45B
Hosted by @colinhacks and @futurekennysf
Airbnb announces a big new update focused on flexibility
Sublime Text 4
Why I prefer making useless stuff
Gotta Serve Somebody
The Return of Fancy Tools
The man who didn't invent Flamin' Hot Cheetos
A URL Lengthener
I have a lot to say about Signal’s Cellebrite hack
TikTok Remix Culture
Vaccinated Americans can go without masks in most places, the CDC says
Tesla no longer accepting Bitcoin due to climate impact
$365B wiped off crypto markets after Tesla stops accepting Bitcoin
Midair collision over Denver
Notion API in public beta
To understand Amazon, we must understand Jeff Bezos
NTSB: Crashed Tesla couldn't have been using Autopilot
Can I Email?
Babel is used by millions, so why are we running out of money?
Game developers sharing their salaries on Twitter
Elon Musk Monologue - SNL
The Hypnotic World of Degenerate Spirals
Apple brass discussed disclosing 128M iPhone hack, then decided not to
Crazy New Ideas
Simple bank shutdown goes awry, leaving customers without account access
Orbit: an experimental platform for small tasks repeated over time
Andy Matuschak notetaking app
Apple deletes Steve Jobs's "Thoughts on Flash"
Netflix's "Love is Blind" want unpaid photographer for five weddings
LiveLeak shuts down
Instagram ads Facebook won't show you (signal.org)
Berkshire Hathaway stock price is too high for Nasdaq computers
Facebook's "Trump ban" "upheld" by "Oversight Board"
Please fix the AWS free tier before somebody gets hurt
New book contends that Catch Me If You Can was mostly made up
“About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts today”
What3Words sends legal threat to security researcher for sharing an alternative
Edward Snowden ousts a scammer during live stream [video]
Internal Combustion Engine
The Linux kernel has surpassed one million git commits
An Update on the UMN Affair
Artist faked being a billionaire to photograph New York City’s best views
Yayagram
Apple reports second quarter results
Mighty makes Google Chrome faster (round 2)
Grand jury subpoena for Signal user data
Truly unified inbox—Blackberry got it right
GitHub blocks FLoC across all of GitHub Pages
Dan Kaminsky has died
Michael Collins has died
Farming robot kills 100k weeds per hour with lasers
Changes at Basecamp
Nobody cares about your clean code
Amtrak's 2035 map has people talking
Feynman: I am burned out and I'll never accomplish anything
Red and blue functions are a good thing
What color is your function?
Investigating why McDonald's ice cream machines are always broken
The USPS is running a covert program to monitor Americans' social media posts
Convicted UK Post Office workers have names cleared
Stranded sailor allowed to leave ship after 4 years
"Proctorio is expanding their lawsuit against me"
EFF sues Proctorio on behalf of student falsely DMCA'd
The real reason to end the death penalty
Wildtype: Sushi grade salmon grown from Pacific Salmon cells
We cover the Apple event from Tuesday and the 34th most upvoted HN story of all time: "They introduces kernel bugs on purpose".
Apple introduces the AirTag
M1 iMac
M1 iPad Pro
"They introduce kernel bugs on purpose"
Linux bans University of Minnesota
Unicode proposal for Textile Care symbols
List of pending emoji requests
Additional details on Tesla crash
The Hotdog web browser
How often do people copy and paste from Stack Overflow?
A list of Hacker News's undocumented features and behaviors
Patriots' Day
Ask HN: Does anyone else find the AWS Lambda developer experience frustrating?
Two people killed in fiery Tesla crash with no one driving
Thanks for the Bonus, I Quit
SpaceX wins contract to develop spacecraft to land astronauts on the moon
Proposal: Treat FLoC as a security concern
Actually it's a DPO but who's counting.
Show HN: Lofi Cafe
SQLite is the only database you will ever need in most cases
Coinbase from YC to IPO
Yamauchi No.10 family office
The value of downvoting, or how Hacker News gets it wrong
Higher quality audio makes you sound smarter
My simple GitHub project went viral
awesome-selfhosted
US agencies call for pause in Johnson & Johnson vaccine
Marbles (2016)
My startup failed, then I found out I was unemployable
Update on beta testing payments in Signal
Bitcoin is a ‘boon for surveillance’, says former CIA director
How People Get Rich Now
Just Be Rich
Facebook takes down official page for French town of Bitche
CEO: Intel in talks to produce chips for automakers within six to nine months
Kaboom – JavaScript game programming library and environment
RMS addresses the free software community
Technologies I thought my son would never use
Microsoft in advanced talks to buy Nuance
Microsoft buys Nuance
Clubhouse data leak
Tesla hikes solar roof price on contracts signed over a year ago
Prince Philip has died
How Prince Philip created the Computer Misuse Act
W3C slaps down Google's "same-party cookies" proposal
Monkey MindPong
You don't need a GUI
Facebook does not plan to notify half-billion users affected by data leak
How to make a Python package in 2021
34% of remote workers would quit rather than return to full-time office work
After working at Google, I’ll never let myself love a job again
New Mexico is the second state to ban qualified immunity
The Facts on the News Reports about Facebook
What Caused Facebook's 500M-User Data Leak?
WTF: Signal Adds Cryptocurrency Support
Et Tu, Signal?
Ask HN: What tech job would let me get away with the least real work possible?
Links
Google’s copying of the Java SE API was fair use [pdf]
Yahoo Answers to shut down May 4, 2021
Django 3.2
Have I Been Facebooked?
Breaking GitHub Private Pages for $35k
Ubiquiti breach "catastrophic"
Facebook leak
Google v. Oracle decision
Space Jam 2
Stitchfix: Move slow and make things
Practical Typography
Plus a weirdly vicious tag team takedown of Google Reader.
istheshipstillstuck.com
I like that the boat is still stuck
permission.site
SQLite is not a toy database
All my servers have an empty 8gb file on disk
RIP Google Reader
Funds for open source
The Drivers Cooperative
Plus Colin's 1-sentence review of the new Selena Gomez EP.
Links:
Suez canal blocked by a massive ship
They just moved to Austin. Now the want to end one of its traditions.
This music video does not exist
I escaped Node
Scaling YC
Listen to the end to hear Kenny's journalistic deep dive (AKA conspiracy theory) on the Discord acquisition!
Links:
Live feed from Icelandic volcanic eruption
Result from LHCb experiment challenges the standard model
Substack UI bug cost me $2k
Crystal 1.0 released
Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for $10B
Basketball, Richard Stallman, Menus, and of course, Basketball.
Links
Cancel We The Web? (2020)
Richard Stallman is coming back to the board of the FSF
My self-study plan for electrical engineering
Don't End the Week with Nothing (2014)
In Praise of the Unambiguous Click Menu
Apes together strong. But single ape very strong too. Probably too strong to be safely or successfully raised by a rando on Reddit.
Show HN: Sorted CSS Colors
Audacity 3.0.0 released
Super Resolution
WallStreetBets members adopt 3,500 gorillas in 6 days
A Sam Altman deep dive. Also, we talk about Github's name change.
Links
Moore's Law for Everything
GitHub, f*** your name change
Let me tell you the difference between Hacker News and everybody else. We don't crash ever!
Links:
HN was down
Tail Call Optimization: The Musical
Why the new USPS mail trucks look so weird
Austin McConnell's postal truck re-design
One year alone in the forest of Sweden building a log cabin
Animated knots
M*s. Mis. Mhis. Mphis. Mmphis. M*mphi
Links
Tweeting “Memphis” autolocks your Twitter account
Is Being Salaried a Scam?
Spain to launch modest trial of four-day working week
Why are tar.xz files 15x smaller when using Python's tar compared to macOS tar?
HN front page ranked using only votes from early users (2009)
What's the difference between Maine and San Francisco? And, what's worth $10 a month.
Links
A lost tourist who thought Maine was San Francisco
Launch HN: Superpowered (YC W21) – Calendar in your menu bar
Has Y Combinator lost its way when the latest company is a Mac only widget?
Bitcoin miners in Abkhazia are causing blackouts in remote villages [video]
How to write, how to cook, and how to go viral on TikTok — in 18 minutes or less.
Links:
I earn a living selling my open-source software
Why I didn't open-source my second SaaS
1Write Simply
Thought leaders and chicken sexers
Some schools are blocking repl.it to prevent kids from coding
I bought 300 email domains from Kazakhstan and built an email service
Based Cooking
Another day, another hack.
Hackers breach thousands of security cameras, exposing Tesla, jails, hospitals
I don't want to learn your query language
ISO 8601 date format reference not publicly available
The Railsification of SaaS
Elon Claims, Atkinson codes, and Bill Gates says... something... about Bitcoin.
Links
- Tesla Admits Current ‘Full Self-Driving Beta’ Will Always Be Level 2
- F*' user interface design, I swear
- -2000 Lines of Code
- Interview with Patrick Collison
- Bill Gates Says that Bitcoin is bad For the Planet
- When did writing in major newspapers become so bad?
New cities, same dumb podcast!
Links:
Remembering Allan McDonald, who refused to approve Challenger launch
The new Google Pay repeats all the mistakes of Google Allo
30k U.S. organizations newly hacked via holes in Microsoft Exchange Server
Someone is hacking the hackers
Animated Engines
507 Mechanical Movements
The web is a mess, regulations surrounding the web are a mess, and it may shortly become even more of a mess.
Links:
Senators call on FCC to quadruple base high-speed internet speeds
Google's FLoC is a terrible idea
How to operate an airport in Antarctica
HTTP WTF
Who pays for the Texas grid disaster? Is a thread worth it? Is an audience worth it? Lots of questions, very few answers.
Links
- Texas electric firm files for bankruptcy citing $1.8B in claims
- I built a 5K iMac Display
- Show HN: Ten seconds to ponder if a thread is worth it
- Sharing an article with a Retweet or Quote Tweet? If you haven't already read the article, we may ask if you'd like to open it first.
- Build a Business, Not an Audience
- MailChimp: A side project that turned into a $700m/year revenue business
- Generate Flowcharts from Text
New month, same gimmick!
Links:
SolarWinds CEO blames intern for password leak
Actually Portable Executables (Lua edition!)
WASM3 switches to Cosmopolitan libc
How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%
The Last Message Sent on AIM
Boston public schools suspend advanced learning classes
Not Lisp again... (2009)
Extra-long Friday episode capped off with a classic not-so-speedy Show HN speed round!
Links:
The Framework Laptop
Twitter announces Super Followers
1000 True Fans
A solo journey to $100k in revenue
Show HN: Redbean — Single-file distributable web server
Show HN: Jiga 3D — View CAD files directly in Gmail browser
Show HN: NotionDog — Build a website with nothing but Notion
Show HN: Peer Ideas — A new site for domain name appraisals
S-1, S-2 and the battle of the century, Google Cloud v. AWS.
Links
- My experience as a Gazan girl getting into Silicon Valley companies
- Google Cloud vs. AWS Onboarding Comparison
- Show HN: Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I built the next best thing
- GameStop Is Happening Again
- Coinbase S-1
- DigitalOcean S-1
We cover the vices and virtues of mind uploading, electric jets, and the Arizona correctional system in 15 minutes or less. Spoiler alert there are no virtues.
Links:
Perseverance landing video
New York bans Bitfinex
I Am Bezos
Ethereum isn't fun anymore
Software bug keeping hundreds of inmates in Arizona prisons beyond release dates
Launch HN: H3X - High power density electric aircraft motors
Lena: brain uploading
It's episode 40! We're over the hill. It's all downhill from here.
Links:
The Texas power outage is a nationwide problem
GitHub Skyline
Fracture
I am a heroin user. I do not have a drug problem.
Perseverance lands on Mars
Mars Photo Booth
Colin on Mars [photo]
Launch HN: MindsDB
Rovers, satellites, and the rocketship growth of Clubhouse. What an episode.
Citibank just got a $500 million lesson in the importance of UI design
Perseverance rover landing
How to cancel a New York Times subscription
Why did I leave Google, or why did I stay so long?
John Carmack at Oculus Connect (2019, 2020)
Starlink now available for pre-order
Pixar In A Box on Khan Academy
Buying a Tesla with Bitcoin
Blitz.js in beta
Clubhouse, Texas, and anti-minimalism. It's a speed round, light on the speed.
Links
- What went wrong with the Texas power grid?
- Python Pattern Matching
- Jacquard by Google
- Clubhouse Bio Generator
- The designer behind Paper (by FiftyThree) is calling for an end to minimalism
TikTok takes another hit, and a couple new essays from familiar names.
TikTok hit with consumer law breaches complaints across Europe
Clubhouse's inevitability
What I worked on (Paul Graham)
Comma Two
kennethfriedman.org
Snow everywhere. Hackers everywhere. Journalism everywhere.
Links
- SolarWinds hack was 'largest and most sophisticated attack' ever: MSFT president
- Show HN: ustaxes.org – open-source tax filing webapp
- Launch HN: Noya — Direct air capture of CO2 using cooling towers
- Launch HN: Prometheus – Remove CO2 from Air and Turn It into Gasoline
- AirPods Causing Tinnitus (600+ reports since 2019?)
- Silicon Valley’s Safe Space
- Statement on New York Times Article
Kenny announces his upcoming book! Plus, Dalio gives us his unsolicited thoughts on Bitcoin.
What I think of Bitcoin (Dalio)
Do things that don't scale (HN comments)
DIY box fan air filter vs Dyson
Elon, Bitcoin, and Reddit. It's memes all the way down. But don't worry, thinking too much is bad for you.
Links
- Elon Musk wants clean power. But Tesla's carrying Bitcoin's dirty baggage
- Bitcoin now uses more electricity than Argentina
- Reddit valued at $6B on a $250M round
- Police playing music while being filmed, seemingly to trigger copyright filters
- Github1s – One second to read GitHub code with VS Code
- 90-year-old man spends $10k on 2 ads in WSJ to tell AT&T CEO about slow internet
- Thinking too much can be bad for you (2012)
- Where are All the Successful Rationalists?
Colin is filled with regret.
Show HN: Clerk
Tesla buys $1.5bn in Bitcoin
Don't underestimate the power of a walk
Stop swiss-cheesing your calendar
20% of requests for Wikimedia Commons are for one image of a flower
To have a free plan or not to have a free plan, that is the question. For some reason.
A visual guide to SSH tunnels
Inside TurboTax’s 20-year fight to stop Americans from filing their taxes for free
Programming for cats
Don't offer a free plan
Do offer a free plan
Architecture.md
Science fiction hasn't prepared us to imaging machine learning
Bezos and Bees. Bees? They don't allow you to have bees in here.
Links
- Email from Jeff Bezos to Employees
- I still use RSS
- Computer Graphics from Scratch
- Apple urged to root out rating scams as developer highlights enforcement failure
- Collection of Human Interface and Software Design Guides
- 20k honey bees took over a tech company’s empty office during lockdown
It's groundhog day.
Here are the stories we discuss:
- A 25-Year-Old Bet Comes Due: Has Tech Destroyed Society?
- Publishing is Back to the Future
- Just because I have a vertical screen, doesn’t mean I’m on a phone
- Apple watch keyboard developer put off by app store scammers
- Google Stadia shuts down internal studios, changing business focus
Also, it's groundhog day.
New month, new news! We give the people what they've been clamoring for: a detailed breakdown of the Chrome 89 Beta. It's actually a gamechanger.
Why Robinhood disabled buys not sells
Robinhood raises another $2.4bn
Myanmar coup
Deloitte CDC website is trash
Chrome 89 Beta
Robin Hood a legendary heroic outlaw originally depicted in English folklore and subsequently featured in literature and film.
Robinhood is... different.
Links
- Robinhood now has a 1-Star rating on the Google Play Store
- Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours
- Robinhood is said to draw on bank credit lines amid tumult
- Robinhood, in Need of Cash, Raises $1 Billion From Its Investors
- Robinhood denies claims that it sold GameStop shares out from under its traders
- High Short Interest Stocks
There's only one story today: Robinhood. But don't worry, we talk about some other stuff too.
Links
- Discord Bans r/WallStreetBets
- Robinhood Limits Purchasing
- GameStop Is Rage Against the Financial Machine
- AOC Considers Investigation
- Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company
- Let's Not Dumb Down the History of Computer Science (2014)
- Hotwire: HTML over the Wire
- WebRTC is now a W3C and IETF standard
- Data Fetching on the Web Still Sucks
The one where r/wallstreetbets breaks the simulation
AMC share price quadruples
Meet the Censored: Status Coup (Taibbi)
Launch HN: Axle Health
Telephoto fear: Japanese photojournalist shows how lenses affect views of crowds amid virus
A bootstrapped SaaS journey to 10k MRR (Bannerbear)
⚡️ SPEED ROUND ⚡️
Twitter acquires Revue
Twitter announces Birdwatch
Everything I know (HN comments)
Otokichi
The 1983 Johnny Cash classic Kairei
Halt and Catch Fire syllabus
Backblaze Hard Drive Stats (2020)
Death, revolution, and CSS. Happy monday.
Larry King has died
Brad Cox has died
The computer revolution hasn't happened yet (Alan Kay, OOPSLA 1997)
whitehouse.gov
An incomplete list of mistakes in the design of CSS
A combination plate: new hardware, new science, and new social media services. Everything a growing HNTLDR listener needs.
Ultraleap Haptic Feedback
Sundayy
Longwave
Vitamin D study
Mendelian Randomization (Wikipedia)
Youtube DL Summary
90% of everything is crap
MuscleWiki
It’s a Show HN sandwich! Kenny highlights the best and worst products launched on HN in the past 24 hours and Colin finally learns about the Google acquisition of Fitbit.
Show HNs:
HitTheFrontPage
Haxplore
Nothingly
Supernotes
Articles:
Rent a person who does nothing
Fitbit join Google
Open letter from Laura Poitras
The used to post selfies. Now they're trying to overturn the election.
More on the Parler takedown and associated avalanche of thoughtpieces! Plus Sci-Hub starts using distributed DNS service Handshake on the 8th anniversary of Aaron Swartz's death.
We need a new media system (Taibbi)
How Silicon Valley, in a Show of Monopolistic Force, Destroyed Parler (Greenwald)
The Lies That Can Undermine Democracy (Martin Fowler)
The original fluent interface blog post
Sci-Hub using Handshake
Aaron Swartz commemoration
Did you see that Donald Trump tweet last night? 🔥
The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News
What Silicon Valley "Gets" about Software Engineers that Traditional Companies Do Not
Working off grid efficiently
Will the US Really Experience a Violent Upheaval in 2020?
We're finally at the end of this totally normal week! We talk Gumroad's approach to the workplace, the WhatsApp exodus, and more.
Kenny learns the difference between Bridgerton and Paddington. We also talk DALL·E, Iran, behavioral psychology, and Nat Friedman being pretty cool.
Speed round! Google changes its algorithm, LinkedIn gets a new competitor, and America continues to suck at healthcare.
After the holiday break, we talk money (SaaS products), money (SF rent), and money (global reserve currency).