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. M****is. M***his. M**phis. M*mphis. 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 1 Write 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/ye...
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...
Maker space schemes, Tesla memes, and lucid dreams.
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...
You know what's cool, Kia Motors is a trillion dollar company... in Won.
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...
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 it...
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)...
