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May 2020

103 links - Work 66 · Music 6 · Fun 13 · Life 18

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Work - AI, code, business

• A VisuAlgo: Data Structures Visualization - Interactive animation tool for learning algorithms and data structures through visual step-by-step execution. · #algorithms #learning
• A Supabase: The Postgres Development Platform - Open-source backend platform combining Postgres database with authentication, APIs, and real-time. · #backend #postgres #dev-tools
• A Mental Models: Making Intelligent Decisions - Framework exploring 100+ decision-making models used by high performers to increase productivity. · #learning #decision-making
• A htmx: High Power Tools for HTML - Lightweight JavaScript library adding AJAX, WebSockets, and real-time updates to HTML. · #htmx #frontend #web-development
• B Driving engineers to an arbitrary date is a value destroying mistake - Executive analysis of how arbitrary deadline mandates destroy team value discovery and engineering velocity. · #management #team-dynamics #product-dev
• B Stealing Secrets Using WebSockets - Security vulnerability demonstrating extraction of sensitive data from JavaScript developers via WebSockets. · #security #programming
• B Rough Notation: Hand-Drawn Annotation Library - Lightweight JavaScript library creating hand-drawn annotation effects for web interfaces and presentations. · #javascript #frontend #dev-tools
• B Ask HN: Examples of Great Productized Consulting Landing Pages? - Hacker News discussion collecting effective landing page examples for productized consulting businesses. · #productized-consulting #business-model #landing-pages
• B Diagrams · Diagram as Code - Python library for drawing cloud architecture diagrams programmatically with automatic layout and icons. · #python #devops #visualization
• B django-viewflow - Business workflow library for Django - Python library providing business process workflow components and visualization for Django applications. · #django #python #workflow
• B A Simple Way to Get More Value from Metrics - Building a metrics system that surfaces million-dollar optimizations through systematic data analysis. · #metrics #data-driven #optimization
• B Mental Models for Designers - Framework helping designers maintain consistency and make systematic decisions across product systems. · #design #frameworks #productivity
• B Running Lisp in Production - Grammarly's architecture using Common Lisp for grammar engine processing thousands of sentences daily. · #programming #backend
• B Symbolic Mathematics Finally Yields to Neural Networks - Research on neural networks solving symbolic mathematics and equations traditionally requiring humans. · #llm #ai-research #ml
• B Scaling SQLite to 4M QPS - Performance optimization techniques achieving millions of queries per second on single-server SQLite. · #databases #performance
• B Slice: How They Got Their First 1000 Users - Pizza app's practical strategy for acquiring first thousand users—startup growth metrics and tactics. · #startup-growth #case-study #business-strategy
• B Bits of History, Words of Advice - Historical perspective and advice from programming language designer on computer science evolution. · #programming-history #languages #cs-history
• B Habits of High-Functioning Teams - Analysis of behavioral patterns distinguishing high-performing software teams from struggling ones. · #team-dynamics #management #culture
• B Help, I Can't Learn Something Because It's Boring! - Practical advice for maintaining motivation when learning necessary but tedious programming topics. · #learning #motivation #developer-growth
• B Prevent Scrum from Turning Great Developers Average - Discussion on maintaining developer skills and autonomy within Scrum project management frameworks. · #team-management #engineering-culture · archived
• B Why Marketing Flywheels Work - Framework explaining how marketing flywheels create compounding business growth momentum over time. · #marketing #growth #business-strategy
• B Deno 1.0: TypeScript Runtime - Modern JavaScript/TypeScript runtime environment for scripting with built-in tooling and security. · #programming #devtools
• B Untools: Tools for Better Thinking - Curated decision-making frameworks and thinking tools for solving complex problems systematically. · #frameworks #decision-making #productivity
• B White hat social engineering: How to become an admin of a system - Case study in gaining legitimate admin access through formal processes and stakeholder persuasion. · #social-engineering #leadership #systems
• B The Human Skills We Need in Unpredictable World - TED talk on imagination, humility, and bravery as essential skills in technology-dependent world. · #leadership #soft-skills
• B How to Use UTM Parameters to Grow Audience - Analytics strategy for tracking user sources and optimizing audience growth with URL parameters. · #analytics #marketing
• B Making Paid Browser Extension - Guide to monetizing browser extensions with viable business models and technical implementation. · #monetization #devtools
• B SOD: Embedded Computer Vision & Machine Learning Library - Embedded computer vision library with real-time object detection and deep learning capabilities. · #computer-vision #machine-learning #dev-tools · M
• B A Beginner's Guide to Alloy - Step-by-step introduction to Alloy formal specification language for modeling and verification. · #formal-methods #alloy #learning
• B Bear Blog: Free, Fast Blogging Platform - Minimal fast open-source blogging platform focused on simplicity—no database or setup required. · #blogging #static-sites #open-source
• B Good Coders Borrow, Great Coders Steal - Exploration of productive code reuse versus dangerous copy-paste and plagiarism in development. · #engineering-culture #programming
• B What Is a Control System - Intuitive explanation of control system theory applied to drone navigation and dynamic systems. · #electronics #systems-thinking · M
• B Discrete Mathematics: Open Introduction - Free textbook covering foundational discrete math including logic, sets, counting, and proofs. · #mathematics #learning
• B I Wrote a SaaS Product Because the Internet Made Me Believe It'd Make Me Rich - Founder's honest reflection on building SaaS products with unrealistic financial expectations. · #startup #saas #founder-lessons
• B Idea Generation - Sam Altman's framework for generating and evaluating startup ideas—practical founder thinking. · #startup-ideas #founder-advice #business-strategy
• B Universe of Sorts: Declarative Programming - Technical exploration of declarative animation libraries and functional programming paradigms. · #programming #web-dev
• B Immutable Databases - Blockchain-inspired database design for audit trails and data integrity without cryptography. · #databases #backend
• B Adventures in Data Science with Bash - Practical guide to command-line data analysis techniques using Bash for real-world datasets. · #data-science #devtools
• B Self-Supervised Learning in NLP - Overview of self-supervised pretext tasks for training language models without labeled data. · #nlp #machine-learning
• B How Biggest Consumer Apps Got First 1,000 Users - Case studies and strategies for early user acquisition in successful consumer applications. · #startups #growth
• B Two lessons on reducing sign-up friction - How a careful sign-up flow reduces abandonment and improves user onboarding success rates. · #product-design #ux #onboarding
• B How to Write a Programming Book - Guide from deep tech advisor on structuring and publishing programming books effectively. · #technical-writing #publishing #learning
• B The Hard Part of Learning a Language - Explores why learning a new programming language is harder than online tutorials suggest. · #learning #programming-languages #frameworks
• B Django logging documentation - Official Django guide to configuring and using Python's logging framework in web apps. · #django #logging #documentation
• B Micro: Modern Terminal Text Editor - Intuitive terminal text editor with modern UX—lightweight alternative to Vim and Nano. · #terminal #dev-tools #text-editors · M
• B Big List of Naughty Strings - Curated list of test strings designed to break code—edge cases and injection vectors. · #security #testing #dev-tools
• B Django Packages: model audit tools - Directory of Django packages with comparison tools and reusable app recommendations. · #django #python #packages
• B GitHub Protips - Advanced Git workflow and GitHub usage tips from GitHub engineer Sarah Vessels. · #devtools #programming
• B Why Remote Work Is So Hard—and How It Can Be Fixed - New Yorker analysis of why remote work is hard and solutions beyond technology. · #remote-work #management #team-culture
• C Stop Trying to Make Hard Work Easy - Strategies and mental frameworks for maintaining productivity when work remains fundamentally difficult. · #productivity #self-help
• C Purism Librem 14 Laptop - Privacy-focused development laptop designed to protect digital life with open hardware and software. · #hardware #privacy · M
• C Retry Failed HTTP Requests in Angular - Angular tutorial on retry strategies including immediate, delayed, and exponential backoff patterns. · #programming #web-dev
• C This Word Does Not Exist - AI tool that generates plausible-sounding English words that don't actually exist in dictionaries. · #ai #nlp #generative
• C Azure Static Web Apps Deployment - Training module on deploying JavaScript frameworks with serverless APIs to Azure Static Web Apps. · #devtools #web-dev
• C Software Will Eat Software - Analysis of consolidation in remote-first era where software products cannibalize other software. · #remote-work #business
• C MiniConf Conference Management - Virtual conference platform managing papers, schedules, speakers with integrated video and chat. · #tools #productivity
• C Web Scraper Cloud: Enterprise Web Scraping - Enterprise web scraping infrastructure with API access, proxy management, and anti-bot handling. · #web-scraping #data-extraction #dev-tools
• C Scan Your PDF - Client-side tool to make PDFs look scanned and add realistic signatures without server uploads. · #pdf #document-tools #signature
• C 20 Lessons I've Learned As A 15 Year Old Web Developer - A teenage web developer's practical lessons from building projects early in his career. · #web-dev #early-career #lessons · dead
• C Developing a billing system with Django - DZone tutorial on building subscription and invoice management using Django models. · #django #billing-systems #business
• C django-logdb: logging package - Django package for database-backed event and change logging with queryable history. · #django #logging #python
• D Counterfactual Regret Minimization with Kuhn Poker - (unverified - page not reachable) · #machine-learning #game-theory #algorithms
• D Starthouse: The Largest Collection of Startup Pitch Decks - (unverified - page not reachable) · #pitch-decks #startup #templates
• D The Ideal Tech Stack for a Personal Dev Blog in 2020 - (unverified - page not reachable) · #tech-stack #blogging #static-sites · archived
• D Todorant: Smart Todo App - (unverified - page not reachable) · #productivity #tools · archived
• D WorldBrain Open Collective - (unverified - page not reachable) · #open-source #tools · archived

Music - synths, MIDI, audio

• A SN74HC14N Single Square Wave Oscillator - Homebrew VCO oscillator design using simple logic chips—DIY synthesizer electronics experimentation. · #synth-diy #oscillators #electronics · M
• A Jukebox: Neural Network Music Generation - OpenAI's AI model generating music and singing in multiple genres and artist styles as raw audio. · #ai #music · M
• B AudioMass: Web-Based Audio Editor - Free browser-based audio editor with waveform visualization and effects for music production. · #audio-editing #daw #music-production · M
• B How Distortion Works in Music - Audio theory explaining distortion mechanisms in electric guitars and music production. · #audio #music-theory · M
• D #47 - Max/MSP & Pure Data: Miller Puckette - (unverified - page not reachable) · #max-msp #puredata #audio · M · archived
• D OP1 and OP-Z Patch Format - (unverified - page not reachable) · #synths #music · M · archived

Fun - hardware, retro, maker, video

• B Two Capacitor Paradox - Physics paradox exploring energy conservation and capacitor behavior—counterintuitive circuit thought experiment. · #electronics #physics #learning · M
• B Venom: All Terrain Autonomous Quadruped - Open-source autonomous quadruped robot capable of traversing varied terrain—mechanical and control design. · #robotics #hardware #autonomous-systems · M
• B Massive Antarctic Exploration Vehicle Lost Since 1958 - Long-form feature on self-sustaining Antarctic exploration vehicle designed in nineteen fifty-eight. · #exploration #engineering #history · M
• B Meander: Procedural River Map Generator - Procedural system generating realistic historical maps of fictional river systems using algorithms. · #generative-art #procedural-generation #visualization · M
• B A Forgotten Twentieth-Century Photographer's Wild Portraits - Profile of pioneering photographer Anne Brigman—her influence on American photographic traditions. · #photography #art-history #women-artists · M
• B The Siege of Gondor: Military Analysis - Deep analysis of Lord of the Rings battle from logistics and military strategy perspective. · #analysis #history
• B The Incredible Story of the US Army's Off-Road Land Trains - Historical feature on extreme all-terrain land trains developed by U.S. Army. · #engineering #military-history #vehicles · M
• C Why the Cessna Is Such a Badass Plane - Engineering and history of the versatile Cessna aircraft and its dominance in aviation training. · #engineering #electronics · M
• C HTML5 Games and More - Game studio's retrospective on transitioning from Flash to HTML5 for browser game development. · #game-dev #html5 #flash-migration · M
• C Technology That Changed Air Travel - History and engineering of transformative technologies reshaping commercial aviation industry. · #engineering #history · M
• C LaTeX Coffee Stains - LaTeX document template adding decorative coffee stain effects for academic paper aesthetics. · #typography #tools
• C Gaming and Movies on the Cloud - Cloud-based gaming and entertainment services enabling streaming of games and media. · #gaming #entertainment · M
• D Flipper Zero: Multi-tool Device for Hackers - (unverified - page not reachable) · #hardware-hacking #electronics #tools · M · archived

Life - health, learning, admin

• B 4 Ways to Quiet Imposter Syndrome - Psychology-backed strategies for recognizing and overcoming self-doubt and fraudster feelings. · #psychology #self-help
• B A No. 1 Hit Vanished From Poland's Charts. It's Not Going Quietly. - New York Times coverage of Polish song's controversial removal from state radio. · #poland #censorship #music-politics
• C Regional Alterations in Glutamate and Ego Dissolution with Psilocybin - Neurochemical research on how psilocybin-induced ego dissolution correlates with glutamate system changes. · #neuroscience #psychedelics #research
• C Becoming Addiction-Free - Personal accountability approach to identifying and overcoming various addictions and destructive habits. · #habits #addiction #self-improvement
• C Trick Procrastination Skills - Personal productivity system using simple rules to overcome well-developed procrastination patterns. · #productivity #psychology
• C How a Lazy Bitch Learned to Be Productive - Personal account of transforming from procrastination to discipline through habit stacking methods. · #productivity #habits #self-improvement
• C Out-of-Sync Loners Protect Swarms - Research on non-conformist individuals' hidden role in maintaining collective order and resilience. · #science #systems-thinking
• C Riot Medicine - Open-source medical manuals teaching emergency care and triage in resource-constrained situations. · #emergency-medicine #community-health #learning
• C Ask HN: Mental Barrier Preventing Earning More $$$ - Hacker News discussion on psychological barriers preventing personal earnings growth and scaling. · #career #psychology #finance
• C The Market Gardener - Handbook for small-scale organic farming and market garden profitability using intensive methods. · #agriculture #learning
• C Ask HN: Remote Work Location - Community discussion on geographic advantages and disadvantages for distributed knowledge work. · #remote-work #career
• C Intelligent Disobedience - Behavioral principle where service animals override instructions to protect handler from harm. · #behavior #training #ethics
• C Ask HN: What Interesting Stuff Are You Browsing - Hacker News discussion showcasing interesting websites and tools community members recommend. · #community #learning
• C Ask HN: Do Kids Drag Career Down - Career discussion exploring impact of parenthood on professional advancement and trajectory. · #career #life-balance
• C Why Singing Relieves Stress - Science of singing's mental health benefits during lockdown and challenging times. · #self-help #health
• D Could Randomness Machine Help Fight Procrastination - (unverified - page not reachable) · #psychology #self-help · archived
• D How to improve your walking technique - (unverified - page not reachable) · #fitness #health #technique
• D The Healing Power of Proper Breathing - (unverified - page not reachable) · #health #wellness · dead

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