🔥 Read this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Programming note: The newsletter now has over 1,000 subscribers! Thank you! It has been a joy to write, and your subscriptions help buy me time to research future posts in my signature style, where I just download and read endless papers like a dinosaur. If you know someone else who would enjoy reading these posts, please let them know!Share Mars For The Rest of UsA photo taken inside Biosphere 2 in March 2025The first impression you get when visiting Biosphere 2 is that it would…
🚀 Check out this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Marcin Wichary 18 June 2026 / 7,700 words / 38 playgrounds On designing finger-friendly interactions A hundred or so years ago, there was a problem. People were simply typing too fast. I know what you’re thinking: they were typing too fast for the primitive typewriters of that era. But contrary to popular belief, typewriters were never that primitive. You could type really fast on even the first popular typewriter, and the QWERTY layout was actually designed to allow you to do just that. No, people were typing too fast for…
💥 Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Organic Maps: Offline Hike, Bike, Trails and Navigation Organic Maps is a privacy-focused offline maps & GPS app for hiking, cycling, biking, and driving. Absolutely free. No ads. No tracking. Developed with love by the open-source community and the same people, who created MapsWithMe/Maps.Me app. Powered by OpenStreetMap data. Organic Maps is one of the few applications nowadays that supports 100% of features without an active Internet connection. Install Organic Maps, download maps, throw away your SIM card, and go for a weeklong trip on…
🚀 Read this trending post from Trending Subreddits 📖 📂 **Category**: trendingsubreddits 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Over 6 years ago, when reddit was the equivalent of a toddler we launched trending subreddits on the front page. This was truly one of the very few ways to discover new communities. Now we have many ways for you to find the spaces you love - including a leader board, personalized recommendations, improved onboarding for new users and others on the way. With all of that, and with the site continuing to grow, we’ve decided it’s now time to retire this community and…
✨ Check out this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: You are reading interview loop feedback. You are going through the notes and it looks like neither a no-go nor a go. You are divided in your head too. Mitch does not seem to score high in system design, algorithms, or anything obvious for that matter. The general consensus is that Mitch does not cut it. Your gut says interview him yourself. So you do. In the end, you call it a hire. Mitch starts the job. Everyone has some doubts. A few weeks…
🔥 Read this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: The 3D Benchy is one of the most popular test prints in the 3D printing world. At first glance, it looks like a small boat, but it is actually a smart torture test designed to reveal common printer problems. A Benchy can help you check overhangs, bridging, holes, curved surfaces, first-layer quality, cooling, extrusion, dimensional accuracy, and motion control. This is why many makers use it after changing filament, adjusting slicer settings, upgrading hardware, or testing a new printer. In this guide, you’ll learn the…
✨ Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Nowadays, there is an epidemic of web applications purporting to offer “end-to-end” encryption. Examples might range from a file upload service, which allows you to upload and share files of arbitrary size and promises “end-to-end encryption”; or a web-based password safe service which claims that it can't see your passwords because they're encrypted; or a web-based cryptocurrency wallet. The cryptographic claims made by these services are invariably nonsense. Indeed they necessarily must be, because the web as a platform does not possess the necessary…
🔥 Discover this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: APOCKETLYPSE This project cycle happened at an interesting time for me. I found myself less and less interested in hobbyist programming as AI seeped deeper into "professional" coding, and I was simultaneously having a great nostalgia-dive into Digimon and some of the franchise's games. I think there's an interesting overlap there -- the concept of semi-sapient digital creatures skulking around on the internet causing grief. Around the same time the project began I had been thinking about uxn again which is a forth-inspired programming system…
🚀 Read this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: New ChatHow can I help you today?Morning, shadcn!What are we working on today? Press send to start a new conversationDemo is read only. Press send to send messages.Copy"use client" import 💬 from "@ai-sdk/react" Today, we’re releasing a new set of components for building chat interfaces: MessageScroller, Message, Bubble, Attachment, and Marker. This is the first phase of the chat components work. We’re taking it one piece at a time, reimagining the abstraction behind each part, and shipping them as shadcn/ui components you can copy, compose,…
🔥 Explore this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: sqlite-utils 4.0rc2, mostly written by Claude Fable (for about $149.25) 5th July 2026 I wrote about the sqlite-utils 4.0rc1 release a couple of weeks ago. Since we only have Claude Fable on our Max subscriptions for a few more days, I decided to see if it could help me get to a 4.0 stable release that I felt truly comfortable about, since I try to keep to SemVer and like my incompatible major versions to be as rare as possible. I started with this prompt,…
