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
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[#113] Weird websites, dark skies, and spookiness galore
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
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[#112] Long live the iPhone Plus Pro Max Ultra
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
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[#111] Google Timer, gone and back again
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
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[#110] Dots, Buttons, and Booms
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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