Interrupt #7 - Digital Markets Act, Animal-free eggs, gh-dash, Animate SQL, Human Genome mapping
Interrupt is a weekly newsletter compiled from the most interesting things I have come across this week. Sometimes along with my original writing.
This week there was need to be extra careful because of April 1. I got excited for a couple of announcements which turned out to be April Fool's jokes. You can find a short compilation of best jokes this year in a section below.
Big News and Happenings
New EU law could require iMessage and WhatsApp to work with other, smaller platforms — www.theverge.com
EU’s Digital Markets Act could force companies like Apple and Meta to open up iMessage and WhatsApp, making them interoperable with other messaging platforms.
Apple plans to build its own financial infrastructure for payments and lending — arstechnica.com Financial services will get the full Apple treatment, sources say.
We are a major step closer to animal-free eggs — interestingengineering.com
The EVERY Co. has unveiled the world's first animal-free egg white.
Scientists have finally mapped the whole Human Genome — gizmodo.com
You’ll be injecting robots into your bloodstream to fight disease soon — thenextweb.com
The last shot you'll ever need. What if we could create super-powered micro-bots that lived to destroy diseases?
Messenger adds new Slack-like shortcuts and mentions
Meta, formerly known as Facebook (Never let anyone forget that), is introducing several new features and shortcuts to its Messenger app. Most notably, a new Slack-like “@everyone” functionality that will notify all participants.
Twitter explores letting two accounts co-author a tweet
I really took this news as a April Fool's Day joke at first. Twitter has confirmed it’s "exploring" a new feature that would allow a single tweet to be posted by two separate accounts. Now you can offend two people with a reply.
With music sharing, statuses, polls, silent messages and more
Best April Fool's Day news
Nothing's Another (1) — twitter.com
HyperX 'Touch Grass' collection — dotesports.com
Introducing Emireats. Delivering soon. Maybe — twitter.com
What I Found + Updates
A gh-cli extension to display a dashboard of PRs and issues - configurable with a beautiful UI.
Animate away your SQL questions by choosing a keyword and pressing Visualize! You can even customize queries to help you better understand SQL.
Spin is a foundational piece of the Fermyon Platform and a great way to get started writing WebAssembly for the cloud.
Redo is a tool to create aliases from your history in an interactive way.
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What I Read
A database for 2022 — tailscale.com
...used to store our database in a single JSON file on disk, and then moved to etcd. Time for another change! We’re going to put everything in a single file on disk again.
Unbundling Airbnb — www.peterfabor.com There are only two ways to make money in business: One is to bundle; the other is to unbundle. So the idea behind unbundling of Airbnb is simple: Pick a niche use case with passionate but unsatisfied guests and then build a business around it.
The weird world of non-C operating systems
You can't fool me, young man. It's C all the way down!
Ask HN: Why don't PCs have better entropy sources?
Ask HN: Why isn't there a Google competitor emerging?
The jokes that have made people laugh for thousands of years
We are told "the old ones are the best ones" – and some of the oldest jokes in history are still in use today. It’s worth going back a few thousand years to find out why.
The future of digital cash is not on the blockchain — www.wired.com
If you want the privacy of paper money, you need something that leaves no paper trail.
Ask HN: What bits of fundamental knowledge are productivity multipliers?