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Issue #299 // May 06, 2016

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# FAVORITES

Uncanny Valley //nplusonemag comments

What Happened to Google Maps? //justinobeirne comments

The Startup Zeitgeist //ycombinator comments

Who's downloading pirated papers? Everyone //sciencemag comments

Infinit announces Project Dropboxe //infinit comments

You probably don't need a JavaScript framework //slack-files comments

Stack Overflow: How We Do Deployment //nickcraver comments

Two-factor paper passwords //jgc comments

The Bug in the Physical Building //two-wrongs comments

# SHOW HN

Waybackpack: download the entire Wayback Machine archive for a given URL //github comments

Microsoft Flow //microsoft comments

Refined Twitter //github comments

Programming cheat sheets //overapi comments

Relax – A New Generation CMS on Top of React, Redux, and GraphQL //getrelax comments

Task-Based Electron Web Browser //simoncaminada comments

TeachCraft – Learning Python Through Minecraft //github comments

Discover new music through an infinite suggestion graph (React/Redux) //panther comments

Writing Streak – write fiction every day //writingstreak comments

# CODE

Lavabit code open sourced //github comments

Go best practices, six years in //bourgon comments

After a year of using Node.js in production //geekforbrains comments

Writing a Compiler in Go //squanch comments

Wren: a small, fast, class-based concurrent scripting language //github comments

# LEARN

Comparing Clustering Algorithms //jupyter comments

Markov Chain Monte Carlo Sampling //galeascience comments

A Guide to Bayesian Statistics //countbayesie comments

The Geographical Oddity of Null Island //loc comments

# LONGREADS

The Increasing Problem with the Misinformed //baekdal comments

Life Lessons from a Lifestyle Business: Interview with founder of Metafilter //medium comments

Mastermind Chapter 7: The next big deal //atavist comments

Who Was Ramanujan //backchannel comments

# BOOKS

Humble Book Bundle: Hacking Presented by No Starch Press //humblebundle comments

I'm Writing a Book on Security //schneier comments

"I fly 747s for a living. Here are the amazing things I see every day." //vox comments

# WATCHING

Andrei Tarkovsky – Poetic Harmony //youtube comments

Front-End Performance: The Dark Side //opera comments

Watch SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Rocket Land on Barge in New 360-Degree Video //ir comments

# WORKING

Ask HN: Who is hiring? //ycombinator

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? //ycombinator

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? //ycombinator

Things we learned by visualizing our work hours //reflect comments

# FUN

I installed Windows 95 on my Apple Watch //medium comments

"Payload to Mars" Added to SpaceX Pricelist //spacex comments

10/10 job application app //adultswim comments

The inside story of how Madden NFL became a video game dynasty //go comments

# CUTTING ROOM FLOOR

Why you shouldn't exercise to lose weight //vox comments

Putting the Tesla HEPA Filter and Bioweapon Defense Mode to the Test //teslamotors comments

Why is Amazon all of a sudden not re-investing all its profits? //earlymoves comments

Why European Children Are Quieter //acculturated comments

The Feed Is Dying //nymag comments

Can a single car break a traffic jam? //bbc comments

Real story of “Yelp Girl” who called out CEO for low pay //backchannel comments

They Have to Be Monsters //codinghorror comments

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