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Issue #301 // May 20, 2016

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# FAVORITES

Google supercharges machine learning tasks with TPU custom chip //googleblog comments

Artem vs. Predator //ribbonfarm comments

Online tracking: A 1-million-site measurement and analysis //princeton comments

Updating classic workplace sabotage techniques //antipope comments

Software Design Patterns Are Not Goals, They Are Tools //exceptionnotfound comments

Why I Haven’t Fixed Your Issue Yet //michaelbromley comments

Who Pays Writers? //whopayswriters comments

Ruby has been fast enough for 13 years //signalvnoise comments

Code reviews aren’t just for catching bugs //fullstory comments

Raspberry Pi Car Speed Detector //gregtinkers comments

# ASK HN

What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore? //ycombinator

Oldest code you have written that is still in use? //ycombinator

# SHOW HN

Google Home //google comments

New Sublime Text update //sublimetext comments

Mononoki – A Font for Programming and Code Review //github comments

Kajero – Interactive JavaScript notebooks //joelotter comments

Spaces, a tool for small group sharing //googleblog comments

Sharp11 – Music Theorization and Improvisation Engine //julianrosenblum comments

# LONGREADS

Shuffleboard at McMurdo //idlewords comments

The SidToday Files //theintercept comments

# CODE

Horizon 1.0: a realtime, open-source JavaScript back end from RethinkDB //horizon comments

Reason: A new interface to OCaml //github comments

A cool way to use natural language in JavaScript //github comments

Setting Up a Deep Learning Machine from Scratch //github comments

A fundamental introduction to x86 assembly programming //nayuki comments

Helix: Rust and Ruby, Without the Glue //skylight comments

A Guide to Naming Variables //a-nickels-worth comments

Specifying JSON //tbray comments

# DESIGN

Regular expressions you can read: a visual syntax and UI //medium comments

Generative Art in HTML5 Canvas //surge comments

# LEARN

Qanat //wikipedia comments

A Historical Tour of Silicon Valley //scaruffi comments

Shamir's Secret Sharing //wikipedia comments

Linguistic purism in English //wikipedia comments

# BOOKS

This Biology Book Blew Me Away //gatesnotes comments

The Day the Moon Blew Up //gatesnotes comments

All of Statistics, by Larry Wassserman (2013) [pdf] //cmu comments

A Practical Guide to Lasers for Experimenters and Hobbyists //repairfaq comments

# WATCHING

Google I/O 2016 Live Keynote //google comments

Anders Hejlsberg on Modern Compiler Construction //msdn comments

Soyuz 2.1a 3-Stage Launch //vedomosti comments

42 comes to Silicon Valley: free, non profit coding university //youtube comments

# WORKING

Tech layoffs more than double in Bay Area //mercurynews comments

Love thy coworker; thy work, not necessarily //yosefk comments

# FUN

Did I just win? //twitter comments

“My wife has complained that OpenOffice will never print on Tuesdays” (2009) //launchpad comments

The Panic Sign //panic comments

Thousands of Hip Hop Mix Tapes, Why Not //textfiles comments

Beautiful sci-fi GIFs //carlburton comments

# CUTTING ROOM FLOOR

Twitter to Stop Counting Photos and Links in 140-Character Limit //bloomberg comments

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Takes $1B Position in Apple //wsj comments

Amazon Reviews: How We Spot the Fakes //thewirecutter comments

Bootcamps vs. College //triplebyte comments

Apple invests $1B in Chinese ride-hailing service Didi Chuxing //reuters comments

Play Store and Android Apps Coming to Chromebooks //googleblog comments

LinkedIn password leak //kaspersky comments

Your Personal Archiving Project: Where Do You Start? //loc comments

See what the internet thinks about any topic, based on Google queries //thehivemind comments

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