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Issue #338 // February 10, 2017

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# FAVORITES

The web sucks if you have a slow connection //danluu comments

What Vizio was doing behind the TV screen //ftc comments

What programming languages are used most on weekends? //stackoverflow comments

Blockchain Demo //anders comments

Facebook is terrifying //medium comments

Using tmux properly //danielallendeutsch comments

Russians Engineer a Slot Machine Cheat that Casinos Can't Fix //wired comments

Deniability and Duress //mit comments

Htop Explained Visually //codeahoy comments

How I built the IMDb message boards, in 2001 //beatworm comments

Asking the wrong questions //ben-evans comments

# ASK HN

What is the biggest untapped opportunity for startups? //ycombinator

What is the most exciting development in your field right now? //ycombinator

# SHOW HN

Introducing Keybase Chat //keybase comments

Ventusky – Weather data visualization //ventusky comments

Redash – easily visualize and share your data //github comments

The Met Makes 375k Images Available for Free //nytimes comments

Interactive command line HTTP inspector written in Go //github comments

Circuit simulator and schematic capture tool //everycircuit comments

Milanote – A notes app for creative work //milanote comments

OneView Calendar – My zoomable calendar app just got a big facelift //oneviewcalendar comments

Up to date list of political decisions around the world //github comments

# CODE

Announcing GVFS: Git Virtual File System //microsoft comments

SQLITE: JSON1 Extension //sqlite comments

Online migrations at scale //stripe comments

Optimizations in Syntax Highlighting //visualstudio comments

Foolproof HTML //pumpula comments

How to write a tiny compiler //klipse comments

Build, test and deploy your Vue.js app easily with Gitlab //vuetips comments

# DATA

Oxford Deep NLP – An advanced course on natural language processing //github comments

How to use Deep Learning when you have Limited Data //medium comments

# LEARN

The Purpose of Sleep? To Forget, Scientists Say //nytimes comments

I just hit my 500th TIL //github comments

# BOOKS

The most mentioned books on Stack Overflow //dev-books comments

Probabilistic Models of Cognition //probmods comments

Military Reading List //bookadvice comments

# WATCHING

Ask HN: What are some 'must watch' talks? //ycombinator

The Map of Mathematics //openculture comments

From PS4 to 1.44 MB Floppy: Porting Retro City Rampage to MS-DOS //gamasutra comments

Shenzhen: The Silicon Valley of Hardware //youtube comments

The prototype that was banned from Halfbrick //youtube comments

# WORKING

Not Everyone in Tech Cheers the H-1B Visa Program //nytimes comments

I Only Work Remotely //newco comments

Ask HN: Who's firing? //ycombinator

Building, and Losing, a Career on Facebook //npr comments

# FUN

Fluid Paint Simulation //david comments

A DIY M&Ms and Skittles sorting machine //willemm comments

Breakdown of a Simple Ray Tracer //nyu comments

Generals.io Bot API: Build bots to play against humans //generals comments

Play Chess Without Moving Pieces //ba comments

CIA Declassified Coldwar Russian Jokes [pdf] //cia comments

# CUTTING ROOM FLOOR

Hans Rosling has died //gapminder comments

I'm Loyal to Nothing Except the Dream //codinghorror comments

Secret docs reveal: an FBI with vast hidden powers //theintercept comments

FBI Is Building a Watchlist That Gives Companies Real Time Updates on Employees //theintercept comments

Snap commits $2B over 5 years for Google Cloud infrastructure //techcrunch comments

Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2016 //backblaze comments

Tesla aims to start pilot production of Model 3 cars on February 20 //reuters comments

Where has my disk space gone? Flame graphs for file systems //brendangregg comments

Vim's 25th anniversary and the release of Vim 8 //lwn comments

300+ Hours of free bootcamp prep //vikingcodeschool comments

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