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Issue #342 // March 10, 2017

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# FAVORITES

CIA malware and hacking tools //wikileaks comments

How Uber Used Secret “Greyball” Tool to Deceive Authorities Worldwide //nytimes comments

Images and video showing extent of Oroville dam damage //imgur comments

Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up //char comments

A $10K tiny house 3D-printed in 24 hours //apis-cor comments

An animated GIF that shows its own MD5 //ccc comments

What happens when you swipe a credit card //affirm comments

Startup School – YC’s Online Class //ycombinator comments

/usr/bin/time: not the command you think you know //hackernoon comments

Seeing Theory: A visual introduction to probability and statistics //brown comments

# ASK HN

Developers with kids, how do you skill up? //ycombinator

What's the one thing that let you grow the most as a developer? //ycombinator

What does your production machine learning pipeline look like? //ycombinator

Have you created a programming language and why? //ycombinator

# SHOW HN

Scrimba: a video format for communicating code //scrimba comments

Gitly.io – high performance Git service with a 10s installation time //gitly comments

Usql – A universal command-line interface for SQL databases //github comments

fman – file manager for programmers //fman comments

Singer – Simple, Composable Open Source ETL //singer comments

Ffscreencast – CLI-based screencasts for OS X, Linux, BSD //github comments

Publishthis.email – Create a web page in seconds, by sending an email //publishthis comments

# CODE

The System Design Primer //github comments

The Rusty Web: Targeting the Web with Rust //github comments

Better Compression with Zstandard //gregoryszorc comments

CSS Reminification: A crazy idea that worked //luisant comments

Gokrazy – a pure-Go userland for Raspberry Pi 3 appliances //github comments

# DESIGN

UnCSS: Remove unused styles from CSS //github comments

Design Better Data Tables //medium comments

# LEARN

William Shatner's Seat //quora comments

How many floating-point numbers are in the interval [0,1]? //lemire comments

# BOOKS

Mathematics for Computer Science [pdf] //mit comments

The Unix-Haters Handbook [pdf] //mit comments

Emacs org-mode examples and cookbook //ehneilsen comments

Causal Inference Book //harvard comments

Ask HN: What books fundamentally changed the way you think about the world? //ycombinator

# WATCHING

CPython internals: A ten-hour codewalk through the Python interpreter //youtube comments

Visual Studio 2017 Launch //visualstudio comments

Watch demos all day //pouet comments

12,000 startups are being created every day in China //youtube comments

Motors Big and Small (1971) //youtube comments

# WORKING

Tech Interview Torture Chamber //mattfriz comments

I spent three months working full time to get a job //kolesky comments

# LONGREADS

The Collapse of the Unix Philosophy //kukuruku comments

In praise of cash //aeon comments

Like startups, most intentional communities fail. Why? //aeon comments

# FUN

Snakisms //github comments

If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel – A tediously accurate map of the solar system //joshworth comments

Nintendo Switch Teardown //fictiv comments

Akiyoshi's Illusion Pages //ritsumei comments

Two-finger scroll moves through time instead of space //github comments

# CUTTING ROOM FLOOR

Notepad++ V 7.3.3 – Fix CIA Hacking Notepad++ Issue //notepad-plus-plus comments

A plane so good it's still in production after 60 years //bbc comments

Healthy California Act: proposal to make findings about single-payer healthcare //ca comments

How the Instant Pot cooker developed a cult following //bbc comments

Repairing My Tesla Model S Has Been a Nightmare //fool comments

Docker Enterprise Edition //docker comments

Spammers expose their entire operation through bad backups //csoonline comments

Justin Kan: I'm starting a new startup incubator, Zero-F //twitter comments

Maersk and IBM aim to get 10M shipping containers onto blockchain //ibtimes comments

This site is making readers pass a quiz before commenting //niemanlab comments

Tell HN: WarGames (1983) is mind-blowing //ycombinator comments

Domainr – Go terminal tool to find domains for various keywords/TLDs //github comments

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