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Issue #346 // April 07, 2017

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# FAVORITES

Tim Berners-Lee wins Turing Award //mit comments

Build Your Own Text Editor //viewsourcecode comments

I’m a freelance copywriter //getcoleman comments

An off-grid social network //staltz comments

A Thank-You Note to the Hacker News Community from Ubuntu //dustinkirkland comments

Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and Convergence //ubuntu comments

Better Git configuration //scottnonnenberg comments

Education of a Programmer //medium comments

Fun at the Unix Terminal Part 1 //regehr comments

HTML5 Games Workshop: Make a Platformer Game with JavaScript //mozilla comments

# ASK HN

Building a side project that makes money. Where to start? //ycombinator

What are you working on? //ycombinator

# SHOW HN

Jupyter Notebook 5.0 //jupyter comments

Is It Snappy? – Measure latency with your iPhone's 240 Hz camera //isitsnappy comments

Acme Klein Bottle //kleinbottle comments

Programmable Fax – API for sending and receiving faxes //twilio comments

Google App Maker //google comments

Robotopia – Introducing kids to coding with tiny virtual robots //github comments

A ncurses CRM system (and accounting) //ycombinator comments

Extremely simple note-taking //notepin comments

# CODE

Iosevka – A Typeface for Code, from Code //github comments

Python coding interview challenges //github comments

Alcatel-Lucent releases source for 8th, 9th and 10th editions of Unix //tuhs comments

React-data sheet, Excel-like spreadsheet component //github comments

A Python implementation of formal systems from the book "Gödel, Escher, Bach" //github comments

Why is this Go faster than the equivalent Java? //boyter comments

What CSS minifiers also leave behind //luisant comments

AcrossTabs – Easy communication between cross-origin browser tabs //github comments

# DATA

Unpaired Image-to-Image Translation using Cycle-Consistent Adversarial Networks //github comments

A step-by-step guide to building a simple chess AI //medium comments

Smile – Statistical Machine Intelligence and Learning Engine //github comments

# DESIGN

Grid Garden – A game for learning CSS grid //cssgridgarden comments

Where will UX Design be in 5 years? //trydesignlab comments

# LEARN

Why Japan’s Rail Workers Point at Things //atlasobscura comments

Why Momentum Works //distill comments

Koomey's law //wikipedia comments

Scunthorpe Problem //wikipedia comments

Area code 710 //wikipedia comments

# BOOKS

My Interactive ClojureScript book //langintro comments

Terms and Conditions, the Graphic Novel //mozilla comments

The Tao of tmux //ycombinator comments

# WATCHING

Dolphins' elaborate octopus-hunting strategy //arstechnica comments

Startup School 2017 First Lecture //startupschool comments

Compiling C to printable x86, to make an executable research paper //youtube comments

The Shell Hater's Handbook //confreaks comments

# WORKING

Ask HN: Who is hiring? //ycombinator

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

Why do developers who could work anywhere flock to the most expensive cities? //techcrunch comments

Big Tech Company Salaries Are Hurting Startups //thestartupconference comments

# LONGREADS

For 18 years I thought she was stealing my identity, until I found her //theguardian comments

Love in the Time of Cryptography //backchannel comments

Bartholomew L. Bartholomew //masqueandspectacle comments

# FUN

Why F.E.A.R.’s AI is still the best in first-person shooters //rockpapershotgun comments

Bent horizon photos //atlasobscura comments

Zepton – a Pico-8 voxel shoot'em up game //lexaloffle comments

In Pieces – A CSS-based exhibition celebrating evolutionary distinction //species-in-pieces comments

# CUTTING ROOM FLOOR

Fuchsia: a new operating system //lwn comments

Ride-hailing apps may help to curb drunk driving //economist comments

UK researchers create graphene-based sieve that can remove salt from seawater //bbc comments

Tacotron: A Fully End-to-End Text-To-Speech Synthesis Model //github comments

How release canaries can save your bacon //googleblog comments

Brands need to fire adtech //artplusmarketing comments

Stripe opens its Atlas program to US-based startups //stripe comments

How Utah Keeps the American Dream Alive //bloomberg comments

The Deck ad network is shutting down //decknetwork comments

America Needs Small Apartment Buildings //bloomberg comments

On the typography of flight deck documentation – NASA //nasa comments

Manually Throttle the Bandwidth of a Linux Network Interface //koli comments

Google and Facebook Can’t Just Make Fake News Disappear //backchannel comments

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