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Issue #364 // August 11, 2017

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# FAVORITES

Is the stock market going to crash? //isthestockmarketgoingtocrash comments

uBlock Origin Maintainer on Chrome vs. Firefox WebExtensions //mozilla comments

Operation Luigi: How I hacked my friend without her noticing //defaultnamehere comments

HTML5 Version of the Tron:Legacy Boardroom Scene //robscanlon comments

The Internet Archive has digitized 25,000 78rpm Gramophone records //archive comments

A checklist of marketing ideas for side projects //sideprojectchecklist comments

Eager to Burst His Own Bubble, a Techie Made Apps to Randomize His Life //npr comments

Detecting Chrome headless //github comments

A Candle Loses Nothing by Lighting Another Candle //stephaniehurlburt comments

An interactive guide to compression basics //unwttng comments

# ASK HN

Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy? //ycombinator

How did you find your great side project idea? //ycombinator

# SHOW HN

Introducing 306M Freely Downloadable Pwned Passwords //troyhunt comments

Website load and speed analyzer //varvy comments

Kozmos – A Personal Library //getkozmos comments

Mozilla launches voice search, file-sharing and note-taking tools for Firefox //techcrunch comments

# CODE

JavaScript for People Who Hate JavaScript //zachholman comments

Why GitHub Can't Host the Linux Kernel Community //ffwll comments

Learn Regex the Easy Way //github comments

Learn GraphQL with GitHub //github comments

Pygorithm – A Python module for learning major algorithms //github comments

# DATA

Building a Music Recommender with Deep Learning //mattmurray comments

Fitting to Noise or Nothing at All: Machine Learning in Markets //zacharydavid comments

Prodigy: A new tool for radically efficient machine teaching //explosion comments

# DESIGN

New York Subway X-Ray Area Maps //projectsubwaynyc comments

UX brutalism //uxbrutalism comments

# LEARN

The 1980 Citroën Karin //citroenet comments

Knolling //wikipedia comments

Our Broken Economy, in One Simple Chart //nytimes comments

Name-letter Effect //wikipedia comments

Mea Culpa: Asteroid vs Satellite //syfy comments

Why Elephants Don’t Explode: How Nature Solves Bigness //noticing comments

# BOOKS

Big Companies and the Military Are Paying Novelists to Write Sci-Fi for Them //newyorker comments

There Have Always Existed People Who’ve Simply Wanted to Be Alone //hazlitt comments

Nim in Action //picheta comments

How to Design Programs, Second Edition //neu comments

Ask HN: Is Anyone Living “The 4-Hour Work Week”? //ycombinator

# WATCHING

Jeff Dean’s Lecture for YC AI //ycombinator comments

How the NSA tracks people //ccc comments

ThyssenKrupp Multi – world’s first rope-free elevator //youtube comments

# WORKING

Apple staffers reportedly rebelling against open office plan //bizjournals comments

Benefits of a Lifestyle Business //bugfender comments

Why some of the best developers keep quitting //fastcompany comments

How to Determine If Candidates Will Thrive in a Remote Work Environment //hackernoon comments

# LONGREADS

The Loyal Engineers Steering NASA’s Voyager Probes Across the Universe //nytimes comments

1950s New York City’s ‘Mad Bomber’ //damninteresting comments

# FUN

Cheap Beijing Flights With a Dangerous Catch //seat31b comments

A tall chimney to facilitate heat exchange in the atmosphere //superchimney comments

AsciiDots – a 2D esoteric language inspired by circuits //github comments

# CUTTING ROOM FLOOR

Martin Shkreli is found guilty of securities fraud //washingtonpost comments

Internet Draft: Let 'localhost' be localhost //ietf comments

When all job differences are accounted for, the pay gap almost disappears //economist comments

African Startups Are Increasingly Attractive to Investors //afridigest comments

Why We Said “No” to a $40M Round //parse comments

Designing Zachtronics' TIS-100 //gamasutra comments

Porting a Chrome Extension to Firefox //github comments

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