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Issue #379 // December 01, 2017

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# FAVORITES

macOS High Sierra: Anyone can login as “root” with empty password //twitter comments

Uber Paid Hackers to Delete Stolen Data on 57M People //bloomberg comments

Modern Media Is a DoS Attack on Free Will //nautil comments

Norvig's Python programs to practice or demonstrate skills //github comments

Hello, world: this is WikiTribune //wikitribune comments

The Poor Man's 3D Camera //etodd comments

Lessons we learned while bootstrapping //kinsta comments

How do groups work on Linux? //jvns comments

Run the First Edition of Unix with Docker //nickjanetakis comments

Microsoft and GitHub team up to take Git virtual file system to macOS, Linux //arstechnica comments

# ASK HN

What tech were you convinced would take the world by storm but didn't? //ycombinator

I'm lonely. Are there any video chat support groups for solo founders? //ycombinator

Has anyone tried to debunk the myth that Facebook is listening? //ycombinator

# SHOW HN

Fruits and vegetables in season in your zip code //harvestsignal comments

Samsung DeX //samsung comments

LogoFox – fast logo maker //logofox comments

Joplin – A note-taking and to-do app with builds for desktop, mobile, terminal //github comments

Matrix Calculus //matrixcalculus comments

Nebula – Alarm clock where you grow stars while you sleep //alextumanov comments

Gophercises – Coding Exercises for Budding Gophers //gophercises comments

SQL Operations Studio //github comments

Vassal – Online Adaptations of Board Games //vassalengine comments

Beorg – an Emacs org-mode companion for iOS //beorgapp comments

OhMyCo.in – Real-time charts for cryptocurrency markets //ohmyco comments

Helix – a habit tracking app //startuplab comments

Aurora, a pluggable note taker //medium comments

# CODE

Using a logbook to improve your programming //routley comments

A minimalist guide to tmux //medium comments

Ditching Go for Node.js //github comments

Firefox Debugger //github comments

Promptui – Rich UI elements for cli prompts in Go //github comments

# DATA

Deep image prior 'learns' on just one image //github comments

Boltzmann Machines in TensorFlow with Examples: RBM, DBM, AIS //github comments

Population-based training of neural networks //deepmind comments

AWS DeepLens – Deep learning enabled video camera for developers //amazon comments

# DESIGN

Netflix Stole My VHS Cassette Photos for Its Stranger Things Boxed Set //petapixel comments

Super Tiny Website Logos in SVG //shkspr comments

Miller’s Law – A Rule in Product Design and Life Management //prototypr comments

Beauty Shots of Retro Machines //podstawczynski comments

# LEARN

Stanford CS007: Personal Finance For Engineers //cs007 comments

My unusual hobby //stephanboyer comments

Free online courses from top universities //openculture comments

Benford's Law //wikipedia comments

# BOOKS

Reviving the 1973 Unix Programmer's Manual //spinellis comments

Practical Unix Manuals: mdoc //bsd comments

The best books on Wagner //fivebooks comments

The Humble Book Bundle: Java by O’Reilly //humblebundle comments

# WATCHING

No big deal, Boston Dynamics’ Atlas can perform backflips now //theverge comments

Frank Abagnale: “Catch Me If You Can” – Talks at Google //youtube comments

# WORKING

A growing number of young Americans are leaving desk jobs to farm //washingtonpost comments

Silicon Valley Software Engineer Salaries by Experience Level //triplebyte comments

A Founder Salary Calculator //christophjanz comments

Switching Jobs //flowingdata comments

# LONGREADS

A Man Who Has Lived Alone on an Island for 28 Years //nationalgeographic comments

What Bikini Atoll Looks Like Today //medium comments

The Secret Lives of Urban Crows //seattlemet comments

Spam is back //theoutline comments

# FUN

Why does man print “gimme gimme gimme” at 00:30? //stackexchange comments

The Girl with the Brick Earring //lucaswoltmann comments

Infinitown – A WebGL Experiment //littleworkshop comments

The Vanual – Guide to Living in a Van //thevanual comments

Crush, Texas //wikipedia comments

Chord Progressions //github comments

Prime numbers visualization //prime-numbers comments

# CUTTING ROOM FLOOR

Facebook users in Romania see content related to street protests reviewed //business-review comments

Replacing x86 firmware with Linux and Go //lwn comments

Cortana is really bad //medium comments

Why we never thank open source maintainers //github comments

American Airlines Accidentally Let Too Many Pilots Take the Holidays Off //npr comments

Laptops Are Great, But Not During a Lecture or a Meeting //nytimes comments

Ubuntu 17.10: Return of the Gnome //arstechnica comments

People Who Speed-Listen to Podcasts //buzzfeed comments

A handy guide to financial support for open source //github comments

Command Line, Console and UI Based Open Source Plain Text Accounting //hledger comments

The Cost Center Trap //leanessays comments

Simh/simh: The Computer History Simulation Project //github comments

Pogo – Host your own podcasts //producthunt comments

Every Pixel, Every Line of Code //medium comments

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