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Issue #389 // February 09, 2018

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# FAVORITES

SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches //techcrunch comments

John Perry Barlow has died //eff comments

Firefox 59 to strip path information from referrer values for 3rd parties //mozilla comments

Modern CSS Explained //medium comments

Family fun with deepfakes //svencharleer comments

DNA seen through the eyes of a coder //ds9a comments

A Company That Tears Cars Apart to Find Out How They're Built //jalopnik comments

HappyOrNot terminals look simple, but the information they gather is revelatory //newyorker comments

The UX of AI //design comments

How Generative Music Works //teropa comments

Funny or Die's Matt Klinman: “Facebook has destroyed independent digital comedy” //splitsider comments

# ASK HN

Simple tools/hack for small project management //ycombinator

Which Linux distribution do you use, and why? //ycombinator

# SHOW HN

A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript //github comments

Dark Site Finder: tracking light pollution to find locations for stargazing //darksitefinder comments

A Decentralized StatusPage on IPFS //dstatuspage comments

Ask a Dev //askadev comments

HiFive – RISC-V-based Linux development board //sifive comments

An extension to turn your LinkedIn into a resume //ceev comments

Simple Print – Convert web articles into printable PDFs //fivefilters comments

Isso – a commenting server similar to Disqus //github comments

HNBuddy – A fast and elegant HN client for iOS //hnbuddy comments

# CODE

Why Create a New Unix Shell? //oilshell comments

Automerge: JSON-like data structure for building collaborative apps //github comments

Video editing with Python //github comments

Best practices for user account, authorization and password management //googleblog comments

Cross-platform desktop applications with PyQT //github comments

Single Page Application Is Not a Silver Bullet //bloomca comments

Writing space invaders with Go //github comments

Algebraic Number Theory in Python 3 //github comments

Pivot – Rows to Columns //modern-sql comments

# DESIGN

Designing Windows 95’s User Interface //socket3 comments

A photographer capturing subcultures that refuse to die //huckmagazine comments

# LEARN

Crushed wood is stronger than steel //nature comments

Imaging Without Lenses //americanscientist comments

Venice without water //strangesounds comments

The Navy’s Second Stealth Zumwalt-Class Destroyer Is Almost Ready for Action //nationalinterest comments

# BOOKS

50 Years of Art Books from the Met, for Free Download //metmuseum comments

Ask HN: Which books do you wish you'd read earlier in life? //ycombinator

Ask HN: What books have most influenced the way you see the world? //ycombinator

Car Hacker's Handbook //opengarages comments

CRPG Book Released //crpgbook comments

Eloquent JavaScript 3rd Edition Draft //eloquentjavascript comments

# WATCHING

Bret Victor – Inventing on Principle //vimeo comments

Google’s Fuchsia OS on the Pixelbook //arstechnica comments

Flyover video of Jupiter’s Europa //kottke comments

Talks I have given //dtrace comments

The Engineering of the Drinking Bird Toy //youtube comments

# WORKING

How to Work Out What to Charge Clients //smashingmagazine comments

The Challenges of Being in the New Contract Workforce //npr comments

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? //ycombinator

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

# FUN

My Delorean runs Perl //opensource comments

Diablo creator David Brevik is back with a new game: It Lurks Below //polygon comments

5 months of /r/place at my elementary school (One pixel per student per day) //reddit comments

Apollo 13: the Towing Invoice //archive comments

# CUTTING ROOM FLOOR

John Hennessy named chairman of Alphabet/Google //ieee comments

Twitter Soars After Surprise Sales Gain, First Real Profit //bloomberg comments

3D Color Print //hp comments

Waymo Launches Its Self-Driving Armada //wired comments

Google dedicates engineering team to accelerate development of WordPress //searchengineland comments

A practitioner’s guide to reading programming languages papers //acolyer comments

Ten Years of Instapaper //instapaper comments

Audio Adversarial Examples //carlini comments

HP EliteBook: A friend to the User //ifixit comments

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