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Issue #390 // February 16, 2018

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# FAVORITES

AMP for email is a terrible idea //techcrunch comments

Let's Learn About Waveforms //surge comments

Let’s talk about usernames //b-list comments

Who Killed the Junior Developer? //medium comments

Slack is the opposite of organizational memory //github comments

CSS Grid for UI Layouts //mozilla comments

Utility poles //plover comments

2018 Annual Letter from Bill and Melinda Gates //gatesnotes comments

Lessons from starting a design-as-a-service startup //indiehackers comments

SaaS Pricing: Lessons from Changes //canny comments

A short tale of a read overflow //antirez comments

# ASK HN

Have you successfully done a career do-over, and how did you do it? //ycombinator

Best project management practices in 2018? //ycombinator

What is setup for your static blog generator? //ycombinator

# SHOW HN

VLC 3.0 release //videolan comments

Tinc VPN: Secure Private Network Between Hosts //tinc-vpn comments

Phaser 3.0: HTML5 game framework //github comments

TablePlus – A macOS client for relational databases //medium comments

Web scraping page analyzer //apify comments

Turn your GitHub Gist into a live dashboard //github comments

Substack : Paid email newsletters made simple //ycombinator comments

Tet – A todo app that deletes your tasks at the end of the day //aswinmohan comments

SoYouLearn – A flexible and advanced spaced repetition platform //soyoulearn comments

# CODE

LCUI – A small C library for building user interfaces with XML and CSS //github comments

PopcornNotify – Send simple emails and text messages from one API //popcornnotify comments

Answers to front-end developer job interview questions //github comments

Speeding Up Ruby with Shared Strings //tenderlovemaking comments

Advanced SQL window function quiz //windowfunctions comments

Udash – Scala and Scala.js Reactive Web Framework //udash comments

Spry Language //sprylang comments

Dotmesh – A git-like CLI for application states //dotmesh comments

# DATA

Shipping a Neural Network on iOS with CoreML, PyTorch, and React Native //attardi comments

Curated, Pre-trained ML Models for Transfer Learning //modeldepot comments

Training an AI to convert design mockups into HTML and CSS //freecodecamp comments

Docker for Data Science //towardsdatascience comments

# DESIGN

Flat UI Colors – Color palettes for use in projects, designs, presentations //flatuicolors comments

Drawing better-looking Bézier curves //observablehq comments

Procedur.al – Unique, procedurally made-to-order wall art //procedur comments

Animating Artworks in the Met's Collection //metmuseum comments

# LEARN

Physics Travel Guide: a tool that makes learning physics easier //physicstravelguide comments

The Cuttlefish, a Master of Camouflage, Reveals a New Trick //nytimes comments

Repairing the card reader for a 1960s mainframe: cams, relays and a clutch //righto comments

On a small Greek island, practitioners of an ancient whistling language //theoutline comments

# BOOKS

Humble Bundle Books: Functional Programming //humblebundle comments

“Study Death Always”: Seneca’s advice for living centered on dying //laphamsquarterly comments

Ask HN: What are the books you wish your colleagues had read? //ycombinator

The Algorithm Design Manual //algorist comments

Achtung Baby by Sara Zaske, Reviewed //slate comments

# WATCHING

Introduction to LLVM //fosdem comments

Tractor Hacking: Documentary About Farmers Fighting for the Right to Repair //vice comments

Graal: How to use the new JVM JIT compiler in real life //youtube comments

Visualising Electromagnetic Fields //lukesturgeon comments

Validating email addresses: A journey down RFC5321 //youtube comments

# WORKING

What I wish I knew when I became CTO //medium comments

Hidden work when launching a SaaS //kwoosh comments

# LONGREADS

The diabolical genius of the baby advice industry //theguardian comments

The White Darkness: A Journey Across Antarctica //newyorker comments

What Atari Was Really Like, According to Women Who Were There //kotaku comments

# FUN

Picture of a Single Atom Wins Science Photo Contest //petapixel comments

OpenSC2K – An Open Source Remake of SimCity 2000 //github comments

Origami Simulator //amandaghassaei comments

1960s Kodachrome photos of London’s East End //atlasobscura comments

# CUTTING ROOM FLOOR

Sandboxed Mac apps can record screen any time without you knowing //krausefx comments

German court rules Facebook use of personal data illegal //reuters comments

Uber and Waymo Reach Settlement //uber comments

Amazon will launch its own delivery service to compete with FedEx, UPS //bgr comments

Google is buying Chelsea Market building for over $2B //therealdeal comments

The rise and fall of 18F //fedscoop comments

Thanks – See which NPM dependencies are seeking donations //github comments

PostgreSQL 10.2 Released //postgresql comments

Chinese local governments rush to admit fake data //nikkei comments

The Autonomous Selfie Drone Is Here. Is Society Ready for It? //nytimes comments

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