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Issue #393 // March 09, 2018

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# FAVORITES

Two Photographers Unknowingly Shot the Same Millisecond in Time //petapixel comments

History of the browser user-agent string //webaim comments

The Mystery of the Slow Downloads //panic comments

Amazon's policies promote counterfeiting //elevationlab comments

Three girls, a dead raccoon, and a crockpot //poweredbyosteons comments

The Lottery Hackers //huffingtonpost comments

Deconstructing the Water Effect in Super Mario Sunshine //mecheye comments

Updated Request for Startups //ycombinator comments

What We Found When X-Raying Some MLB Baseballs //fivethirtyeight comments

Pitching Your Startup //stripe comments

# ASK HN

How will you manage your digital assets when you die? //ycombinator

Move to product management at 35? //ycombinator

Cookies vs. JWT vs. OAuth //ycombinator

What stack would you use to build a CRUD web app in 2018? //ycombinator

# SHOW HN

Coinbase Index Fund //coinbase comments

Xray – An experimental next-generation Electron-based text editor //github comments

Hearth – A Dropbox-like, IPFS-powered personal website publisher //eternum comments

Make Medium Readable Again //google comments

Emacs Anywhere //github comments

Vim-db: Modern database interface for Vim //github comments

Tinder Revenue Estimate //manicoti comments

1-click orders for open source electronics //kitspace comments

Chat without leaving your terminal //github comments

# CODE

Ask HN: Best way to learn modern C++? //ycombinator

Create Statistics in PostgreSQL 10 //citusdata comments

Nobody's just reading your code //akkartik comments

Notes for new Make users //sourceforge comments

Go best practices, six years in //bourgon comments

Queryparser, an Open Source Tool for Parsing and Analyzing SQL //uber comments

Scrcpy – An app to display and control Android devices //rom1v comments

Gopher Reading List: A curated selection of blog posts on Go //github comments

VisiData 1.0 released //visidata comments

Our Favorite Elasticsearch Features, Part 2: Index Aliases //cambium comments

# DATA

TensorFlow Tutorials with YouTube Videos //github comments

The Building Blocks of Interpretability //distill comments

A 'Brief' History of Game AI Up to AlphaGo //andreykurenkov comments

# DESIGN

My embarrassing personal website from the 90s //iwarp comments

Subform, a UI layout tool //subformapp comments

# LEARN

Elementary Knightship found in Conway's Game of Life //conwaylife comments

First firing of air-breathing electric thruster //esa comments

Understanding word vectors //github comments

Stigler Diet //wikipedia comments

Operation Serenata de Amor – An AI project to analyze public spending in Brazil //wikipedia comments

Dirt Poor: Have Fruits and Vegetables Become Less Nutritious? //scientificamerican comments

Why plastic items in a dishwasher take longer to dry than metal,glass or ceramic //nytimes comments

# BOOKS

For a baby’s brain to benefit, read the right books at the right time //theconversation comments

Takeaways from Nassim Taleb's New Book “Skin in the Game” //nuggetsofthought comments

How the Irish Teach Us to Die //lithub comments

# WATCHING

Waymo released a 360-degree VR representation of what its robocar sees //ieee comments

VisiData Lightning Demo at PyCascades 2018 //youtube comments

81 Year Old Commodore Amiga Artist – Samia Halaby //youtube comments

The Greatest Leap, part 5: Saving the crew of Apollo 13 //arstechnica comments

PBS Nova Episode about History of Statistics and Probability //pbs comments

# WORKING

Tracking where your time went with Lego workstream visualisation //joejag comments

What Managers Need to Know About Slack, Yammer, and Chatter //hbr comments

My Last Day at Moz, My First Day at SparkToro //sparktoro comments

# LONGREADS

Wing Commander II //filfre comments

Einstein's boyhood proof of the Pythagorean theorem //newyorker comments

I am a “MasterChef” survivor //salon comments

# FUN

All of Oculus’s Rift headsets have stopped working due to an expired certificate //techcrunch comments

Stuffing a Tesla Drivetrain into a 1981 Honda Accord //jalopnik comments

Sysadmin left finger on power button for an hour to avert SAP outage //theregister comments

Placing My Camera Lens 300 Feet from a Rocket Launch //petapixel comments

An escape room in your browser //mitchcrowe comments

# CUTTING ROOM FLOOR

PhantomJS: Archiving the project, suspending development //github comments

OpenTable Fires Employee for Making Fake Reserve Bookings //eater comments

Nassim Taleb, Absorbent Barriers and House Money //medium comments

Awesome Developer Streams: curated list of awesome developers that stream //github comments

A Year Away from Mac OS //bitcannon comments

The metrics behind Spotify’s IPO //chartmogul comments

Ruby 2.6.0 with JIT now 6x faster than Ruby 2.0.0 //github comments

The next great urban reset //cnu comments

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