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Issue #395 // March 23, 2018

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# FAVORITES

The Game of Everything, Part 1: Making Civilization //filfre comments

The Nightmare Letter: A Subject Access Request Under GDPR //linkedin comments

How Amazon Became Corporate America's Nightmare //bloomberg comments

Firefox Product Roadmap //mozilla comments

Creator //magicleap comments

Long Live Mister Rogers' Quiet Revolution //jstor comments

D3 Graph Theory – Learn About Graph Theory Interactively //github comments

Startup founders throughout the Midwest are doing something new: staying //californiasunday comments

How I've built a profitable Slack bot as a side project in Rails //pawelurbanek comments

The Population Bomb Has Been Defused //bloomberg comments

Why I deleted Facebook //sivers comments

# ASK HN

Tell HN: I just wanted to say: thank you, Hacker News //ycombinator

How did you start your business? //ycombinator

Is a blog clever marketing or just a waste of time? //ycombinator

# SHOW HN

Blocklist Facebook domains //github comments

Promise – Cost-effective, more humane alternative to jail //ycombinator comments

Krita 4.0 – A painting app for cartoonists, illustrators, and concept artists //krita comments

Interactive map of Linux kernel //makelinux comments

URL Canary – Get an alert when someone finds your secrets //urlcanary comments

Where is Sci-Hub now? //herokuapp comments

Transfer files to mobile device by scanning a QR code from the terminal //github comments

Airborn: Create and edit f​iles online​, securely //airborn comments

An AI app that generates quizzes from a photograph of a texbook //questo comments

Sheet2Site – Create Websites Out of Google Sheets //sheet2site comments

Dejavu – Web UI for Elasticsearch //github comments

# CODE

How to Use Go Interfaces //chewxy comments

User-defined Order in SQL //begriffs comments

AWS documentation is now open source and on GitHub //amazon comments

Tail recursion in Python //chrispenner comments

Eve: Programming designed for humans //eve-lang comments

Makesite – A static site generator in 125 lines of Python //github comments

# DATA

Evolution Is the New Deep Learning //sentient comments

Word2Bits – Quantized Word Vectors //github comments

Train Your Machine Learning Models on Google’s GPUs for Free //hackernoon comments

Sequence Tagging with Tensorflow //github comments

# DESIGN

Netflix unveils Netflix Sans, a new custom typeface //itsnicethat comments

Fitts’s law //wikipedia comments

Hopefully, the Ultimate Guide to a Flat Icon Set //muz comments

# LEARN

Mathematics for Computer Science: Readings //mit comments

All disk galaxies rotate once every billion years //astronomy comments

Number systems of the world, sorted by complexity of counting //airnet comments

Death of the sampling theorem? //markusmeister comments

# BOOKS

At full speed with Python: a book for self-learners //github comments

The Best Books on the Philosophy of Mind //fivebooks comments

The “Basecamp MBA” Reading List //signalvnoise comments

# WATCHING

Building a chat app in 8 minutes with Phoenix //elixircasts comments

Cryptocurrencies: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver //youtube comments

Tesla Autopilot 2 on Winding Local Road //youtube comments

Unreal + $150,000 GPU = Real-Time Raytraced Star Wars //youtube comments

# WORKING

Cutting ‘Old Heads’ at IBM //propublica comments

Why I Don't Sign Non-Competes //penguindreams comments

Ask HN: How do you find freelance work? //ycombinator

What Record-Low Unemployment Looks Like in America //bloomberg comments

# LONGREADS

‘The Trains Are Slower Because They Slowed the Trains Down’ //villagevoice comments

Japan’s Prisons Are a Haven for Elderly Women //bloomberg comments

# FUN

Using old laptop batteries to build homemade powerwalls //futurism comments

Kottke.org is 20 years old today //kottke comments

KotCity – an open-source city simulation game written in Kotlin //github comments

# CUTTING ROOM FLOOR

Guide to Slack import and export tools //slack comments

Sierra Leone just ran the first blockchain-based election //techcrunch comments

Airtable gets $52M in funding //businessinsider comments

California should emulate Tokyo, where housing stayed ahead of population growth //bloomberg comments

Cloud Identity //google comments

Salesforce is buying MuleSoft at enterprise value of $6.5B //techcrunch comments

Toys R Us closing all 800 of its US stores //washingtonpost comments

Google makes push to turn product searches into cash //reuters comments

Some software cannot be used at Google //google comments

The Race to a Trillion //theirrelevantinvestor comments

Postmates postmortem: eight hours as delivery drivers //stanforddaily comments

EasyEmail – Gmail plug-in that helps compose emails quickly //ycombinator comments

Digg Reader is planning to shut down on March 26 //digg comments

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