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Issue #396 // March 30, 2018

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# FAVORITES

Congrats Dropbox //ycombinator comments

Elon Musk Deletes Own, SpaceX and Tesla Facebook Pages After #deletefacebook //techcrunch comments

Facebook Container Extension: Take control of how you’re being tracked //mozilla comments

Uber Is Ripping Off Frequent Riders and Here’s How to Avoid It //therideshareguy comments

Look for the duct tape //rachelbythebay comments

ViperCard – An open source re-creation and re-imagination of HyperCard //vipercard comments

Putting the I back in IDE //janestreet comments

Stratechery 4.0 //stratechery comments

Steinhaus Longimeter //fairfield comments

I usually run 'w' first when troubleshooting unknown machines //rachelbythebay comments

Open source sabbatical = awesome //jvns comments

# ASK HN

Examples of great landing pages? //ycombinator

Weirdest hack that you ever saw in production? //ycombinator

Resources to learn real analysis? //ycombinator

# SHOW HN

Storyboarder: free, cross-platform storyboard tool //wonderunit comments

A site that makes Spotify playlists of bands coming to town //nextweeksplaylist comments

Textile – Return Facebook photo exports back to nicely-named galleries //textile comments

Find3 – An indoor positioning system //github comments

HN Domain Leaderboard //hnleaderboard comments

Turn indented text into mind maps //tobloef comments

Launched my first app where people hum songs for others to guess //google comments

“define” – A command-line dictionary (thesaurus) app, written in Go //github comments

# CLASSICS

Will MySpace ever lose its monopoly? //theguardian comments

Facebook's Zuckerberg Says the Age of Privacy Is Over //nytimes comments

I Hate the News //aaronsw comments

# CODE

Avoid Else, Return Early //timoxley comments

D3.js 5.0 is out //github comments

Git log – The good parts //zwischenzugs comments

Oni: Modern Modal Editing – Powered by Neovim //github comments

Managing database schema changes without downtime //samsaffron comments

Wapp – a single-file web framework by the creator of SQLite //tcl comments

Guide to Speech Recognition with Python //realpython comments

JavaScript in 14 minutes //jgthms comments

# DATA

Kaggle Datasets – Discover and analyze open data //kaggle comments

Learning to write programs that generate images //deepmind comments

World Models //github comments

# DESIGN

Fred's ImageMagick Scripts //fmwconcepts comments

IBM Plex – A new typeface //ibm comments

Egg Gradients – Gradient color inspirations //eggradients comments

Thinking Machines: Art and Design in the Computer Age, 1959–1989 //moma comments

# LEARN

Hubble finds first galaxy in the local universe without dark matter //spacetelescope comments

Chernoff face //wikipedia comments

Probabilistic Filters By Example //github comments

China Is Building a Rain-Making System Three Times as Big as Spain //scmp comments

Fiber Lasers are set to make laser weapons practical //ieee comments

Lucky iron fish //wikipedia comments

# BOOKS

Book Review: Twelve Rules for Life //slatestarcodex comments

Where to Score: Classified Ads from Haight-Ashbury //theparisreview comments

# WATCHING

We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads //ted comments

What is Mastodon? //youtube comments

Solving 2D equations using color //youtube comments

# WORKING

The health care toll today’s work culture exacts on employees //stanford comments

61% of “Entry-Level” Jobs Require 3+ Years of Experience //talent comments

How to Quit a Top Tier Tech Job //oliverzheng comments

# FUN

DIY makers who build their own watches //bbc comments

Vintage Cassettes: 1963-2010 //vintagecassettes comments

# CUTTING ROOM FLOOR

Craigslist takes personals sections offline in response to FOSTA //craigslist comments

Au Revoir //docker comments

Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google //bloomberg comments

FCC Authorizes SpaceX to Provide Broadband Satellite Services //fcc comments

The Superfund Sites of Silicon Valley //nytimes comments

A Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg About Data Privacy //nytimes comments

Landfills – a future source of raw materials //lnu comments

EU GDPR – Another reason for SaaS to reconsider on-premise //gravitational comments

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