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Issue #420 // September 21, 2018

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# FAVORITES

Linus Torvalds apologizes for his behavior, takes time off //kernel comments

EU to stop changing the clocks in 2019 //dw comments

Life in the Spanish city that banned cars //theguardian comments

Dear Moon //dearmoon comments

Apple's best product is now privacy //fastcompany comments

Build Impossible Programs //jvns comments

Stripe Terminal – Programmable point of sale //stripe comments

How to fail as a new engineering manager //usejournal comments

So Good They Can't Ignore You //commoncog comments

The Making of Underrun – A WebGL Shooter in 13kb of JavaScript //phoboslab comments

On generative algorithms //inconvergent comments

# ASK HN

Favorite teachers on YouTube? //ycombinator

Why did your startup fail and what did you learn? //ycombinator

What made your favorite manager/supervisor/CEO so great? //ycombinator

# SHOW HN

I made a privacy-first minimalist Google Analytics //simpleanalytics comments

Sublime Merge – A Git client //sublimemerge comments

Guitar Dashboard – music theory explorer //guitardashboard comments

Ultimate Hacking Keyboard //ultimatehackingkeyboard comments

Perkeep: personal storage system for life //perkeep comments

Funding Choices – Google’s new tool for GDPR compliance and content monetization //google comments

Rwtxt – a space for reading and writing text //github comments

Mindstamp – Make Any Video Interactive in Seconds //mindstamp comments

Monolist: working hard to preserve the spirit of Inbox's organizational features //monolist comments

# CODE

Yarn Plug'n'Play: Getting rid of node_modules //github comments

Getting started with Tmux //linuxize comments

Xonsh: Python-powered, cross-platform, Unix-gazing shell //xon comments

My RustConf 2018 Closing Keynote //github comments

Flutter Release Preview 2 //googleblog comments

# LEARN

Gell-Mann amnesia effect //wikipedia comments

How the octopus got its smarts //cosmosmagazine comments

Bellman's lost in a forest problem //wikipedia comments

Frankfurt kitchen //wikipedia comments

# BOOKS

Ask HN: What was the one book that you read and it actually changed your life? //ycombinator

A new book about Nietzsche: tethering philosophy to the mess of daily experience //theatlantic comments

Haruki Murakami Introduces the Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories //lithub comments

Advice from a Geographer: Put Away the Map //undark comments

# WATCHING

TechYaks – Best of 50k tech talks ranked by confidence intervals //techyaks comments

Ikarus electric “rocket” – Thrust-vectored flying ducted fan //youtube comments

Rich Hickey on Datomic Ions //youtube comments

How Fighting Wildfires Works //youtube comments

GopherCon 2018 Video Playlist //youtube comments

# WORKING

What Most Remote Companies Don’t Tell You About Remote Work //doist comments

Ask HN: What is the dark side of working at a successful startup? //ycombinator

Every Weekend Should Be a 3-Day Weekend //thecut comments

Ask HN: What topics/subjects are worth learning for a new software engineer? //ycombinator

Am I Happy At Work? Analyzing my entire career //trackinghappiness comments

Ask HN: How do I choose between a job offer from Google and a promising startup? //ycombinator

List of 600+ Startups Hiring Remote in 2018 //google comments

# STARTUP NEWS

Evernote just slashed 54 jobs, or 15 percent of its workforce //techcrunch comments

Alphabet Backs GitLab's Quest to Surpass Microsoft's GitHub //bloomberg comments

# FUN

Lunar lander-type game with computational fluid dynamics //github comments

Raytracing a Black Hole //github comments

Nextspace – NeXTSTEP-like desktop environment for Linux //github comments

JavaScript Equality Minesweeper //github comments

WwwBasic – An implementation of BASIC designed to be easy to run on the Web //github comments

AirConsole offers over 100 browser-based games controlled by smartphones //airconsole comments

# CUTTING ROOM FLOOR

Tesla Faces U.S. Criminal Probe Over Musk Statements //bloomberg comments

Leaving Apple and Google? /e/ first beta is here //hackernoon comments

Let’s bring back the Sabbath as an act against ‘total work’ //aeon comments

Wharton professor says America should shorten the work day by 2 hours //cnbc comments

iOS 12, reviewed //arstechnica comments

My new SaaS side-project, after years of open source //ycombinator comments

Middle Earth Map Style //adventuresinmapping comments

Hacking slot machines with a buttonhole camera and brute-force search //github comments

Four Lessons from a Failed Startup – From and for First Time Founders //medium comments

Code Rush – The Beginnings of Netscape and Mozilla //youtube comments

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