# FAVORITES

Shutting Down Google+ for Consumers //blog comments→

How to Get Things Done When You Don't Feel Like It //acm comments→

New Evidence of Hacked Supermicro Hardware Found in U.S. Telecom //bloomberg comments→

Astronauts escape malfunctioning Soyuz rocket //bbc comments→

Today Is My Wife’s First Birthday Since She Died //medium comments→

12 Factor CLI Apps //medium comments→

Wayback Machine director outlines the scale of everyone's favorite archive //arstechnica comments→

The hacker's guide to uncertainty estimates //erikbern comments→

What's a senior engineer's job? //jvns comments→

# ASK HN

Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atmosphere? //ycombinator

Ex-FAANG developers, where are you now and why? //ycombinator

Did reading HN bring anything valuable into your life? //ycombinator

# SHOW HN

Mixnode: Turn the web into a database //mixnode comments→

New Google Pixel 3, Pixel Slate, and Home Hub //blog comments→

Tableau-Like Data Visualizations in JavaScript //charts comments→

IRL Glasses Block All the Screens Around You //wired comments→

Markdown page – Create a web page with just markdown //github comments→

Portal from Facebook: Voice Enabled Hands-Free Video Calling //facebook comments→

# CODE

Calls between JavaScript and WebAssembly are finally fast //mozilla comments→

Microsoft Joins the Open Invention Network //globenewswire comments→

Microsoft open sources parts of Minecraft: Java Edition //minecraft comments→

Alan – a low-code application platform //alan-platform comments→

Well-Architected Monoliths Are Okay //robertnorthard comments→

JS Visualizer – Visualize Context, Hoisting, Closures, and Scopes in JavaScript //javascriptvisualizer comments→

Rete – JavaScript framework for node-based visual programming //github comments→

Stacked Diffs versus Pull Requests //jg comments→

# DATA

Study: Google is the biggest beneficiary of the GDPR //cliqz comments→

How to deliver on Machine Learning projects //insightdatascience comments→

Data Factories //stratechery comments→

Using machine learning to index text from billions of images //dropbox comments→

Open-Source Machine Learning Repos to Inspire Your Next Project //fritz comments→

Faster R with FastR //medium comments→

Cloudera and Hortonworks merge //cnbc comments→

# DESIGN

An artwork by Banksy shredded itself after selling for $1.3M at Sotheby’s //artsy comments→

The Remarkable Persistence of 24x36 //typepad comments→

Story of FFFFOUND, every designers’ favourite site back in 2008 //medium comments→

# LEARN

Flocking //drewcutchins comments→

The Economics of a Commune in the Ozarks //eastwindblog comments→

Oxford Electric Bell //wikipedia comments→

Loglan – an engineered predicate logic based language for humans //wikipedia comments→

East German coffee crisis //wikipedia comments→

# BOOKS

Delete Your Account Now: A Conversation with Jaron Lanier //lareviewofbooks comments→

How to read Kafka: part I //newcriterion comments→

The Very First Social Network //slate comments→

Review of 1984 by Isaac Asimov //newworker comments→

# WATCHING

How I Faked My Way to the Top of Paris Fashion Week //youtube comments→

Matt Parker – Standup Mathematician //standupmaths comments→

What Happens When a Drone Hits an Airplane Wing? //youtube comments→

# WORKING

InVision has no physical headquarters and all 700 employees work remotely //businessinsider comments→

Tech Workers Now Want to Know: What Are We Building This For? //nytimes comments→

H-1B: As immigration furor roils Silicon Valley, Canada smooths way for techies //mercurynews comments→

Avoiding Zombie Startups //thefamily comments→

# FUN

My Journey into Fractals //medium comments→

Disappearing videos and disappointed grandmothers //rachelbythebay comments→

Flying a Cessna 172 for 65 days nonstop //aopa comments→

The Board Game of the Alpha Nerds //grantland comments→

The Great Fish Market Migration of 2018 //spoon-tamago comments→

# CUTTING ROOM FLOOR

The First Rule of Microsoft Excel: Don’t Tell Anyone You’re Good at It //wsj comments→

Facebook Isn’t Sorry, It Just Wants Your Data //buzzfeednews comments→

Hubble Space Telescope Is In Safe Mode After Gyro Failure //nasawatch comments→

The iPhone XS and XS Max Review: Unveiling the Silicon Secrets //anandtech comments→

Penrose: create diagrams by typing mathematical notation in plain text //penrose comments→

Uniqlo cut 90% of staff at one warehouse by replacing them with robots //qz comments→

Why Is Behavioral Economics So Popular? //nytimes comments→

A raytracer you can actually understand //github comments→