Friday, December 22, 2017

Hacker Newsletter #382 ⛄🎅

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Issue #382 // December 22, 2017 // View in your browser

If you celebrate it, have a Merry Christmas, and a happy holiday season to all! I'll see you next week with a 2017 wrap-up issue. kale

#Favorites


Master the Rebase (and the other way around)
//algolia sponsored

Google Maps' Moat
//justinobeirne comments

Chrome is Not the Standard
//chriskrycho comments

Introducing the GoodWatch
//goodwatch comments

iPhone Performance Degrades as Battery Ages
//geekbench comments

Dynamicland
//dynamicland comments

Show HN: An educational blockchain implementation in Python
//github comments

In Japan, small children take the subway and run errands alone
//citylab comments

Improving my productivity using Pomodoro: takeaways after 2 years of practice
//cherti comments

Elasticsearch For Beginners: Indexing your Gmail Inbox
//github comments

How do Ruby and Python profilers work?
//jvns comments

#Show HN


Magic Leap One //magicleap comments

Boardgame.io: State management and more for turn-based games //github comments

Algorithmia – Open Marketplace for Algorithms //algorithmia comments

OpenRailwayMap //openrailwaymap comments

FoldingText – Plain text productivity for Mac users //foldingtext comments

Chalkdust – A magazine for the mathematically curious //chalkdustmagazine comments

Open Paperless – Scan, index, and archive paper documents //github comments

Swimlanes – A web app for creating sequence diagrams with Markdown //swimlanes comments

#Code


Oh sh!t, git: Getting myself out of bad situations //ohsh!tgit comments

Learning to operate Kubernetes reliably //stripe comments

SQL Injection Wiki //netspi comments

How to Design a Scalable Rate Limiting Algorithm //konghq comments

Termipal – native micro-GUIs for shell scripts and command line apps //termipal comments

Python library for functional programming //github comments

The Last JSON Spec //tbray comments

Cr – Runs your tasks at maximum concurrency //github comments

#Data


Building a Poor Man's Deep Learning Camera in Python //makeartwithpython comments

Tacotron 2: Generating Human-Like Speech from Text //googleblog comments

How to break a Captcha system in 15 minutes with Machine Learning //medium comments

#Design


Racing for Realism //pixar comments

The Screenless Office //screenl comments

Retrotechnology – PC desktop screenshots from 1983-2005 //typewritten comments

#Learn


Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day //righto comments

Modes, Medians and Means: A Unifying Perspective //johnmyleswhite comments

Matrices from a geometric perspective //coranac comments

Kowloon Walled City //wikipedia comments

Toyetic //wikipedia comments

#Books


Artists and writers whose works enter the public domain in 2018 //publicdomainreview comments

Exploring Physics with Geometric Algebra, Book I [pdf] //peeterjoot comments

Ask HN: Books you read in 2017? //ycombinator

Humble "Be a Coder" Book Bundle //humblebundle comments

#Working


Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older Workers from Job Ads //propublica comments

I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA //ycombinator

How to not waste time on a side project when trying to get a job //hackcareer comments

#Longreads


The Pentagon's U.F.O. Program //nytimes comments

Her six-hour commute each day seems crazy, but her affordable rent is not //latimes comments

Bruce Brown, 80, Dies; His 'Endless Summer' Documented Surfing //nytimes comments

#Fun


Neighbor's house alarm triggers when I put my car in reverse //reddit comments

Long Island Iced Tea Soars 500% After Changing Its Name to Long Blockchain //bloomberg comments

Hundreds 'Rickrolled' in Campus Prank at Cornell //cornellsun comments

World's steepest funicular railway opens in Switzerland //swissinfo comments

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