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Issue #189 // February 21, 2014 // View in your browser

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#Favorites


Facebook Buying WhatsApp for $16B in Cash and Stock Plus $3B in RSUs
//techcrunch comments

AI
//samaltman comments

Your Path to a $16B exit? Build a J2ME App
//textit comments

Your 60 hour work week is not a badge of honor. It is a problem.
//jeffarchibald comments

Inside DuckDuckGo, Google's Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor
//fastcolabs comments

10 Questions People Ask When I Tell Them I Own an Airplane
//fivezeromike comments

DHH: Jim Weirich, creator of 'Rake', has left us.
//twitter comments

Banking Startup Simple Acquired for $117M, Will Continue to Operate Separately
//techcrunch comments

Frequency
//xkcd comments

A Collection of Less Commonly Used Unix Commands
//danielmiessler comments

My Startup, a Retrospective
//rdegges comments

#Ask HN


What'd you do to get your first 100 users? //ycombinator

What are some alternatives to HN? //ycombinator

Where I can post my startup to get beta users? //ycombinator

#Show HN


Project Tango //google comments

WebGL Water //madebyevan comments

Bup: Efficient file backup system based on the git packfile format //github comments

Our easy-to-use Text Analysis API (NLP + Machine Learning) //aylien comments

Solo.im – A single founder peer group //solo comments

My side project just reached #6 on App Store music charts //apple comments

Gestice – unlock your Android by shaking it whilst wearing a Pebble //gestice comments

Massren – multi-rename tool using your text editor //github comments

#Code


Introducing Bing Code Search for C# //msdn comments

Hacking Flappy Bird with Machine Learning //github comments

Complaint-Driven Development //codinghorror comments

Video Processing at Dropbox //dropbox comments

#Design


3D GIFs Created with a Simple Visual Effect //mymodernmet comments

Why is the mouse cursor slightly tilted and not straight? //stackexchange comments

Show HN: I redesigned the Microsoft employee badge //alp comments

A New Car UI: How touch screen controls in cars should really work //matthaeuskrenn comments

Why you should move that button 3px to the left //gv comments

#Learn


The fastest pulsar spins at 716Hz, its equator spins at 24% the speed of light. //wikipedia comments

Therac-25 //wikipedia comments

#Watching


Jim Weirich: Y Not – Adventures in Functional Programming (2012) //confreaks comments

Jessica Livingston (Y Combinator) at Startup Grind 2014 //youtube comments

"Eye of the tiger" on dot matrix printer //vimeo comments

#Working


The Engineer Crunch //samaltman comments

By The Time You Give Them a Raise, They’re Already Out The Door //quora comments

#Fun


Game Theory: How 70,000 Pokemon Players Sabotage Themselves //minimaxir comments

There Are Whales Alive Today Who Were Born Before Moby Dick Was Written //smithsonianmag comments

The Man Who Built Catan //newyorker comments