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Issue #190 // March 01, 2014 // View in your browser

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#Favorites


Atom, the new GitHub text editor
//atom comments

UK spy agency intercepted webcam images of millions of Yahoo users
//theguardian comments

Sam Altman for President (of YC)
//ycombinator comments

Only 90s Web Developers Remember This
//zachholman comments

Depixelizing Pixel Art
//microsoft comments

Thirty Percent Feedback
//42floors comments

A Star in a Bottle
//newyorker comments

Reverse Engineering xkcd's 'Frequency'
//jsvine comments

App-pocalypse Now
//codinghorror comments

Real money, invested with algorithms
//quantopian comments

Microsoft killed my Pappy
//hanselman comments

A simple way to validate your startup idea
//justinjackson comments

#Show HN


Spritz – read 500 words per minute without any training //spritzinc comments

Meditate in front of your computer with Calm //calm comments

Density.io //density comments

Google Music for Mac – native-looking app, media keys, notifications //github comments

I built an HTML 5 Guitar Tuner //freetuner comments

Super Mario Bros, in Python //github comments

Simple translation by email //unbabel comments

#Code


Neovim //github comments

Salted Password Hashing – Doing it Right //crackstation comments

Ruby 2.1.1 is released (and Ruby turns 21) //ruby-lang comments

Overkilling the 8-queens Problem //github comments

ClearSkies – opensource file syncing without cloud //github comments

Testing at Airbnb //airbnb comments

Analytics at GitHub //johnnunemaker comments

#Design


To close or not to close – Void HTML elements //colorglare comments

Googles suggestion for a better infinite scroll //scrollsample comments

#Learn


How wrong is your time zone: map shows how far world clocks are from solar time. //slate comments

Touch Mathematics – Trigonometry //touchmathematics comments

#Books


Most Winning A/B Test Results are Illusory [pdf] //qubitproducts comments

A Geometric Review of Linear Algebra by Eero P. Simoncelli //nyu comments

The C++/Programming books I recommend //bert-hubert comments

The First book with printed page numbers //ilovetypography comments

#Watching


PG at Launch //launch comments

Lawrence Lessig: Where are you? //socallinuxexpo comments

A fish that can steer its tank around the room //youtube comments

#Working


We Have Luxurious Jobs but We Are Not Aware of It //gedrap comments

How to Get a Job at Google //nytimes comments

#Fun


What happens when placeholder text doesn’t get replaced //elezea comments

Rainbow Sort Visualisations //ljs comments

King James Programming //kingjamesprogramming comments