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Issue #235 // January 16, 2015 // View in your browser

#Sponsor


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#Favorites


Hi, It’s Google Corporate Development
//medium comments

Man saves wife’s sight by 3D printing her brain tumor
//makezine comments

Gotham 7.5K: A Rare High Altitude Night Flight Above NYC
//storehouse comments

The Rise and Fall of the Lone Game Developer
//jeffwofford comments

We have broken HTTP
//gadgetopia comments

Presenting the Most Over-Engineered Blog Ever
//jlongster comments

Elon Musk Will Build a Hyperloop Track for Ultra-High Speed Transport Tests
//techcrunch comments

Pinegrow Year in Review 2014 – From 0 to $100K
//medium comments

#Ask HN


What's left for early startup engineers as the company grows? //ycombinator

What does it take to run a web app with 5K – 10K users? //ycombinator

How to get started with paying side projects? //ycombinator

#Show HN


Be My Eyes – Lend your eyes to the blind //bemyeyes comments

Building terminal dashboards using ASCII/ANSI art and JavaScript //github comments

ThorCon Power //thorconpower comments

App for Falling in Love //loveactualized comments

Finish one thing today //finishonethingtoday comments

A plastic card for easy to remember strong passwords //qwertycards comments

Parsley: a simple language for extracting structured data from web pages //github comments

Timeline.com //timeline comments

I built an iOS remake of that old windows game SkiFree //thewaterbear comments

#Code


Io.js 1.0.0 //iojs comments

A Localization Horror Story: It Could Happen to You //cpan comments

Awk in 20 Minutes //ferd comments

Code Review Checklist //fogcreek comments

#Design


UX Check //uxcheck comments

Icono – Pure CSS icons with only one element //github comments

Abusing CSS3's nth-child selector to invent new ones //grack comments

Behind-the-scenes look at making fonts //ilovetypography comments

#Learn


The Simple Proof of the Tetris Lamp //jackm comments

List of University Courses for Learning Computer Science //github comments

Curta mechanical calculator //wikipedia comments

#Books


The little book about OS development (2012) [pdf] //github comments

The Martian started as a self-published blog, and became a major motion picture //nautil comments

Peter Thiel’s advice on startups //medium comments

The Pmarca Blog Archive Is Back as an Ebook //pmarca comments

#Watching


Watching the sixties and seventies through 2001 and Alien //theparisreview comments

A trucker trying to hack the haulage industry //bbc comments

#Working


But Where Do People Work in This Office? //mattblodgett comments

Remote Working – 3 Year Retrospective //jonliv comments

Being a Manager Is Lonely //ianbicking comments

#Fun


DIY 2880x1800 projector //allinbox comments

El Capitan’s Dawn Wall Climbers Reach Top at Yosemite //nytimes comments

What it’s like living in the coldest town on Earth //wired comments