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Issue #440 // February 15, 2019 // View in your browser

#Favorites


Stripe Atlas - the easiest way to create a startup
//stripe sponsored

Make your site’s pages instant in one minute
//instant comments

On Being a Principal Engineer
//dbsmasher comments

Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus
//nytimes comments

SQL: One of the most valuable skills
//craigkerstiens comments

This person does not exist
//thispersondoesnotexist comments

Nasa’s Mars Rover Opportunity Concludes a 15-Year Mission
//nytimes comments

Google Docs gets an API for task automation
//techcrunch comments

Reading in the Age of Constant Distraction
//theparisreview comments

None of my projects want to be SPAs
//whatisjasongoldstein comments

You Don't Need to Quit Your Job to Make
//stephsmith comments

Oh God, It's Raining Newsletters
//craigmod comments

#Ask HN


What are some great personal blogs/portfolios?

How to find profitable side project idea?

How are you getting through (and back from) burning out?

#Show HN


FindChips – Get instant insight into any electronic component //findchips comments

Quickly browse the history of any GitHub file //githistory comments

DeskGap – Like Electron, but uses the system webview //deskgap comments

Z.lua – A new cd command that navigates faster by learning your habits //github comments

Marp: Markdown Presentation Writer //github comments

Marker: A terminal command palette //github comments

#Code


Bootstrap 5 will remove jQuery as a dependency //github comments

Moving from Go to PHP Again //dannyvankooten comments

Learn C and its lower levels interactively, in the browser //ycombinator

Rant – An all-purpose procedural text engine //github comments

Orca – Live Programming Environment //github comments

What's next for SemVer //steveklabnik comments

McCarthy's Ambiguous Operator //randomhacks comments

#Design


White space killed an enterprise app //uxdesign comments

Design Without Color First //medium comments

Space Colony Art from the 1970s //publicdomainreview comments

#Learn


New pill can deliver insulin //mit comments

Lectures in Quantitative Economics as Python and Julia Notebooks //quantecon comments

Ike Jime, the Japanese Slaughter Method for Tastier Fish //michelin comments

The Multi-Armed Bandit Problem and Its Solutions //github comments

Vantablack, one of the darkest substances known //wikipedia comments

#Books


Modern Robotics: Mechanics, Planning, and Control – Free Textbook //northwestern comments

Rules for Choosing Nonfiction Books //herman comments

Ursula K. Le Guin Was a Creator of Worlds //neh comments

A Possession for All Time: How Should We Read Thucydides? //laphamsquarterly comments

#Watching


PostgreSQL used fsync incorrectly for 20 years //fosdem comments

So you want to be a wizard //jvns comments

Anti-Application video for YC120 //youtube comments

Frie Otto – Modeling with Soap Films //youtube comments

#Working


The Psychological Trap of Freelancing //thecut comments

Ask HN: What company environment has enabled your best work? //ycombinator

Why I quit a $500K job at Amazon to work for myself //danielvassallo comments

Basic income in Finland did not lead to finding work, researchers said //bbc comments

#Longreads


Small World: The Tiny House Trend //believermag comments

The Caviar Con //longreads comments

#Startup News


Amazon is buying Eero //techcrunch comments

Tesla to Buy Energy Storage Firm Maxwell Tech at $4.75 a Share //bloomberg comments

Metabase, an Uber Co-Founder’s New Big Data Startup, Raises $13M //crunchbase comments

#Fun


Open source balloon simulation with Three.js //alexanderperrin comments

1991 – a server-side web framework written in Forth //1-9-9-1 comments

There and Snack Again: How to Eat Everything in the Lord of the Rings //nate-crowley comments

Chrome plugin that adds a laugh track to all videos //earthpeople comments

Nostalgia and fun with calculators //ludditus comments