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Issue #445 // March 22, 2019 // View in your browser

#Favorites


Datadog: real-time monitoring for cloud-scale environments, unifying metrics, logs, and distributed traces in one place
//datadog sponsored

Thinkpad X210
//greer comments

What Working at Stripe Has Been Like
//kalzumeus comments

Open Source Doesn’t Make Money Because It Isn’t Designed to Make Money
//ianbicking comments

Tesla Model Y
//tesla comments

How I'm able to take notes in mathematics lectures using LaTeX and Vim
//castel comments

What the Hell Is Going On? Effects of Information Abundance
//perell comments

8-Year-Old Refugee Wins New York State Championship
//chess comments

MS TextWorld: open-source engine that both generates and simulates text games
//microsoft comments

A look at an original iPhone prototype
//theverge comments

#Featured: Apple Releases


AirPods with Wireless Charging Case //apple comments

Apple updates its iMac line //apple comments

New iPad Air and iPad Mini //apple comments

#Ask HN


How to learn best practices when you have no one to teach you?

What is the best “dumb” phone?

#Show HN


Generative.fm – Endlessly unique ambient music //generative comments

A browser extension which blocks chat/helpdesk widgets //hellogoodbye comments

A Color Picker I Made //colorsupplyyy comments

Pixelfed //pixelfed comments

Remove.bg – A service to remove the background of any photo //remove comments

See a cognitive bias explained in each new Chrome tab //mycognitivebias comments

Tinkersynth, a whimsical generative art machine //tinkersynth comments

#Code


Dynamic Programming for Technical Interviews //github comments

Java 12 //java comments

Using Go Modules //golang comments

Roll Your Own Analytics //pcmaffey comments

VS Code on a Remote Server //github comments

In Defense of YAML //atomist comments

#Design


Rules for Autocomplete //jeremymikkola comments

Easy to Remember Color Guide for Non-Designers //gitbook comments

Read color hex codes //dotconferences comments

Sprayprinter – A graffiti robot startup //sifted comments

#Learn


Scientists rise up against statistical significance //nature comments

Gall's Law //wikipedia comments

A huge fireball exploded in Earth's atmosphere in December, according to Nasa //bbc comments

Mercury is closer to Earth, on average, than Venus //scitation comments

#Books


Rust Cookbook //github comments

Where There Is No Doctor: A Village Health Care Handbook //hesperian comments

Inverview with Evan Ratliff, author of The Mastermind //gimletmedia comments

#Watching


Most Wasabi Is Fake //theatlantic comments

The Cloud is Just Another Sun //fosdem comments

Boléro: Sergiu Celibidache //youtube comments

Do-it-yourself ultralight tent //youtube comments

#Working


My Salary Progression in Tech //georgestocker comments

I made a database of remote companies //remotehub comments

Advice to a Young Tradesman //archives comments

#Longreads


There is no reason to cross the U.S. by train, but I did it anyway //nytimes comments

On the death of my family's dairy farm //abevoelker comments

A Three-Day Expedition To Walk Across Paris Underground //longreads comments

How the Guardian Went Digital //longreads comments

#Startup News


Kickstarter’s staff is unionizing //theverge comments

PagerDuty S-1 //sec comments

Sketch raises $20M in Series A funding //techcrunch comments

#Fun


CowToilet, a Toilet for Cows //hanskamp comments

Japan’s elaborate, colorful manhole covers //atlasobscura comments

Continuous Unix commit history from 1970 until today //github comments