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# Selected Articles

• Page Weight Matters
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• 1922: Why I Quit Being So Accommodating
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• How to terminate your worst enemy's Dropbox account for only $795
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• What does randomness look like?
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• The Flat Sink
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• Why learning Haskell makes you a better programmer
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• Half the Facts You Know Are Probably Wrong
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• The Parley Letter
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• The best things and stuff of 2012
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• 30 Ideas for Raspberry PI Projects
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# Classics

• Welcome to the new web comments
• A man, a mop, a year, and an app comments
• Ask HN: Best book you read in 2011

# Recently Launched

• How I turned an old book into a (barely) profitable website comments
• Receiveee.com - disposable email address comments
• Desktop App for All Your Email comments
• DataFart - easy command line graphing comments
• Geary: New lightweight email reader for GNOME designed around conversations comments
• I made a CLI to retrieve info from the IMDB comments

# Code & Dev Tools

• Gitlab comments
• Python alternatives for PHP functions comments
• Webshell.io comments
• Sikuli: Write scripts using GUI buttons and screenshots comments
• How to Write your own Minesweeper AI comments

# Design

• How we gave colors names comments
• Design Tips Every Developer Should Know comments

# Books

• Ask HN: Best books you read in 2012 comments
• The 5 Programming Books That Meant The Most To Me comments
• Patio11 Wrote A Book On Conversion Optimization For Software Companies comments
• Developing Backbone.js Applications comments
• Zed Shaw's Template for "Learn X The Hard Way" Books comments
• FXT: a library of algorithms comments
• Free Datascience books comments

# Videos

• SpaceX Grasshopper Takes Off/Lands Vertically comments
• Producers of Minecraft Documentary upload their new movie to The Pirate Bay comments
• New school C comments

# Job Threads

• Never Have the “What Would It Take to Keep You Here?” Conversation comments
• Never Make Counter-Offers comments
• Ask HN: How do you escape CRUD jobs? comments
• Ask HN: I’m not cut out to be a programmer. What are my alternatives? comments
• What It's Like To Work Future Style comments

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