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What It’s Like to Work Inside Apple’s ‘Black Site’

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Ask HN: Resources for engineers new to system design

I came across a twitter thread on resources for engineers new to system design* - there are some great recommendations there. What would (or do) you recommend that first-time system designers read? * https://twitter.com/HenryR/status/1094033131399565313?s=19 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19133097 Points: 18 # Comments: 6 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2BtyMvp via

Dating apps face questions over age checks after report exposes child abuse

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What It’s Like to Work Inside Apple’s ‘Black Site’

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The Long Memory of the Ocean

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Help None of my projects want to be SPAs

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Ask HN: Resources for engineers new to system design

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Chrome plugin that adds a laugh track to all videos

Article URL: https://labs.earthpeople.se/2019/02/make-all-videos-fun-to-watch/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19133861 Points: 7 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2RUGFiw via

PKI for busy people

Article URL: https://rehn.me/posts/pki-for-busy-people.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19128097 Points: 315 # Comments: 46 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2I6pJWR via

Ways to think about market size (2015)

Article URL: https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2015/2/28/market-size Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19127612 Points: 41 # Comments: 4 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2E1RD26 via

Tactical Nuclear Weapons in Southeast Asia (1954) [pdf]

Article URL: http://nautilus.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/tactical_nukes_vietnam.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19127565 Points: 38 # Comments: 10 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2SFo0M5 via

Elegy for a vent in a Hawaiian volcano: It blew for 35 years. It just ceased

Article URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/a-prolific-vent-in-a-hawaii-volcano-blew-for-35-years-it-has-just-stopped/2019/02/08/d4e7e6be-2aec-11e9-b011-d8500644dc98_story.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19127492 Points: 44 # Comments: 14 from Hacker News: Front Page https://wapo.st/2MVIvit via

What the Tortoise Said to Achilles

Article URL: https://www.math.dartmouth.edu/~matc/Readers/HowManyAngels/Achilles.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19126827 Points: 22 # Comments: 4 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2TGIHoq via

Microsoft Ironically Proves Forced Windows Updates Don’t Make Any Sense

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Leaks Reveal US Military Use of IMF, World Bank as “Unconventional” Weapons

Article URL: https://www.mintpressnews.com/leaked-wikileaks-doc-reveals-how-us-military-uses-of-imf-world-bank-as-unconventional-weapons/254708/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19133957 Points: 10 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2DV3xL5 via

Tasks You Didn't Know Could be Done with Pure HTML and CSS

Article URL: https://www.256kilobytes.com/content/show/4399/get-these-dependencies-off-my-lawn-5-tasks-you-didnt-know-could-be-done-with-pure-html-and-css Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19133953 Points: 5 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2UTWGqT via

Flying squirrels glow pink, thanks to fluorescence

Article URL: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2019/01/flying-squirrels-fluorescent-secretly-glow-pink/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19131159 Points: 3 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://on.natgeo.com/2GgEhkW via

PyPy v7.0.0: triple release of 2.7, 3.5 and 3.6-alpha

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Chrome plugin that adds a laugh track to all videos

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Get These Dependencies Off My Lawn: Tasks You Can Do with Pure HTML and CSS

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Leaks Reveal US Military Use of IMF, World Bank as “Unconventional” Weapons

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Flying squirrels glow pink, thanks to fluorescence

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Feynman on Fermat's Last Theorem (2016)

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Ask HN: How bad is freelancing?

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Ask HN: How bad is freelancing?

My working life changed recently after leaving my last role just before Christmas. I’ve done freelancing on and off for a few years and I just feel like the whole process of freelancing is fragmented and broken. I’ve started digging into the issues others are facing too. I’d be keen to hear what problems others have in this area? I put together a little survey here: http://bit.ly/2MYdBWz Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19133864 Points: 7 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2GlYBS8 via

Feynman on Fermat's Last Theorem (2016)

Article URL: http://www.lbatalha.com/blog/feynman-on-fermats-last-theorem?ref=email-newsletter Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19133642 Points: 12 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2AMNiN6 via

The Phones Emitting the Most Radiation

Article URL: https://www.statista.com/chart/12797/the-phones-emitting-the-most-radiation/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19130859 Points: 20 # Comments: 9 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2VYWic4 via

Feynman on Fermat's Last Theorem (2016)

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The Phones Emitting the Most Radiation

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Adventures with the Wayback Machine and Starbucks Morning Bun Changes in 2019

Article URL: https://blog.neilsabol.site/post/wayback-machine-starbucks-morning-bun-changes-2019/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19132749 Points: 4 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2MXdSck via

Adventures with the Wayback Machine and Starbucks Morning Bun Changes in 2019

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The Psychological Trap of Freelancing

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The Psychological Trap of Freelancing

Article URL: https://www.thecut.com/2019/02/why-freelancing-creates-anxiety-about-money.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19133026 Points: 6 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2RQY9MW via

Ask HN: Is it just me or did Google search recently get a lot worse?

Past few days(weeks?) I find myself more and more frustrated with google search. It seems to frequently omit the most important keywords I'm typing. I constantly have to click "Must include 'Keyword'", because more than half the links on the first page miss it, even if it's the first one out of 3 words in my query. I'm not the kind of person who thinks about search quality, this is the first time in my life I have ever noticed it being frustrating. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19132927 Points: 89 # Comments: 35 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2UOfO9S via

O.MG Cable: Malicious USB Cable with WiFi

Article URL: http://mg.lol/blog/omg-cable/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19132565 Points: 23 # Comments: 3 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2SD9vsm via

'I stole £30,000 from my mum to make millions'

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Ask HN: Is it just me or did Google search recently get a lot worse?

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Next.js 8 released

Article URL: https://nextjs.org/blog/next-8 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19133015 Points: 19 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2RSGCEf via

'I stole £30,000 from my mum to make millions'

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-47156317 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19132988 Points: 5 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page https://bbc.in/2WURzc0 via

Next.js 8 released

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O.MG Cable: Malicious USB Cable with WiFi

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Why Deliberate Practice Matters for Entrepreneurs

Article URL: https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/326343 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19132536 Points: 6 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2GvoAWD via

Apple's iPhone Shipments Plunge in China as Huawei Tightens Grip

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-11/apple-s-iphone-shipments-plunge-in-china-as-huawei-tightens-grip Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19132510 Points: 4 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://bloom.bg/2BESMeH via

Apple's iPhone Shipments Plunge in China as Huawei Tightens Grip

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Why Deliberate Practice Matters for Entrepreneurs

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Bounty Hunt Announced on Swiss eVoting System

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Bounty Hunt Announced on Swiss eVoting System

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Undercover spy exposed in NYC was one of many

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The Raspberry Pi store is much cooler than an Apple Store

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Be: Fundraising Misadventures

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Google Edge TPU Devices

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Space Colony Art from the 1970s

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Elegy for a vent in a Hawaiian volcano: It blew for 35 years. It just ceased

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Ways to think about market size

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Dolly Parton Gives a Library of 100M Books (2018)

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Why Swift for TensorFlow?

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Amazon acquired robotics company Dispatch to build Scout

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Don't Hold Your Users Hostage – The Exit Is Part of the Experience as Well

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The first dexterous and sentient hand prosthesis has been successfully implanted

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DVC – Open Source Machine Learning Version Control System

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On Being a Principal Engineer

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Is huh a universal word? (2013)

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A Tinder-style app called Tudder lets farmers find breeding matches for cattle

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An Introduction to CubeSats

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Air Canada agents reveal overselling practices

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38% of bugs at Airbnb could have been prevented by using types

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Writing a D Wrapper for a C Library

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Simhash and Minhash explained

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Gene therapy trials on monkey’s eyes could help cure color blindness

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Battle over possibility of taller buildings near San Jose International Airport

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Tactical Nuclear Weapons in Southeast Asia (1954) [pdf]

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PKI for busy people

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What the Tortoise Said to Achilles

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New best story on Hacker News: On Being a Principal Engineer

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New best story on Hacker News: PostgreSQL used fsync incorrectly for 20 years

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The Reason Some Hyperlocal Languages Survive

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The Case for Transmissible Alzheimer's Grows

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Alstom and Siemens Show How Not to Deal with China (and Vestager)

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Air Canada agents reveal overselling practices

Article URL: https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/air-canada-agents-reveal-oversell-practices-1.5008217 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19132010 Points: 80 # Comments: 51 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2SFqU3x via

Dolly Parton Gives a Library of 100M Books (2018)

Article URL: https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/03/01/589912466/dolly-parton-gives-the-gift-of-literacy-a-library-of-100-million-books Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19131966 Points: 42 # Comments: 3 from Hacker News: Front Page https://n.pr/2TGGidb via

The Raspberry Pi store is much cooler than an Apple Store

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/07/the-raspberry-pi-store-is-much-cooler-than-an-apple-store/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19131917 Points: 114 # Comments: 50 from Hacker News: Front Page https://tcrn.ch/2Sj3T74 via

Be: Fundraising Misadventures

Article URL: https://mondaynote.com/50-years-in-tech-part-16-be-fundraising-misadventures-23c566b82085 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19131825 Points: 55 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2MYaYnM via

Undercover spy exposed in NYC was one of many

Article URL: https://apnews.com/a1d1af4256c04cc5a36347667e966a14 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19131729 Points: 171 # Comments: 41 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2UTix1F via

38% of bugs at Airbnb could have been prevented by using types

Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/typescript/comments/aofcik/38_of_bugs_at_airbnb_could_have_been_prevented_by/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19131272 Points: 187 # Comments: 138 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2TKbTLa via

Simhash and Minhash explained

Article URL: https://mesuvash.github.io/blog/2019/Hashing-for-similarity/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19131268 Points: 25 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2TJ4ADo via

Google Edge TPU Devices

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The Reason Some Hyperlocal Languages Survive

Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/02/why-some-tiny-hyperlocal-languages-survive/582367/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19130808 Points: 19 # Comments: 3 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2TE5roN via

Don't Hold Your Users Hostage – The Exit Is Part of the Experience as Well

Article URL: https://chagency.co.uk/blog/increasing-user-retention/dont-take-your-customers-hostages-facilitate-their-exit/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19130482 Points: 94 # Comments: 55 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2WOuoAd via

Space Colony Art from the 1970s

Article URL: https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/space-colony-art-from-the-1970s/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19130147 Points: 209 # Comments: 83 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2srsusP via

Amazon acquired robotics company Dispatch to build Scout

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/07/meet-the-tiny-startup-that-helped-build-amazons-scout-robot/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19129872 Points: 8 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://tcrn.ch/2ShCYsj via

Why Swift for TensorFlow?

Article URL: https://github.com/tensorflow/swift/blob/master/docs/WhySwiftForTensorFlow.md Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19129641 Points: 175 # Comments: 90 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2CjdoIW via

Battle over possibility of taller buildings near San Jose International Airport

Article URL: https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/02/09/battle-brewing-over-possibility-of-taller-buildings-near-san-jose-international-airport/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19129414 Points: 50 # Comments: 27 from Hacker News: Front Page https://bayareane.ws/2RPt5gt via

DVC – Open Source Machine Learning Version Control System

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Writing a D Wrapper for a C Library

Article URL: https://dlang.org/blog/2019/02/10/writing-a-d-wrapper-for-a-c-library/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19129227 Points: 64 # Comments: 14 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2DoT4X5 via

Alstom and Siemens Show How Not to Deal with China (and Vestager)

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-02-06/alstom-and-siemens-show-how-not-to-deal-with-china-and-vestager Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19129091 Points: 40 # Comments: 21 from Hacker News: Front Page https://bloom.bg/2MPGkwK via

A Tinder-style app called Tudder lets farmers find breeding matches for cattle

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-10/cows-get-tinder-app-as-u-k-breeders-seek-moo-love-for-herds Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19129018 Points: 82 # Comments: 17 from Hacker News: Front Page https://bloom.bg/2tgQmOC via

An Introduction to CubeSats

Article URL: https://gereshes.com/2019/01/28/an-introduction-to-cubesats/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19129007 Points: 108 # Comments: 45 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2CRUY1Z via

On Being a Principal Engineer

Article URL: https://blog.dbsmasher.com/2019/01/28/on-being-a-principal-engineer.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19128489 Points: 662 # Comments: 264 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2CVIM03 via