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Stories from February 17, 2020
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1. Pay up or we’ll make Google ban your ads (krebsonsecurity.com)
831 points by akeck on Feb 17, 2020 | 297 comments
2. An app can be a home-cooked meal (robinsloan.com)
556 points by mkeeter on Feb 15, 2020 | 130 comments
3. How These Things Work – A book about CS from first principles (2016) (reasonablypolymorphic.com)
688 points by falava on Feb 17, 2020 | 57 comments
4. What eight years of side projects have taught me (2019) (junglecoder.com)
412 points by yumaikas on Feb 17, 2020 | 90 comments
5. Google/Trax – Understand and explore advanced deep learning (github.com/google)
359 points by Bella-Xiang on Feb 17, 2020 | 50 comments
6. Markdeep – plain text documents with diagrams, equations, and Markdown syntax (casual-effects.com)
360 points by thunderbong on Feb 17, 2020 | 108 comments
7. Building a static serverless website using S3 and CloudFront (sanderknape.com)
257 points by SanderKnape on Feb 17, 2020 | 273 comments
8. Ask HN: What automation tools have you used to replace mundane activities?
408 points by beatthatflight on Feb 17, 2020 | 229 comments
9. Show HN: A stream of AI-generated art (art42.net)
277 points by valentinvieriu on Feb 16, 2020 | 187 comments
10. Vue.js: The Documentary (Trailer) [video] (youtube.com)
309 points by nailer on Feb 17, 2020 | 98 comments
11. Let’s Build a Compiler (1995) (iecc.com)
240 points by undreren on Feb 17, 2020 | 41 comments
12. Launch HN: Motion (YC W20) – defense against online distractions and addictions
210 points by qiyuxuan96 on Feb 17, 2020 | 125 comments
13. Hacking my arm prosthesis to plug into a synth: thought-controlled music [video] (youtube.com)
310 points by tomduncalf on Feb 16, 2020 | 46 comments
14. Writing Grant Applications (billwadge.wordpress.com)
160 points by herodotus on Feb 16, 2020 | 49 comments
15. Max/MSP: A visual programming language for music and multimedia (wikipedia.org)
128 points by zaiste on Feb 17, 2020 | 65 comments
16. An emulator for a Sun 2 workstation (github.com/lisper)
101 points by fanf2 on Feb 17, 2020 | 22 comments
17. The Fantastic Mr. Dahl (2016) (smithsonianmag.com)
51 points by indigodaddy on Feb 16, 2020 | 22 comments
18. Google ditches its free WiFi service in South Africa, three months after launch (businessinsider.co.za)
207 points by infodocket on Feb 17, 2020 | 148 comments
19. Calculating Pi: My Attempt at Breaking the Pi World Record (timothymullican.com)
138 points by olvy0 on Feb 17, 2020 | 79 comments
20. Kernighan's Law: You are not smart enough to debug it (github.com/dwmkerr)
289 points by dwmkerr on Feb 17, 2020 | 153 comments
21. GDB Frontend with C Pointer Visualization (github.com/rohanrhu)
206 points by mariuz on Feb 17, 2020 | 57 comments
22. Team Structure for Software Reliability Within Organizations (blameless.com)
125 points by kiyanwang on Feb 17, 2020 | 50 comments
23. Iota cryptocurrency shuts down entire network after wallet hack (zdnet.com)
202 points by miked85 on Feb 17, 2020 | 148 comments
24. Barbara Newhall Follett (wikipedia.org)
60 points by bhickey on Feb 16, 2020 | 14 comments
25. DisplayPort and 4K (coker.com.au)
150 points by ecliptik on Feb 17, 2020 | 278 comments
26. A Brief Introduction to Ice-Penetrating Radar (2015) (lindzey.github.io)
54 points by luu on Feb 16, 2020 | 1 comment
27. Move, simply (herbsutter.com)
117 points by davidmckenna on Feb 17, 2020 | 92 comments
28. Thought Experiment: An Introductory Compilers Class (semantic-domain.blogspot.com)
96 points by ingve on Feb 17, 2020 | 22 comments
29. Spore Prototypes (2008) (spore.com)
105 points by rl3 on Feb 16, 2020 | 39 comments
30. Magic and Software Design (1993) (asktog.com)
62 points by cstejerean on Feb 16, 2020 | 9 comments

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