2017 Archive
5701.
Inside the vintage Xerox Alto's display, a tiny lightbulb keeps it working (righto.com)
5702.
Japan’s ’golden coder’ making games apps aged 82 [video] (bbc.com)
5703.
A 16th-century engineer whose work almost defeated the Ottomans (arstechnica.com)
5704.
Games of Coding – A curated list of games that teach you a programming language (github.com)
5705.
Restoring a Soviet-era analog synthesizer (imgur.com)
5706.
Scuba: Diving into Data at Facebook [pdf] (research.fb.com)
5707.
Learn CSS Grid through interactive screencasts (scrimba.com)
5708.
Edward – A Turing-Complete Language for Deep Probabilistic Programming (arxiv.org)
5709.
Building Code Posters with Elixir (east5th.co)
5710.
Seeing Theory: A Visual Introduction to Probability and Statistics (students.brown.edu)
5711.
An Introduction to Deep Learning for Language Modeling (ofir.io)
5712.
China Can’t Sustain Its Debt-Fueled Binge, Moody’s Says (nytimes.com)
5713.
John Lasseter taking a leave of absence amid reports of inappropriate behavior (techcrunch.com)
5714.
What to Worry About in This Surreal Bull Market (bloomberg.com)
5715.
To Stay Married, Embrace Change (nytimes.com)
5716.
Letting users skip our paywall if they wrote an apology (kapwing.com)
5717.
Copper is key in burning fat (sciencebulletin.org)
5718.
Pointer Free Programming and the Future of Nim (nim-lang.org)
5719.
Symbols Found in Ice Age Caves Across Europe (2015) (digventures.com)
5720.
Apple has biomedical engineers developing sensors to monitor blood sugar (cnbc.com)
5721.
Driving for Uber and Lyft (mrmoneymustache.com)
5722.
Ask HN: What do you do when you've lost motivation at work?
5723.
Android 8.0 Oreo, thoroughly reviewed (arstechnica.com)
5724.
El Salvador bans metal mining in world first (phys.org)
5725.
Why MIT Switched from Scheme to Python (2009) (wisdomandwonder.com)
5726.
Show HN: Command Line Challenge (cmdchallenge.com)
5727.
The “Happy Path” to HTTPS (troyhunt.com)
5728.
VK9: Direct3D 9 compatibility layer using Vulkan (github.com)
5729.
Living cells are very fast and crowded places (2012) (righto.com)
5730.
Reduce your startup's payroll taxes through the new Federal R&D Tax Credit (gusto.com)