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best of hacker news

2016-04-30

[WHAT]

  1. ] by Don Sagrott founder@sospep.com - a selection of the best posts from the hacker news(HN) community(news.ycombinator.com) during this period, 
  2. ] the article title is linked to the original(source) article, 
  3. ] the comments are linked to the hacker news comments section for each article. 
  4. ] The date is linked to the Jonathan Dubin's site, Wayback HN which keeps  a listing of the top 30 stories by date from the hacker news website. 
  5. ] The numbers beside the comments link, include the # upvotes the article recieved and the number of comments on the article
  6. ] the initials beside the article title indicate the category the article belongs, too, see the [categories legend] below 

[WHY]

  1. ] a curated selection of the most interesting/relevant content* (for ...) , organized by date and category

[WHERE]

  1. [ categories legend ]
    1. ] blank/nothing - non technical article
    2. ] t - tech
    3. ] td - tech developer
    4. ] tu - tech user
    5. ] tb - tech business
    6. ] tm - time management, productivity
    7. ] ti - tech investor
    8. ] other => ] nations, ] money, ] poli /tics /cy ] fitness, ] diet, 
    9. ] ? = politics
  2. [highlights]
    1. ] GREY -  article is RELATED to another article/chapter/book
    2. ] LT YELLOW -  created a summary/analysis/... article manually for this article, click through for addional notes/details on this article
    3. ] RED - warning ?  
    4. ] GREEN - cool SITES - go check these out
    5. ] >  - check this first 
    6. ] LT GREY - 
    7. ] YELLOW - review first 
  3. [review]
    1. ] listed/selected = would like to/should read
    2. ] read = 
    3. ] categorizied
    4. >] 
    5. ] 

[WHEN]

  1. ] 2016-04-26

[EXAMPLE]

  1. [2016-04-30]
    1. ] What Happened to Google Maps? (justinobeirne.com), SRC=hn(464)/comments(192) - article outlines some changes in googles cartography(map labelling) over the recent years, shows a large reduction in the # of cities shown, including removing some of the largest surrounding cities around major centers. More roads are shown. shows with/without cities&roads, like a simple network map, cities are nodes, roads are paths between them. examples new york, london subway system maps. good maps need balance (roads/cities), googles lacks, compared to example from paper map, 
    2. sw] Lavabit code open sourced (github.com), SRC=hn(458)/comments(60) - secure email client, 
    3. td car] Experienced Programmers Use Google Frequently (codeahoy.com) , SRC=hn(291)/comments(173) 
    4. ] McLaren needs Compaq laptops with bespoke CA cards to maintain the remaining F1s (jalopnik.com)  , SRC=hn(227)/comments(150) 
    5. sw] Taskwarrior – intelligent TODO list (taskwarrior.org), SRC=hn(152)/comments(80) - open source command line task management
    6. sw] Microsoft Flow (microsoft.com) , SRC=hn(197)/comments(94) - ifttt like app from msft
    7. sw] Hogwatch – a bandwidth monitor that shows per process network transfer (github.com), SRC=hn(195)/comments(52) 
    8. td] A Path to Programming Language Theory (github.com), SRC=hn(174)/comments(35) 
    9. sw] Show HN: Task-Based Electron Web Browser (simoncaminada.ch), SRC=hn(148)/comments(29) 
    10. sw os] Linux greybeards release beta of systemd-free Debian fork (theregister.co.uk) , SRC=hn(147)/comments(188) 
    11. td] Ask HN: What are examples of GitHub repositories with high code quality?, SRC=hn(147)/comments(106) 
    12. ] The Burglar with His Very Own Mac Attack (thedailybeast.com) , SRC=hn(110)/comments(26)
    13. td] Moving Past the Scaling Myth (silvrback.com), SRC=hn(100)/comments(23) 
    14. tech privacy] If you use Tor, the FBI just labelled you a criminal (thelastamericanvagabond.com) , SRC=hn(94)/comments(18) 
    15. diet] The curse of the potato (washingtonpost.com) , SRC=hn(92)/comments(43) 
    16. ] , SRC=hn(#)/comments(#) 

[REFERENCE]

  1. ] BOOK-technology-stories-2016 - best-of-hacker-news-2016-04

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