• Will Ferrell | USC Commencement Speech 2017 – Excellent
• Lego in Real Life 3 – Excellent

• How to Lose Weight in 4 Easy Steps
• Soundtrack timing for water planet in Intersteller
• Bullshit Jobs

• Will Trump Be Meeting With His Counterpart — Or His Handler?
• The Endgame for Trump Comes Into View
• CNN’s Chris Cuomo defends legal immigration amid right-wing criticism

• Potato Paradox
• Equations – xkcd

Technical

• Real-time Human Pose Estimation in the Browser with TensorFlow.js – Excellent
  • Live Demo
• Beyond the pixel plane: sensing and learning in 3D

• Remote Only – Excellent
• No, I have no side code projects to show you
• Jeff Bezos’ 3-question test for new Amazon employees

• Audio Worklet Editor with Web Audio API

• We gave Kotlin a try, but now we are rewriting to Java 10
  • rebuttal
• Ask HN: Have you shipped anything serious with a “serverless” architecture?

• What Did Ada Lovelace’s Program Actually Do?

• Mechanical Characterization of Structured Sheet Materials

• How to Quit A Top Tier Tech Job
• How to use Slack and not go crazy

Technical

• DEMO: NABi and ALPHRED (Dennis Hong, UCLA) | TC Sessions Robotics 2018
• How to solve 2D Equations with Color

• Anatomy of  Logging API (Flogger)
• YAML: probably not so great after all

• 5k Immersive Video – John Carmack

Poem

First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

 ~ Martin Neimoller

• Mercedes CLK GTR on a Rally Stage
• Legos Build Stop Motion
• The Fascinating Company That Tears Cars Apart To Find Out Exactly How They’re Built
• How Facebook Is Killing Comedy
• Why I don’t use my real photo when messaging with customers on my website
• Actor vs. Musician vs. Artist

Technical

• Learn about Waveforms – Excellent
• Everything Easy is Hard Again – Excellent

• Intel RealSense Depth Cameras
• Using Ponoko for laser engraving custom coasters

• “Money doesn’t interest me” – Creator of Blender talks about its future
• A Recap of AWS re:Invent 2017 and What Should Be on Your Radar in 2018
• Sphero spin-off Misty Robotics unveils its first robot for developers

• PWAs are coming to iOS 11.3: Cupertino, we have a problem

• C++ Core Guidelines – Bjarne Stroustrup & Herb Sutter
• Fastest and/or craziest way to model an arrow in blender

• Legends of the Ancient Web – Maciej Cegłowski
• Oprah Winfrey Receives Cecil B. de Mille Award at the 2018 Golden Globes
• Your smartphoneis making you stupid, antisocial and unhealthy . So why can’t you put it down
• Fifty psychological and psychiatric terms to avoid
• The day I accidentally killed a little boy
• The Science of The Job Search, Part I: 13 Data-Backed Ways to Win
• Breakthrough Junior Challenge 2017 | Relativity & The Equivalence of Reference Frames

Technical

• WebGL2 Fundamentals
• VR Needs a Killer App

Quote

• “The greatest teacher, failure is. Luke, we are what they grow beyond. That is the true burden of all masters.” – Yoda in “The Last Jedi” (2017)

• Looking Back: 2017 Year In Review – Ponoko
• Words that Matter, 2017
• Ars Technica’s ultimate board game buyer’s guide
• Robots Will Transform Fast Food, That might not be a bad thing
• Tether Yourself: The Enlightening Talk Parents Aren’t Having Can Keep Teens from a Damaging Drift

• The teacher made a rule: if anyone gets a call during class…they must receive it publicly
• The conversation my son and I will have on Christmas Eve.

Technical 

• Lyrebird – Replicate any Voice from One Minute of Audio
• Now, applicable to dynamically generated video
• Make Stronger Offers to Engineering Candidates and Boost Your Closes
• Buffer’s Open Salary Formula v3.0

Quote

• “Scientific thinking necessitates clarity, including clarity in writing. In turn, clarity hinges on accuracy in the use of specialized terminology.” – (source)

• Inventing the Future – Michael Abrash @ Oculus
• Mosaic – A new storytelling experience that lets you chose your path
  • HBO: Mosaic 
• Using the Detour Platform for Museum Tours
• Farmbot.io

Miscellaneous

• Millennials in the Workplace – Simon Sinek  (excellent)
• What Boredom Does to You
• Psychologists recommend children be bored in the summer
• Bill Browder’s Testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Russian Operations

• Senator Jeff Flake’s Retirement Speech
• Pro-Neutrality, or Why Ajit Pai is Right – hmmm
  • Part II
• Who is Ajit Pai, the “Trump soldier” remaking America’s internet?
• Examples of confirmation bias volatility from polled republican voters
• Which Party Was More Secretive in Working on Its Health Care Plan?
• America is facing an epistemic crisis

More Miscelleanous

• Tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia
• A comic from Luke about his life

• I Made My Shed the Top Rated Restaurant On TripAdvisor
• I fell down a bit of a ruins research rabbithole today
• Harvest Signal – Fruits and Vegetables in Season, by Zip Code
• Is the stock market going to crash?
• As technologies change ever faster, the knowledge of obsolete things becomes ever sweeter.

• The four forces of flight
• Evolution of the Honda Goldwing
• Commas Save Lives ?

Technical

• Exploring Animation And Interaction Techniques With WebGL – Excellent
  • Moments of Happiness
• Infinitown | A WebGL Experiment by Little Workshop

• After the end of the startup era
• Reverse engineering a successful life style business – Ideas from Reading IndieHackers.com
• Disrupting Open Source: The Story of Fine Uploader
  Working 9,000 Miles From Home
• Interview w/ Vincent Woo, creator of CoderPad

• ThoughtWorks Technology Radar Vol. 17
• Software 2.0

• Why Agile Isn’t Working and What We Do Differently – Signal37
• Myth 5: In Scrum, the Product Backlog Is Prioritized

• Java Lambdas and Clean Code
• Using iPad as main computer for programming
• Lessons learned from reading postmortems
• Why would anyone choose Docker over fat binaries?
• Why mabl Chose GCP Over AWS
• OWASP Top 10 Updated for 2017

• Why Tim Ferris relocated from SF to Austin
• Teach yourself

• Festo’s Fantastical Flying Robots
• A Boy And His Atom: The World’s Smallest Movie
  • How it was made 
• Goodbye Uncanny Valley – Excellent
• Wolf Puppies Are Adorable. Then Comes the Call of the Wild.

Technical

• Ask HN: How do I find meaningful work?

Quote

• “If she’s amazing, she won’t be easy. If she’s easy, she won’t be amazing. If she’s worth it, you wont give up. If you give up, you’re not worthy. … Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.”

  – Bob Marley (image)

• What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team – Excellent
• What I Learned From Reading Every Amazon Shareholders Letter
• A philosopher’s take on Global Basic Income
• “The knowledge that nothing matters, while accurate, gets you nowhere” – Dan Harmon
• Life Lessons – Coal Akida
• Martin Scorsese on Rotten Tomatoes, Box Office Obsession and Why ‘Mother!’ Was Misjudged

• Disney Research Robot With Air-Water Actuators

• Obsolete Technology – xkcd
• http://astronaut.io/# – Random unviewed YouTube videos
• https://redditgrid.com/ – Reddit image browsing
• The Machine – Bert Kreischer’s Russian Mafia Story

Technical

• Floating point visually explained

• The underestimated dangers of CSV Injection
• KRACK Attacks: Breaking WPA2
• How I hacked hundreds of companies through their helpdesk

• TR-101 – A drum synth/sequencer made with Vue and the web audio API
• Open Source Release of Rift DK2

Quote

• “What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months.” – Fred Brooks (image)

• The biggest threat facing middle-age men is loneliness
  • Follow-up
• Elon Musk Describes What Great Communication Looks Like
• Why Happy People Cheat

• Options and next steps for responding to Equifax breach

• Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski, well-known and accomplished physicist at age 23
  • Sabrina 2006, ‘Building an Airplane for my Dad’
  • http://physicsgirl.com/ 

• The First White President – ouch
• Melinda Gates: I spent my career in technology. I wasn’t prepared for its effect on my kids.

• Average word length of NYT crossword puzzles
• ‘i’ before ‘e’
• Typing notifications – xkcd
• Pillow strategy

Technical

• Little UI Details
• What every software engineer should know about search – excellent

• herebedragons – A basic 3D scene implemented with various engines, frameworks or APIs

• Why we moved from Angular 2 to Vue.js (and didn’t choose React)
• Web Audio API issues and comments

• Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2017 – Show and tell

Quote

• “That’s nice, but what have you done lately?”
  – various, but found as a mantra espoused by Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski

• Bricklaying Robots And Exoskeletons in the Construction Industry 
• Is the stock market going to crash?
• Dilution of whisky – the molecular perspective

• Comparison of United States incarceration rate with other countries
• How I became Fake News – chilling

• Extreme Alpine Soccer
• If your friends behaved like your pets
• Wifi vs. Cellular – xkcd
• Email Reply – xkcd
• Backfire Effect – The Oatmeal

Technical

• Java Memory Consumption in Docker and How We Employed Spring Boot
• Solution Architecture  vs. Software Architecture
• Why Github can’t host the Linux Kernel Community

• How I hacked my friend
• How to increase salary as software engineer in the new economy

Quote

• “The world needs new leadership, but the new leadership is about working together. As a business person, I want the world to share the prosperity together.” – Jack Ma (Alibaba CEO)