John Conway has died — COBOL programmers answer call — and After 50 years of effort, researchers made silicon emit light

Issue #5 — April 12, 2020

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John Conway has died twitter.com \| points: 953 \| comments: 101

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COBOL programmers answer call spectrum.ieee.org \| points: 307 \| comments: 230

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After 50 years of effort, researchers made silicon emit light wired.com \| points: 296 \| comments: 89

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IBM will offer free COBOL training inputmag.com \| points: 282 \| comments: 200

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YouTube accidentally permanently terminated my account medium.com \| points: 268 \| comments: 38

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What I Wish I Knew When Learning Haskell dev.stephendiehl.com \| points: 254 \| comments: 112

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3D photographic inpainting from a single source image shihmengli.github.io \| points: 207 \| comments: 51

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Pointless ptls.dev \| points: 204 \| comments: 36

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First look at Apple/Google contact tracing framework twitter.com \| points: 196 \| comments: 100

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Sleeve cap ease is bogus (2005) fashion-incubator.com \| points: 195 \| comments: 30

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Show HN: We made a web app so that our parents can keep reading to our daughter readastorytome.com \| points: 174 \| comments: 50

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Introduction to Hacking PostgreSQL (2007) neilconway.org \| points: 160 \| comments: 11

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Things That Turbo Pascal Is Smaller Than (2011) prog21.dadgum.com \| points: 153 \| comments: 68

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Map of usage of intensive care beds in Germany interaktiv.morgenpost.de \| points: 153 \| comments: 131

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Leakage paths for the Apple / Google Bluetooth tracing system abe-winter.github.io \| points: 152 \| comments: 106

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Questions to ask at the end of a technical interview (2017) smalldata.tech \| points: 146 \| comments: 92

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Connections Episode 1: The Trigger Effect (1978) [video] archive.org \| points: 145 \| comments: 32

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Untangling microservices, or balancing complexity in distributed systems vladikk.com \| points: 143 \| comments: 64

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Optimizing Ruby lazy initialization in TruffleRuby with deoptimization engineering.shopify.com \| points: 127 \| comments: 54

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Asciiflow in vs Code github.com \| points: 116 \| comments: 19

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