Autoblogging

Patreon Is Suspending Adult Content Creators Because of Its Payment Partners 227 by cribbles | 128 comments on Hacker News.

The Forgetfulness of Beings (1997) [pdf] 13 by danielam | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Grow the Puzzle Around You 443 by katm | 30 comments on Hacker News.

Known Unknowns 28 by pron | 0 comments on Hacker News.

A Morning Cola Instead of Coffee? (1988) 22 by amelius | 13 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Old CS lecturer looking for advice from current and recent students 317 by geophile | 126 comments on Hacker News. I am 61, with an academic background in computer science, and many years in industry, mostly startups. I taught many years ago, and have resumed teaching, a database course: data modeling, relational algebra, SQL, application programming and architecture (e.g. 2-tier vs. 3-tier, web & mobile), database internals. Student evaluations were pretty good for the most part, but quite a few students found the presentation a bit dry: I prepared every lecture as HTML ahead of time, made it available online, and presented it in class. A couple of times, I would do interactive things, e.g. tuning queries using EXPLAIN and playing with indexes. That proved pretty popular, but of course, it's difficult to capture this material, (I recorded a log of the session, but extemperaneous discussion was not captured). Looking for advice on how to balance prepared material and...

Netflix is moving television beyond time-slots and national markets 37 by rbanffy | 27 comments on Hacker News.

Rust pointers for C programmers 254 by eatonphil | 71 comments on Hacker News.

Leslie Lamport Tells Mathematicians How to Write Proofs (2014) 123 by smithmayowa | 75 comments on Hacker News.

Why has Victoria tube station started to smell like roast meat? 7 by YeGoblynQueenne | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Getting Ready for Rebble 3 by mike-cardwell | 2 comments on Hacker News.

What is this thing, called swing? (2016) 32 by Tomte | 13 comments on Hacker News.

Streaming with linear types 65 by setra | 10 comments on Hacker News.

How to get away with financial fraud 50 by oska | 7 comments on Hacker News.

Unexpected hanging paradox 56 by amelius | 55 comments on Hacker News.

He Died at Pompeii, but His Head Wasn’t Crushed by a Block 36 by sohkamyung | 9 comments on Hacker News.

The Dipole Drive: A New Concept for Space Propulsion 122 by sohkamyung | 38 comments on Hacker News.

An Ohio Startup Rebuilds Lives One Piece of Fried Chicken at a Time 44 by danso | 10 comments on Hacker News.

A system to help you remember more of what you read 3 by robheaton | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Montreal Moving Day: what happens when a whole city moves house at once 136 by troydavis | 97 comments on Hacker News.