April 2017 Archive
1711.
Solar breaks 50% of California electricity for first time (electrek.co)
1712.
Apple is developing its own graphics chips for the iPhone (theverge.com)
1713.
Naturalizing a Programming Language via Interactive Learning (arxiv.org)
1714.
Why is it so hard to study anti-matter? (askamathematician.com)
1715.
Ask HN: Taking a junior SWE job at around 7 years?
1716.
China's return to religion (npr.org)
1717.
Systemd-free Devuan announces its first stable release candidate 'Jessie' 1.0.0 (linux.slashdot.org)
1718.
Ask HN: How to succeed in tech as an introvert?
1719.
Stanford is moving from using Java to JavaScript for their intro CS course (computinged.wordpress.com)
1720.
UK government irate at Twitter’s surveillance API crackdown (techcrunch.com)
1721.
Improved audio rendering with an optimised version of memcpy (2013) (audioasylum.com)
1722.
Is the F-35 a Trillion-Dollar Mistake? (bloomberg.com)
1723.
Smalltalk to get a second crack at the whip (medium.com)
1724.
Online shopping: prices and discounts are giving way to more exotic strategies (theatlantic.com)
1725.
Computer Moves (reallifemag.com)
1726.
Italy’s Struggling Economy Has World’s Healthiest People (bloomberg.com)
1727.
Once-Flush Startups Struggle to Stay Alive as Investors Get Pickier (wsj.com)
1728.
A Source Book in APL (1981) (softwarepreservation.org)
1729.
When the State gets it wrong, innocent people die – I was almost one of them (medium.com)
1730.
Why does HTML think “chucknorris” is a color? (stackoverflow.com)
1731.
The hero of ‘The Lost City of Z’ was no hero (washingtonpost.com)
1732.
How do you compute the midpoint of an interval? (2014) [pdf] (hal.archives-ouvertes.fr)
1733.
CERN and APS Announce Partnership for Open Access (journals.aps.org)
1734.
Trust: Our World in Data (ourworldindata.org)
1735.
The Loch Ness Monster of Mollusks (newyorker.com)
1736.
Brexit Britain Could Replace Migrants with Robots (bloomberg.com)
1737.
Take a feather and a candle: spring cleaning in 13th century Haggadah books (blogs.bl.uk)
1738.
Building Scala Projects: Maven vs. SBT (hammerlab.org)
1739.
Secret Knowledge – or a Hoax? (nybooks.com)
1740.
Most of Mars' air was 'lost to space' (bbc.co.uk)