Top 20 Hacker News Stories for 2017-06-03

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Accidentally destroyed production database on first day of a job

https://np.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/6ez8ag/accidentally_destroyed_production_database_on/

9 years ago

740 upvotes – 265 comments

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A hands-on introduction to video technology: image, video, codec and more

https://github.com/leandromoreira/digital_video_introduction

★ 16.2kJupyter NotebookBSD-3-Clause9 years ago

★ 16.2kJupyter NotebookBSD-3-Clause

694 upvotes – 74 comments

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Ask HN: Books you wish you had read earlier?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14477851

9 years ago

631 upvotes – 270 comments

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MusicBrainz: an open music encyclopedia

http://musicbrainz.org/

9 years ago

432 upvotes – 90 comments

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SeaGlass – Enabling City-Wide IMSI-Catcher Detection

https://seaglass.cs.washington.edu/

9 years ago

363 upvotes – 36 comments

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Secretive Billionaire Makes The Cheese For Pizza Hut, Domino's And Papa John's

https://www.forbes.com/sites/chloesorvino/2017/05/23/james-leprino-exclusive-mozzarella-billionaire-cheese-pizza-hut-dominos-papa-johns/#7ca143b54958

9 years ago

276 upvotes – 176 comments

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Game Programming Patterns

http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/

9 years ago

271 upvotes – 47 comments

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Too many people are buying cars using financial products they do not understand

http://timharford.com/2017/06/trapsfordinosaurs/

9 years ago

255 upvotes – 317 comments

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SpaceX sticks 11th rocket landing after launching first used Dragon capsule

https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/3/15725720/spacex-falcon-9-rocket-landing-success-nasa-used-dragon

9 years ago

240 upvotes – 69 comments

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McDonald’s Universal Icons for 109 Countries [pdf]

http://www.enlaso.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/McDibaks-Nutrition-Icons-Case-Study.pdf

9 years ago

211 upvotes – 154 comments

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GNU Shepherd

https://www.gnu.org/software/shepherd/

9 years ago

185 upvotes – 122 comments

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My Improbable Graduation: From a Tiny Village in Ghana to Johns Hopkins

http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/06/03/531032582/my-improbable-graduation-from-a-tiny-village-in-ghana-to-johns-hopkins

9 years ago

177 upvotes – 59 comments

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A link between video games and unemployment

https://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2017/03/economist-explains-24

9 years ago

177 upvotes – 171 comments

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Ringless voice mails from telemarketers

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/03/business/phone-ringless-voicemail-fcc-telemarketer.html

9 years ago

151 upvotes – 220 comments

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Linux follows an inverse form of Conway's Law

https://medium.com/@aserg.ufmg/does-conways-law-apply-to-linux-6acf23c1ef15

9 years ago

151 upvotes – 58 comments

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How to Call B.S. On Big Data: A Practical Guide

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/how-to-call-bullshit-on-big-data-a-practical-guide?intcid=mod-latest

9 years ago

140 upvotes – 24 comments

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Apple Dylan IDE (2014)

https://web.archive.org/web/20140703072127/https://opendylan.org/about/apple-dylan/screenshots/index.html

9 years ago

131 upvotes – 55 comments

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Tuning Your DBMS Automatically with Machine Learning

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/ai/tuning-your-dbms-automatically-with-machine-learning/

9 years ago

127 upvotes – 24 comments

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First draft of the new Artificial Intelligence and Games textbook available now

http://gameaibook.org/

9 years ago

124 upvotes – 15 comments

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ICOs and VCs

https://avc.com/2017/06/icos-and-vcs/

9 years ago

124 upvotes – 83 comments