Hope it makes up for your last birthday. Congratulations to all of SpaceX, it's a hell of an achievement (turn that sucker to 4k for maximum enjoyment).
If you're still confused at what exactly happened, here's a plot of the booster's flight path, compared to Blue Origin's. Which, again, not in competition! Both are good! More rockets!
Data parallelism in Rust. This demonstrates how the (annoying, esoteric) safety guarantees of regular rust code can enable some neat higher-order abilities.
A good summary on the IEX controversy, if you can call it that. I particularly like the letter from the 8th grader. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to front-run myself a beer.
I don't really know how to evaluate tiingo, it does seem to have a lot of nice data in a less-ancient format than is usual for finance. It is a little weird though. HN Comments, featuring the author.
I'm wary of dipping into politics here but there are a few stories that are at least superficially interesting enough to warrant deviation from that rule:
And a long (~14,000 words!), suspiciously-pat exploration of Trump's candidacy and John Boyd's OODA principle. It verges on being a just-so story but I found it interesting nonetheless. Certainly the differing stucture of the debates wrt poll numbers is not something I'd put together quite so concretely. Yes, I did read it all.
