Politics

• Robert Mercer: the big data billionaire waging war on mainstream media
• How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing

Sociology

• Why Japan’s Rail Workers Can’t Stop Pointing at Things
• The irrationality of Alcoholics Anonymous
• Is Facebook A Structural Threat To Free Society?
• How do unschoolers turn out?
• On parenting and parents
• The Death of the White Working Class Has Been Greatly Exaggerated

Psychology

• What do slaveholders think?
• The psychology of human misjudgement
• Against willpower
• Smokers, Psychos and Decision-Theoretic Uncertainty
• Yuval Harari on how meditation made him a better historian
• How to become someone people love to talk to

Biology

• The Drunken Monkey Hypothesis
• Point of view: Towards a mechanistic foundation of evolutionary theory
• Nature collection on Cancer evolution
• Not everything is an interaction
• Cancer isn’t a logic problem

Bioinformatics

• BigDataScript: a scripting language for data pipelines
• Structured nucleosome fingerprints enable high-resolution mapping of chromatin architecture within regulatory regions
• All biology is computational biology
• Bamgineer: Introduction of simulated allele-specific copy number variants into exome and targeted sequence data sets

Technology/Computer Science

• Power of Simplicity by Alan Kay (video)
• Password Rules Are Bullshit
• Loopy: A tool for thinking in systems
• Problem Solving with Algorithms and Data Structures using Python
• We didn’t lose control, the Web was stolen
• The broken promise of web components
• Complexity and Strategy
• Efficient Processing of Deep Neural Networks: A Tutorial and Survey

Miscellaneous

• Ask HN: What do you use to align your daily todos with your long term goals?
• How to talk about your side projects