Hacker News on 17 February 2020

• Pay up or we’ll make Google ban your ads
• How These Things Work – A book about CS from first principles (2016)
• Twitter locks WikiLeaks account days before Assange's extradition hearing
• What eight years of side projects have taught me (2019)
• Ask HN: What automation tools have you used to replace mundane activities?
• Avoid rewriting a legacy system from scratch by strangling it
• Markdeep – plain text documents with diagrams, equations, and Markdown syntax
• Google/Trax – Understand and explore advanced deep learning
• Vue.js: The Documentary (Trailer) [video]
• Kernighan's Law: You are not smart enough to debug it