Interesting reads, 11 June 2018

Interesting things I read on the Internet this week

• Behind the Messy, Expensive Split Between Facebook and WhatsApp’s Founders — Forsaking $1.3 billion by resigning from Facebook is what I’d call putting your money where your mouth is. Massive kudos to Brian Acton and Jan Koum for their principled resignations.

• Ask HN: Are you working on interesting technical problems? — Lots and lots of shared experience in this Hacker News thread.

• Microsoft sinks data centre off Orkney — Cute, not just good for cooling but also corrosion: “Additionally because there are no people, we can take all the oxygen and most of the water vapour out of the atmosphere which reduces corrosion, which is a significant problem in data centres.”