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Most cited
Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 4,916 posts.
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Link between health spending and life expectancy: US is an outlier (2017)
Americans have a lower life expectancy than people in other rich countries despite paying much more for healthcare. What factors may explain this?
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Project Panama: Interconnecting JVM and Native Code
We are improving and enriching the connections between the Java virtual machine and well-defined but “foreign” (non-Java) APIs, including many interfaces commonly used by C programmers.
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Google Shares, Monetizes, and Exploits Your Data Without 'Selling' It
"Google will never sell any personal information to third parties; and you get to decide how your information is used." - Sundar Pichai Sound familiar? Although big tech companies like Google keep the lights on by harvesting and monetizing your personal data, they can be quick to mince words and deny the strawman…
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Why HTTP/2.0 does not seem interesting (2012)
Varnish is a powerful, flexible HTTP accelerator that speeds up web applications by caching content and optimizing delivery.
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Steve Jobs - To All iPhone Customers
The official source for news about Apple, from Apple. Read press releases, get updates, watch video and download images.
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A History of HTML (1998)
The events and circumstances that led to the World Wide Web's current popularity
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The Impact of “Blind” Auditions on Female Musicians (1997)
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
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CVE-2026-98432: 9.8 CVE affecting all Ubuntu versions
Ubuntu is an open source software operating system that runs from the desktop, to the cloud, to all your internet connected things.
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Flat Design: Its Origins, Its Problems, and Why Flat 2.0 Is Better for Users
Flat design is a web-design style that became popular around 2012. It is still widely used today, and its misuse can cause serious usability problems.
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Read files in JavaScript | Articles
How to select files, read file metadata and content, and monitor read progress.
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Captive Labor: Exploitation of Incarcerated Workers
We examined the injustices of prison labor nationwide — and lay the foundation for a more equitable path forward.
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Famines
In many parts of the world famines have been common in the past. What causes famines? How can famines be averted?
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Climate change
WHO fact sheet on climate change and health: provides key facts, patterns of infection, measuring health effects and WHO response.
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Are Recipes and Cookbooks Protected by Copyright
Are Recipes and Cookbooks Protected by Copyright? Our experts at Copyright Alliance answer this frequently asked question in this week's blog post.
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Google SRE - Defining slo: service level objective meaning
SRE SLO book to understand service level objective meaning and the various service level terminilogy including sla slo sli to improve service reliability.
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Threat Group 4127 Targets Hillary Clinton Presidential Campaign
Learn how Sophos CTU researchers tracked the activities of a Russian-based threat group targeting the Hillary Clinton Presidential Campaign.
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U.S. students’ academic achievement still lags that of their peers in many other countries
American students continue to rank around the middle of the pack, and behind many other advanced industrial nations, in international assessments of math, science and reading.
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Language Log » Orwell's Liar
January 10, 2009 @ 1:19 am · Filed by David Beaver under Peeving , Prescriptivist poppycock
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What was the role of MS-DOS in Windows 95?
It acted as the 16-bit legacy device driver layer.
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Urbanization
Around 80% of the world’s population lives in cities, towns, and suburbs rather than rural settlements. How has this changed, and what does urbanization look like across the world today?
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Why ContentEditable is Terrible
Or: How the Medium Editor Works
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Google SRE - Blameless Postmortem for System Resilience
Blameless postmortems in SRE culture. Incident study that focus on root cause analysis and preventive actions, for culture of continuous improvement.
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Commitment vs. Forecast: A Subtle But Important Change to Scrum
One of the most controversial updates to the 2011 Scrum Guide has been the removal of the term “commit” in favor of “forecast” in regards to the work selected for a Sprint. We used to say that the Development Team commits to which Product Backlog Items it will deliver by the end of the Sprint. Scrum now encourages the…
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COMMENTARY: Masks-for-all for COVID-19 not based on sound data
Dr. Brosseau is a national expert on respiratory protection and infectious diseases and professor (retired), University of Illinois at Chicago. Dr. Sietsema is also an expert on respiratory protection and an assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
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40% of Millennials OK with limiting speech offensive to minorities
That's compared with 27% of Gen Xers and 24% of Boomers who say the same.
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2022 Expert Survey on Progress in AI
Collected data and analysis from a large survey of machine learning researchers.
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The Poorest 20% of Americans Are Richer on Average Than Most European Nations
The US is so economically exceptional that the poorest 20 percent of Americans are richer than many of the world’s most affluent nations.