New

The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 7,746 posts.

Life, Learning & Writing
Any year
6083

Changes to the Blog

I have made a few changes to my blog that I’d like to talk about. The first is the various buttons associated with each post: a Facebook Like button, a Retweet button, and so on. These buttons are ubiquitous on the Internet now. We publishers like them because it makes it easier for our readers to share our content. I…

6089

Analyzing my DNA

I recently bought 23andme [http://23andme.com], a service which requires you to send off a DNA sample, and in return performs a series of interesting tests concerning your health and ancestry. I bought the test as a birthday present to myself, somewhat because I was interested in the results,