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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 1,197 posts.
Life, Learning & Writing
Any year
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Bear turns 10, and it still feels like day one
🐻🎂 Happy 10th bearthday! Join us for the stories behind our design principles, the tiny details hidden all over the app, plus some wonderful new features and Bear swag.
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A Beginner's Guide to Houseplants
A collaborative AI workspace, built on your company context. Build and orchestrate agents right alongside your team's projects, meetings, and connected apps.
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Missing Darwin Notebooks Returned to Cambridge University Library
Charles Darwin’s iconic Tree of Life notebooks anonymously left in a pink gift bag, 15 months after launch of a worldwide appeal to find them
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The Dunedin Study Has Been Studying Aging for 45 Years
Epigenetic predictors of age, known as epigenetic clocks or biological age tests, have varying degrees of accuracy and precision. Elysium Health collaborated with Dr. Levine of Yale University to develop Index, a next-generation epigenetic clock with precision at the individual level.
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New research highlights the damage caused by processed food
A landmark paper proves that obesity is not just energy in and out; the type of food matters. And while one study shows we’re eating more processed food, another reveals what can be gained if we clean up our act.
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Becoming a Synth Dynamo
Through the development of Syntorial I've formed some pretty strong opinions when it comes to synthesis. So I figured I'd share them with the world in the
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Harnessing chaos in Cloudflare offices
This blog post will cover the new sources of “chaos” that have been added to LavaRand and how you can make use of that harnessed chaos in your next application
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How to Grow a Three Sisters Garden (2016)
By Melissa Kruse-Peeples For many Native American communities, three seeds - corn, beans, and squash represent the most important crops. When planted together, the Three Sisters, work together to help one another thrive and survive. Utilizing corn, beans, and squash together in your garden draws upon centuries of…
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What it feels like being an iPad on a stick on wheels
We like experimenting with geeky tools. All in the name of science of course…
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Remembering Joe, a Quarter of a Century of Inspiration and Friendship
Our founder Francesco Cesarini remembers the early days working with Joe Armstrong, co-creator of Erlang.
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Jazz Comping (2021)
When I first started to get comfortable playing jazz on the piano, I was eager to learn how to play with an ensemble. I knew my way through lots of tunes, and how to voice each chord. But, I didn't understand what my role was supposed to be in the rhythm section, or what I was supposed to do in order to support the…
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Unraveling the mysteries of habit formation
Researchers研究者名Asaoka, Nozomi
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Reliability, constant work, and a good cup of coffee
Why constant-work patterns make systems more reliable, doing the same predictable work regardless of load to avoid surprising failure modes.
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The freakishly strong base
The earth used to be covered in ice.
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Education is Our Generation's Big Problem. Let's Fix it.
Build practical, job-relevant skills with ready-made learning pathways and custom programs from Chegg Skills for employers, higher education, and government.
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Ways to avoid using the word 'very'
Good writers avoid using words like 'very' and 'really too often. Use these 45 alternatives to 'very. to make your writing stronger, clearer, and more interesting to read.
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Losing Covid-19 antibody immunity after six months after Pfizer vaccine
Case Western Reserve University researchers, in partnership with Brown University, examine vaccine’s effectiveness over time on seniors and their ca...
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Five Laws of Human Stupidity (1976)
Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.
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Politics and the English Language (1946)
"Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."
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Mistakes we've made
The Recurse Center is a self-directed, community-driven educational retreat for programmers in New York City.
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My 3-year experiment as a digital nomad
As a full-time software engineer at Kapwing and full-time wanderer, I've learned a few things about how to be a digital nomad.
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Forget coding, we need to teach our kids how to dream
Tom Goodwin on the five key attributes we should help kids develop instead of focusing on knowledge.