7261
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 7,746 posts.
Life, Learning & Writing
Any year
7262
7263
7264
How Professional Writers Write
[UPDATE: 2/18/08] Welcome new readers! If this is your first time here, Study Hacks is a blog that focuses on hacks to help you do ... Read more
7265
7266
Paul Buchheit: Evaluating risk and opportunity (as a human)
Our lives are full of decisions that force us to balance risk and opportunity: should you take that new job, buy that house, invest in that ...
7267
Teach Like You're the Student
“I never have let my schooling interfere with my education.” – Mark Twain Every time I see my graduate students try to teach for the first time, it’s usually so painful I bite my lip. Then I …
7268
7269
7270
7271
Programmer feel-good quote
From a bit to a few hundred megabytes, from a microsecond to a half an hour of computing confronts us with completely baffling ratio of 10 9...
7272
The Importance of Abandoning Crap
Curating the intersection of modern lifestyle and technical obsession. We are currently architecting our systems for the upcoming launch.
7273
7274
7275
Why I went without hot water for a year
Josh founded his first tech company at 23, creating real-time vehicle tracking on the web — later acquired by Ford Motor Co. He spent a decade traveling the globe, studying consciousness and scaling local food systems .
7276
7277
7278
Beyond the 10,000 Hour Rule: Richard Hamming and the Messy Art of Becoming Great
What Makes Great Scientists Great? In March of 1986, an overflow audience of over 200 researchers and staff members from Bell Laboratories piled into the ... Read more
7279
7280
7281
7282
The Six-Lesson Schoolteacher (1991)
Before reading, please set your irony detector to the on position. If you find yourself inclined to dismiss the below as paranoid, you should know that the design behind the current American school system is very well-documented historically, in published writings of dizzying cynicism by such well-known figures as…
7283
7284
Pull the plug. Your battery will thank you
One question that I have been asked frequently is “do laptop batteries fade faster if they are continuously plugged in?” A reader asked thi...
7285
7286
How To Remember Anything Forever-ish (2018)
an interactive comic on the art & science of memory
7287
7288
7289
7290