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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 8,939 posts.
Life, Learning & Writing
Any year
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My best techniques for evaluating character
These methods have helped me enormously—and can save you much heartache and anxiety
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Paul McCartney's Freakish Memory
And what it tells us about his creativity
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Three of the Hundred Falsehoods CS Students Believe
Earlier this year, many people were passing around this article about "re-learning how to be yourself online". Near the end the author reaches a set of questions that are motivating him:
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Things I don't know about AI
The more I learn about AI markets, the less I think I know. I list questions and some thoughts.
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Articles Every Programmer Should Read
A blog about Java, Programming, Algorithms, Data Structure, SQL, Linux, Database, Interview questions, and my personal experience.
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The Programming Books That Meant The Most To Me
There are so many programming books out there, but most focus on specific technologies and their half-life is incredibly short. Others focus on process or culture. Very few focus on the timeless principles of writing good code, period. The following five books had the biggest influence on my progra…
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How to become a dramatically better programmer
In our first week, we were told that the RC faculty wanted to do one thing above else – to remove any obstacles in the way of us becoming dramatically better programmers .
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Goodbye K-9 Mail
Looking back on 15 years of working on K-9 Mail.
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Cool Machine Learning Books
awhile ago i posted my list of cool machine learning books , but it's been awhile so it's probably time to update it...
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How I think about debt
Japan has 140 businesses that are at least 500 years old.
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The “misinformation problem” seems like misinformation
If anything people have become better informed
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“Dune” (The Movie), Annotated
Dreams are newsletters from the deep
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For anyone who has been turned down by 38 companies
Learn about the journey navigating through over 100 job interviews, and finally achieving a highly coveted job opportunity at Booking.com.
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Should you wash your solar panels?
I have a small solar farm and the panels have got visibly dusty. Is cleaning them worthwhile? How much difference does it make? Let's find out.
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Things I want to say to my boss
A new anonymous essay published every day in December in the countdown to Christmas.
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How much free time do you have?
I made a quick tool (for no real reason) to calculate and visualize 'free time' based on the selection of criteria shown below. Replace my responses with yours, and hit 'run' to see how much free time you have.
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Why can't you tune your guitar? (2019)
Short answer: because math. Longer answer: because prime numbers don’t divide into each other evenly. To understand what follows, you need to know some facts about the physics of vibrating st…
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How to Apologize
The latest regrettable spasm of sexism in the programming world played out this afternoon, as a company called Sqoot's announcement of a hac...
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How I store my files
Have you ever lost important data? I have. I learned doing backups the hard way after I lost a entire book I had just finished writing!
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Ten years of remembering every day that passes (2022)
I began this process on 17 December 2011 and let the tenth anniversary pass without comment, so the time has come to reflect. Firstly, I con...
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Design Books Every Hacker Should Read
Maybe you're an engineer, or maybe you work with a designer. Maybe you think that design is what you do in Photoshop. Or maybe you just care about design. If any of these are true, then there's a lot you can learn by reading and understanding these books. They'll help you understand how to