Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 8,944 posts.
I recently had an engaging conversation with Alex ( @veqq ) from the Lobsters community about computing, mathematics and a range of related topics. Our conversation was later published on the community website as Lobsters Interview with Susam .
LA CAMPAGNE NUMERO DEUX : Why do we, French people, care so much about the presidential election — and why it all goes back to cheese.
Living at high altitude reduces risk of dying from heart disease: Low oxygen may spur genes to create blood vessels. Summary: Researchers have found that people living at higher altitudes have a lower chance of dying from heart disease and live longer. Jeanne and I live at 8,400 feet (2.560 meters)
Including a little dive into the physics behind it
A Vim-Inspired Approach to Efficient Note Management with Obsidian and Markdown
Looking for some low-lift ways to make yourself happier? Here's some of the best research that we've found on personal happiness.
Cycling Lessons Learned From Amsterdam That No One Talks About This post originally appears on Spacing Vancouver. By Darren Proulx and Samuel Baron I recently had the honour of visiting Amsterdam. …
over the last few years, many attempts have been made at creating a smart cane. None of them have successfully lead to a market transforming technology that's actually used by any substantial users. I
The what is connected to the when.
This is the fifth post in my series on finding an alternative to Mac OS X. A bit over a year ago I wrote about my search for an alternative to Mac OS and switch to Linux. In this post I reflect on how that year went and detail some further adventures into Mac OS alternatives.
A startup CTO's guide to what "the best" really means—how to spot non-obvious high performers and the traits that make early-stage teams win.
[ed note: this article is also available in pdf and postscript and as a Microsoft Word document . ]
Barry Duncan, a staff member at the MIT Press Bookstore, boasts a unique talent: writing palindromes, or prose that reads the same forward and backward.
About eight years ago, I was playing a game of Codenames where the game state was such that our team would almost certainly lose if we didn't correctly guess all of our remaining words on our turn. From the given clue, we were unable to do this. Although the game is meant to be a word guessing game based on word…
This past Friday was my last day working in Mojave.
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After a lumbar puncture caused a chronic spinal CSF leak, my life of travel and food changed overnight. (Now with a 7 year update)
The barn swallow’s flight, the mocking bird’s song, the cardinal’s color, and the hummingbird’s character.
(If you fancy a puzzle, go look at The Clock first, try to figure out how it works, then come back here for the explanation.) Inspired b...
Po-Shen Loh explains why Euler's number e is natural using only precalculus: one exponential curve has tangent slope 1 at the y-axis, which leads to the compound interest limit.
