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The most popular blog posts about life, learning & writing on Hacker News. 1,197 posts.
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Why founders need hobbies
As founders, a lot of our identities get wrapped up in our companies. Certainly within our industries, but even to family and friends it’s how people know
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Our experience moving to SF to do YC
YC (a startup accelerator we are taking part in) ask you to move to the Bay Area for the whole program. This gives you “a socially acceptable excuse…
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Pierogi in Space
In a first for space cuisine, ESA project astronaut Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski will bring pierogi, the traditional Polish dumplings, to the International Space Station during the upcoming Axiom Mission 4.
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Working from home on the //c+
In honor of Apple's 44th birthday today, I decided to set up my //c+ as a terminal using my homebuilt wifi modem. Getting modem.mgr...
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Learning to think critically about machine learning
Graduate students are helping to infuse ethical computing content into MIT’s largest machine learning course, as part of the Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing initiative.
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At the Mountains of Madness
We're open-sourcing a tool that may be useful to people who develop code on NixOS and distribute it in binary form.
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Let's ride this bull
The signs are all here: There’s now an incubator on every corner, even your uncle is donning angel wings, and IPO expectations for Facebook are exceeding the hype for a new Twilight movie. But that’s all circumstantial evidence. What we needed was some public testimony to really put eve…
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Types of Garden Hoe
Are there really just a few basic types? We describe what they are, what they do, and how to adjust and tweak them for the best performance.
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The Effect of Noise on Sleep
Using Apple Watch noise and sleep stages to quantify the effect of noise on sleep
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Norwegian: Bokmål vs. Nynorsk
Språkrådet arbeider for å styrke det norske språket og språkmangfoldet. Språkrådet er statens forvaltningsorgan i språkspørsmål og følger opp den norske språkpolitikken.
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Stop teaching calculating; Start teaching math
Conrad Wolfram's 2010 talk on reforming maths education to teach real-world computational methods using computers.
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Air Quality Monitors from USD $169 to $6k use the same low-cost PM Modules
Why monitors priced from hundreds to thousands of dollars often use the same low-cost PM modules, and what that means for performance claims.
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Common prostate cancer treatment linked to later dementia, researcher says
A new retrospective study of the health records of prostate cancer patients supports an association between androgen deprivation therapy and future risk of dementia.
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Guide to Personal Productivity Methods
Productivity inspiration and tactical advice that's actually useful.
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Aerodynamics of Gravel Bikes
Aerodynamics are an important factor in gravel racing and riding. Gravel racing speeds are high—the fastest riders in the 200-mile Unbound average 20 mph (32 km/h) across the Flint Hills of Kansas. And many gravel races can be extremely windy. Optimizing the aerodynamics of a…
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What I Learned from Working 32 Hours a Week
Instead of taking all my vacation at once, I decided to see what a 4-day work week would look like. It taught me a lot about myself and how I work.
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Ambition can be poison
In the right dose, ambition works wonders. It inspires you to achieve more, to stretch yourself beyond the comfort zone, and provides the motivation to keep going when the going gets tough. Rightfully so, ambition is universally revered. But ambition also has a dark, addictive side that’s …