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The most popular blog posts about life, learning & writing on Hacker News. 8,938 posts.
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What does happiness at work mean?
An unscientifical and personal approach.
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Stop saying learning to code is easy
(The photo above was taken at the Microsoft NYC office of three amazing young ...
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Whole House Fan and Evaporative Cooler
In dry climates it's common for people to use evaporative ("swamp") coolers; same idea as sweat evaporating off your skin cooling you off. The downside is that they increase humidity in the air, and if it's already pretty humid then that can make things uncomfortable. This means evaporative coolers are rarely used…
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I'm going to cure my girlfriend's brain tumor
Launch of an experiment to use AI-Scientists to accelerate research of a "solved" disease.
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A Rant About “Technology” (2005)
Ursula K. Le Guin on the presence of technology in her work
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What's in those mysterious cabinets?
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
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Don't Use AI to Write
Writing requires thinking, don't let an AI do the thinking for you.
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Relentlessly Simplify
Notes on simplifying daily life by stripping unnecessary apps, disabling notifications, and trimming subscriptions to reduce decision fatigue.
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Advice to young people, the lies I tell myself
Discover insightful advice for young people, emphasizing choices, confidence, and personal growth through lived experiences.
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Lab Notebooks (2020)
What wet-lab chemistry can teach software engineers
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Duty to Document (2023)
If you learn something the hard way, it's you duty to share your lessons with others.
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LaTeX for tabletop
Get started on using LaTeX for writing your tabletop rulebooks, adventures, and zines.
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Ten lines of code that changed my world
Front-end antics and typographic mischievousness
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Find Your 2%Ers (2023)
then do life with them.
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Explaining explaining: a quick guide on explanatory writing
Hot takes and cold truths on software, startups, and the lies we tell ourselves.
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Everything I Know (1975)
Everything I Know During the last two weeks of January 1975 Buckminster Fuller gave an extraordinary series of lectures concerning his entire life’s work. Jump to Sections Introduction These …
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The Bug in the Physical Building
I heard a story on the way to work this morning. This story starts out like many stories about software projects start out: with a weird specification.
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Thought as a Technology
Have you ever felt awe and delight upon first experiencing a computer interface? An interface that surprised you with its strangeness, with a sense of entering an alien world?
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The secret life of punctuation - ¶ (The Pilcrow)
This is a pilcrow: ¶. They crop up surprisingly frequently, bookending paragraphs on websites with a typographic bent, for instance, and teaming up with the section symbol in legal documents to form picturesque reference marks such as §3, ¶7. The pilcrow even appears in Microsoft Word, where it adorns a button which…
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Zero Zero
I've been thinking about something that we always did junior year when I was on my high school soccer team. When we'd score a goal, we reali...
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Frances Hesselbein's leadership story (2022)
A life by example
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You're in a space of twisty little mazes, all alike
I have a hidden reason for posing this problem, but that's the subject of a future blog post. But for now, let me clarify by saying that I'm not just interested in counting the number of such mazes, I actually want to enumerate them — that is, I need to know what each maze looks like.
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