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The most popular blog posts about life, learning & writing on Hacker News. 369 posts.
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Do I really need to get out the soldering-iron again?
So I had this idea that it would be nice to listen to music when I get home from work everyday, so I put all my ripped music onto my phone, and I bought some good quality over-ear headphones.
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Taskwarrior, where have you been all my life?
I’ve been thinking a lot about task management lately. I’ve actually been thinking about it for years. I’ve always been searching for the optimal way to sort through the bajillion things I have to do and remain productive.
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Why things might have taken so long
I asked why humanity took so long to do anything at the start, and the Internet gave me its thoughts. Here is my expanded list of hypotheses, summarizing from comments on the post, here, and here. …
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My experience with Sarah Jeong, Jason Koebler, and Vice Magazine
Translator and proofreader’s note: There are large parts of this document that don’t parse well either from Chinese or from Naomi’s written…
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What Is The Morning Writing Effect?
Many writers anecdotally report they write best first thing early in the morning, apparently even if they are not morning people. Do they, and why?
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Thank You, Robert Voit, Creator of Paint Shop Pro
Robert — In the early to mid-90s my hobby was making video games of various sorts with my friend Jesse. Our tools were Recreational Software Designs Game-Maker 2.0 and your creation JASC Paint Shop…
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YC’s 2018 Summer Reading List
A post about summer reading [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17513576] on Hacker News inspired us to put a list together for 2018. Here’s what we’ve been reading. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Years of Lyndon Johnson…
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Thanks for the Surprise Integration with My Website, Apple
Addicted To Programming - @asaph's blog
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The Akrasia Effect: Why We Don’t Follow Through on What We Set Out to Do
Plus, 3 strategies to help you start beating procrastination now.
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A system to help you remember more of what you read
Five years ago I realized that I remembered almost nothing about most books that I read. I was reading all kinds of non-fiction - pop-psychology, pop-economics, pop-sociology, you name it - and felt like quite the polymath auto-didact. But one day, after I had finished blathering at a friend about how much I had…
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Ditching the MacBook Pro for a MacBook Air
I'm Brad Frost, an independent creator, web designer & developer, teacher, speaker, writer, musician, and artist based in Pittsburgh, PA.
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The Best Article Ever Written About Bragging
After feeling belittled, I journey into the heart of bragging and discover 17 modes of showing off.
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Beginner's guide to longevity research
A beginner's guide to longevity research
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What I learned in ten years of blogging
What I've written on the internet has reached millions of people and today I'm opening up the kimono, here's all I know about blogging.
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Nobody's just reading your code
Most programmers agree that we don't read enough code. The interviews in Peter Seibel's book, “Coders at work” highlight a comical contradiction: almost all the programmers interviewed by Seibel recommend that others read code for fun, but none of them routinely do so themselves. Seibel even asked Hal Abelson (of SICP…
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The Remarkable Brain Waves of High Level Meditators [video]
What’s going on in the brains of people who meditate? Anecdotal evidence suggests that meditation does something to people’s minds and bodies…quiets and calms t
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An OCR cliche: Into his/her anus (2009)
In order to improve the quality of my transcription of the 1879 edition of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, I collate the text against the Google Books version. Although the OCR is faulty, it is helpful fo…
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Traveling the World on a Third World Passport
Travel the world with a third-world passport: Embrace the unfairness and overcome limitations. Here's how I traveled the world with a Thai passport.
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Mental Models: The Best Way to Make Intelligent Decisions (113 Models Explained)
The smartest people in the world use mental models to make intelligent decisions, avoid stupidity, and increase productivity. Let's take a look at how ...
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Startup School 2018 – Curriculum
Two weeks ago we announced Startup School 2018 [https://blog.ycombinator.com/announcing-startup-school-2018/]. Our free, online course will kick off in just three weeks, on August 28th. We also let founders know that 100 of the companies that complete the course will receive $10,000 in equity-free funding from YC…