Best of 2013

The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2013. 1,327 posts.

Any topic
503

Ethiopian Binary Math

Today, a witch doctor practices computer arithmetic. The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them. The scene is a remote Ethiopian village in 1940. A Farmer offers his herd of 34 goats for sale…