Best of 2018

The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2018. 292 posts.

AI & Machine Learning
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Augmenting Long-term Memory

One day in the mid-1920s, a Moscow newspaper reporter named Solomon Shereshevsky entered the laboratory of the psychologist Alexander Luria. Shereshevsky's boss at the newspaper had noticed that Shereshevsky never needed to take any notes, but somehow still remembered all he was told, and had suggested he get his…