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The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy (2014)

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Fri May 1, 2026 10:36am PST

Children Went from Worthless to Priceless (2013)

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Fri May 1, 2026 10:23am PST

Fatigue Is a Brain-Derived Emotion That Regulates to Ensure Protection (2012)

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Fri May 1, 2026 6:49am PST

Languages: We must save dying tongues (2014)

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Fri May 1, 2026 6:48am PST

Rats free each other from cages (2011)

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Thurs Apr 30, 2026 10:15pm PST

Dunning-Kruger and other memes (2015)

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Thurs Apr 30, 2026 9:25pm PST

What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014)

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Thurs Apr 30, 2026 6:23pm PST

UK votes to leave EU (2016)

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Thurs Apr 30, 2026 3:42pm PST

Why Great Entrepreneurs Are Older Than You Think (2014)

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Thurs Apr 30, 2026 1:15pm PST

The Science Behind Honey's Eternal Shelf Life (2013)

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Thurs Apr 30, 2026 1:13pm PST

Why isn't the fundamental theorem of arithmetic obvious? (2011)

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Thurs Apr 30, 2026 9:32am PST

Table Oriented Programming (2002)

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Thurs Apr 30, 2026 7:15am PST

A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages (2009)

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Wed Apr 29, 2026 7:31pm PST

Philosophers Should Care About Computational Complexity (2011) [pdf]

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Wed Apr 29, 2026 10:52am PST

You suck at technical interviews (2014)

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Tues Apr 28, 2026 9:19pm PST

My Two Years as an Anthropologist on the Photoshop Team (2015)

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Tues Apr 28, 2026 9:17pm PST

The Sad Story of Heisenberg's Doctoral Oral Exam (1998)

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Mon Apr 27, 2026 4:29pm PST

How Do Food Manufacturers Calculate the Calorie Count of Packaged Foods? (2003)

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Sun Apr 26, 2026 7:44pm PST

Browser as an Interactive Disassembly Exploration Tool (2015)

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Sun Apr 26, 2026 3:49pm PST

Keep Your Identity Small (2009)

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Sun Apr 26, 2026 10:00am PST

The slow death of purposeless walking (2014)

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Sat Apr 25, 2026 6:04pm PST

Don't invert that matrix (2010)

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Sat Apr 25, 2026 5:23pm PST

A Brain Dump of What I Worked on for Uncharted 4 (2016)

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Sat Apr 25, 2026 8:48am PST

My New York Misadventure (1932)

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Sat Apr 25, 2026 8:23am PST

The Tyranny of Structurelessness (1972)

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Fri Apr 24, 2026 7:34pm PST

To become a good C programmer (2011)

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Fri Apr 24, 2026 11:20am PST

The FBI faked a field of forensic science. (2015)

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Thurs Apr 23, 2026 10:22pm PST

I run my business like an open source project (2013)

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Thurs Apr 23, 2026 10:06pm PST

The Black Death: The Greatest Catastrophe Ever (2005)

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Thurs Apr 23, 2026 4:35pm PST

Wealth doesn't trickle down – it just floods offshore, research reveals (2012)

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Thurs Apr 23, 2026 6:42am PST

Augmenting Human Intellect (1962)

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Thurs Apr 23, 2026 5:52am PST

Tantrums as Status Symbols (2005)

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Wed Apr 22, 2026 8:42am PST

Why Anti-Authoritarians Are Diagnosed as Mentally Ill (2012)

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Wed Apr 22, 2026 8:03am PST

A guide on how to be a Programmer (2002)

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Tues Apr 21, 2026 6:07pm PST

Golden Rules for Making Money (1880)

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Tues Apr 21, 2026 5:06pm PST

Ask HN: How much are you making?

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Tues Apr 21, 2026 3:56pm PST

Type hints – a mediocre programmer's reaction (2015)

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Mon Apr 20, 2026 8:33pm PST

Ninety Percent of U.S. bills carry traces of cocaine (2009)

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Mon Apr 20, 2026 7:42pm PST

What No One Told You About Z-Index (2013)

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Mon Apr 20, 2026 6:18pm PST

War Is a Racket (1935)

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Sun Apr 19, 2026 5:50pm PST

The Unsuitability of English (2015)

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Sat Apr 18, 2026 3:42pm PST

The curse of the gifted programmer (2000)

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Fri Apr 17, 2026 9:13am PST

A.I. (1981)

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Fri Apr 17, 2026 12:55am PST

It's Time to End the War on Salt (2011)

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Thurs Apr 16, 2026 2:29pm PST

The World in 1975 (2007)

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Thurs Apr 16, 2026 8:45am PST

10th Anniversary of jQuery (2016)

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Thurs Apr 16, 2026 6:22am PST

The Mathematics of Tetris (2011)

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