Articles by chistev
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Shrdlu (wikipedia.org)

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Sam Altman and his former hero Elon Musk are taking their toxic feud to court (bbc.com)

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OpenAI boss 'deeply sorry' for not telling police of mass shooter's account (bbc.com)

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Ask HN: What's a mind-blowing fact you know?

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Cosmos (Sagan Book) (wikipedia.org)

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Wat (2012) (destroyallsoftware.com)

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Most mentioned links in Hacker News comments, 2006–2015 (github.com/antontarasenko)

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Chernobyl 3828 (youtube.com)

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Enshittification (wikipedia.org)

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Ask HN: What are some of your favorite dedication pages in a book?

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FBI's "Suicide Letter" to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr (2014) (eff.org)

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Principle of Charity (wikipedia.org)

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Ask HN: What's Your Daily Routine?

3

What Emotion Goes Viral the Fastest? (2014) (smithsonianmag.com)

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Ask HN: How happy are you working as a programmer?

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1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash (wikipedia.org)

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2007 United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident (wikipedia.org)

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Operation Paperclip (wikipedia.org)

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Unit 731 (wikipedia.org)

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Ukraine and Weapons of Mass Destruction (wikipedia.org)

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I Waterboard (2007) (straightdope.com)

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One-Child Policy (wikipedia.org)

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Screenshots from developers and Unix people taken in 2002 (unix.se)

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2003 Angola Boeing 727 disappearance (wikipedia.org)

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Astroturfing (wikipedia.org)

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Ask HN: Does everyone here hate ads?

4

Ask HN: What is your favorite quote from a book?

2

Why Richard Feynman declined honorary degrees (2012) (tumblr.com)

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Ask HN: What Changed Your Life?

2

Mark Zuckerberg appears on CNBC to discuss a social network (2004) [video] (facebook.com)

3

Why and How to Avoid Hamburger Menus (2014) (lmjabreu.com)

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Ask HN: What's the best advice your would tell your 20 year old self?

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Ronda Rousey Fights Like an Outlier (2015) (fivethirtyeight.com)

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Undergraduation (2005) (paulgraham.com)

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Ask HN: How do you get recommendations for books that are up your alley?

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What We Look for in Founders (2010) (paulgraham.com)

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Subject: Airbnb (2011) (paulgraham.com)

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Airbnb (2011) (avc.com)

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Evercookie (wikipedia.org)

2

Ask HN: What non-tech blogs, podcasts do you follow?

1

Debunking the Gold Standard (2015) (greyenlightenment.com)

5

Ask HN: What was something interesting you learned last week?

1

Show HN: Simple Terminal Voice Recorder

5

Ask HN: What are the greatest discoveries in the last few years?

5

Things Fall Apart (wikipedia.org)

7

Ask HN: The trickiest bug you've encountered?

1

Why so many computer languages? (1977) (archive.org)

2

Ask HN: How many books have you read in 2026 so far and which was your favorite?

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Poll: What mobile OS do you primarily use?

3

Ask HN: What newsletters do you read every day or week?

1

Ask HN: What are the best product landing pages you've stumbled upon?

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Ask HN: What are the most uplifting comments you've read on HN?

4

The Road (wikipedia.org)

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Ask HN: Which book are you reading these days?

3

Lying (wikipedia.org)

2

Illusory Truth Effect (wikipedia.org)

2

Ask HN: How did you get from learning to code to making your first dollar?

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Ask HN: Which paid apps and services do you use?

2

The "Busy" Trap (2012) (nytimes.com)

2

Ask HN: What is the most difficult tech/dev challenge you ever solved?

2

Ask HN: What does your home office look like?

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Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Ask HN: Favorite YouTube Channels?

2

Can Apple read your iMessages? (2013) (cryptographyengineering.com)

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Why Selling WhatsApp to Facebook Would Be the Biggest Mistake (2012) (forbes.com/sites/ericjackson)

3

Ask HN: What book changed your life?

1

Snake Oil by Bruce Schneider (February 15, 1999) (schneier.com)

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The Fallacy of Cracking Contests by Bruce Schneider (December 15, 1998) (schneier.com)

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Ask HN: Which daily habit has affected your productivity the most?

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Has Stack Overflow saved billions of dollars in programmer productivity? (2013) (skeptics.stackexchange.com)

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Ask HN: What kind of side projects are you working on?

3

Adolf Hitler: Man of the Year, 1938 (1938) (time.com)

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Dropbox Launches to the Public (2008) (dropbox.com)

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Crypto users forced to share account details with tax officials (bbc.com)

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Ask HN: How did you learn to code?

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What is the best comment in source code you have ever encountered? (2011) (stackoverflow.com)

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Ask HN: What is the last book you're finishing in 2025?

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Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998) (norvig.com)

2

Life is wasting my time (2013) (daemonl.com)

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How to Get Startup Ideas (2012) (paulgraham.com)

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Ask HN: What is your primary operating system?

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Ask HN: What is the most complex software you've built single handedly?

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Len Sassaman and Satoshi: A Cypherpunk History (evanhatch.medium.com)

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Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System (2009) [pdf] (bitcoin.org)

3

Ask HN: Why are my newsletters going to Promotions?

2

I'm Glad My Mom Died (wikipedia.org)

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Frankenstein (wikipedia.org)

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Tell HN: Taking a Time Capsule Through HN

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Flowers for Algernon (wikipedia.org)

2

Ask HN: Is it possible to succeed without social media?

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Nuclear War: A Scenario (wikipedia.org)

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Night (Memoir) (wikipedia.org)

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Mindhunter: The FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit (wikipedia.org)

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Animal Farm (wikipedia.org)

3

Ask HN: What life hack for success have you discovered?

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Ask HN: Why does every website ask me to accept cookies?

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Ask HN: What great book are you currently reading or recently finished?

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Ask HN: What is your favorite quote?

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Show HN: Guess It Game (onrender.com)

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Show HN: ClosedLinks