Articles by chistev
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Ask HN: What is the meaning of life? Why are we here?

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Debate over the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (wikipedia.org)

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Drapetomania (wikipedia.org)

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Silent but Deadly: Welrod Mk IIA (youtube.com)

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Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?

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Ask HN: If you could do anything, what would you do?

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Ask HN: Most impactful podcast episodes so far this year?

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A Short History of Nearly Everything (wikipedia.org)

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Ask HN: What are the best unknown books you have read?

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Secrets of São Paulo uncovered by outdoor advertising ban (2016) (99percentinvisible.org)

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Ask HN: How did you discover Hacker News?

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How Y Combinator Started (2012) (paulgraham.com)

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The Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies by A. Einstein June 30, 1905 [pdf] (ox.ac.uk)

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Moravec's Paradox (wikipedia.org)

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Ask HN: What Hacker News comments have you bookmarked?

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The Largest Vocabulary in Hip Hop (pudding.cool)

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What ever became of Microsoft's $150M investment in Apple? (engadget.com)

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Ask HN: What Are You Thankful For?

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Ask HN: What's the hardest problem you've ever solved?

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Ask HN: What was the best decision you made in your career?

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The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (wikipedia.org)

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Silurian Hypothesis (wikipedia.org)

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Appeal to Consequences (wikipedia.org)

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Ask HN: What Do You Struggle With?

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You might not need jQuery (youmightnotneedjquery.com)

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Ship of Theseus (wikipedia.org)

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Ask HN: How did you find your current job?

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It's surprisingly hard to tell if someone's drowning, so we made you a guide (popsci.com)

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The Tail End (2015) (waitbutwhy.com)

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Life Is Short (2016) (paulgraham.com)

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Ask HN: What is your favourite tech talk?

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Ask HN: How will you manage your digital assets when you die?

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Ask HN: What has HN given you?

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Keep Your Identity Small (2009) (paulgraham.com)

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Google's Gmail to Offer 1GB Email Storage? (2004) (slashdot.org)

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Superior Orders (wikipedia.org)

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Stanislav Kurilov (wikipedia.org)

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Gudlaugur Fridporsson (wikipedia.org)

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Chart: How Tech Giants Make Their Billions (2017) (visualcapitalist.com)

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Social Media Zero (2017) (leejo.github.io)

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"Being Poor," Ten Years on (2015) (scalzi.com)

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Being Poor (2005) (scalzi.com)

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Ask HN: What programming blogs do you follow?

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Ask HN: Sites you visit on a daily basis for knowledge and inspiration?

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Ask HN: Books you wish you had read earlier?

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I built a business that lets me live on the beach full time (expatsoftware.com)

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The Wire's Final Season and the Story Everyone Missed (2008) (davidsimon.com)

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Ask HN: Ads on WhatsApp?

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Ask HN: What is the most exciting development in your field?

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Why I'm giving up on Facebook (2017) (afandian.com)

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Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow?

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Big-fish–little-pond effect (wikipedia.org)

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Ask HN: Have you ever thought of leaving programming for something else?

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Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

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Ask HN: What is your favorite YouTube channel for developers?

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Ask HN: What's your favorite HN post?

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Sam Altman talks with Mark Zuckerberg about how to build the future [video] (youtube.com)

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List of Unsolved Problems in Physics (wikipedia.org)

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Ask HN: What book have you given as a gift?

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Ask HN: What was your "why didn't I start doing this sooner" moment?

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D. B. Cooper (wikipedia.org)

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Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?

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OpenAI Technical Goals (2016) (openai.com)

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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?

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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?

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

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

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Ask HN: What Changed Your Life?

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

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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)