Articles by downbad_
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The Art of Assembly Language (1999) (archive.org)

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Giraffes Silently Slip onto the Endangered Species List (2016) (smithsonianmag.com)

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Pixar's 22 Rules of Storytelling (2013) (aerogrammestudio.com)

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Less is exponentially more (2012) (commandcenter.blogspot.com)

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Poverty Changes Your Mind-Set (2018) (chicagobooth.edu)

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When you should bring in the heavy hitters (2017) (rawsignal.ca)

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Why Do We Sleep Under Blankets, Even on the Hottest Nights? (2017) (atlasobscura.com)

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The Drugging of the American Boy (2014) (esquire.com)

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Kahneman on Contingencies (2002) (nih.gov)

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'Lede' vs. 'Lead' (2011) (howardowens.com)

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Body wasn't built to last: a lesson from human mortality rates (2009) (gravityandlevity.wordpress.com)

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The Four Motivators (2016) (apenwarr.ca)

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Sleep and Mortality: A Population-Based 22-Year Follow-Up Study (2007) (fermatslibrary.com)

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Python 1.0.0 is out (1994) (groups.google.com)

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Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017) (johnsalvatier.org)

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C as an Intermediate Language (2012) (yosefk.com)

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Spas Are Just Harder, and Always Will Be (2013) (wgross.net)

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Legends of the Ancient Web (2017) (idlewords.com)

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Learn the tricks. Beat the system. (2009) (csail.mit.edu)

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When volcanic ash stopped a Jumbo at 37,000ft (2010) (bbc.co.uk)

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List of price of medieval items (2006) (ucdavis.edu)

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Why Education Startups Do Not Succeed (2011) (avichal.com)

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Lost at sea: the man who vanished for 14 months (2015) (theguardian.com)

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Simpson's Paradox and the Hot Hand in Basketball (1995) (fermatslibrary.com)

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'Once in a lifetime find': Dinosaur tail discovered trapped in amber (2016) (cnn.com)

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How to Write Articles and Essays Quickly and Expertly (2006) (downes.ca)

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The Accidental Bestseller (2014) (publishersweekly.com)

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Some Rules for Historians (1973) (smithtrust.com)

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Don't Design Your Emails (2016) (gkogan.co)

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Why physicists still use Fortran (2015) (moreisdifferent.com)

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Playboy Interview: Steven Jobs (1985) (allaboutstevejobs.com)

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The Secret World of Tiny Phones That Go Inside Your Butt (2016) (vice.com)

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Whom the Gods Would Destroy, They First Give Real-Time Analytics (2013) (mcfunley.com)

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The significance of plot without conflict (2012) (tumblr.com)

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How to Pick Your Life Partner – Part 1 (2014) (waitbutwhy.com)

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The Acceleration of Addictiveness (2010) (paulgraham.com)

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The Rise of Pirate Libraries (2016) (atlasobscura.com)

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The Nearly Mile-Wide Diamond Mine That Helped Build the Soviet Union (2014) (gizmodo.com)

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Too many people have peed in the pool (2016) (stephenfry.com)

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I spent 29 years in solitary confinement (2010) (theguardian.com)

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People Don't Buy Products, They Buy Better Versions of Themselves (2014) (buffer.com)

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Does it scale? Who cares (2011) (jacquesmattheij.com)

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Where will UX design be in 5 years? 5 Predictions (2017) (designlab.com)

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The things that happen at a lock-picking convention (2013) (slate.com)

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A linguist on Arrival's alien language (2016) (slate.com)

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A Man Who Almost Never Succeeded (2012) (lensrentals.com)

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There Are Three Programming Paradigms (2013) (c2.com)

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The Curse of Smart People (2014) (apenwarr.ca)

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How the NSA obtains and uses airline reservations (2013) (papersplease.org)

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Nullsoft, 1997-2004 (2004) (slate.com)

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Influenza a (H1N1) (2009) (bunniestudios.com)

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How to build a medieval castle (2016) (historyextra.com)

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Kids can't use computers and this is why it should worry you (2013) (coding2learn.org)

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The Fallacy of Premature Optimization (2009) (acm.org)

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Thefacebook.com's Darker Side (2004) (archive.org)

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Ask HN: What inspires you to persevere through adversity?

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Amazon Web Services in Plain English (2015) (expeditedsecurity.com)

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Origins of Python's "Functional" Features (2009) (python-history.blogspot.com)

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Reasons not to use Skype (2012) (stallman.org)

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It Takes 6 Days to Change 1 Line of Code (2015) (edw519.posthaven.com)

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Learning Advanced JavaScript (2008) (johnresig.com)

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How is NSA breaking so much crypto? (2015) (princeton.edu)

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God's Number is 20 (2010) (cube20.org)

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Ask HN: How do I get freelance developer jobs?

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The Disadvantages of an Elite Education (2008) (theamericanscholar.org)

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A real Good Samaritan (2010) (bbc.com)

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Facebook Buying Instagram For $1B.(2012) (bgr.com)

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The Frozen Banana Republic (2014) (modernfarmer.com)

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Introducing Svelte (2016) (svelte.dev)

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Stephen Hawking fan tests time travel with past party invites (2013) (telegraph.co.uk)

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Best Practices for Time Travelers (2003) (idlewords.com)

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Why Is Electricity So Hard to Understand? (1989) (amasci.com)

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Donald Trump Is Elected President (2016) (bbc.com)

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Apple's First Phone Design Never Made It to Market (2014) (lowendmac.com)

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Diamonds Suck (2006) (diamondssuck.com)

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The mystery of why you can't remember being a baby (2016) (bbc.com)

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UX Myths (2014) (uxmyths.com)

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Why Tim Cook Is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple (2016) (steveblank.com)

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Next.js – A small framework for server-rendered universal JavaScript apps (2016) (vercel.com)

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In Investing, It's When You Start and When You Finish (2011) (nytimes.com)

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Mark Zuckerberg's virtual reality demo (2016) [video] (facebook.com)

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Analyzing the Patterns of Numbers in 10M Passwords (2015) (minimaxir.com)

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Are closed social networks inevitable? (2010) (danluu.com)

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Ask HN: What's your favorite tech talk?

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Utah Reduced Chronic Homelessness by 91 Percent (2015) (npr.org)

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You Do Not Understand Browser History (2013) (madhatted.com)

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Esoteric Topics in Computer Programming (2002) (archive.org)

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I Majored in Philosophy Despite Everyone Telling Me Not to (2013) (mic.com)

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Advice I WISH I'D BEEN Told (1999) (archive.org)

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A Russian Family Was Isolated for 40 Years, Unaware of WWII (2013) (smithsonianmag.com)

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The piracy paradox at Udemy (2015) (troyhunt.com)

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Amazon EC2 Beta (2006) (amazon.com)

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The Myth of RAM, part I (2014) (ilikebigbits.com)

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Reality Is a Shared Hallucination (1997) (reactor-core.org)

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Fake Money Saved Brazil (2010) (npr.org)

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Ask HN: Where can I go to ask for help?

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Attracting Early Stage Investors: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment (2015) (ssrn.com)

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The Mystery of the Missing Hotel Toothpaste (2013) (slate.com)

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Node.js is one of the worst things to happen to the software industry" (2012) (cat-v.org)

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Tim Cook, the interview: Running Apple 'is sort of a lonely job' (2016) (washingtonpost.com)