Hacker News turned 12 last February. Here's the traffic since the beginning — or a dozen-years brief internet history: https://t.co/FTTDTUjHNv Disclaimer: except for tremendous love and respect, I have no affiliation with @ycombinator.

My friends and I found hidden spaces where we could be teenagers again. We must be allowed to keep them.

Finding take-up lacking academic blogging lacking, Duncan Green outlines the major arguments for taking blogging seriously. and suggests reading a blog should be like listening to the person talk, but with links.

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Being a financial middleman is a lot easier than creating great art

HZDR press release of May 27, 2019: The Sun follows the rhythm of the planets // New study corroborates the influence of planetary tidal forces on solar activity

International undergraduate students write a letter to President Eisgruber on behalf of all international students affected by the Optional Practical Training (OPT) work authorization processing delays.

About three years ago, I published a story about how the Twitter app I built in high school, Follow, reached 150,000 downloads in two…

The measure is for people who “think their furniture is more important than their cat,” a supporter said. Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo would have to sign it.

Random stuff from the fingers of Christer Weinigel.

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What if sleep were considered a continuous infusion of a medication that helped patients heal faster?

!!Con 2019 - Writing an Interpreter in SQL for Fun and No Profit! by Michael MalisWriting SQL can be hard. SQL code is a bizarre combination of yelling and r...

If you're thinking about using @github for your life's work, FYI, they may remove it without any warning or notice, based on some user "report" made out of spite. That happened today for the 5+ years of One Hour One Life work that I'm hosting there. They…

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Worldwide semiconductor manufacturing equipment billings for the first quarter dropped 19 percent annually amid an industry slump, but Taiwan bucked the downtrend with billings soaring 68 percent year-on-year, international trade group SEMI said yesterday.…

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Reports suggest that the latest casualty in the ever-expanding trade war between China and the United States could be Microsoft Windows as the Chinese prepare to drop the operating system like a hot brick...