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Maker here. I've put together several custom search engines that helped me fight poor Google search performance on certain queries. The search engines use Google Custom Search Engi…

The AIP also maintain free access to their oral histories: https://www.aip.org/history-programs/niels-bohr-library/oral... They interviewed many famous physicists. Mostly autobiogr…

Fellow user albertgudl asked this question a year ago:[1] "What are products you use frequently but still hate/they suck? What are products you use frequently but think they could …

Subreddit /r/askscience does a good job at explaining science in plain words. I usually google "site:reddit.com/r/askscience/ __QUESTION__". The StackExchange sites have less cover…

Thank you for going after primary sources. The sample letter refers to the press. Executives tend to be general with the press. Investors make them talk specifics. That happens dur…

The Wikipedia page on Moore's law includes similar observations.[1] For example, the DNA sequencing cost.[2] And another list that features laws, some of which describe exponential…

In terms of depth and breadth, the Princeton companions get close to Feynman.[1][2] A more formal approach appears in handbooks.[3][4] [1] Gowers et al., The Princeton Companion to…

I'm collecting HN meetup groups on GitHub: https://github.com/antontarasenko/hacker-news-groups (BTW, thanks to all contributors from HN) @lainon HN meetups in Germany: * Berlin ht…

"Algorithmic justice" reminded me of a study where researchers predicted the risk of a crime better than judges:[1] > Millions of times each year, judges must decide where defendan…

Milton Friedman on doing this in the 1940s:[1] > One of my problems was to provide statistical advice to the people who were developing metals to be used in the blades of turbines.…

Freeman Dyson reviews and extends "What is Life?" in his "Origins of Life," both a lecture[1] and a book. [1] http://inspirehep.net/record/1268726/files/978-4-431-77056-5...

Also Landau and Lifshitz, Course of Theoretical Physics.[1] Released to public domain on archive.org: https://www.reddit.com/r/Physics/comments/1dmxq7/our_beloved... [1] https://en…

I've updated your links. Thanks!

I maintain the list of offline Hacker News communities.[1] I have one Japan group.[2] Is it you guys? Otherwise, I'd like to add your permanent page to the list. [1] https://github…

Wayback Machine allows browsing website history by year. Press year, instead of arrows: — The New York Times: http://web.archive.org/web/19961112181513/http://www.nytimes... — WaPo…

The previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9362252 A cached copy: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:v36n9t1... Most schools follow Socrates, sort …

Direct link: https://www.snappr.co/ycdb Looks relevant since http://yclist.com/ lacks the three latest batches. YCList has fellowships though.

Very nice! Imgur allows browsing Reddit subreddits too. For example: * https://imgur.com/r/dataisbeautiful/top/all * https://imgur.com/r/EngineeringPorn/top/all * https://imgur.com…

Twitter Search does pretty much the same: "(hiring OR job)"[1]. Easy to get relevant results with right keywords. Also, Twitter already has filters for location and followers. [1] …

Search docs[1], Reddit Wiki in general and their API docs. [1] https://www.reddit.com/wiki/search