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I recently interviewed a dentist. You may find the text insightful. Note that this is not necessarily representative of the experience of all dentists. My reasons for doing so are …

Brave is such a great browser, it’s one of the few software products that makes me feel really happy when I use it

> “ Instagram’s algorithm might suggest more extreme dieting accounts with names such as “Eternally starved,” “I have to be thin” and “I want to be perfect.” “ I know people who cu…

Checking out the Wikipedia page, it seems quite useful, but more observational (like, liked people do x, and that seems a contributor to their likability not a product). I don’t kn…

A bit of an odd question for HN, but how do I make good marketing for a high school cross country running team? I’m on a team, and they would like for me to design a poster for mak…

I don’t know anything about this company (which people seem to not like), but SLAM for WiFi is looks pretty cool (and even somewhat useful).

COVID “jabs” seems demeaning to one of the fastest scientific kicks in history. We’ll remember the vaccine research the same as the moon landing.

> the MIT culture of credit theft This makes me think about who we revere as scientists and who we compare ourselves to. A lot of success in life is out of our control. Conditions …

If you have a good understanding of how to hack YouTube (or other social sites) that seems plausible. Some list video channels appear to have crossed that mark (I bet a well traine…

This feels like the digital equivalent of a tsunami. A monstrous tidal wave that’s almost kind of beautiful despite the carnage. 17m rps is insane!

I may be biased, but I really love RSS. Did you know that Aaron Swartz worked on the RSS spec when he was 14 years old?

I've heard it used as an explanation for our species level sense of camaraderie and cooperation. A near extinction event may have been one of the best things to ever happen to us. …

> “I realized that those ants were badasses and terminally cool” Ants don’t seem to care about legacy: one ant is pretty much the same as every other one and each life isn’t that i…

Turns out there are perks to being vegetarian and having cultural inhibitions about cow meat :)

Jeff Atwood explained this behavior as stemming from the fact that when you work with a computer all day, you kind of become one. Source: https://youtu.be/KZkYSSE8HHI

Forgive me if I read the article wrong, but maybe this has to do with randomly changing diet having a negative effect? I think optimal diet is subjective. Reason and experience are…

I’m semi decent at programming, and I want to get better at working on bigger projects with people. How do I find people or get my friends interested in a new project? Is this even…

There’s something about extinct/ancient common ancestors of humans and other species that’s so interesting and exiting.

Person in US school system here. I’ve had to use Chromebooks for school, and all I can think about is what Richard Stallman would do if he were in the US school system right now.

I wonder if there is a correlation between being super good and having a disdain for awards or not.

I really wish I started with lisp, the unity of the whole language teaches you that you’re not just telling a computer what to do, you’re making abstractions on top of the base lan…

I love this philosophy, because every time I reread a book, I always find something new that I missed on the first pass through. Kind of like training a deep learning model, in a s…