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Top stories

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Two AI Pioneers. Two Bizarre Suicides. What Really Happened?

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Absolutely Unbelievable: Richard Stallman Crankin' Dat Soulja Boy in front of the Green Building at MIT [video]

82

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Bram Cohen on great programmers

55

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Interview with a Hedge Fund Manager: "I'm sure today I would never get hired."

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How to Write Stories (and lose weight, clean up the environment, and make a million dollars)

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Ask NickB: How do you do it, dude?

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Theinfo.org - for people with large data sets

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"Dignity is deadly." - Paul Graham

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Bobby Fischer dead at 64

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News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

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Two AI Pioneers. Two Bizarre Suicides. What Really Happened?

82

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Yahoo Implements OpenID; Massive Win For The Project

35

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Surprise, Justin.TV Builds Own CDN To Cut Costs, Improve Performance

25

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YC Startup Loopt Launches Location Applications Platform

23

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Macbook Air - Few Pics

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TechStars 2008 Applications Now Open

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Amazon's free shipping costing EUR1,000 per day in France

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Twitter Fails Macworld Keynote Test

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Pre-MacWorld story: Braun and Apple design similarities

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Real-time updates from Jobs' keynote at Macworld 2008

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News [?]

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Bobby Fischer dead at 64

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Has AT&T Lost Its Mind?

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My Personal Trade Deficit

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How to live forever: abolishing aging

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The Economics of Marriage

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Saudi Arabia is trying to move beyond oil to become an industrial power

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The $1.4 Trillion Question (What will China do with their massive US dollar holdings?)

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Ethical storm as scientist becomes first man to clone himself

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For much of the world, the US is on sale at discount prices

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From 1957: "The latest prodigy of the chess world is a fourteen-year-old ... Robert Fischer"

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Scientific publications [?]

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Silicon Nanowires Turn Heat to Electricity

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Replacement for Hubble Space Telescope Will Use Copper-based Communications Systems

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Survey of Technologies for Web Application Development

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Dev Blogs [?]

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Bruce Schneier: My Open Wireless Network

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Some Guy to Sun: Drop Support for JRuby and Support Groovy Instead

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Tech blogs [?]

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MacBook Air battery replacements take only minutes

11

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NBC to return on iTunes with its tail between its legs

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FAANG+ [?]

1

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The first commercially available book (that I know of) on The D Programming Language will be released on January 28

4

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Macworld Keynote Page: Broken In Safari

2

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Apple Ad for Macbook Air

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

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LMAO: RIAA Website Wiped Clean by "Hackers"

7

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The Pirate Bay, Guilty Before Trial

2

Science News [?]

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Monkey Controls Robot Using Brain Signals

1

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Computer security with Quake-based 'cyberspace'

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New Findings Confirm Darwin's Theory: Evolution Not Random

1

Social [?]

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Google Tech Talks: The Secret History of Silicon Valley

9

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New MacBook Air Ad (Parody)

7

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Rubik's Revolution -- An amazing advance on Rubik's Cube (NOT)

2

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"The largest number is about 45 billion" [video]

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Bill Gates last day at Microsoft

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7x7x7 Olympic Cube Solved Frank Morris

1

Github repos and gists [?]

Wikipedia [?]

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List of device bandwidths

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Benford's law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Y2K38 Watch Starts Saturday

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Worse is better

2

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The Erdos-Bacon Number

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Quater-imaginary base (base 2i)

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Was There Ever a Year Zero?

1

Blogs [?]

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PG writes about Arc ( tryarc@paulgraham.com )

11

Stackoverflow [?]

Substack [?]