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HyperCard Stack: Douglas Adams' Megapode Nest Volume Calculator

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In its fight to keep drug prices high, Big Pharma leans on charities

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Artists Are Reviving the Idea of the Medieval Guild

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Are the Dead Taking over Facebook?

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In its fight to keep drug prices high, Big Pharma leans on charities

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HyperCard Stack: Douglas Adams' Megapode Nest Volume Calculator

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Mail a Letter Online

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Ask HN: How do you stay disciplined in the long run?

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Plectics - The study of simplicity and complexity (1996)

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Mail a Letter Online

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Ask HN: How do you stay disciplined in the long run?

My typical cycle of execution is something like this Find out something through HN/Reddit/Other medium --> Get motivated --> Get good knowledge about it through research --> See others succeed, get motivated a bit more --> Execute and get to, say, 25-50% of the journey --> Get bored --> Abandon --> be passive for couple of months --> repeat. Be it creating new websites or new products (probably the reason I have not launched something as a personal project, despite having tried like 10-11 of them with varying degree of success), weight loss journey, running, meditation etc. I have tried breaking things into manageable chunks and then taking them one-by-one, or through methodologies like GTD, or by making others accountable (tough to find someone who takes personal interest in what I would do; also, I have strongly come to perceive myself as being driven by external accountabilities which makes me good at work at office but bad at executing personal projects).

An algorithm wipes clean the criminal pasts of thousands

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Encyclopedia of Triangle Centers

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How Many Type Parameters Can a Java Method Have?

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Apache Software Foundation joins GitHub open source community

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An algorithm wipes clean the criminal pasts of thousands

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Rape victims among those to be asked to hand phones to police

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Simple, Fast and Safe Manual Memory Management from Microsoft (2017) [pdf]

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Apache Software Foundation joins GitHub open source community

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Rape victims among those to be asked to hand phones to police

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How Many Type Parameters Can a Java Method Have?

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Advances in Weather Prediction

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The Life of a Cherry Drying Pilot (2009)

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Finland’s Hobbyhorse Girls

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Facebook F8 2019: What to Expect After Facebook's Bad Year

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Facebook F8 2019: What to Expect After Facebook's Bad Year

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The Life of a Cherry Drying Pilot – An Eclectic Mind

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Finland’s Hobbyhorse Girls

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Insulin Pumps, Decapped Chips and Software Defined Radios

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Show HN: A game I made in 48 hours

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Valitor Sentenced to Pay 1.2B ISK over Wikileaks Payment Block

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Ask HN: How to deal with a senior colleague who acts like he's boss?

I have a senior colleague who thinks he's my manager and talks in a way like he knows everything(in reality he doesn't and is transferred to our team because his previous team laid him off). He can't understand simple logic and I have to explain him simple logic and then he acts like I don't know anything. I can't complain to my manager as he's a friend of my manager and I am junior and new in this company! Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19776335 Points: 31 # Comments: 29 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2Vz5jeA via

So You Want to Be a Penetration Tester?

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I Work with Suicidal Farmers

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Thousands take to Hong Kong streets to protest new extradition laws

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Ask HN: Personal photo library (open source, browser-based)

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Civilization will end in 2030 as no Country will sacrifice economy for future

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So You Want to Be a Penetration Tester?

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Thousands take to Hong Kong streets to protest new extradition laws

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Valitor Sentenced to Pay 1.2B ISK over Wikileaks Payment Block

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I Work with Suicidal Farmers

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Show HN: A game I made in 48 hours

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Ask HN: How to deal with a senior colleague who acts like he's boss?

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Entrepreneurs Are Better Off Going It Alone, Study Says

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The Baghdad Battery

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The Baghdad Battery

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U.S. Web Design System 2.0

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New best story on Hacker News: I draw figures for my mathematical lecture notes using Inkscape

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New best story on Hacker News: When setting an environment variable gives you a 40x speedup

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The Geometry of Reflection Groups (2015) [pdf]

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$35 Atomic Pi Cherry Trail Linux SBC

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The Amiga Before the Amiga: The Amiga Development System

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Unauthorized access to Docker Hub database

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Ask HN: Are you put off building something because it already exists?

Big market, check. Validated demand, check. Product or service exists, uh-oh. I set out to build a reverse address book. Instead of updating your address book with changes from everyone else, you update your own details and it pushes to everyone else. Turns out someone beat me to it and my inspiration evaporated. Zoom is a recent and great example of competing in a crowded market and winning. For you builders/founders out there, are you on a never ending quest to find something new/unique or do you prefer another quality in your idea to start a project? Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19774997 Points: 234 # Comments: 99 from Hacker News: Front Page http://bit.ly/2J32IDd via

Influencers Are Abandoning the Instagram Look

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Custard Antenna

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Show HN: Lorem Picsum – Lorem Ipsum but for photos

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Coffee Cups Are Next

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Show HN: Debugging-Friendly Tracebacks for Python

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Lambda School wants to teach nursing

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CMU Computer Systems: Self-Grading Lab Assignments

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Software Projects and Heroes: Lessons Learned from GitHub Projects

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How And Why We Switched from Erlang to Python (2011)

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Darling – macOS Translation Layer for Linux

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Show HN: 1MB – Free and easy static website hosting

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How to Fly the B-25 Mitchell Bomber (1944) [video]

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Building China: Rise of the Superblock

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Running Out of Children, a South Korea School Enrolls Illiterate Grandmothers

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Show HN: Lorem Picsum – Lorem Ipsum but for photos

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Ask HN: Are you put off building something because it already exists?

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Unauthorized access to Docker Hub database

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Custard Antenna

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A New Role for Platelets: Boosting Neurogenesis After Exercise

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Show HN: 1MB – Free and easy static website hosting

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Encyclopedia of Triangle Centers

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How the dream of cheap streaming television became a pricey, complicated mess

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Building China: Rise of the Superblock

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Uppy 1.0: Your best friend in file uploading

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$35 Atomic Pi Cherry Trail Linux SBC

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Darling – macOS Translation Layer for Linux

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A Brief and Brisk Overview of Compiler Architecture

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CMU Computer Systems: Self-Grading Lab Assignments

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The Amiga Before the Amiga: The Amiga Development System

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Show HN: Debugging-Friendly Tracebacks for Python

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Advances in Weather Prediction

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Lambda School wants to teach nursing

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Software Projects and Heroes: Lessons Learned from GitHub Projects

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Multi-Dimensional Analog Literals in C++ (2006)

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Coffee Cups Are Next

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Realsense T265 tracking camera

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How to Fly the B-25 Mitchell Bomber (1944) [video]

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Influencers Are Abandoning the Instagram Look

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Running Out of Children, a South Korea School Enrolls Illiterate Grandmothers

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Imperial College London Launches a Centre for Psychedelics Research

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His father installed printing presses – he dismantles them

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How And Why We Switched from Erlang to Python (2011)

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The Geometry of Reflection Groups (2015) [pdf]

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