bdr

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• BusyBeaver(6) Is Quite Large

  by bdr on 6/28/2025, 4:53 PM with 223 comments

• The impossible predicament of the death newts

  by bdr on 6/5/2025, 1:40 PM with 183 comments

• Usaid: My Next-to-Last Project

  by bdr on 3/10/2025, 7:38 AM with 0 comments

• Claude, Makers, and Managers

  by bdr on 2/27/2025, 8:29 PM with 0 comments

• Claude, Makers, and Managers

  by bdr on 2/27/2025, 8:05 PM with 0 comments

• Golden Gate Claude

  by bdr on 5/24/2024, 5:07 PM with 0 comments

• What makes Advent of Code special

  by bdr on 12/1/2023, 2:31 AM with 0 comments

• by bdr on 12/1/2023, 2:27 AM with comments

• Kathleen Sully, the Vanished Novelist (2022)

  by bdr on 11/14/2023, 5:25 PM with 17 comments

• Inequalities, convergence, and continuity as "special deals"

  by bdr on 11/13/2023, 9:12 PM with 10 comments

• New Work from Calvin and Hobbes's Bill Watterson: Graphic Novel "The Mysteries"

  by bdr on 11/3/2023, 3:05 AM with 0 comments

• Inequalities, convergence, and continuity as “special deals”

  by bdr on 6/7/2023, 11:41 PM with 0 comments

• Designing a Programming Language to Speedrun Advent of Code

  by bdr on 4/10/2023, 4:39 PM with 0 comments

• Wartime Lviv in Photos: Measures to Protect Citizens and Architectural Heritage

  by bdr on 2/24/2023, 7:56 PM with 0 comments

• Kathleen Sully, the Vanished Novelist (2022)

  by bdr on 12/13/2022, 8:53 PM with 0 comments

• My AI Safety Lecture for UT Effective Altruism

  by bdr on 11/29/2022, 6:41 PM with 0 comments

• by bdr on 11/28/2022, 5:20 PM with comments

• The Twitter Advertiser Exodus

  by bdr on 11/22/2022, 11:41 PM with 315 comments

• Ante X Zellic: Aligned Auditing

  by bdr on 11/3/2022, 9:32 PM with 0 comments

• Don't be a postdoctoral fellow, be a postdoctoral employee

  by bdr on 10/31/2022, 8:01 PM with 1 comments

• Digital Marbling

  by bdr on 10/27/2022, 2:19 PM with 0 comments

• Why Does the Whitney Biennial Suck So Much?

  by bdr on 8/8/2022, 10:04 PM with 0 comments

• 3D-Scanned Stones Create Vessel for Human-Made Interventions

  by bdr on 7/23/2022, 2:42 AM with 0 comments

• Postmortem: Service disruptions on June 6 and 7, 2022

  by bdr on 6/16/2022, 6:11 PM with 0 comments

• A year with the Elgato Stream Deck

  by bdr on 5/27/2022, 12:42 PM with 114 comments

• Looking Back on the Origin of 'Skip Intro' Five Years Later

  by bdr on 3/23/2022, 1:45 PM with 0 comments

• Keeping It Simple

  by bdr on 3/22/2022, 1:58 PM with 0 comments

• Humans of New York became a one-man philanthropy machine

  by bdr on 3/10/2022, 11:18 PM with 7 comments

• The Fat Gold Guide to Extra Virgin Olive Oil

  by bdr on 2/21/2022, 5:08 PM with 0 comments

• Making of Iconographic Encylopædia

  by bdr on 2/8/2022, 8:45 PM with 0 comments

• Hiding in Plain Sight

  by bdr on 11/11/2021, 6:54 PM with 0 comments

• Striking new Beeping Busy Beaver champion

  by bdr on 7/28/2021, 1:36 AM with 13 comments

• by bdr on 6/28/2021, 7:33 PM with comments

• Fidenza

  by bdr on 6/13/2021, 6:14 PM with 9 comments

• Reverse emulating the NES to give it SUPER POWERS

  by bdr on 5/10/2021, 10:44 PM with 0 comments

• Nonsense Laboratory

  by bdr on 5/10/2021, 7:29 PM with 13 comments

• A game that almost died during Covid and how I made it an app

  by bdr on 5/10/2021, 2:14 PM with 27 comments

• Founding vs. Inheriting

  by bdr on 5/9/2021, 4:38 AM with 90 comments

• Nonsense Laboratory

  by bdr on 5/6/2021, 8:55 PM with 0 comments

• A game that almost died during Covid and how I made it an app

  by bdr on 5/6/2021, 8:48 PM with 0 comments

• Privilege and Inequality in Silicon Valley

  by bdr on 4/18/2021, 10:19 PM with 13 comments

• Portable Internet Behavior Bond

  by bdr on 4/6/2021, 7:54 PM with 3 comments

• by bdr on 12/18/2020, 3:17 AM with comments

• AlphaFold2 CASP14: “It feels like one’s child has left home.”

  by bdr on 12/11/2020, 5:59 PM with 0 comments

• What Are the Humanities? Why Are They Worth Saving?

  by bdr on 12/7/2020, 7:59 PM with 0 comments

• Front: The $1.3B Startup Slackifying Email

  by bdr on 12/2/2020, 2:13 AM with 132 comments

• Anfinsen's Dogma

  by bdr on 12/1/2020, 12:00 AM with 1 comments

• Dashing to IPO

  by bdr on 11/16/2020, 6:58 PM with 0 comments

• Gossip at Scale

  by bdr on 10/19/2020, 6:34 PM with 0 comments

• Protests and Power

  by bdr on 10/7/2020, 2:08 AM with 0 comments

• Leading-Trim: The Future of Digital Typesetting

  by bdr on 8/25/2020, 11:13 PM with 1 comments

• Scots language Wikipedia is edited primarily by someone who doesn't know Scots

  by bdr on 8/25/2020, 5:39 PM with 48 comments

• Rethinking the App Store

  by bdr on 8/25/2020, 3:57 PM with 0 comments

• “Insane Companies No One Talks About” Episode 2: MGA Entertainment

  by bdr on 8/19/2020, 10:19 PM with 0 comments

• Amateur J.C. Penney Traders Beg Judge to Save Them from Wipeout

  by bdr on 7/14/2020, 4:37 AM with 1 comments

• Show HN: Viloby lets you make a lobby for your virtual event

  by bdr on 6/25/2020, 7:09 PM with 3 comments

• Show HN: Mixily Presents is a call for theater designed for Zoom

  by bdr on 5/7/2020, 3:48 PM with 0 comments

• A Japanese Newspaper’s Social Distancing Message

  by bdr on 5/7/2020, 1:00 AM with 0 comments

• Mixily Presents: funding for theater over Zoom

  by bdr on 5/4/2020, 8:10 PM with 0 comments

• It's Gonna Be May: A Historay

  by bdr on 5/1/2020, 2:16 PM with 0 comments

• Discrete Differential Geometry – The Laplace Operator

  by bdr on 4/11/2020, 3:28 PM with comments

• It’s All Just Beginning

  by bdr on 4/2/2020, 1:44 PM with 1 comments

• SARS-CoV-2 by the numbers [pdf]

  by bdr on 3/31/2020, 11:02 PM with 0 comments

• Show HN: Quarantine Culture, a directory of livestreaming cultural events

  by bdr on 3/18/2020, 6:10 PM with 0 comments

• Amabie: The Japanese Yokai That Can Stave Off Epidemics

  by bdr on 3/13/2020, 3:15 PM with 0 comments

• AirPods Are Becoming a Platform?

  by bdr on 12/26/2019, 12:13 AM with 284 comments

• AirPods Are Becoming a Platform

  by bdr on 11/20/2019, 5:53 AM with 0 comments

• Bringing It All Back Together

  by bdr on 10/27/2019, 7:47 PM with 0 comments

• Colorado Fossils Show How Mammals Raced to Fill Dinosaurs’ Void

  by bdr on 10/26/2019, 12:00 AM with 0 comments

• Becoming Bomb: Speed (1994)

  by bdr on 9/3/2019, 6:55 PM with 0 comments

• by bdr on 8/21/2019, 8:52 PM with comments

• A Conversation with My 35-Year-Old Chatbot (Part 1)

  by bdr on 7/30/2019, 12:17 AM with 0 comments

• I (Still) Love Tech: In Defense of a Difficult Industry

  by bdr on 5/18/2019, 3:13 PM with 0 comments

• by bdr on 5/13/2019, 12:59 PM with comments

• by bdr on 4/16/2019, 1:16 AM with comments

• Show HN: Mixily is a privacy-conscious alternative to Facebook events

  by bdr on 4/10/2019, 9:19 PM with 3 comments

• by bdr on 4/10/2019, 8:26 PM with comments

• Fundraising While Female

  by bdr on 4/5/2019, 6:00 PM with 0 comments

• Algorithms, by Jeff Erickson

  by bdr on 1/2/2019, 11:51 AM with 238 comments

• Where in the World Is Denmark’s $2B?

  by bdr on 10/5/2018, 5:11 PM with 33 comments

• Student disruptors invent first new way to synthesise DNA in 40 years

  by bdr on 6/27/2018, 8:13 PM with 0 comments

• Bodies and liberal publics in the 20th century and today

  by bdr on 6/13/2018, 6:46 PM with 0 comments

• The Curious Case of Bryan Colangelo and the Secret Twitter Account

  by bdr on 5/31/2018, 7:58 PM with 0 comments

• Two American Power Centers Are About to Clash

  by bdr on 4/5/2018, 5:03 AM with 0 comments

• The Stubbornly High Cost of Remittances

  by bdr on 2/20/2018, 6:42 PM with 0 comments

• The Physics of Bread

  by bdr on 10/25/2017, 2:16 PM with 8 comments

• Coinbase implements safeguards against phone porting

  by bdr on 9/21/2017, 3:25 PM with 0 comments

• How Eve Players Pulled Off the Biggest Betrayal in Its History

  by bdr on 9/14/2017, 1:41 AM with 182 comments

• How Driscoll’s Reinvented the Strawberry

  by bdr on 8/15/2017, 7:27 PM with 30 comments

• The Kekulé Problem

  by bdr on 4/20/2017, 1:50 PM with 0 comments

• A Day in the Life of a Food Vendor

  by bdr on 4/20/2017, 1:12 PM with 0 comments

• Planespotting: Michael Cohen’s Amazing Journey

  by bdr on 2/27/2017, 3:41 PM with 0 comments

• Nick Szabo on Conflict and Collectibles Among the Yurok

  by bdr on 2/24/2017, 8:06 PM with 0 comments

• Physicists Uncover Geometric ‘Theory Space’

  by bdr on 2/23/2017, 8:10 PM with 0 comments

• Law Enforcement Using Facebook and Apple to Datamine Trump Protest Arrestees

  by bdr on 2/22/2017, 7:02 PM with 0 comments

• Mental Disorders as Networks

  by bdr on 12/15/2016, 8:17 PM with 0 comments

• All my dumb questions, December 2016

  by bdr on 12/5/2016, 4:03 AM with 0 comments

• On Fiji, ants have learned to grow plants to house their massive colonies

  by bdr on 11/24/2016, 12:17 AM with 0 comments

• Advancing exploitation: a scriptless 0day exploit against Linux desktops

  by bdr on 11/23/2016, 2:13 PM with 0 comments

• Remembering Condé Nast’s Holiday Lunch: Fake Smiles, Blowouts, Social Terror

  by bdr on 11/23/2016, 2:10 PM with 0 comments

• Tuesday Shouldn't Change the Narrative

  by bdr on 11/7/2016, 3:23 PM with 1 comments

• The Third Thing

  by bdr on 10/31/2016, 4:25 PM with 0 comments

• Introducing OpenType Variable Fonts

  by bdr on 9/14/2016, 5:57 PM with 0 comments

• Tolerance Troubles

  by bdr on 8/19/2016, 7:39 AM with 0 comments

• ByzCoin: Securely Scaling Blockchains

  by bdr on 8/11/2016, 6:45 PM with 0 comments

• The Cryptobond and Autopublic Companies

  by bdr on 8/11/2016, 6:14 PM with 0 comments

• 00FFFF

  by bdr on 8/7/2016, 9:51 AM with 0 comments

• Moonshine Master Toys with String Theory

  by bdr on 8/4/2016, 6:16 PM with 5 comments

• Memoization in Elixir

  by bdr on 8/3/2016, 1:53 AM with 0 comments

• Racial Fault Lines in Silicon Valley

  by bdr on 5/25/2016, 7:10 PM with 153 comments

• Are You Scanning Me, or Am I Scanning You?

  by bdr on 1/18/2016, 9:10 PM with 0 comments

• An Interview with George Fox

  by bdr on 12/29/2015, 9:23 PM with 0 comments

• On the Juniper backdoor

  by bdr on 12/22/2015, 8:57 AM with comments

• An Interview with George Fox

  by bdr on 12/19/2015, 11:37 PM with 0 comments

• From Zero to Swift in 30 Days

  by bdr on 11/2/2015, 9:34 PM with 0 comments

• by bdr on 9/2/2015, 8:00 PM with comments

• Mapping a Mission

  by bdr on 8/27/2015, 2:56 PM with 0 comments

• Using Spotify to measure the popularity of older music

  by bdr on 8/24/2015, 7:31 PM with 51 comments

• Deconditioning Stickers, designed to look like notifications from apps you love

  by bdr on 8/18/2015, 6:07 PM with 0 comments

• by bdr on 8/18/2015, 5:32 PM with comments

• by bdr on 8/17/2015, 7:43 PM with comments

• A Rake Too Far: Optimal Platform Pricing Strategy

  by bdr on 6/24/2015, 4:59 PM with 1 comments

• How to Explain the Value of Replicated, Shared Ledgers from First Principles

  by bdr on 4/30/2015, 5:59 PM with 0 comments

• Facebook will now let you manage what happens to your account after you die

  by bdr on 2/12/2015, 7:15 PM with 0 comments

• Adding a Legacy Contact

  by bdr on 2/12/2015, 7:15 PM with 0 comments

• by bdr on 1/31/2015, 11:13 PM with comments

• On Scraper Capitalism

  by bdr on 1/19/2015, 11:53 PM with 0 comments

• Why I Believe New York's Art Scene Is Doomed

  by bdr on 1/18/2015, 9:30 PM with 56 comments

• Why Bitcoin Core 0.10's release notes say “…libsecp256k1 is better than…OpenSSL”

  by bdr on 1/9/2015, 5:46 AM with 34 comments

• A Generation Lost in the Bazaar (2012)

  by bdr on 12/30/2014, 12:50 AM with 132 comments

• The New Computer Chess World Champion

  by bdr on 12/29/2014, 2:17 AM with 22 comments

• Why Poems Don't Make Sense

  by bdr on 12/22/2014, 8:33 PM with 0 comments

• Delegative Democracy – a scalable voting model

  by bdr on 11/5/2014, 9:47 PM with 113 comments

• Some Crypto Quibbles with Threadneedle Street

  by bdr on 9/17/2014, 10:39 PM with 0 comments

• Losing Music

  by bdr on 7/3/2014, 8:03 PM with 25 comments

• The Art of Nonfiction: Interview with John McPhee

  by bdr on 6/27/2014, 11:32 AM with 0 comments

• A Physically Universal Cellular Automaton

  by bdr on 6/27/2014, 11:31 AM with 0 comments

• The truth behind that six-figure deal for Harry Styles fan fiction

  by bdr on 6/24/2014, 1:21 PM with 0 comments

• Eigenmorality

  by bdr on 6/21/2014, 4:31 PM with 78 comments

• James Joyce: You can’t ignore the bastard

  by bdr on 5/26/2014, 2:05 AM with 0 comments

• by bdr on 3/25/2014, 9:34 PM with comments

• Kraken Passes Cryptographically Verifiable Proof-of-Reserves Audit

  by bdr on 3/25/2014, 6:37 PM with 0 comments

• Kraken Passes Cryptographically Verifiable Proof of Reserves Audit

  by bdr on 3/24/2014, 6:37 PM with 2 comments

• Decentralizing Identity

  by bdr on 3/12/2014, 11:56 PM with 1 comments

• A Deeper Look at Uber’s Dynamic Pricing Model

  by bdr on 3/12/2014, 10:33 PM with 0 comments

• 180,000 BTC transaction, looks to be connected with Mt. Gox

  by bdr on 3/7/2014, 8:19 AM with 0 comments

• Could Satoshi Nakamoto be Satoshi Nakamoto?

  by bdr on 3/7/2014, 2:04 AM with 1 comments

• Princeton Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Conference

  by bdr on 3/5/2014, 7:03 PM with 0 comments

• Thoughts on Gox

  by bdr on 2/27/2014, 7:11 PM with 0 comments

• Assessing Cryptocurrency Use Cases

  by bdr on 2/7/2014, 6:49 PM with 0 comments

• Two Charged in Alleged Bitcoin-Laundering Scheme

  by bdr on 1/27/2014, 5:05 PM with 0 comments

• Why Dogecoin is Important

  by bdr on 1/24/2014, 6:33 PM with 76 comments

• Latest on the abc conjecture

  by bdr on 12/20/2013, 6:12 PM with 0 comments

• by bdr on 12/20/2013, 7:17 AM with comments

• 100 Years of Breed “Improvement

  by bdr on 12/3/2013, 10:25 PM with 0 comments

• Bitcoin is money, Bitcoin is a bubble

  by bdr on 10/22/2013, 8:21 PM with 0 comments

• Top Silk Road Drug Dealer Was Flipped By Feds

  by bdr on 10/21/2013, 11:02 PM with 1 comments

• Jeff Bezos’ Hiring Anti-Pitch

  by bdr on 8/22/2013, 7:53 PM with 0 comments

• Hill Mapper SF - shows which streets are uphill or downhill from your location

  by bdr on 7/27/2013, 8:19 PM with 0 comments

• Thing (listening device)

  by bdr on 7/8/2013, 4:52 PM with 0 comments

• Faster image filters in Python with Parakeet

  by bdr on 6/5/2013, 4:24 PM with 0 comments

• How do Zynga employees feel about the company laying off 18% of its staff?

  by bdr on 6/4/2013, 9:57 PM with 0 comments

• Bitcoin is Deflationary, and That's OK

  by bdr on 5/21/2013, 11:54 PM with 60 comments

• State of Art Online

  by bdr on 5/21/2013, 11:22 PM with 0 comments

• Supersymmetry and Beyond

  by bdr on 5/3/2013, 7:01 PM with 0 comments

• Continuous Deployment at Quora

  by bdr on 4/29/2013, 8:53 PM with 0 comments

• CivilWarLand in Bad Decline: Preface

  by bdr on 3/28/2013, 11:48 PM with 0 comments

• Show HN: Jotleaf is a free-form, collaborative canvas for web content

  by bdr on 3/21/2013, 8:37 PM with 21 comments

• The art outside the box: The story of Roger Dean

  by bdr on 2/14/2013, 7:55 PM with 0 comments

• Just-in-time compilers for number crunching in Python

  by bdr on 1/29/2013, 10:13 PM with 0 comments

• Bitcoin Core Development Status Report #2

  by bdr on 12/21/2012, 2:37 PM with 13 comments

• Deep Learning and the evolution of data models

  by bdr on 12/15/2012, 2:02 PM with 0 comments

• Metagames and Containers

  by bdr on 11/18/2012, 6:56 PM with 0 comments

• Jane Jacobs, Human Capital & New York in the ’70s

  by bdr on 11/9/2012, 8:08 AM with 0 comments

• Kinds of Focus

  by bdr on 10/27/2012, 6:13 PM with 17 comments

• Navigating the Holey Plane

  by bdr on 10/25/2012, 6:20 PM with 0 comments

• Amazon & the Decorated Shed

  by bdr on 9/14/2012, 5:29 PM with 0 comments

• Robert D. MacPherson, A Singular Career

  by bdr on 9/13/2012, 2:15 AM with 0 comments

• Los Angeles

  by bdr on 9/7/2012, 10:12 PM with 0 comments

• Carnival of Evolution 51 — Darwin's Restaurant

  by bdr on 9/5/2012, 12:48 AM with 0 comments

• Shin Mochizuki has released his long-rumored proof of the ABC conjecture

  by bdr on 9/4/2012, 8:26 PM with 29 comments

• The Scientific Method, Exemplified By Palaeontology

  by bdr on 6/30/2012, 5:43 PM with 0 comments

• The Cathedral, the Bazaar, and Yegge's Platform Rant

  by bdr on 6/23/2012, 3:50 PM with 0 comments

• by bdr on 6/23/2012, 5:06 AM with comments

• Chess Knightmare and Turing’s Dream

  by bdr on 6/1/2012, 6:06 PM with 0 comments

• Django's CBVs were a mistake

  by bdr on 5/29/2012, 5:03 PM with 0 comments

• Why is literary fame so unpredictable?

  by bdr on 5/22/2012, 7:44 PM with 1 comments

• The Google We Lost

  by bdr on 3/27/2012, 3:50 PM with 3 comments

• by bdr on 3/27/2012, 3:49 PM with comments

• Gigantism in Insects

  by bdr on 3/25/2012, 4:12 AM with 0 comments

• Show HN: Seddit.com, a chat site based around Reddit

  by bdr on 2/22/2012, 1:11 AM with 30 comments

• A more formal statement about mathematical publishing

  by bdr on 2/8/2012, 10:41 PM with 0 comments

• Before the Movie Begins

  by bdr on 2/3/2012, 10:07 PM with 0 comments

• Blade Runner

  by bdr on 12/21/2011, 12:38 AM with 0 comments

• Soul

  by bdr on 12/21/2011, 12:12 AM with 0 comments

• Introvert at the Party, a little art/game thing. Requires cursor.

  by bdr on 12/8/2011, 11:52 PM with 5 comments

• Written World

  by bdr on 12/7/2011, 5:50 PM with 0 comments

• China's Great Firewall Tests Mysterious Scans On Encrypted Connections

  by bdr on 11/21/2011, 5:59 AM with 45 comments

• Is there is a better alternative to 5-star ratings? Netflix VP Eng responds

  by bdr on 11/21/2011, 5:55 AM with 0 comments

• In South Korea, Plastic Surgery Comes Out of the Closet

  by bdr on 11/4/2011, 5:10 AM with 0 comments

• Big is Beautiful: Can Small Businesses Make America Prosperous?

  by bdr on 10/29/2011, 6:23 PM with 0 comments

• Where an Internet Joke Is Not Just a Joke

  by bdr on 10/26/2011, 10:50 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Who thinks AAPL is overvalued?

  by bdr on 10/17/2011, 8:43 PM with 17 comments

• Secret No More: Spy Satellite Designer Reveals Life's Work

  by bdr on 10/15/2011, 7:23 AM with 11 comments

• Inline Spellcheck

  by bdr on 10/12/2011, 5:08 AM with 0 comments

• Letter from a psychopath

  by bdr on 10/10/2011, 5:29 PM with 106 comments

• by bdr on 10/6/2011, 6:18 PM with comments

• Iran blocks Tor; Tor releases same-day fix

  by bdr on 9/16/2011, 12:25 AM with 23 comments

• Jay-Z and Alan Lomax

  by bdr on 9/1/2011, 7:41 PM with 0 comments

• by bdr on 8/25/2011, 12:32 AM with comments

• Deolalikar’s Claim: One Year Later

  by bdr on 8/11/2011, 5:55 PM with 5 comments

• After Much Ado, a Google Book Deal in France

  by bdr on 8/8/2011, 8:38 AM with 0 comments

• Show HN: YC.fundedjobs.com, aggregating job postings by YC-funded companies

  by bdr on 8/1/2011, 7:08 PM with 2 comments

• by bdr on 8/1/2011, 4:43 PM with comments

• What does C++ do better than D?

  by bdr on 7/31/2011, 10:01 AM with 17 comments

• Why God Hates German Words

  by bdr on 7/30/2011, 7:40 PM with 66 comments

• Multiplying 10-digit numbers using Flickr: The power of recognition memory

  by bdr on 7/28/2011, 12:23 PM with 0 comments

• W3C proposes Privacy Interest Group, seeking feedback on charter

  by bdr on 7/16/2011, 3:07 PM with 0 comments

• Google+ can now hide your gender "in response to user feedback"

  by bdr on 7/13/2011, 3:36 AM with 69 comments

• Quick Action Helps Google Win Friends in Japan

  by bdr on 7/11/2011, 5:18 AM with 6 comments

• Google Analytics Benchmarking Newsletter

  by bdr on 7/1/2011, 11:40 PM with 0 comments

• Bob Morris and stream algorithms

  by bdr on 7/1/2011, 1:53 AM with 0 comments

• Flowgram.com Open Source Release

  by bdr on 6/30/2011, 11:57 PM with 0 comments

• C. S. Lewis: The Inner Ring (1944)

  by bdr on 6/3/2011, 1:42 AM with 0 comments

• Obama's re-election chances spike on Intrade

  by bdr on 5/2/2011, 7:01 AM with 0 comments

• Map of every street tree in Washington DC

  by bdr on 5/1/2011, 7:18 AM with 0 comments

• Rate my startup: FaxIns.com, like Reddit for undigitized content

  by bdr on 4/1/2011, 4:08 PM with 10 comments

• "O.M.G" acronym traced to 1917

  by bdr on 3/26/2011, 10:31 PM with 1 comments

• Oskar van Deventer's Rubik's-style puzzles

  by bdr on 3/16/2011, 6:26 PM with 0 comments

• PyCon 2011: Disqus: Serving 400 million people with Python

  by bdr on 3/14/2011, 1:47 AM with 7 comments

• Things You Must Know Before Pitching Your Company To Local Business Owners

  by bdr on 3/8/2011, 12:33 AM with 0 comments

• Quantifying Failing Fast

  by bdr on 3/7/2011, 5:33 PM with 3 comments

• Fossils of Cyanobacteria in CI1 Carbonaceous Meteorites

  by bdr on 3/5/2011, 9:34 PM with 2 comments

• Fossils of Cyanobacteria in CI1 Carbonaceous Meteorites

  by bdr on 3/5/2011, 8:53 PM with 0 comments

• Fluid mechanics video dump

  by bdr on 3/5/2011, 1:47 AM with 0 comments

• "I sometimes wonder whether I will outlive T-Mobile or vice-versa"

  by bdr on 3/4/2011, 8:59 PM with 0 comments

• Picking a General Partner

  by bdr on 3/1/2011, 9:18 PM with 1 comments

• Recreational physics roundup

  by bdr on 2/19/2011, 1:22 AM with 0 comments

• Robot Orders a Scone in Mountain View, CA

  by bdr on 2/12/2011, 10:36 AM with 1 comments

• Why Discovereads' book recommendations are more interesting than Amazon's

  by bdr on 2/9/2011, 7:11 PM with 0 comments

• SourceForge hacked

  by bdr on 1/28/2011, 5:41 AM with 1 comments

• Unexpected Connections In Mathematics

  by bdr on 12/26/2010, 5:30 PM with 0 comments

• Is this how we'll be supporting open-source app developers in the near future?

  by bdr on 12/22/2010, 8:02 AM with 0 comments

• Women in (Software) Engineering: Part I

  by bdr on 12/20/2010, 7:52 AM with 2 comments

• Using jQuery's Autocomplete for Text Input Suggestions

  by bdr on 12/4/2010, 7:47 AM with 0 comments

• The Road to ‘Ten Unknowns’

  by bdr on 12/3/2010, 8:45 PM with 0 comments

• Big Five personality traits

  by bdr on 11/29/2010, 10:04 PM with 0 comments

• The mismeasurement of science

  by bdr on 11/29/2010, 7:54 AM with 0 comments

• Male chess players play more aggressively against attractive female opponents

  by bdr on 11/27/2010, 8:44 AM with 5 comments

• The Language of Food: Turkey

  by bdr on 11/24/2010, 8:10 AM with 0 comments

• Disqus Gets A New Look, Premium Add-Ons, New API

  by bdr on 11/17/2010, 7:23 PM with 27 comments

• Django 1.3 alpha 1 released

  by bdr on 11/11/2010, 7:38 AM with 0 comments

• State of circuit lower bounds now slightly less humiliating

  by bdr on 11/10/2010, 3:06 AM with 0 comments

• Why Code

  by bdr on 10/18/2010, 12:36 AM with 1 comments

• Amazon RDS: Announcing Read Replicas

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• The Ugliest Girl At The Dance: How Yahoo Destroyed Yelp’s Google Acquisition

  by bdr on 10/1/2010, 7:23 AM with 54 comments

• So, Why Isn't PostgreSQL Using Git Yet?

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• NFPA 704

  by bdr on 9/10/2010, 4:57 AM with 0 comments

• How to introduce young students to the modulus operator

  by bdr on 8/27/2010, 6:52 PM with 0 comments

• Algorithms from the Book

  by bdr on 8/23/2010, 10:07 PM with 0 comments

• CS Theory Stack Exchange now open to the public

  by bdr on 8/23/2010, 10:00 PM with 0 comments

• Reddit founder launches flight search site

  by bdr on 8/18/2010, 5:57 PM with -1 comments

• P vs. NP for Dummies

  by bdr on 8/15/2010, 4:59 PM with 36 comments

• FlyByChat = IRC + Web 2.0. Feedback appreciated.

  by bdr on 8/10/2010, 10:52 PM with 19 comments

• List of confidence tricks

  by bdr on 8/10/2010, 3:01 AM with 0 comments

• DjangoCon schedule

  by bdr on 8/10/2010, 2:17 AM with 0 comments

• A Proof That P Is Not Equal To NP?

  by bdr on 8/9/2010, 1:57 AM with 2 comments

• Code Golf: Connecting the dots

  by bdr on 7/30/2010, 10:52 PM with 0 comments

• Daniel Ellsberg on the Limits of Knowledge

  by bdr on 7/29/2010, 9:37 PM with 0 comments

• Second East Bay HN meetup is this Wednesday

  by bdr on 7/26/2010, 11:55 PM with 10 comments

• Your World of Text is now open source

  by bdr on 7/26/2010, 1:04 AM with 4 comments

• AMZN drops 15% after hours

  by bdr on 7/22/2010, 8:27 PM with 2 comments

• Tell HN: East Bay meetup this Wednesday

  by bdr on 7/12/2010, 5:50 PM with 7 comments

• Economic analysis of LeBron's options

  by bdr on 7/7/2010, 8:35 PM with 0 comments

• The Battle of Cannae

  by bdr on 7/4/2010, 8:59 AM with 0 comments

• Research 2000: Problems in plain sight

  by bdr on 6/29/2010, 5:53 PM with 2 comments

• FlyByChat, iteration 2 -- feedback please

  by bdr on 6/28/2010, 9:16 PM with 10 comments

• Hedging

  by bdr on 6/28/2010, 8:51 PM with 1 comments

• Show HN: FlyByChat, the site I'm working on. Looking for feedback.

  by bdr on 6/20/2010, 9:01 PM with 22 comments

• Baghdad Nights Glitter, Behind Shatterproof Glass

  by bdr on 6/20/2010, 8:30 AM with 0 comments

• Guessing the Truth

  by bdr on 6/19/2010, 11:34 PM with 0 comments

• Does Cantor’s Diagonalization Proof Cheat?

  by bdr on 6/11/2010, 5:19 PM with 33 comments

• Today is the last day to apply for the next SF Founder Dating

  by bdr on 6/7/2010, 9:41 PM with 0 comments

• Fighting Hype with Hype (On the recent Ars Technica story on quantum computing)

  by bdr on 6/7/2010, 2:11 AM with 1 comments

• My Dip Into Domaining

  by bdr on 6/3/2010, 11:01 PM with 58 comments

• PyPy in Google's Summer of Code 2010

  by bdr on 6/1/2010, 8:55 AM with 0 comments

• Train (or How I Dumped Electricity and Learned to Love Design)

  by bdr on 5/23/2010, 6:32 AM with 6 comments

• What’s taking so long, Mr. Babbage?

  by bdr on 5/22/2010, 8:27 PM with 12 comments

• How Catalog Companies will Use the Internet (Viaweb white paper)

  by bdr on 5/21/2010, 5:35 PM with 0 comments

• Terence Tao on the relationship between classical and Bayesian reasoning

  by bdr on 4/8/2010, 10:11 PM with 12 comments

• Take It to the Limit

  by bdr on 4/4/2010, 11:37 PM with 0 comments

• Mathematical April Fool Results

  by bdr on 4/1/2010, 10:11 PM with 0 comments

• Show HN: autolib, the last Python library you'll ever need

  by bdr on 4/1/2010, 8:34 AM with 7 comments

• Finding Your Roots

  by bdr on 3/8/2010, 12:03 AM with 0 comments

• The best thing about the Google ad

  by bdr on 2/9/2010, 6:40 AM with 10 comments

• Django 1.2 beta 1 released

  by bdr on 2/6/2010, 6:40 AM with 7 comments

• Bill Gates signed up for Twitter

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• What is your job/hobby's do-all "duct-tape equivalent"?

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• Mario Couldn't Jump At First

  by bdr on 12/1/2009, 7:54 PM with 33 comments

• You Built a Metaclass for *what*?

  by bdr on 11/30/2009, 9:21 AM with 0 comments

• Notes about Go

  by bdr on 11/23/2009, 4:14 AM with 14 comments

• Is That All There Is?

  by bdr on 11/9/2009, 6:54 PM with 1 comments

• Through Sharper Statistical Lens, Anomalies in Strategic Vision Polling Remain

  by bdr on 10/5/2009, 9:22 PM with 0 comments

• The Referendum

  by bdr on 9/23/2009, 2:59 AM with 5 comments

• Snaptalent Lesson One: Know Your Market

  by bdr on 8/27/2009, 5:54 AM with 19 comments

• Prosper is Back

  by bdr on 8/24/2009, 8:21 PM with 14 comments

• The Role of Amplifiers in Science

  by bdr on 8/10/2009, 9:21 PM with 0 comments

• Your World of Text, my current side project. Requires FF3+ or Safari 4, I think.

  by bdr on 8/4/2009, 9:40 PM with 71 comments

• SF-area Computational Complexity study group

  by bdr on 5/10/2009, 8:07 PM with 0 comments

• SAT lower bounds

  by bdr on 4/13/2009, 5:38 PM with 0 comments

• Python implementation details

  by bdr on 3/29/2009, 2:14 PM with 1 comments

• Erdös and the Quantum Method

  by bdr on 3/28/2009, 2:34 PM with 1 comments

• Who’s Afraid of Natural Proofs?

  by bdr on 3/25/2009, 5:58 PM with 0 comments

• Bellman, Dynamic Programming, and Edit Distance

  by bdr on 3/23/2009, 11:22 PM with 0 comments

• The technology of child porn

  by bdr on 3/17/2009, 7:39 PM with 0 comments

• Cook's Class Contains Pi

  by bdr on 3/15/2009, 11:51 PM with 0 comments

• Thinking Big (Memory)

  by bdr on 3/14/2009, 3:46 AM with 0 comments

• The Mailing List Battle (On answering questions)

  by bdr on 3/12/2009, 6:44 AM with 0 comments

• Factoring Could Be Easy

  by bdr on 3/11/2009, 6:33 PM with 1 comments

• Cuckoo Hashing

  by bdr on 3/11/2009, 6:30 PM with 2 comments

• Barbara Liskov wins Turing Award

  by bdr on 3/10/2009, 7:57 PM with 4 comments

• Finite State Automata, Binary Decision Diagrams and Presburger Arithmetic

  by bdr on 3/9/2009, 1:58 AM with 0 comments

• "No Patch" versus "Starting Patch"

  by bdr on 3/9/2009, 12:19 AM with 0 comments

• What the Stock Market Really Thinks About the Economy

  by bdr on 3/9/2009, 12:17 AM with 3 comments

• EFF Releases How-To Guide to Fight Government Spying

  by bdr on 3/4/2009, 7:48 PM with 0 comments

• The History of Python: How Everything Became an Executable Statement

  by bdr on 3/4/2009, 12:58 AM with 0 comments

• Hash Table with Preemptive Bloom Filter

  by bdr on 2/27/2009, 5:33 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Why are you proud of your species?

  by bdr on 2/25/2009, 8:05 PM with 13 comments

• Django 1.1 alpha 1 released

  by bdr on 2/24/2009, 3:06 AM with 5 comments

• Theory "vs" Practice

  by bdr on 2/19/2009, 6:45 AM with 0 comments

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• Poll: How do you shift?

  by bdr on 2/18/2009, 10:06 PM with 10 comments

• The Evils of Patent Litigation

  by bdr on 2/17/2009, 8:45 PM with 0 comments

• Kessler Syndrome

  by bdr on 2/14/2009, 1:02 AM with 1 comments

• Bearable (Well... Excellent) Online Advertising

  by bdr on 2/12/2009, 9:14 AM with 0 comments

• Detecting Cycles in a Directed Graph

  by bdr on 1/30/2009, 4:29 AM with 7 comments

• The History of Python: Personal History - part 2, CNRI and beyond

  by bdr on 1/28/2009, 5:35 AM with 0 comments

• Heyzap creates widgets to put casual games on any web site (YC W09)

  by bdr on 1/17/2009, 3:43 AM with 3 comments

• The directed graph of stereotypical incomprehensibility

  by bdr on 1/15/2009, 10:48 PM with 1 comments

• Facebook overtakes MySpace in U.S. uniques

  by bdr on 1/8/2009, 10:25 PM with 0 comments

• The Linguistic Diversity of Aboriginal Europe

  by bdr on 1/7/2009, 12:41 AM with 0 comments

• Startup legal questions FAQ

  by bdr on 12/4/2008, 11:57 PM with 7 comments

• Monoids? In my programming language?

  by bdr on 11/14/2008, 1:59 AM with 1 comments

• Python syntax additions and their justifications

  by bdr on 10/4/2008, 6:38 AM with 0 comments

• Monkeypatching JavaScript for profiling

  by bdr on 9/9/2008, 7:38 PM with 0 comments

• What can nerds do for the election?

  by bdr on 8/28/2008, 11:07 PM with 1 comments

• Join us at Hacker News Coffee, San Francisco, Tuesday at 9:15am

  by bdr on 8/25/2008, 7:18 PM with 25 comments

• Netflix prize competitor: With the best algorithms, metadata becomes worthless

  by bdr on 8/15/2008, 1:26 AM with 31 comments

• Introducing the New Disqus

  by bdr on 8/12/2008, 6:17 PM with 11 comments

• Ext2resize sucks, but apparently so do I, and also a lot of other things too

  by bdr on 8/6/2008, 7:13 AM with 0 comments

• Venture Fund Economics: Gross and Net Returns

  by bdr on 8/4/2008, 7:23 PM with 0 comments

• Google says there are now 10^12 unique URLs. I am proud to announce the 2nd trillion.

  by bdr on 7/28/2008, 2:31 AM with 32 comments

• Thin Locks in D

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• Making division in Python faster

  by bdr on 7/9/2008, 7:24 AM with 0 comments

• Texture Synthesis

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• New create your own subreddit site -- seeking feedback

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• Startups with offices: what about phones?

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