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• China prepares for launch, names female astronaut

  by gsivil on 6/15/2012, 5:43 PM with 0 comments

• Eugene Polley inventor of TV remote control dies

  by gsivil on 5/24/2012, 9:31 AM with 0 comments

• Researchers find possible evidence of Majorana fermions

  by gsivil on 4/14/2012, 7:36 PM with 0 comments

• The quietest place on earth

  by gsivil on 4/10/2012, 7:53 AM with 0 comments

• Google’s Chrome OS Will Soon Look More Like Windows Than A Browser

  by gsivil on 4/10/2012, 7:23 AM with 0 comments

• This week's 8 TeV collision most powerful so far

  by gsivil on 4/8/2012, 1:10 AM with 0 comments

• ΜΙΤ researcher sues US after search of laptop

  by gsivil on 4/6/2012, 11:48 PM with 0 comments

• New Wikipedia app for iOS (and an update for the Android App)

  by gsivil on 4/6/2012, 1:40 PM with 0 comments

• Google Scholar Metrics for Publications

  by gsivil on 4/4/2012, 9:20 AM with 17 comments

• Wanna Make It In The Valley? Better Eat Your Kale

  by gsivil on 4/2/2012, 1:22 AM with 0 comments

• Exploring quantum physics through hands-on projects[book]

  by gsivil on 2/3/2012, 1:10 AM with 0 comments

• Paul Cadden drawings[maybe R]

  by gsivil on 1/30/2012, 11:41 PM with 0 comments

• On Giving Technical Talks[2010]

  by gsivil on 1/30/2012, 6:17 AM with 4 comments

• by gsivil on 1/27/2012, 2:01 AM with comments

• Under the Electron Microscope – A 3-D Image of an Individual Protein

  by gsivil on 1/26/2012, 5:09 AM with 0 comments

• Celebrating the arXiv

  by gsivil on 1/17/2012, 7:45 AM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Why does Google need so many employees?

  by gsivil on 1/15/2012, 5:25 AM with 17 comments

• Astronomers catch black hole spitting out materials

  by gsivil on 1/11/2012, 5:00 PM with 0 comments

• Powerful quake rocks Tokyo region on New Year's Day

  by gsivil on 1/1/2012, 7:12 AM with 0 comments

• Ask PG: HNY and what about some hi-res icons for 2012?

  by gsivil on 1/1/2012, 1:31 AM with 0 comments

• Researchers Create Living ‘Neon Signs’ Composed of Bacteria

  by gsivil on 12/20/2011, 12:39 AM with 0 comments

• The broken brain

  by gsivil on 12/15/2011, 4:33 AM with -1 comments

• NASA Finds Japan Tsunami Waves Merged, Doubling Power

  by gsivil on 12/7/2011, 5:11 AM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Have you hacked your nutrition?

  by gsivil on 11/27/2011, 6:36 PM with 62 comments

• See the points for every HN comment just with an HN search

  by gsivil on 11/20/2011, 9:15 AM with 0 comments

• Tout: Video status updates

  by gsivil on 11/19/2011, 10:08 AM with 0 comments

• Leonardo's Formula Explains Why Trees Don't Splinter

  by gsivil on 11/16/2011, 3:00 AM with 0 comments

• NASA's Super-Black Material That Absorbs Light Across Multiple Wavelength Bands

  by gsivil on 11/11/2011, 5:38 AM with 0 comments

• Greek surprise sends shock waves through Europe

  by gsivil on 11/1/2011, 2:18 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: What will be the legacy of Google?

  by gsivil on 10/28/2011, 8:47 AM with 3 comments

• TRX Suspension Training

  by gsivil on 10/24/2011, 3:05 AM with -1 comments

• Wireless bike brakes

  by gsivil on 10/17/2011, 6:26 AM with 0 comments

• by gsivil on 10/15/2011, 10:48 PM with comments

• Thank PG: pg recently exceeded 100Kk. Thanks for keeping HN up

  by gsivil on 10/10/2011, 10:35 PM with 0 comments

• Simplifying

  by gsivil on 10/10/2011, 12:14 AM with 0 comments

• Vindicated: Ridiculed Israeli scientist wins Nobel

  by gsivil on 10/5/2011, 7:23 PM with 0 comments

• The Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Shechtman "for the discovery of quasicrystals".

  by gsivil on 10/5/2011, 10:28 AM with 5 comments

• by gsivil on 10/3/2011, 2:22 AM with comments

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• by gsivil on 10/2/2011, 12:42 AM with comments

• An Unprecedented Role Reversal: Beetle Larvae Lure Amphibians and Prey upon Them

  by gsivil on 9/28/2011, 4:06 AM with 0 comments

• Annual Nobel Predictions Announced, but Forecasting still a Tricky Business

  by gsivil on 9/26/2011, 11:28 PM with 2 comments

• Nobel predictions 2011

  by gsivil on 9/26/2011, 9:57 AM with 0 comments

• Elo rating system

  by gsivil on 9/24/2011, 9:13 AM with 0 comments

• Conversations on Creativity with Repeat Bloomer Joshua Waitzkin

  by gsivil on 9/24/2011, 8:57 AM with 0 comments

• Mexico's "Cave of Crystals" are the slowest growing ever measured.

  by gsivil on 9/14/2011, 7:31 PM with 0 comments

• Turritopsis nutricula: the potentially immortal jellyfish

  by gsivil on 9/14/2011, 3:33 AM with 1 comments

• Greece Default Risk Jumps to 98% as Euro Crisis Deepens

  by gsivil on 9/13/2011, 5:27 AM with 0 comments

• Confessions of a Converted Lecturer: Eric Mazur

  by gsivil on 9/12/2011, 7:20 AM with 0 comments

• Groupon sued over unpaid overtime

  by gsivil on 9/10/2011, 8:22 PM with 0 comments

• The HTTP Archive tracks how the Web is built

  by gsivil on 9/6/2011, 7:19 AM with 0 comments

• Successful Short Hop, Setback, and Next Vehicle

  by gsivil on 9/4/2011, 3:58 AM with 0 comments

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• Death in dolphins: do they understand they are mortal?

  by gsivil on 9/2/2011, 8:15 AM with 9 comments

• by gsivil on 8/31/2011, 7:12 AM with comments

• Tax us more, say wealthy Europeans

  by gsivil on 8/30/2011, 9:42 PM with 0 comments

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• Best SEM, TEM, DualBeam, and FIB images

  by gsivil on 8/24/2011, 4:26 PM with 0 comments

• Detection of visible light from the darkest world

  by gsivil on 8/23/2011, 5:09 AM with 1 comments

• An interactive approach to the fascinating world of quantum physics

  by gsivil on 8/21/2011, 2:11 AM with 0 comments

• American Physical Society continues as MathJax Supporter

  by gsivil on 8/17/2011, 5:23 PM with 0 comments

• Google doodles Pierre de Fermat's Last Theorem on his 410th birth anniversary

  by gsivil on 8/17/2011, 4:43 AM with 0 comments

• 'Electronic Skin' Grafts Gadgets to Body

  by gsivil on 8/16/2011, 2:20 AM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Sorry, we can't find "www.a.com". Why?

  by gsivil on 8/15/2011, 6:12 AM with 5 comments

• by gsivil on 8/7/2011, 11:35 PM with comments

• by gsivil on 8/6/2011, 7:06 AM with comments

• Revealed: African rat weaponises plant toxin

  by gsivil on 8/3/2011, 4:13 PM with 0 comments

• by gsivil on 8/3/2011, 6:55 AM with comments

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• Poll: Is Google+ already dead?

  by gsivil on 8/3/2011, 6:55 AM with 5 comments

• OS X Lion: About Multi-Touch gestures

  by gsivil on 7/25/2011, 6:13 AM with 0 comments

• It is good to have friends

  by gsivil on 7/18/2011, 2:16 AM with 0 comments

• Chain World Videogame Was Supposed to be a Religion—Not a Holy War

  by gsivil on 7/17/2011, 12:44 AM with 0 comments

• by gsivil on 7/16/2011, 10:59 PM with comments

• by gsivil on 7/10/2011, 4:04 AM with comments

• Residency Hour Limits: On the Clock

  by gsivil on 7/2/2011, 5:07 PM with 0 comments

• Forget Diet Coke and Mentos: Singing Bowls Excite Droplet Fountains

  by gsivil on 7/1/2011, 7:16 PM with 0 comments

• A Nobel prize before the Nobel prizes

  by gsivil on 6/25/2011, 5:03 AM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Which are your favorite Apps(Apple, Android)?

  by gsivil on 6/24/2011, 12:34 AM with 4 comments

• Black Hole Caught Eating a Star, Gamma-Ray Flash Hints

  by gsivil on 6/18/2011, 9:44 PM with 0 comments

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• Poll: How long do you commute everyday

  by gsivil on 6/8/2011, 4:55 AM with 8 comments

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• by gsivil on 5/26/2011, 11:43 AM with comments

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• Thousands gather to protest in central Athens

  by gsivil on 5/25/2011, 6:01 PM with 0 comments

• Harvard's Edward O. Wilson tries to upend biology, again

  by gsivil on 5/23/2011, 5:28 PM with 43 comments

• Spanish polls open amid mass protests

  by gsivil on 5/22/2011, 7:15 AM with 0 comments

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• Poll: What is the size of your laptop/netbook?

  by gsivil on 5/8/2011, 11:44 PM with 32 comments

• The burnout cycle [pdf]

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

• Knuth on money and dropping out of graduate school

  by gsivil on 5/3/2011, 4:50 AM with 8 comments

• Camera 2.0: New computing platforms for computational photography

  by gsivil on 5/1/2011, 11:31 PM with 0 comments

• IPad Lets Scientists Drag, Pinch and Swipe Real Molecules

  by gsivil on 5/1/2011, 8:29 AM with 0 comments

• by gsivil on 5/1/2011, 8:27 AM with comments

• Shed a Tear: The Age of Broadband Caps Begins Monday[original title]

  by gsivil on 5/1/2011, 5:02 AM with 0 comments

• Annual WEBby awards nominees

  by gsivil on 4/30/2011, 4:17 PM with 0 comments

• End of an era as last mechanical typewriters are sold

  by gsivil on 4/27/2011, 6:49 AM with 0 comments

• Pet project: Number Gossip

  by gsivil on 4/24/2011, 8:15 PM with 5 comments

• Ask HN: "Unknown or expired link."

  by gsivil on 4/14/2011, 2:37 AM with 8 comments

• by gsivil on 4/11/2011, 2:03 AM with comments

• by gsivil on 4/11/2011, 2:00 AM with comments

• The 50 most innovative companies 2011 according to Technology Review

  by gsivil on 4/9/2011, 12:20 AM with 1 comments

• Acer introduces ICONIA

  by gsivil on 4/2/2011, 3:58 AM with 0 comments

• Google I/O 2009 - Site Review by the Experts [video]

  by gsivil on 3/30/2011, 5:58 AM with 0 comments

• 1 Million Workers. 90 Million iPhones.17 Suicides. Who’s to Blame?

  by gsivil on 3/19/2011, 5:21 AM with 0 comments

• Man Who Set Stage for a Nobel Now Lives a Life Outside Science

  by gsivil on 3/17/2011, 3:38 AM with 2 comments

• Teradata to Acquire Aster Data

  by gsivil on 3/6/2011, 6:00 AM with 0 comments

• Apple announces iPad 2

  by gsivil on 3/3/2011, 9:48 AM with 0 comments

• Deborah Gordon: How do ants know what to do? (2008)

  by gsivil on 2/27/2011, 7:09 AM with 0 comments

• Angela Byron on Drupal 7

  by gsivil on 2/26/2011, 10:50 AM with 0 comments

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• NASA'S Chandra Finds Superfluid in Neutron Star's Core

  by gsivil on 2/24/2011, 12:26 AM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: How to draw a single pixel?

  by gsivil on 2/20/2011, 3:42 PM with 8 comments

• Apple Touts Suicide Nets In Supplier Responsibility Report, But Changes Little

  by gsivil on 2/20/2011, 2:47 AM with 2 comments

• Why Nobody Can Match the iPad’s Price

  by gsivil on 2/20/2011, 2:40 AM with 108 comments

• by gsivil on 2/19/2011, 3:34 AM with comments

• Aquatic carnivorous plants with ultra-fast traps studied

  by gsivil on 2/17/2011, 8:39 AM with 1 comments

• by gsivil on 2/17/2011, 6:03 AM with comments

• The rise and fall of Lisp at the Jet Propulsion Lab (2002)

  by gsivil on 2/13/2011, 6:02 AM with 36 comments

• Facebook now allows High Res Downloads: Protect Yourself

  by gsivil on 2/11/2011, 6:50 AM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: What is your favorite version control system?

  by gsivil on 2/10/2011, 3:24 AM with 0 comments

• Study claims "Brain implants have long-lasting effect on depression"

  by gsivil on 2/9/2011, 3:25 AM with 0 comments

• Groupon's Controversial Tibet Super Bowl Ad

  by gsivil on 2/7/2011, 4:15 AM with 1 comments

• by gsivil on 2/2/2011, 8:08 AM with comments

• Google CEO Eric Schmidt searches for book deal

  by gsivil on 2/1/2011, 7:37 AM with 0 comments

• Still relevant: The Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing (version 3.0 from 2006)

  by gsivil on 1/30/2011, 12:30 AM with 0 comments

• New HN users: do not overlook the "Lists" feature

  by gsivil on 1/29/2011, 7:04 PM with 35 comments

• Without Internet, Egyptians find new ways to get online

  by gsivil on 1/29/2011, 5:36 AM with 0 comments

• by gsivil on 1/28/2011, 7:15 AM with comments

• Ask HN: Are you using a Public Key for your communications?

  by gsivil on 1/27/2011, 2:13 AM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: OpenOffice or LibreOffice?

  by gsivil on 1/25/2011, 7:42 PM with 6 comments

• IQ test to assess and outsmart bacteria's 'social intelligence'

  by gsivil on 1/24/2011, 11:18 PM with 0 comments

• Biotic Games

  by gsivil on 1/21/2011, 4:18 PM with 0 comments

• PS3, iPhone hacker sets sights on Windows phones

  by gsivil on 1/20/2011, 11:10 PM with 0 comments

• Why do we feel emotional about different technologies and companies?

  by gsivil on 1/20/2011, 7:41 AM with 0 comments

• will IPv6 lead to effectively free static IPs?

  by gsivil on 1/20/2011, 6:01 AM with 0 comments

• Europe defends 'stupid' Galileo satellite

  by gsivil on 1/19/2011, 5:06 AM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Are there any good alternatives to Mozilla Thunderbird?

  by gsivil on 1/19/2011, 12:24 AM with 9 comments

• Douglas Crockford's Wrrrld Wide Web (JSON+Javascript: The good parts)

  by gsivil on 1/16/2011, 2:07 PM with 0 comments

• by gsivil on 1/15/2011, 4:04 PM with comments

• Using Chrome to calculate the square root of e

  by gsivil on 1/14/2011, 6:03 AM with 1 comments

• Interviewing 101: Being Ready for Intel

  by gsivil on 1/12/2011, 2:41 PM with 0 comments

• The first metazoa living in permanently anoxic condition

  by gsivil on 1/12/2011, 12:25 PM with 1 comments

• Warn HN: be careful which photos do you open today on Facebook

  by gsivil on 1/10/2011, 1:03 PM with 0 comments

• by gsivil on 1/9/2011, 1:04 PM with comments

• Let the sesquicentennial (of MIT) begin

  by gsivil on 1/7/2011, 3:44 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Is it possible to sue a software company for bugs?

  by gsivil on 1/4/2011, 7:42 AM with 5 comments

• Facebook tried to buy Twitter in 2008: report afp

  by gsivil on 1/3/2011, 3:07 PM with 0 comments

• Toshiba to sell tablet with upcoming Android OS

  by gsivil on 1/3/2011, 3:01 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: have you written Chess games? Do you play Chess?

  by gsivil on 12/31/2010, 6:54 AM with 3 comments

• Is it news that Google goes encrypted?

  by gsivil on 12/30/2010, 4:00 AM with 3 comments

• `Tutorial on Good Lisp Programming Style'' P.Norvig and K. Pitman (1993)

  by gsivil on 12/23/2010, 9:23 AM with 0 comments

• Emacs Org-mode for notes and project planning (2008)

  by gsivil on 12/19/2010, 6:12 AM with 0 comments

• by gsivil on 12/19/2010, 5:37 AM with comments

• Ask HN: What does de-motivate you?

  by gsivil on 12/15/2010, 2:06 PM with 1 comments

• Ask HN: Whom do you regularly follow on Twitter?

  by gsivil on 12/12/2010, 7:45 AM with 8 comments

• HN 2010: Who is the person of the year in computers/technology?

  by gsivil on 12/10/2010, 5:47 AM with 2 comments

• Iran nuclear program self-sufficient, top official claims

  by gsivil on 12/5/2010, 11:02 AM with 1 comments

• Ask HN: How would you explain Turing completeness?

  by gsivil on 11/30/2010, 9:12 AM with 6 comments

• How the way people code “Hello World” varies depending on their age and job

  by gsivil on 11/28/2010, 12:09 PM with 3 comments

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• Share with HN: Feynman on something like karma points

  by gsivil on 11/25/2010, 5:45 AM with 1 comments

• The MIT 6.370 BattleCode programming competition

  by gsivil on 11/24/2010, 5:00 AM with 0 comments

• "J. Craig Venter: Designing Life" in Sixty Minutes CBS (video)

  by gsivil on 11/22/2010, 1:38 AM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Which O'Reilly books do you like and own?

  by gsivil on 11/21/2010, 11:20 AM with 1 comments

• International Olympiad in Informatics covered in Wired magazine

  by gsivil on 11/21/2010, 3:09 AM with 0 comments

• Spotlight on Linux: Fedora 14

  by gsivil on 11/20/2010, 8:56 AM with 0 comments

• First app from NPL to help researchers working in the lab

  by gsivil on 11/18/2010, 8:00 AM with 0 comments

• Story of an "old-school" game developer-maker (video)

  by gsivil on 11/17/2010, 7:27 AM with 0 comments

• Which web hosting do you recommend(Linux, data-logging, programming,USA)

  by gsivil on 11/17/2010, 3:47 AM with 1 comments

• Ask HN: Would you be keeping your job for the officially minimum salary?

  by gsivil on 11/16/2010, 3:37 AM with 0 comments

• Aol Mail Redux: First Look at Project Phoenix

  by gsivil on 11/15/2010, 9:09 AM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Why most of the great websites are so simple design-wise?

  by gsivil on 11/14/2010, 7:34 AM with 8 comments

• The Enticement of Free Wireless

  by gsivil on 11/14/2010, 12:41 AM with 0 comments

• United States Frequency Allocations chart.

  by gsivil on 11/14/2010, 12:39 AM with 0 comments

• Controlling the flow of light with a novel optical transistor

  by gsivil on 11/12/2010, 2:06 PM with 0 comments

• My Lisp Experiences and the Development of GNU Emacs (2002)

  by gsivil on 11/12/2010, 3:02 AM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: How do you deal with all these passwords?

  by gsivil on 11/9/2010, 4:42 AM with 15 comments

• Richard Feynman distilled

  by gsivil on 11/8/2010, 12:10 AM with 2 comments

• H-index for Hacker News

  by gsivil on 11/7/2010, 4:15 AM with 5 comments

• Suggest HN: what do you think about the UX of HN

  by gsivil on 11/7/2010, 12:58 AM with 13 comments

• Digital Weapons Help Dissidents Punch Holes in China's Great Firewall

  by gsivil on 11/6/2010, 11:50 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: any suggestions for a Lisp project to start with?

  by gsivil on 11/6/2010, 12:12 AM with 8 comments

• Ask HN: what is the Lisp dialect that you recommend?

  by gsivil on 11/1/2010, 4:55 AM with 3 comments

• Ask HN: What is so special in working for Facebook?

  by gsivil on 10/30/2010, 5:40 AM with 33 comments

• Idea for a start-up that I will never start

  by gsivil on 10/28/2010, 8:43 AM with 2 comments

• Ask HN: How can somebody register a file format such as ".xyz"

  by gsivil on 10/27/2010, 7:46 PM with 2 comments

• Ask HN: Which is the best netbook for HNers?

  by gsivil on 10/24/2010, 12:50 PM with 3 comments

• Ask HN: why nobody talks about game development any more?

  by gsivil on 10/17/2010, 12:21 AM with 32 comments

• Will you upgrade to Ubuntu 10.10 tonight?

  by gsivil on 10/9/2010, 8:05 PM with 63 comments

• by gsivil on 10/9/2010, 7:48 PM with comments

• What about a browser(a la Chrome) with command line capabilities?

  by gsivil on 10/9/2010, 1:45 AM with 10 comments

• From Experimental Physics to Internet Entrepreneurship: One Scientist's Journey

  by gsivil on 10/7/2010, 9:54 PM with 1 comments

• Graphene: Carbon's New Face Nobel Prize in Physics 2010

  by gsivil on 10/5/2010, 6:00 PM with 0 comments

• Say Goodbye To Your BIOS: Hello, UEFI

  by gsivil on 10/2/2010, 10:02 PM with 0 comments

• What do you think about matlab?

  by gsivil on 9/25/2010, 5:38 AM with 5 comments