Stories by akkartik

Workers of the Future

What are you avoiding working on?

Can hedge funds help save the world?

Mathematical support for insect colonies as superorganisms

Myth: Playing football at a big-deal college gets you into the NFL

Internet Mail 2000: Mail storage is the sender's responsibility

Where are the South Asians in FLOSS?

2040: Diary of an interesting year

Myth: Playing football at a big-deal college gets you into the NFL

Simon Tatham: Distributed version control is usenet

Beau Lotto on the Visual Cortex (TED talk, 20 mins)

Former Kaplan Exec Plots to Re-Make Test-Prep Industry Online

1491 by Charles Mann (Atlantic Online, 2002)

Ask HN: How do you rent apartments in SF when self-employed?

Cool Socioeconomic hack for the day: "No toilet, no bride" in India

ScienceCommons 15 Oct, Mountain View: Reid Hoffman, Joi Ito, Alexis Ohanian, ..

The illustrious history of faked photographs

Tempted to quit HN

Feedburner public service announcement (a.k.a. Fuck you Google)

Mancur Olson: How rich countries die

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