Stories by akkartik

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

The Computerized Coach

How I reliably enter the Zone: TDD

Tech talk: Mining information from english using CRFs (generalizations of HMMs)

Vonnegut: a society without productivity variation has no Edisons.

The silver lining in this crunch: Wall Street will return to IPOs

Talk on org mode for emacs - outliner, gtd system

Technical co-founder/CTO looking for a new startup to work at

Conversational Terrorism: the ways people (consciously or unconsciously) conversationally cheat

Fractal expressionism - revisiting the work of Jackson Pollock

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