Stories by amichail

Ask YC: Why not prevent suicides by automatically spying on people's emails?

Not buying it when the pilot tells you weather is holding up your flight? iPhone to the rescue!

BLUI: Blowable user interface

Ask YC: Is it reasonable to ask users to lie to their friends in a Facebook app? What if it's a short-lived lie?

Aubrey de Grey: Why we age and how we can avoid it

Why don't companies hire "idea" people? Is it because they think anyone smart can get good ideas?

Commodore 64 Music Tribute

Why are you not working on a human computation startup (in the sense of the ESP Game)?

Is This the End of Cursive Writing?

Ask YC: Paul Graham's 18 Mistakes that Kill Startups: Which are no longer an issue when developing Facebook apps?

23AndMe Will Decode Your DNA for $1,000. Welcome to the Age of Genomics

Should Steven Wolfram be envied?

Ask YC: What is the most embarrassing technical book that you have ever owned?

The H. Paul Rockwood Memorial Lecture: A New Kind of Science - Stephen Wolfram

Tetris is Hard, Even to Approximate

One hundred prisoners and a light bulb paper that includes O(n log(n)^2) solution for n prisoners [pdf]

Bush Finds Error In Fermilab Calculations

An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything (not a joke)

How would you motivate people to learn on their own as an alternative to going to university?

15 Puzzles in 30 Minutes

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