|
| The best articles from gwern.net, according to Hacker News. |
|
| Change the ?site URL parameter to try it on any other website. Or click the domain shown after each post title. |
|
| 2019 | | My Ordinary Life: Improvements Since the 1990s (gwern.net) |
| 887 points across 3 posts | 4 months ago with 61 comments |
|
| 2017 | | Death Note: L, Anonymity and Eluding Entropy (gwern.net) |
| 525 points | 4 years ago with 139 comments |
|
| 2019 | | Commoditize Your Complement (gwern.net) |
| 306 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 1 comments |
|
| 2019 | | The Melancholy of Subculture Society (gwern.net) |
| 251 points | 2 years ago with 161 comments |
|
| 1996 | | How Did Software Get So Reliable Without Proof? (gwern.net) |
| 207 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 123 comments |
|
| 2010 | | Avoid News: Towards a Healthy News Diet (gwern.net) |
| 151 points | 4 years ago with 115 comments |
|
| 2005 | | A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy [pdf] (gwern.net) |
| 146 points | 11 months ago with 53 comments |
|
| 2016 | | Nicotine (gwern.net) |
| 142 points | 5 months ago with 260 comments |
|
| 1996 | | Giftedness and Genius: Crucial Differences (gwern.net) |
| 132 points | 6 years ago with 31 comments |
|
| 2011 | | What Is the Morning Writing Effect? (gwern.net) |
| 111 points | 3 years ago with 41 comments |
|
| 2011 | | In Defense of Inclusionism (gwern.net) |
| 106 points | 9 years ago with 59 comments |
|
| 2019 | | On Having Enough Socks (gwern.net) |
| 103 points across 2 posts | 11 months ago with 172 comments |
|
| 2010 | | Computing 10,000x more efficiently (gwern.net) |
| 91 points | 8 years ago with 47 comments |
|
| 2003 | | A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy (gwern.net) |
| 88 points | 3 years ago with 14 comments |
|
| 2013 | | Strategic Consequences of Chinese Racism: Strategic Asymmetry for the USA (gwern.net) |
| 85 points | 7 years ago with 71 comments |
|
| 2013 | | Predicting Google Closures (gwern.net) |
| 84 points | 1 year ago with 32 comments |
|
| 2011 | | Time-Lock Encryption (gwern.net) |
| 79 points | 9 years ago with 28 comments |
|
| 1982 | | Alan Perlis: Epigrams on Programming (gwern.net) |
| 78 points | 4 years ago with 9 comments |
|
| 2010 | | Never Pay for Online Dating (gwern.net) |
| 75 points | 2 years ago with 116 comments |
|
| 2011 | | Why didn't Denmark sell Greenland? (gwern.net) |
| 68 points | 6 years ago with 53 comments |
|
| 2014 | | No Causal Effect of Music Practice on Ability (gwern.net) |
| 64 points | 6 years ago with 82 comments |
|
| 2011 | | Time-Lock Encryption (gwern.net) |
| 61 points | 4 years ago with 14 comments |
|
| 1985 | | Metamagical Themas: Sanity and Survival (gwern.net) |
| 61 points | 6 years ago with 7 comments |
|
| 2019 | | The invention of selective breeding was unbelievably late (gwern.net) |
| 51 points | 11 months ago with 24 comments |
|
| 2011 | | Bitcoin Is Worse Is Better (gwern.net) |
| 49 points | 3 years ago with 89 comments |
|
| 1996 | | How Did Software Get So Reliable Without Proof? (gwern.net) |
| 48 points | 8 years ago with 82 comments |
|
| 2012 | | Are Sunk Costs Fallacies? (gwern.net) |
| 43 points across 2 posts | 5 months ago with 8 comments |
|
| 2011 | | Culture is not about esthetics (gwern.net) |
| 41 points | 9 years ago with 55 comments |
|
| 2018 | | Resorting Media Ratings (gwern.net) |
| 21 points | 2 years ago with 1 comments |
|
|
