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Stand on Mars Next to the Curiosity Rover With This Incredible Panorama

wired.com

1 pointsby akshaymvor 13 Jahren0 comments

Why Java's .class file's magic number is 0xCAFEBABE

radio-weblogs.com

1 pointsby akshaymvor 13 Jahren0 comments

Microsoft research boss Craig Mundie to retire in 2014

bbc.co.uk

1 pointsby akshaymvor 14 Jahren0 comments

Thinking Machine 4 - Chess against AI that visualizes it's process

turbulence.org

2 pointsby akshaymvor 14 Jahren0 comments

Facebook Stories - How did they get that effect on the preview image?

facebook.com

1 pointsby akshaymvor 14 Jahren0 comments

Will we ever run 100m in under nine seconds?

bbc.com

1 pointsby akshaymvor 14 Jahren0 comments

Math paper retracted because it “contains no scientific content"

retractionwatch.wordpress.com

4 pointsby akshaymvor 14 Jahren0 comments

Advice from founders who bootstrapped their way to success

pluggd.in

3 pointsby akshaymvor 16 Jahren0 comments

The Dunning-Kruger Effect

youarenotsosmart.com

1 pointsby akshaymvor 16 Jahren0 comments

Who Needs Time Zones?

tnr.com

2 pointsby akshaymvor 16 Jahren0 comments

Large Archive of some interesting articles

givemesomethingtoread.com

1 pointsby akshaymvor 16 Jahren0 comments

Stephen Hawking: How to build a Time Machine

dailymail.co.uk

7 pointsby akshaymvor 16 Jahren0 comments

The Clouds of Unknowing

economist.com

1 pointsby akshaymvor 16 Jahren0 comments

Shanghai's Expo nearly ready

boston.com

2 pointsby akshaymvor 16 Jahren0 comments

Please do not change your password

boston.com

2 pointsby akshaymvor 16 Jahren0 comments

Finding meaning in Random Sequences

skeptic.com

1 pointsby akshaymvor 16 Jahren0 comments

Drugs in Portugal: Did Decriminalization Work?

time.com

178 pointsby akshaymvor 16 Jahren124 comments

Brain Time

edge.org

4 pointsby akshaymvor 16 Jahren0 comments

A Supersonic Jump, From 23 Miles in the Air

nytimes.com

23 pointsby akshaymvor 16 Jahren1 comments

Stealing Mona Lisa

vanityfair.com

5 pointsby akshaymvor 16 Jahren1 comments

comments

akshaym

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

Totally irrelevant, but this is from 2011.

akshaym

vor 14 Jahrendiscuss

This is surprising. Not that it sold out after 10 minutes, but that Google didn't handle the load well.

I wonder why - surely they expected this (if nothing else, given the performance of the phone in other markets).

akshaym

vor 14 Jahrendiscuss

I think it's interesting to point out that this is Rob Pike.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Pike

akshaym

vor 14 Jahrendiscuss

Your*

Not sure about this, but I think it's what you mean. I googled "node broke", and didn't come up with meaningful results, so I assume it's "Your". Correct me if I'm wrong!

akshaym

vor 16 Jahrendiscuss

This is a fantastic article on "big numbers" (and discusses tetration):

http://www.scottaaronson.com/writings/bignumbers.html

(I think someone has posted it to HN before, which is why I am leaving it as a comment)

akshaym

vor 16 Jahrendiscuss

This is an interesting article as well I think: http://www.badscience.net/2009/06/this-is-my-column-this-is-...