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  1. The Elephant in the Poker Room (philgalfond.beehiiv.com)
  2. Whenever I ask for a TL;DR when there's a long article on HN, I'm downvoted. Why? I think there is a legitimate value in short summaries of long articles. Often you can extract 90% of the value with just 10% of the time…

  3. Handy statistical lexicon (andrewgelman.com)
  4. Philipp Lenssen's work (outer-court.com)
  5. After reading Steve Yegge's platforms rant and highscalability.com/amazon-architecture, I've become really interested in Amazon's infrastructure. Unfortunately, unlike Google or Facebook, there seems to be very little…

  6. I just wanted to downvote someone who replied to my comment, just press the downvote button real hard for a good feel. But the descendants of my comments don't have downvote buttons. Is that a recent change? If so,…

  7. I've read several articles about REST, even a bit of the original paper. But I still have quite a vague idea about what it is. I'm beginning to think that nobody knows, that it's simply a very poorly defined concept.…

  8. I heard that after you reach 500 karma, you'll be able to downvote comments. I've been looking forward that moment for a long time. Unfortunately, I have 502 karma now but see no downvote buttons :(

  9. What are you're thoughts on the hard problem of consciousness (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness)? Is consiousness just a complex physical process in the brain or is there something else to it?…

  10. Grow a Face (growaface.com)