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Anything that can teach a 3 years old kid math, assuming he knows how to count to 10. But also interested in resources that that would take him beyond that and get him to fall in love with math as he grows up. EDIT:…

What books would you recommend on the Scientific Method, Epistemology and scientific thinking in general? Books like this that I liked: - The Selfish Gene - Rationality: From AI to Zombies - The Scout Mindset - Asking…

A friend of mine shared the following code snippet with me and asked me to guess how many times the loop will run on average: for(int i = 0; i < Random(1, 100); i++); I tried to guess the answer analytically and gussed…

Where can I begin learning how to write Linux filesystems?

Hey HN, I was wondering if there is a book on building databases that's written in a similar fashion to "Crafting Interpreters". A book that would teach you about databases while having you build one yourself.

Hey folks, I am interested in learning more about Ruby's internals and it's runtime, topics such as: garbage collection, concurrency, memory management ... etc. What would be a good place to read on these before jumping…

What are your favorite parenting podcasts and why? I am looking for recommendations but also looking to explore things I may not come across.

I am interested to see what are all the interesting or hard computational challenges people are working on out there. Hardware, software, data-related or algorithmic.

Could someone explain the COVID-19 vaccine in layman terms? I don't quite understand how mRNA/RNA vaccines work and what their side effects are.

Is there a book that introduces probability and/or stats through means of story telling and puzzles? I love math books such as "To Mock A Mocking Bird" and "Calculus Made Easy" and even though they're very different in…

Hello HN, What would be a good alternative text to the "Probability, Random Variables, and Stochastic Processes" book? I couldn't find it for a cheap price in Europe (~90 eur). Link: https://www.amazon.de/dp/0071226613/

What technologies, and patterns, does your system use in order to process, store, enrich, analyze and serve data and insights? How do you manage your infrastructure?

Hello Googlers (former and current ones), What have you learned at Google, as a Software Engineer, that you think was interesting and helped you up your game as an engineer? Anything you can share with people outside of…

Hello folks, Recently, I developed a genuine interest in information theory and communication systems, I gave "An Introduction to Information Theory: Symbols, Signals and Noise" a try…

Hello HN, Most people, if not everyone, in our field think that hiring engineers is a broken process. How do you think you should be interviewed as an engineer for the company to see your skills and strengths? How do…

How do you use Kanban? How do you prioritise items on a Kanban board? What is the criteria for items to make it to the board? How do you release finished tickets? How does your Kanban process fit with the team's…

Hello HN, I am not a business expert and I don't have any economics background so bear with me on this one. Let's say you have an idea for a new business or product and before start building it, you'd want to validate…

How do you apply Boyd's decision making strategy in your life? Do you apply it to one, or more, dimension(s) of your life? How do you make day-to-day decisions? How does your personal security look like?

When interviewing a Tech Lead or an Engineering Manager for a team in your company, what practices do you employ? What are the themes of your interview? What characteristics do you look for? How do you know if the…

Hi everyone, I would like to study Economics out of curiosity and for the sake of my own education. I am not planning on becoming an expert. Can you recommend any informal resources to study Economics? I've heard about…

I picked up Golang recently and I am curious about how people use it to develop web applications. How does your tech stack look like?

Hello everyone, I have learned about the idea of P.I. (passive-income) side projects only recently and I've been wondering how do people search, look for and find the niches they've built side projects for? Any ideas?