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  1. Get Creative Insights on the Boundary Between Sleep and Wakefulness (artofmanliness.com)
    6 points 1
  2. Ask HN: What is the one thing you are afraid of doing in 2015?

    (And perhaps more importantly, why?)

    4 points 9
  3. SKEME: A versatile secure key exchange mechanism for Internet (1996) [pdf] (dia.unisa.it)
    6 points 2
  4. Forget a million jobs

    It just occurred to me the government's desire for startups to generate one million jobs hasn't been stated very well. It's a little limiting. It's not one million jobs the government wants. It's to have one million…

    4 points 1
  5. Ask HN: How would you change your mind?

    A recent HN post introduced the idea that changing your mind is one of the most difficult things we do [1]. This got me thinking what makes it difficult. It's probably not difficult in the same way running a marathon…

    1 points 3
  6. No synchronous messaging API in Chrome in 4 years (code.google.com)
    1 points 0
  7. Happiness is a glass half-empty (theguardian.com)
    3 points 0
  8. What Every Successful Person Knows, But Never Says (jamesclear.com)
    4 points 1
  9. Ask HN: Is there something valuable in being imprecise?

    I'm wondering if there's something we lose when we are precise. And if it's more valuable to be imprecise. What alerted me to this is an article[1] naming historical figures who were bad at spelling. The one that stood…

    1 points 4
  10. Ask HN: Can you score blogs by truthfulness?

    I'm wondering if there's a way to find blogs according to a custom search algorithm. I know Reddit and HN rank posts by votes. But choosing stories that way suffers from side effects like: (1) a story being popular…

    4 points 9

  11. No, it won't work; I'm not a security expert

    1 points 0 pollopt

  12. Yes, it will work; I'm a security expert

    0 points 0 pollopt

  13. No, it won't work; I'm a security expert

    1 points 0 pollopt

  14. Yes, it will work; I'm not a security expert

    0 points 0 pollopt
  15. Ask HN: Which daily habit has affected your productivity the most?

    Some of the most powerful drivers of success are our habits: what we repeatedly do every day. Even the most successful people are defined more by what they do rather than by who they are. What are these habits? I would…

    81 points 79
  16. Ask HN: What's best for hacking, to build fast or to think hard?
    6 points 6
  17. Ask HN: How would you become more determined?

    If you wanted to become strong-willed how would you do it? Is it possible? Are there determination exercises you could do? Would you actually do them if there were any? How/what would you measure to see if it was…

    13 points 15
  18. Ask HN: What is the most surprising quote you ever read?
    5 points 6
  19. Ask HN: How would you guard your data privacy?

    I would like to hear what other HNers might be thiking of doing about keeping their data private. Feel free to be creative in your responses. I no longer trust my data being stored in cloud services or data centers. I…

    7 points 1
  20. Why is my homedir wide open?

    Why does the default mode of adduser is to create a home directory that is wide open for anyone to change into? I'm curious how that decision was made.

    2 points 3
  21. Ask HN: How does domain registration work?

    I'm trying to understand what it takes to register a domain. Domain registrars vary in their prices. There has to be some baseline cost to a registrar, on top of which they add their markup. What is that baseline price?…

    1 points 3
  22. Does confidence really breed success? (bbc.co.uk)
    2 points 0