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  1. Fixing the power supply of an old Atari 2600 (murrelljenna.github.io)
    3 points 2
  2. My Year of Reading Every Ursula K. Le Guin Novel (lithub.com)
    2 points 0
  3. A toy function to sort JavaScript arrays with SQL-like syntax (gist.github.com)
    2 points 0
  4. The Programmer and the Elves: A Fairy Tale (1992) (pigsandfishes.com)
    2 points 1
  5. Ask HN: Who doesn't want Canadians watching American TV?

    American video services all launch with no licensing rights for Canadian broadcasting. It's clear that foreign licensing is nontrivial and isn't something a startup would tackle right away, but often years will pass…

    1 points 0
  6. Wikipedia is down (status.wikimedia.org)
    19 points 11
  7. Analyzing the response to "Please don't learn to code" (wcarss.ca)
    3 points 0
  8. Ask HN: Apply late or wait?

    Would you say it's better to wait and apply next cycle, or to apply late anyway and try again in the winter if your application gets rejected? Essentially, are there any good reasons not to apply late? Say for example,…

    23 points 6
  9. How I (easily) motivated myself (wcarss.ca)
    2 points 0
  10. AskHN: Why hasn't open education worked yet?

    There's lots of neat stuff out there and we're all aware of effort's like the Khan Academy or MIT's OCW, and very few people at this point /haven't/ watched a lecture online -- so why hasn't open education taken…

    11 points 10
  11. Understand social networking: six degrees of Lois Weisberg (1999) (gladwell.com)
    6 points 0
  12. Usability Heuristics Mnemonic: "Map and Fetch" (wcarss.blogspot.com)
    3 points 0
  13. 7 Up, Dr Pepper, A&W all by same people: Huge Pop Industry Structure Infographic (msu.edu)
    2 points 0
  14. Ask HN: Founders, how did you manage to actually get to work?

    Ideas are easy - but choosing which idea to follow, then following it, remains hard. How did you choose, and then, how did you force yourself to execute? Among my friends, I've been exposed to dozens of good ideas this…

    2 points 6
  15. The Next Big Thing (wcarss.blogspot.com)
    15 points 8
  16. Ask HN: How long did it take you to pay off your student loans?

    I'm entering my last-ish year of undergrad study, and I'm approaching 20k in student loan debt; I am optimistic about paying off my loans (a friend paid his in just under two years), but with all of these scary articles…

    31 points 73
  17. Knowledge Mountaineering (wcarss.ath.cx)
    3 points 0
  18. Ask HN: When to sign an NDA?

    My friend and I are being asked to sign an NDA before we have a meeting with another pair about ideas we've all been working on. The NDA feels expansive and we don't know what's reasonable in this situation. When should…

    9 points 9
  19. Corporations are Re-enacting the histories of Nations (wcarss.blogspot.com)
    1 points 0