• Show HN: I tried reading an English essay vertically like traditional Japanese [pdf] https://www.jorisfalter.com/docs/Maker%20ScheduleManagerScheduleVertical.pdf 3 comments 23/4/2024
• Audio versions of all Paul Graham's essays https://listenly.io/book/65a056452eedafb1b94eecc8 2 comments 3/3/2024
• What I learned using private LLMs to write an undergraduate history essay https://zwischenzugs.com/2023/12/27/what-i-learned-using-private-llms-to-write-an-undergraduate-history-essay/ 81 comments 30/12/2023
• PG's essays, ranked "Google-style" http://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/PaulGrahamEssaysRanking.html?HN= 27 comments 16/12/2010

• $1.8M awarded to contest winners for writing essays capable of providing “the best evidence for establishing that the other side (afterlife) is real.” https://www.singularfortean.com/news/2021/11/5/bigelow-institute-for-consciousness-studies-announces-winners-of-afterlife-evidence-contest 56 comments 8/11/2021 nottheonion
• Margaret Atwood publishing new essay collection about the 'burning questions' of our time https://www.cbc.ca/books/margaret-atwood-publishing-new-essay-collection-about-the-burning-questions-of-our-time-1.6049883 3 comments 2/6/2021 books
• Does consciousness come from the brain’s electromagnetic field? – Johnjoe McFadden | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/does-consciousness-come-from-the-brains-electromagnetic-field 5 comments 6/4/2021 philosophy
• I spent over 30+ hours reading up on Gazprom and their business investments notably in the football industry. What follows is a brief essay I wrote up over the weekend. https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/isl2g3/i_spent_over_30_hours_reading_up_on_gazprom_and/ 50 comments 14/9/2020 soccer
• Read this Paul Graham (YC) essay from 2008 if you're worried about your startup in a recession https://www.reddit.com/r/startups/comments/fhei6n/read_this_paul_graham_yc_essay_from_2008_if_youre/ 27 comments 12/3/2020 startups
• Japan ninja student gets top marks for writing essay in invisible ink https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-49996166 5 comments 10/10/2019 worldnews
• Sholay: Appreciating an Epic Masala | Video Essay https://youtu.be/CQ5O8ufWxcA 3 comments 1/8/2019 india
• Model of the Mars Exploration Rovers and Sofi Collis, who wrote the winning essay in the naming contest for Spirit and Opportunity. June 2003 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e6/sofi_collis_mer.jpg 4 comments 17/2/2019 space
• Essays reveal Stephen Hawking predicted race of 'superhumans' - Physicist said genetic editing may create species that could destroy rest of humanity https://amp-theguardian-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/amp.theguardian.com/science/2018/oct/14/stephen-hawking-predicted-new-race-of-superhumans-essays-reveal?amp_js_v=a2&amp_gsa=1#referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&amp_tf=from%20%251%24s&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fscience%2F2018%2Foct%2F14%2Fstephen-hawking-predicted-new-race-of-superhumans-essays-reveal 9 comments 15/10/2018 science
• Chief Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels' "The Jew" essay, published 21 Jan 1939 in Der Angriff. http://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/angrif03.htm 8 comments 2/10/2018 europe
• Author of essay titled "How To Murder Your Husband" arrested for murdering her husband https://www.wfla.com/news/national/accused-wife-wrote-how-to-murder-your-husband-/1435254422 4 comments 12/9/2018 nottheonion
• How I survive: American teachers and their second jobs – a photo essay | US news https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/05/american-teachers-second-jobs-how-i-survive 12 comments 5/9/2018 politics
• Marco Rubio's 1000 word essay against Net Neutrality back in 2015. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/03/government-is-crashing-the-internet-party-116168 19 comments 14/12/2017 politics
• How to tell a bad person from a person who did a bad thing – Robert J Hartman | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/how-to-tell-a-bad-person-from-a-person-who-did-a-bad-thing 15 comments 26/7/2017 philosophy
• Antebellum (1843) doodles in an 1813 copy of John Locke's "Essay Concerning Human Understanding" http://dbpedia.org/describe/?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org%2Fresource%2FRobert_F._R._Lewis 3 comments 18/1/2017 history
• The string theory wars show us how science needs philosophy – Massimo Pigliucci | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/the-string-theory-wars-show-us-how-science-needs-philosophy?utm_source=aeon+newsletter&utm_campaign=eba5a1d6e4-daily_newsletter_10_august_20168_10_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-eba5a1d6e4-69120353 13 comments 13/8/2016 philosophy
• Moral Aims: Essays on the Importance of Getting It Right and Practicing Morality with Others http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/67569-moral-aims-essays-on-the-importance-of-getting-it-right-and-practicing-morality-with-others/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed%3A+philosophicalreviews%2Fnews+%28notre+dame+philosophical+reviews%29 2 comments 10/6/2016 philosophy
• I'm writing an essay on Locke and Nietzsche's moral perspectives, and was wondering how they differ, or how they are similar. https://www.reddit.com/r/philosophy/comments/4mzus7/im_writing_an_essay_on_locke_and_nietzsches_moral/ 8 comments 7/6/2016 philosophy
• USNI Enlisted Essay Competition http://www.usni.org/enlistedessay 3 comments 5/2/2016 navy
• A beautiful essay about a beautiful game..."It is 8-7, one out, and school will never start, rain will never come, sun will warm the back of your neck forever." http://mason.gmu.edu/~rmatz/giamatti.html 4 comments 23/1/2016 baseball
• Last week, the outgoing head of Arizona's Department of Education issued a letter saying some Tucson public schools were illegally promoting ethnic solidarity and the overthrow of the U.S. government by teaching Mexican history, rock lyrics and a rapper's essay. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/09/john-huppenthal-spanish_n_6431844.html?utm_hp_ref=politics&ir=politics 18 comments 9/1/2015 politics
• Argentina: The Country that Monsanto Poisoned. Photo Essay *UPDATED* http://overgrowthesystem.com/argentina-the-country-that-monsanto-poisoned-photo-essay/ 15 comments 1/1/2015 worldnews
• Revisited: "A Geostrategy for Eurasia" - an essay from 1997 by Zbigniew Brzezinski, a former US National Security Advisor. http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/53392/zbigniew-brzezinski/a-geostrategy-for-eurasia 18 comments 10/11/2014 europe
• My 3 favorite books of personal essays -- (Authors: Lyman Spitzer, Umberto Eco, and Gunter Grass) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4610597-dreams-stars-and-electrons?from_search=true 10 comments 28/9/2014 books
• Watch Chris Broussard awkwardly confirm LeBron's essay http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1YXc4k2CPY 557 comments 12/7/2014 nba
• Sam Harris - The Moral Landscape Challenge - The Winning Essay http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/the-moral-landscape-challenge 259 comments 3/6/2014 philosophy
• NRA advocates send 2,000+ death threats to Lt.Col. who wrote an essay on reasonable gun safety measures in US http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/responses-to-post-on-guns-bateman-122013 475 comments 26/12/2013 worldnews
• r/Germany, please help me collect data on attitudes to smoking in Germany, need it for an important essay. Vielen Dank to everyone who helps! http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/LJ7TJ2Q 18 comments 20/9/2012 germany
• Strained Relations: Why is sharing the road so difficult? A brief essay on careless cyclists, and ambivalent drivers. http://grist.org/biking/the-a-biker-problem-why-its-hard-to-share-the-road/ 16 comments 3/4/2012 bicycling
• Star-Spangled Canberra --- Essay on Americanisation of Australian politics. Change has accelerated recently "especially in regard to the quality and rancour of public debate". Now ultra-partisan with high, and rising, levels of public disaffection http://www.theglobalmail.org/feature/star-spangled-canberra/76/ 19 comments 26/2/2012 worldnews
• China jails dissident Chen Xi for 10 years - Veteran dissident is the 2nd within 4 days to be convicted of inciting subversion through online essays http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/26/china-jails-dissident-chen-xi 27 comments 26/12/2011 worldnews
• Republican Gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis plagiarizes essays he was paid $300,000 to write...now he's says he's sorry, isn't it too late for that? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/13/scott-mcinnis-apologizing_n_644590.html 5 comments 14/7/2010 politics
• Foul them! An essay about what it's like to ref kids basketball http://frontburner.dmagazine.com/2010/03/26/an-essay-about-what-its-like-to-ref-kids-basketball/ 8 comments 26/3/2010 sports
• ESSAY; Books Make You a Boring Person (NY Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/27/books/essay-books-make-you-a-boring-person.html 44 comments 19/10/2009 reddit.com
• An Essay by Timothy McVeigh http://www.outpost-of-freedom.com/mcveigh/okcaug98.htm 8 comments 29/4/2009 history
• Hillary Slams Obama For Essays He Wrote In 3rd Grade and Kindergarten About How He Wanted To Be President. http://donklephant.com/2007/12/03/hillary-goes-negativebadly/ 3 comments 4/12/2007 politics