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1.Why time appears to speed up with age (everything2.com)
250 points by rlander on Aug 19, 2012 | 100 comments
2.Programming Languages Have Social Mores Not Idioms (learncodethehardway.org)
244 points by rsobers on Aug 19, 2012 | 171 comments
3.The Textbook Industry & Greed: My Story (lukethomas.com)
244 points by lukethomas on Aug 19, 2012 | 125 comments
4.Show HN: BigVideo.js (dfcb.github.com)
244 points by johnpolacek on Aug 19, 2012 | 48 comments
5.Be More Productive. Take Time Off. (nytimes.com)
203 points by sathishmanohar on Aug 19, 2012 | 47 comments
6.Your Words are Wasted (hanselman.com)
192 points by d4nt on Aug 19, 2012 | 53 comments
7.The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Mediocre Entrepreneurs (techcrunch.com)
184 points by ssclafani on Aug 19, 2012 | 35 comments
8.Why Waiting Is Torture (nytimes.com)
163 points by sew on Aug 19, 2012 | 46 comments
9.Dear Apple: Please set iMessage free (cryptographyengineering.com)
160 points by stalled on Aug 19, 2012 | 79 comments
10.How to write a Linux device driver (freesoftwaremagazine.com)
161 points by rohshall on Aug 19, 2012 | 21 comments
11.Show HN: YouFM - A new way to listen to music on Youtube (youfm.org)
121 points by ashraful on Aug 19, 2012 | 81 comments
12.Why host and write a blog? (tbray.org)
115 points by aangjie on Aug 19, 2012 | 17 comments
13.NASA's Mars rover Curiosity fired its laser for the first time on Mars (nasa.gov)
114 points by MKais on Aug 19, 2012 | 16 comments
14.Experimental Python 3 support in Django (djangoproject.com)
110 points by mYk on Aug 19, 2012 | 4 comments
15.Camera Pi – DSLR Camera with Embedded Computer (davidhunt.ie)
106 points by yossilac on Aug 19, 2012 | 30 comments
16.Julian Assange urges US to end Wikileaks 'witch-hunt' (bbc.co.uk)
99 points by gitarr on Aug 19, 2012 | 115 comments
17.Writing Lock-Free Code: A Corrected Queue (drdobbs.com)
95 points by DanielRibeiro on Aug 19, 2012 | 20 comments
18.NASA Proposal to Revive Nuclear Thermal Space Propulsion Development (nextbigfuture.com)
93 points by Anon84 on Aug 19, 2012 | 39 comments
19.Free 2 day Berkeley "big data" class this week (ampcamp.berkeley.edu)
95 points by pwendell on Aug 19, 2012 | 14 comments
20.Pineapple.io: Like reddit for design resources (pineapple.io)
89 points by jack7890 on Aug 19, 2012 | 30 comments
21.Karma is Real (simpleprogrammer.com)
83 points by jsonmez on Aug 19, 2012 | 41 comments
22.‘Double’ (YC S12) Turns the iPad Into a Telepresence Robot (nytimes.com)
77 points by sew on Aug 19, 2012 | 31 comments

  This makes sense; for instance when you are 10 years of age, a year 
  represents 10% of your life, and seems like a very long time. However, 
  when you are 50 years old, one year has reduced to only 2% of your 
  life, and hence seems only one-fifth as long.
Interesting hypothesis, and he makes it look very scientific with the formulae and all, but it's still a wild crazy guess that delivers no actual falsifiable prediction. I think for claims of such magnitude, there should be a modicum of neurological or information-theoretical basis involved - instead we get to read repeated statements about how groundbreaking the idea is.

The article makes claims that at 30 life is essentially 3/4ths over which to me, while holding no subjective truth as far as I can tell, at least exhibit some self reference in the way that after three lines of statements the article's content seemed 75% over yet the actual text went on for much longer.

Subjectively time seems to go by faster the older we get, but that doesn't mean these bold claims are necessarily anywhere close to the truth. Personally, my relationship with time has certainly changed over the years, including the perception of a speed-up, but I also notice that some activities or states seem to last just as long (if not longer) subjectively as they did when I was 16.

My pet hypothesis is there are multiple factors involved in "the speedup", and that a large factor of it would actually be that our brains don't store repetitive events very well. This would mean as we get more experienced, an increasingly bigger amount of the average day consists of things we already did many times before so we don't store those moments in memory. That would result in increasingly large memory holes over time, which our brains then glance over as they piece together our past - thus resulting in an apparent speed up. This would also explain why days with unusual content seem to last much much longer than others (at least that's my experience).

24.STL Hackathon Canceled After Social Backlash (philipithomas.com)
76 points by philip1209 on Aug 19, 2012 | 59 comments
25.Stanford’s Self-Driving Car Tears It Up On Racetrack – Tops 120 MPH (singularityhub.com)
75 points by protomyth on Aug 19, 2012 | 39 comments
26.Cell: Lisp in Javascript (cell-lang.org)
64 points by SoCool on Aug 19, 2012 | 19 comments
27.Take Time to Develop Fast (tapin.tv)
60 points by ddt on Aug 19, 2012 | 24 comments
28.A Django Admin Wishlist (ankursethi.in)
57 points by GeneralMaximus on Aug 19, 2012 | 18 comments
29.Why I Hate Buying Tickets (nickpersico.com)
56 points by nickpersico on Aug 19, 2012 | 63 comments
30.Web Application Development with Clojure (vijaykiran.com)
56 points by rohshall on Aug 19, 2012 | 23 comments

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