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Our Favourite Sleepovers

• Technology to Divert Hurricanes
• How I Lost My Job
• A Metric for Lovely Conversations

The Complete List

#106 How to Build the Model That Discovers Matter

#105 Using Diffusion to Discover New Materials

#104 Making Unhackable Servers

#103 PhDs Are Replacing Formulas with Neural Nets

#102 Grammarly for Anything

#101 Players Cause City-wide Blackout to Win a Battle - Chatting with Eve Online’s CEO

#100 Compressing 2Gb ➜ 134 Bytes

#99 Grammarly for Cold Emails

#98 Technology to Divert Hurricanes

#97 How Exploding Furnaces Saved Me Hours of Debugging

#96 Homeless People Have Phones

#95 Games Computers Will Never Solve

#94 Solving Games as a Service

#93 Auto Layout Tool for News Articles

#92 Real-Time Inflation Tracking

#91 A Unit for Fun

#90 Cross-service Debuggers

#89 Spreadsheeting Friendships

#88 Singable Songs

#87 A Date to Remember

#86 Privacy + AR Glasses

#85 My Personal Grammarly

#84 Recording and Publishing Podcasts in 15 Seconds

#83 Is ___ Funny?

#82 Verifying It's Me to the Government

#81 Effortlessly Digitizing Notebooks

#80 Laughing at Every Reference

#79 Online Judges for Evolution Simulators

#78 Wikipediafying Books to Make Reading Fun

#77 Automatically Generating Regex

#76 Preventing $500 GCP Bills

#75 Encoding Nonverbal Communication in Writing

#74 How I Lost My Job

#73 Making Social Media Less Addictive

#72 Learning by Auto-grouping Our Notes

#71 A Search Engine That Has Your Back

#70 Measuring Product-Market Fit for YouTubers

#69 Treasuring Friendships

#68 A Metric for Lovely Conversations

#67 Paying $0 to $10 a Month for Netflix

#66 Finding a Fun 9 to 5

#65 Breaking out of Virtual Escape Rooms

#64 Coming up with Ideas

#63 Increasing Survey Responses for Graduating Class Profiles

#62 Improving Customer Support

#61 Preventing False Fire Alarms

#60 I Think I Know Why I Like You

#59 Connecting Smart People to Problems

#58 A Newsfeed for Your Life

#57 Using Neural Nets to Assist Therapists

#56 Clicking 1-week Shipping Over 1-day Shipping

#55 Smarter Slack Notifications

#54 A DeLorean to Watch Old Shows on Release

#53 Algorithmically Adding Music to Live Broadcasts

#52 Why Climate Scientists Love Flying

#51 When I Fell in Love

#50 Offering Forgiveness in Budgeting Apps

#49 Whoa, Slow Down. That Car's Having a Bad Day

#48 Bullet Points ⇒ Better Reading

#47 A Search Engine for the Illiterate

#46 Highlighting Quotes in Podcasts

#45 I Want to Send You a Gift, but I Don't Know Your Address

#44 A Startup to (Hopefully) End Racism

#43 My Failed Attempt at Finding Love

#42 Is Production on Fire? Help Your Interns Improve by Taking a Vacation

#41 How Tech can Select 12 Angry Men

#40 Prompts to Help Creatives Think

#39 A Metric to Replace Test Coverage

#38 A New Art Style: Particle Effects

#37 QR Codes for Robotic Construction

#36 Designing Logos by Playing with Blocks

#35 Technical Interviews for Writing Pull Requests

#34 Drawing Routes with What 3 Words

#33 Using Knowledge Graphs to Prioritize Learning

#32 Using Knowledge Graphs to Learn from Others

#31 Pop Quizzes to Learn From Books

#30 Manual Recommendation Systems

#29 Underlines to Help Speed Read

#28 Ideas to Alleviate Eye Strain

#27 Showing Info in Underlined Text

#26 Tools to Undermine Biased Graphs

#25 Sharing Opinions with Formulas

#24 A Tool for Reminiscing and Persuasion

#23 Grammarly on the Apple Glass

#22 Measuring Emotional Weight

#21 Metrics for Novelty

#20 Cybersecurity for Consumers

#19 Search via Dynamic File Trees

#18 The Shortcomings of Google Drive's Search

#17 Addepar for Philanthropy

#16 Your AC Works Too Hard

#15 Forgetting

#14 Conversational Calculators

#13 A Tool That Helps You Write Better

#12 How to Frame Your Photo at the Sydney Opera House

#11 Gossip That's Stronger than Liquor

#10 Pattern Recognition With VR

#9 YouTube for Newsletters

#8 Decoration Should Present Information

#7 How to Search for Lost Objects

#6 Journaling from the Future

#5 How to Accurately Rank Chess Players

#4 Chrome Extensions for Messaging Apps

#3 Fine-tuning Your Flow State

#2 An Intern in Your IDE

#1 A Search Engine for Story Ideas