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The Complete List

107 The Algorithms in Your Blind Spots

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

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