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zachrose

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  1. Ask HN: Why does this 90-degree USB adapter have a chip in it?

    https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09TQNQWPZ Why isn't it just connectors? What is the chip doing?

    3 points 2
  2. Ask HN: Documenting Design Regrets?

    I'm wrapping up a project that overall I'm pretty happy with, but I can see how a design decision here or there might become a source of errors down the road. That said, it's also possible that the project goes in…

    1 points 0
  3. Ask HN: How's the Kickstarter Union Going?

    I haven't been able to find anything about it except for news of the vote back in February.

    58 points 21
  4. Seven Essential Messages in the Time of Coronavirus (medicinanarrativa.eu)
    1 points 0
  5. Alt-Text as Poetry (alt-text-as-poetry.net)
    26 points 3
  6. The Great Gizmo (1963) [pdf] (classes.dma.ucla.edu)
    12 points 1
  7. Ask HN: “Year zero” for CS students? Use a terminal, etc

    I vaguely recall something along the lines of an online "how to computer for CS" resource or class for incoming computer science students. It covered things like using a terminal and a package manager. It might have…

    51 points 12
  8. Math and Mysticism (2017) (avant.org)
    2 points 0
  9. The Internet and the crisis of epistemic authority (leiterreports.typepad.com)
    2 points 1
  10. The Great Gizmo (1963) [pdf] (classes.dma.ucla.edu)
    1 points 0
  11. Antarctica is starting to turn green (washingtonpost.com)
    2 points 0
  12. Ask HN: Large scale mapping of JavaScript in the wild?

    Is there anybody crawling the web for JavaScript files and looking at metrics or patterns in the way that lexicographers might study a corpus of natural language?

    1 points 3
  13. Sheryl Sandberg Advises Managers to Ask Employees About Pregnancy (2013) (slate.com)
    10 points 0
  14. High School Student Builds Scanning Tunneling Microscope (2009) (stm-udlap.blogspot.com)
    2 points 0
  15. Reasons why your programming language sucks (wiki.theory.org)
    1 points 0
  16. Umberto Eco on Macintosh vs. DOS (jowett.web.cern.ch)
    2 points 0
  17. The Internet lacks closure (matthewstadler.org)
    1 points 0
  18. Burgers (2012) (theageofmammals.com)
    1 points 0
  19. Capability vs. Suitability (2012) (youtube.com)
    2 points 0
  20. Functioning 'mechanical gears' seen in nature for the first time (2013) (phys.org)
    31 points 10
  21. Perl and Linguistics (1995) (world.std.com)
    3 points 1
  22. Edward Snowden: we may never spot space aliens thanks to encryption (theguardian.com)
    3 points 1
  23. Is Software Art or Engineering? (1999) (spectacle.org)
    24 points 45
  24. California Ruling on LAPD License Plate Readers [pdf] (courts.ca.gov)
    2 points 0
  25. Ask HN: Extreme office computer setups?

    So plenty of people have insane setups (6 monitors, eccentric recliners, aesthetically extravagant PC cooling, etc) in their home office, but I've yet to see someone whose setup really stands out in an office of more…

    1 points 1