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by NaOH 1y ago
Previous and related: The Alternate Universe of Soviet Arcade Games (2015) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28478046 - Sept 2021 (46 comments) Soviet Arcade Games from the 70s and 80s - https://news.yco
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Related: It’s nearly impossible to buy an original Bob Ross painting (2021) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44284723 - June 2025 (161 comments) It’s nearly impossible to buy an original Bob Ross painting - https
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Previously: The IKEA catalogue through the ages - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28997461 - Oct 2021 (64 comments)
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Yale to Be Paid Interest on Dutch Water Authority Bond from 1648 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10226291 - Sept 2015 (121 comments)
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The product of the railways is the timetable(springbett.substack.com)
92 points by NaOH 1y ago|88 comments
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On the Mac it works to start dragging a file from one place and, while keeping the dragged file selected with the mouse/trackpad, using Command-Tab to switch to another application. If that’s the Finder, once there Spring-loaded Folde
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>A pitcher can give up no hits, and get an ER.... The ghost runner does not count as an earned run.
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Previously: A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42835806 - Jan 2025 (10 comments) A list of Hacker News's undocumented features and behaviors - h
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Best is to contact hn@ycombinator.com to get an explanation or a correction.
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Significant Incidents and Close Calls in Human Spaceflight(sma.nasa.gov)
2 points by NaOH 1y ago|0 comments
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The Wikipedia piece linked here in the comments says that central throne is seven feet tall.
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Previously: Google Doesn't Rank My Site for My Own Brand Name - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45201637 - 19 days ago (25 comments)
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Related: The almost-lost art of rosin potatoes - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41991352 - Oct 2024 (168 comments)
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Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations' Millennium General Assembly (2021)(americanart.si.edu)
48 points by NaOH 1y ago|18 comments
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The embedded video in this post is worthwhile, particularly for the visuals of the artwork, but for those who’d prefer an informative (short) article, there’s one in a previous HN submission about this that got no traction back in 2023. ht
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I think the bigger issue is that someone thought this post was worthy of HN discussion. It's more concerning to me than lapcat writing for an audience that knows his priors and him then choosing to forego an in-depth critique of what A
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>The other issue, I would say the main issue, is that the controls remain on top of the video for several seconds after you're done manipulating them. So you keep having a darkened video for several seconds every time you adjust som
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Depictions of Celestial Objects Spanning Nearly a Millennium (2014)(publicdomainreview.org)
43 points by NaOH 1y ago|1 comments
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Right, but as that article notes, the numbers show it's an average of 4.5 pitches per team in the shadow zone in each game. And those pitches are not clear-cut instances where players will be confident in challenging, more like 50&#x2F
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Some numbers: A typical MLB game sees about 292 pitches thrown. Of the pitches called a ball or strike—so ignore any pitches fouled off or put in play—93% are called correctly by umpires. That's equivalent to umpires missing a call eve
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I've been satisfied using Downcast for a long time now. US $3 (though I have used the tipping feature because it's provided me ample value). In particular, its sorting organization matches my preference, which is a list of podcast
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Ron DiMenna, Founder of Ron Jon Surf Shop, Has Died(spacecoastdaily.com)
3 points by NaOH 1y ago|1 comments
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An unspoken inference from when you've made posts like this is that HN has largely only changed in terms of scale, that the overall community culture has been relatively static. What are the indicators that would catch your attention t
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Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45328579
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Drawn in the dock: the story of UK courtroom illustration (2020)(itsnicethat.com)
11 points by NaOH 1y ago|1 comments
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Certainly not as precise nor as thorough as proper documentation, but you may be interested in this 2005 New Yorker piece: "The Egg Men: How breakfast gets served at the Flamingo hotel in Las Vegas." https://www.newyo
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>There's another important aspect that I wrote about... and still haven't explained very well. In that post it's called "the temporal decay of interestingness in any sequence of related stories"—a clumsy phrase..
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>...I assure you nobody who arrives in any of the nondescript white trucks with numbers on them regards the regulatory process as highly as you do. I said nothing of how I regard the regulatory process. Don't be presumptuous; doing
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>Inspector visits the "dirty" bigCo factory and they have an expensive binder for him showing him why everything they do he could possibly take issue is "compliant", citing relevant law, guidelines, specs, etc, etc. I
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Midcentury North American Restaurant Placemats(casualarchivist.substack.com)
201 points by NaOH 1y ago|57 comments

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