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Re:Λ Snap – An inviting programming language for kids and adults for C... on Friday September 11, 2026 @03:50PM (#49664377)
Where is the opening <sarcasm> tag?
Re:It shrinks when it's stretched! on Friday May 16, 2025 @09:16AM (#44005124)
Or more precisely, snaps back to a smaller size when stretched over a certain limit.
Re:One quantum transition makes light at 21 cm on Thursday April 24, 2025 @01:57PM (#43785569)
Ah, so the answer to life, the universe, and everything was actually 42/2 …
Re:Crossing the uncanny valley of conversational voice on Sunday March 02, 2025 @06:54AM (#43229526)
As a non-native English speaker, it sounds great to me. This model should really be getting more attention.
Re:"All That We Have Lost": An HN Experiment on Sunday January 26, 2025 @01:03PM (#42832169)
Thanks for the ideas :)

My ‘pitching’ was entirely unplanned, and really, I have no experience in audience targeting or anything like that. Well, guess I will just have to try again. Maybe I can get some time for better planning and execution after a few months. Thanks again.

Re:"All That We Have Lost": An HN Experiment on Sunday January 26, 2025 @10:44AM (#42830779)
I turn to go; a creaking sound

Something huge looms behind.

“Tiny seed”, what have you done?

Re:"All That We Have Lost": An HN Experiment on Sunday January 26, 2025 @10:36AM (#42830720)
Yes, I was expecting a much more enthusiastic feedback. I thought that almost everyone would be willing to contribute 3 lines or so, which is sadly not the case. Can you think of any other site where this might gain better reception?

Another factor might be that I posted this one in the morning (IST), when HN is not really at its peak, and the post quickly got lost in the ‘new posts’ list. Do you think it would be OK to repost this link after a month or so?

"All That We Have Lost": An HN Experiment

Posted by omegacombinator on Saturday January 25, 2025 @02:04AM
from the self-post dept.

The things of the pastOften thought forgotten,Tend to leave a mark.&lt;line break&gt;In the dark corners of the mind,A tiny seed lies, dormantAwaiting the light of memory.This is an HN experiment: to build a poem with a tree-like structure. Starting from the above few lines as seed/parent-node, comments from the HN community (you, dear reader) can transform this into a diverse, branching piece...

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Ask HN: Alternative to Distill.pub?

Posted by omegacombinator on Friday December 27, 2024 @10:18AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I love reading articles written at Distill (http://distill.pub/), but due to its indefinite hiatus (https://distill.pub/2021/distill-hiatus), I am looking for other online free resources which host such interactive, interesting and engaging material. Does anyone know about any such websites?

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Re:Visual Simplification of A*sin(x)+B*cos(x) on Wednesday December 18, 2024 @02:00AM (#42448629)
Thanks
Re:Show HN: Evolving the Monalisa Using Genetic Algorithm on Tuesday December 10, 2024 @11:12PM (#42384716)
Code at https://github.com/Soham-Saha/GeneticAlgorithms
Re:Vector Field Art on Tuesday December 10, 2024 @01:03AM (#42374207)
Code at https://github.com/Soham-Saha/VectorFieldSimulator

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