steven_noble
Re:Ask HN: Which books did you read at least twice?
on Saturday October 17, 2026 @09:09AM (#50130850)
while I think of it, also "The Structure Of Scientific Revolutions"
Re:Ask HN: Which books did you read at least twice?
on Friday October 16, 2026 @06:21AM (#50116569)
"How To Make A Good Script Great", "Slow Motion: Changing Men, Changing Masculinities", "Cryptonomicon", "1984", "Lord Of The Rings"
Re:A road could change West Africa's urban future
on Thursday August 13, 2026 @09:55AM (#49286031)
Genuine question: is NPR always that sloppy? Because the first screen in that visual article claimed that a particular region is experiencing unprecedented growth. Which is a massive claim, given all of history, but also impossible to fact check if the authors don't even say whether they mean population growth or economic growth or something else. The second screen was even dumber. I gave up after that.
Re:Marx's Theory of Alianation of Labor
on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @09:31PM (#48130076)
true - let's see if i can edit the post
Re:Marx's Theory of Alianation of Labor
on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @07:38PM (#48129147)
Seems more relevant than ever given half the things we discuss on here...
Re:Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock
on Saturday March 14, 2026 @03:59AM (#47374363)
"Helium production"? I'm assuming they're not running a fusion reactor...
Re:Should facial analysis help determine whom companies hire?
on Friday November 07, 2025 @04:16PM (#45851199)
Meanwhile, even The Economist's subeditor does not understand the difference between "who" and "whom".
Re:Ask HN: How many of you are working in tech without a STEM degree?
on Saturday July 26, 2025 @06:09PM (#44697318)
Arts Degree -> Tech Journalist -> Self-Employed Self-Taught Consultant -> Professional Software Developer
Re:Ask HN: Should your life partner be less/more educated than yourself?
on Monday June 16, 2025 @08:33PM (#44294631)
Your life partner should be someone you trust and admire and who feels that way about you. Any other criterion is a recipe for disappointment.
Re:Ask HN: What's the Most Effective Habit You've Adopted?
on Thursday April 03, 2025 @05:50PM (#43575901)
Mechanical pencil and a day planner
Re:A New type of web hacking technique: DoubleClickjacking
on Friday January 17, 2025 @11:57PM (#42745957)
The article’s headline says it’s a new technique. The article’s body does not really say this.
Re:Ask HN: What books taught you the most about human nature?
on Tuesday October 08, 2024 @02:39AM (#41774379)
Also, "Man's Search for Meaning" by Viktor Frankl
Re:Ask HN: What books taught you the most about human nature?
on Tuesday October 08, 2024 @02:34AM (#41774359)
"What You Can Change and What You Can't" by Martin Seligman
Re:Ask HN: What did you read recently? Preferably long form, non-tech
on Sunday September 01, 2024 @11:00PM (#41422264)
"Radio Birdman: Retaliate First", by Murray Engleheart. First full history of the pioneering Australian proto-punk outfit.
Re:Ask HN: Chrome's CLI is undocumented and unstable. Why have it? Who...
on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @05:25PM (#41250669)
BTW, "whom" is an object, "who" is a subject.
Re:Ask HN: Chrome's CLI is undocumented and unstable. Why have it? Who...
on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @05:20PM (#41250638)
The main reason I know for using those switches is when running Chrome headlessly for automated browser tests. I'm sure they have other uses I haven't come across. The fact that the flags are specific to the version of Chrome you are running is not a big deal when you typically specify the version in your test harness anyway.
Re:Why doesn't Economic Marxism get as much attention as Cultural Marx...
on Friday July 12, 2024 @02:03AM (#40943020)
Because "economic Marxism" is Marxism, and "cultural Marxism" is not Marxism
Re:Ask HN: What music blogs do you like?
on Tuesday July 09, 2024 @07:41PM (#40922436)
https://i94bar.com/
Mostly focused on the sound that was retrospectively called 'proto-punk' when it emerged in the US (MC5, Stooges, Patti Smith, etc) and Australia (especially Radio Birdman) and elsewhere just before punk.
But it's a sound that you can still hear in many bands today that were born long after that era. Especially in bands like The Hellacopters, etc.
Re:Ask HN: What macOS apps/programs do you use daily and recommend?
on Sunday June 09, 2024 @06:50PM (#40628274)
Most of mine are listed here already. Four are worth adding: fusion, for audio, pixelmator, for images, Kitty, the terminal, and Alfred, which is like raycast.
Re:Ask HN: What was your most humbling learning moment?
on Sunday June 02, 2024 @06:49PM (#40557738)
Mostly politics, where I have learned to stop predicting anything that can't be directly seen -- especially the future. For example:
1. Trump wins. I firmly predicted the opposite. To be fair, most polls predicted the same. But the lesson is to be less certain about the future.
2. No chemical weapon found in Iraq. I firmly predicted the opposite. To be fair, when that event unfolded, it was not that long since the world had last seen Iraq actually use chemical weapons against Kurdish insurgents. But the lesson is to be less certain about anything that can't be directly seen.
Re:Ask HN: Looking for a simple note taking tool
on Monday May 27, 2024 @06:37PM (#40495445)
and/or Zotero
Re:Ask HN: Looking for a simple note taking tool
on Monday May 27, 2024 @06:37PM (#40495435)
Personally, I find it hard to beat Vim.
But if you are looking for a free and flexible GUI alternative, maybe give Joplin a go?
Re:Study found every 1.2 hours of leisure time on computer tripled lik...
on Friday April 12, 2024 @06:18PM (#40018252)
1.2 hours per day? Week? Lifetime?
Re:Scientists still baffled from giant human skeletons up to 10 feet tall
on Thursday April 04, 2024 @04:42PM (#39935558)
Was this article written by AI?
(The grammatical flaw in the headline is the only thing making me believe it might have been written by a human.)
Re:I'm an engineer that needs to sell my services. Any good books on s...
on Friday February 09, 2024 @04:37PM (#39320826)
"The Trusted Advisor" by David Maister. (It's more about what makes you sellable than sales. And it's more than being a great engineer that makes you sellable.)
Re:Ask HN: Books you read in 2023 and recommend for 2024
on Thursday December 07, 2023 @10:08PM (#38564986)
"Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World" by Emma Marris.
Can't recommend it enough.
Also:
- "The Battle of Midway", by Craig Symonds
- "Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna" by Edith Sheffer
Re:Metric Time
on Thursday October 12, 2023 @03:44PM (#37862189)
The film Metropolis is the first thing this brings to mind
Re:Ask HN: Can we please ban Political Conversations on HN?
on Monday October 09, 2023 @06:45PM (#37826390)
I'm pretty sure that advocating censorship, as you are doing, is starting a political conversation on HN
Re:Ask HN: Have you ever gained any deep insight from books outside yo...
on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @03:09AM (#36054975)
"The Language Instinct", by language psychologist Steven Pinker, gave me a new way of thinking about the old nature/nurture issue.
The easy solution has always been to say "Nature? Nurture? It's a bit of both". But really, that invites the response: "Both nature and nurture? Sure. Of course. But both of them in what way?"
In the case of language it's really interesting. It seems that biologically, we are very very strongly primed to learn language ("nature"). And to learn it in certain ways and at certain life stages.
But of course, at the same, the language or languages that we learn are incredibly diverse, and these differences do not map in any way to the physical differences between our bodies ("nurture").
So, in the case of human language, that's "the how" for how nature and nurture come together. Maybe it applies to other areas too where the nature/nurture debate still rages.