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13,223karma·911submissions·April 6, 2011
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>1. If this is a dinner party (or people are all seated), force people to get up and move in a way that they'll meet new people. Do this when you're about 2/3 of the way through the …
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Probably best to read the Low-Tech Magazine site About page explaining what they do as a solar-powered site: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/about/the-solar-website …
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Why Should I Care What Color the Bikeshed Is? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25888 - June 2007 (4 comments)…
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People quickly become accustomed to common occurrences that are not threatening (like extreme weather events). Apollo 8 was the first time humans reached the moon, just orbiting it. Sixteen months lat…
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The Library of Congress has a bunch at https://guides.loc.gov/travel-posters/sample-images and this site got some traction here recently: David Klein's TWA Posters - http…
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Two days ago: US Passport Power Falls to Historic Low - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45595746 - Oct 2025 (169 comments)…
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>You can participate for years and still never gain access to basic features like downvoting, since karma and visibility are as much about fitting in as about merit. Consider making article submiss…
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Three days ago: One to two Starlink satellites are falling back to Earth each day - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45493143 - 6 Oct 2025 (336 comments)…
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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 70…
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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…
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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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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 th…
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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 u…
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Best is to contact hn@ycombinator.com to get an explanation or a correction.
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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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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 thi…