Hacker News: Synchronymehttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=SynchronymeHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Thu, 25 Jun 2026 21:19:41 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by Synchronyme in "Dostoyevsky isn't difficult"]]>IMHO it's less about being a teenager, and more about turning those great classics into school assignments.

With one exception (Musset's Lorenzaccio), every single book my teachers gave me to read felt like a boring chore.

But when I try Crime and Punishment at 17 by myself, I loved it so much that I immediately purchased The Brothers Karamazov (and loved it even more).

I can guarantee that if it had been a school assignment, I wouldn't have made it past page 50.

]]>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 08:10:15 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48670429Synchronymehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48670429https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48670429<![CDATA[New comment by Synchronyme in "The strangest letter of the alphabet: The rise and fall of yogh"]]>Still not as strange as ꙮ, the Multiocular O from a 15th century manuscript used to describe a many-eyed seraphim. (Officially added to unicode in 2022)

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