Hacker News: aragonite

What's the story behind the names of Cloudflare's name servers? (2013)

aragonite — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 20:42:20 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/whats-the-story-behind-the-names-of-cloudflares-name-servers/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48884580

Points: 42

# Comments: 55

Sears Modern Homes

aragonite — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 15:07:49 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sears_Modern_Homes

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48881762

Points: 14

# Comments: 1

LibreHardwareMonitor: FOSS monitor of temps, fan speeds, voltages, load & clocks

aragonite — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 15:28:40 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/LibreHardwaRemonitor/LibreHardwareMonitor

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48806044

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Bede Liu, pioneer in digital signal processing and beloved mentor, dies at 91

aragonite — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:36:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.princeton.edu/news/2026/06/24/bede-liu-pioneer-digital-signal-processing-and-beloved-mentor-dies-age-91

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48799445

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

Dropping in on Gottfried Leibniz (2013)

aragonite — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 16:51:40 +0000

Article URL: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2013/05/dropping-in-on-gottfried-leibniz/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48777127

Points: 13

# Comments: 3

Corpulence Index

aragonite — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 02:49:23 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpulence_index

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48615205

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

Two-Letter Scrabble Words Visualized as Stem and Leaf Plot (2020)

aragonite — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 03:35:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.gideongoldin.com/blog/2020/10/1/data-visualizations-for-text-the-verbal-stem-amp-leaf-plot

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48594511

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Desmos Notebook Example Gallery

aragonite — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 21:57:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.desmos.com/gallery/1b48bb5c-1f75-4891-aa51-126bbd7b528f

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48577495

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by aragonite in "Desmos 3D Graphing Calculator"

aragonite — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 21:54:32 +0000

Blog post (2023): https://blog.desmos.com/articles/beta-3d-release/

Desmos 3D Graphing Calculator

aragonite — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 21:54:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.desmos.com/3d

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48577439

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Taleb: Time to Retire Standard Deviation (2014)

aragonite — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 04:11:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.edge.org/response-detail/25401

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48565580

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

The differential operator d/dx binds variables (2012)

aragonite — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 02:03:32 +0000

Article URL: https://jdh.hamkins.org/the-differential-operator-ddx-binds-variables/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48455290

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

Snap, Crackle and Pop: Fourth, fifth, and sixth derivatives of position

aragonite — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 05:24:35 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth,_fifth,_and_sixth_derivatives_of_position

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48432082

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Space travel under constant acceleration

aragonite — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 05:06:55 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_travel_under_constant_acceleration

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48431996

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

"Visually math concepts which are easy to explain"

aragonite — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:34:44 +0000

Article URL: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/733754/visually-stunning-math-concepts-which-are-easy-to-explain

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48401904

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

List of websites founded before 1995

aragonite — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:22:38 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_founded_before_1995

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48401724

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Nabokov's pale fire: the lost 'father of all hypertext demos'? (2011)

aragonite — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 01:18:16 +0000

Article URL: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/1995966.1996008

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48351579

Points: 133

# Comments: 33

The Redundancy of English (1951) [pdf]

aragonite — Sun, 31 May 2026 19:36:25 +0000

Article URL: http://medientheorie.com/doc/shannon_redundancy.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48348959

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Singing Telegram

aragonite — Sun, 31 May 2026 18:55:37 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singing_telegram

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48348556

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Leibniz's Explanation of binary arithmetic (1703)

aragonite — Thu, 28 May 2026 16:57:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.leibniz-translations.com/binary

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48311828

Points: 5

# Comments: 0