Hacker News: aragonite

"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: 2

# 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: 2

# 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: 31

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

Windows and Linux: A Tale of Two Kernels (2004) [video]

aragonite — Mon, 25 May 2026 14:53:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdV9QuvgS_w

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48267593

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Rocket Mail

aragonite — Sat, 23 May 2026 17:39:44 +0000

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

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48249531

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

How Node.js and V8 keep each other working

aragonite — Thu, 21 May 2026 23:34:59 +0000

Article URL: https://joyeecheung.github.io/blog/2026/05/18/how-nodejs-and-v8-keep-each-other-working/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48230086

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

The Little Book of Semaphores (2016)

aragonite — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:28:07 +0000

Article URL: https://greenteapress.com/wp/semaphores/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48224400

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Unix_history-Simple.svg

aragonite — Tue, 19 May 2026 18:33:02 +0000

Article URL: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/77/Unix_history-simple.svg

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48197339

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Reminiscences on the History of Time-Sharing (1983)

aragonite — Tue, 19 May 2026 14:11:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/history/timesharing/timesharing.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48193555

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Spork: A posix_spawn you can use as a fork

aragonite — Tue, 19 May 2026 12:06:03 +0000

Article URL: https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/3713082.3730396

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48192244

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

A fork() in the road (2019) [pdf]

aragonite — Sat, 16 May 2026 15:30:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/fork-hotos19.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48161070

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Software Internals Book Club

aragonite — Tue, 12 May 2026 02:28:11 +0000

Article URL: https://eatonphil.com/bookclub.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48103511

Points: 236

# Comments: 33

Who is Marcus Rodriguez? [video]

aragonite — Mon, 11 May 2026 08:32:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/NG1zo-sR_y4

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48092477

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Who invented file extensions in file names? (2023)

aragonite — Sun, 10 May 2026 11:23:07 +0000

Article URL: https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/27926/who-invented-file-extensions-in-file-names

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48082977

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

"Mother of all Demos" (1968)

aragonite — Thu, 07 May 2026 18:13:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6rKUf9DWRI

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48052797

Points: 31

# Comments: 2

Jeffrey Snover on .NET and Windows: "Not a Happy Marriage"

aragonite — Thu, 07 May 2026 09:58:18 +0000

Article URL: https://xcancel.com/AndrewPlaTech/status/2052062704714612858#m

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48047481

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Why interaction is more powerful than algorithms (1997) [pdf]

aragonite — Tue, 05 May 2026 18:21:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.lri.fr/~mbl/ENS/FONDIHM/2013/papers/Wegner-CACM97.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48026453

Points: 2

# Comments: 0