https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=helterskelter2Hacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:36:47 +0000I'm not an engineer, but this is how I was taught to use digital search back in my elementary school's library in the second or third grade (it replaced the card catalogue) and it's how I've searched ever since. We had an entire class period on how to keep our search keywords to the minimum so we'd get good results.

]]>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 03:07:20 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49873116helterskelter2https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49873116https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49873116The moon is 400 times smaller than the sun, but the sun is 400 times farther away, so they appear to be the same size. The solar eclipse we see, with the moon obscuring the sun but just allowing light around the edges the way it does, may be a very uncommon phenomena.

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