Hacker News: shortcrct

How Complex Systems Fail (1998)

shortcrct — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 15:13:31 +0000

Article URL: https://how.complexsystems.fail/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49409473

Points: 372

# Comments: 77

Building Our Custom Wedding Website

shortcrct — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 15:33:03 +0000

Article URL: https://adamfendley.com/2026/04/06/building-our-wedding-website.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47922971

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

How Madrid Built Its Metro Cheaply

shortcrct — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 16:44:34 +0000

Article URL: https://worksinprogress.co/issue/how-madrid-built-its-metro-cheaply/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42329811

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Eclipse April 2024 – Power Grids

shortcrct — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 15:16:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.gridstatus.io/total-solar-eclipse

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39980355

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by shortcrct in "Canned air is unexpectedly supersonic [video]"

shortcrct — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 23:58:51 +0000

Funny enough, due to a tailwind the other day, flights a couple days ago across the Atlantic actually did break the sound barrier. Look at this IAD>LHR flight that reached 802 mph [0]. (It was a Boeing).

[0]: https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/VIR22/history/202402...

Art and Fear: The ceramics class and quantity before quality

shortcrct — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 15:33:43 +0000

Article URL: https://excellentjourney.net/2015/03/04/art-fear-the-ceramics-class-and-quantity-before-quality/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39191275

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by shortcrct in "Marcus Aurelius: The Man Who Solved the Universe [video]"

shortcrct — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 17:05:11 +0000

The same thing, for all intensive purposes.

New comment by shortcrct in "Microsoft overtakes Apple as most valuable company"

shortcrct — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 21:47:30 +0000

Because Apple is willing to play China's game. Google and Facebook's business models (ads) fundamentally don't work with China's government. They sell different products than Apple.

The Insidious Lie That We Can’t Understand Each Other

shortcrct — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 11:51:50 +0000

Article URL: https://jonathanhaidt.substack.com/p/identity-trap

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37777412

Points: 19

# Comments: 11

Ideas, Frameworks, and Lessons from 15 Years (Newfound Research)

shortcrct — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 14:21:26 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.thinknewfound.com/2023/08/15-ideas-frameworks-and-lessons-from-15-years/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37392024

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by shortcrct in "Market Map"

shortcrct — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 21:26:01 +0000

Outside of looking pretty and complex, I just can't figure out what marginal benefit I have looking at this graph vs this one from FinViz [0]. It's clearer, easier to read, and not three-dimensional.

[0]: https://finviz.com/map.ashx

New comment by shortcrct in "What If All the Gasoline Cars Became Electric Vehicles?"

shortcrct — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 18:27:38 +0000

It would appear that the Ford F-150, the most popular car in America, has an average MPG of 23 mpg [0], so there's possibly some accuracy here. I do understand that's a very American-centric view, but its one explanation.

[0]: https://www.caranddriver.com/ford/f-150

Amazon tracks and targets US staff over 3 days in office rule

shortcrct — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 14:20:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/7f058b6f-3a2b-4aeb-b77b-dc68102ebd77

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37076500

Points: 37

# Comments: 66

Paychecks, Not Portfolios: Why Income Is the Key to Financial Success

shortcrct — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 21:35:09 +0000

Article URL: https://ofdollarsanddata.com/paychecks-not-portfolios/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37055768

Points: 17

# Comments: 7

New comment by shortcrct in "Do you avoid the news? You’re in growing company"

shortcrct — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 19:29:19 +0000

I get your point, but let's not sit here and convince ourselves that the front page of HN is the same as the front page of CNN, Fox, or WaPo.

New comment by shortcrct in "Espresso coffee mitigates the aggregation of Alzheimer′s associated tau protein"

shortcrct — Sat, 05 Aug 2023 16:12:12 +0000

I briefly looked through the website, does the SCA have a list of "Certified" consumer-level espresso machines specifically? I was disappointed to see that they had certified home brewers for drip coffee and commercial espresso machines that cost $15k, but no espresso machines that I could afford.

New comment by shortcrct in "Australians fight for the right to work from home permanently"

shortcrct — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 18:13:25 +0000

I wouldn't see the issue here if the employer was willing to "pay handsomely" to have their employees work those hours. Some white collar workers work those hours every week - if not longer - and are paid well for it.

Emotionally Numb: Expertise Dulls Consumer Experience (2021)

shortcrct — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 13:57:57 +0000

Article URL: https://academic.oup.com/jcr/article/48/3/355/6171148

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36893596

Points: 43

# Comments: 52

The Case Against Zeros in Grading

shortcrct — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 23:09:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.edutopia.org/article/case-against-zeros-grading/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36886427

Points: 3

# Comments: 0