Hacker News: uijl

Boomerang – New file-sharing service by WeTransfer founder

uijl — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 16:54:39 +0000

Article URL: https://bmrng.me/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46207268

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by uijl in "Map of Near and Middle East Oil 1965"

uijl — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 18:29:00 +0000

For the ones interested, there’s a fascination book on the history of oil. The Prize, by Daniel Yergin [1].

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/169354

Airbus – A Statistical Analysis of Commercial Aviation Accidents 1958-2024 [pdf]

uijl — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 19:20:04 +0000

Article URL: https://accidentstats.airbus.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/20241325_A-Statistical-analysis-of-commercial-aviation-accidents-2025-links.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44437170

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Japanese Love Hotels

uijl — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 17:24:07 +0000

Article URL: http://francoisprost.com/portfolio-item/love-hotel/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42713945

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Cyclorotor

uijl — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 15:01:54 +0000

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

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36562056

Points: 26

# Comments: 1

New comment by uijl in "Explore the Silk Roads"

uijl — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 01:08:21 +0000

Nice project! For other people interested in the history of the Silk Roads, I loved the book by Peter Frankopan.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25812847-the-silk-roads

Powers of Ten – Charles and Ray Eames

uijl — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 14:11:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32306187

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Catalan Atlas

uijl — Mon, 23 May 2022 13:00:23 +0000

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

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31478428

Points: 9

# Comments: 0

One Man’s Bad Math Helped Ruin Decades of English Football (2016)

uijl — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 10:59:14 +0000

Article URL: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-one-mans-bad-math-helped-ruin-decades-of-english-soccer/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28614981

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

The (CIA) World Factbook

uijl — Sat, 23 Jan 2021 10:24:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25881225

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Howard Marks: Risk Revisited Again (2015)

uijl — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 10:58:07 +0000

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

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25081070

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

This Overlooked Variable Is the Key to the Pandemic. (The Atlantic)

uijl — Sun, 04 Oct 2020 11:43:09 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/the-atlantic/this-overlooked-variable-is-the-key-to-the-pandemic-e71fe9bcb315

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24678236

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by uijl in "Writing Python inside Rust"

uijl — Sat, 18 Apr 2020 13:27:31 +0000

At FOSDEM there was a talk about boosting Python with Rust [1]. Might be interesting for the people checking this.

[1] https://fosdem.org/2020/schedule/event/python2020_rust/

Banks to sell first post-crisis managed synthetic CDO

uijl — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 15:45:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ifre.com/story/2220833/banks-race-to-sell-first-post-crisis-managed-synthetic-cdo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22181758

Points: 104

# Comments: 90

New comment by uijl in "Amsterdam’s canal houses have endured for 300 years"

uijl — Thu, 16 Jan 2020 17:03:05 +0000

A Dutch professor created the "Herengracht index" to track the price of these canal houses back to when construction started in 1620.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herengracht_index [2] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=598

El Al says goodbye to its 747 fleet with a sky art tribute

uijl — Sun, 03 Nov 2019 21:09:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/el-al-says-goodbye-to-its-747-fleet-with-a-sky-art-tribute/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21436613

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Introduction to Matrix Methods – Julia Introdution

uijl — Wed, 07 Aug 2019 09:36:28 +0000

Article URL: https://stanford.edu/class/ee103/index.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20633153

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by uijl in "Ask HN: What overlooked class of tools should a self-taught programmer look into"

uijl — Tue, 14 May 2019 06:03:41 +0000

I really like this tutorial to get into Make files: https://swcarpentry.github.io/make-novice/.

Russia’s Madagascar Election Gamble

uijl — Thu, 11 Apr 2019 08:14:42 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/BBCAfrica/status/1115940466892185600

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19632044

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by uijl in "Cleaning New York's harbor with one billion oysters"

uijl — Mon, 21 Jan 2019 07:24:42 +0000

In the Netherlands we, as hydraulic engineers, are working on something called 'Building with Nature'. This is a perfect example of that. If you guys like this, check out https://www.ecoshape.org/en/.