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New comment by wowsig in "Your Most Improbable Life"

wowsig — Thu, 21 May 2026 06:28:07 +0000

Perhaps for readers here, this would be often repeated advice, but I found it inspiring as a middle aged woman and also know in my bones that any version of it would help my mother immensely break her life patterns when they aren't serving her any longer. For people in mid-age and older, when they're at the stage where they've spend half their lives arranging and rearranging the world and its offerings in an altar of comfort and familiarity, this is a terrifying (and thereby exhilarating) thought. At the age of 23, ofcourse life seems improbable. At the age of 63, you don't even want to knock at an improbable door. Loved reading it and also got my mind blown at this fact: When you shuffle a deck of 52 cards the order of those cards will never be repeated again in the history of the universe, no matter how fast you shuffle.

In Praise of Imbalance

wowsig — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 17:23:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.aakankshagaur.com/blog/2025/2/10/in-praise-of-imbalance

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43002716

Points: 3

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Ask HN: Does your company's Reward and Recognition program work for you?

wowsig — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 11:46:22 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30243491

Points: 1

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Musuem of Forgeries

wowsig — Mon, 08 Nov 2021 08:09:15 +0000

Article URL: https://moforgeries.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29147046

Points: 1

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India Records Biggest Daily Covid Spike

wowsig — Fri, 23 Apr 2021 02:46:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/coronavirus-over-3-lakh-fresh-covid-19-cases-reported-in-india-for-the-first-time-2-104-deaths-highest-in-24-hours-2419238

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26910504

Points: 1

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The Work of Art in the Age of Synthetic Reproduction

wowsig — Tue, 09 Mar 2021 02:34:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.growbyginkgo.com/2020/12/21/intelligent-designs/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26394742

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Only-7%-of-urban-indian-women-have-paid-jobs

wowsig — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 06:53:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.economist.com/leaders/2021/02/20/only-7-of-urban-indian-women-have-paid-jobs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26221590

Points: 14

# Comments: 14

AB test widely held beliefs

wowsig — Fri, 15 Jan 2021 10:18:54 +0000

Article URL: https://vwo.com/blog/ab-test-widely-held-beliefs/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25789096

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Spending 4 weeks as my first long break

wowsig — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 11:22:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.aakankshagaur.com/blog/2021/1/10/4-weeks-of-uselessness

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25775055

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Show HN: Automatic drawings I made listening to podcasts

wowsig — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 10:58:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.aakankshagaur.com/onbeing-drawings

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25644220

Points: 2

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Strategy for efficiently publishing data to Google Pub/Sub with lua-Nginx

wowsig — Fri, 04 Dec 2020 11:30:30 +0000

Article URL: https://engineering.wingify.com/posts/a-lua-nginx-client-for-pubsub/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25301200

Points: 7

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Tracy Chou's Reddit AMA

wowsig — Thu, 20 Aug 2020 10:11:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/icqpsm/i_made_silicon_valley_publish_its_diversity_data/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24221675

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Precise Higher-Order Meshing of Curved 2D Domains

wowsig — Fri, 14 Aug 2020 11:26:25 +0000

Article URL: http://graphics.cs.uos.de/bezierguarding.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24156522

Points: 65

# Comments: 4

New comment by wowsig in "Show HN: A volunteer driven list of your city's indie bookstores"

wowsig — Wed, 29 Apr 2020 04:49:12 +0000

I'll look into this. Currently, I am trying hard to get to more bookstores to own up their own pages and add their data themselves.

New comment by wowsig in "Show HN: A volunteer driven list of your city's indie bookstores"

wowsig — Tue, 28 Apr 2020 14:45:21 +0000

Hello HN! Less than a month ago, as we started hearing about city's bookstores closing down - a small community got together to list their city's bookstores and ways to help them.

It resulted in detailing their gift cards, ways to order through them and if you couldn't order anything - a way to increase their social media following.

I took the spreadsheet and a friend proficient in Glide apps, converted it to an app.

This app now has listings of 800 bookstores in 21 countries. I am looking for feedback on how to improve the app, what elements would you add to it and what information is redundant for you?