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abstractspoonon Laws of Human Stupidity

There are many ways a person can benefit other than financially which wholly undermines law 3.

I'm thinking revenge...

abstractspoonon When UI Design Cared

I'm guessing no one wants to admit that Windows 95 got a lot of things right

abstractspoonon Reproducing civilization: It's a dirty job, but someone has to do it

Uses ACDC's copyrighted Dirty Deeds album cover image without attribution

abstractspoonon Iterating Backwards in C

I've been using this method for more than 30 years!

abstractspoonon Disclosure and Shame

The author doth protest too much!

abstractspoonon Why the Columbia River Has No Delta

F*king ads

abstractspoonon Eunice is almost here

abstractspoonon Ask HN: What are your most ambitious projects in 2026?

I've started planning the update of user-facing help for my 23 year old magnum opus. Help probably hasn't been updated in 10 years (I prefer coding) and I'm rather dreading the tedium. No, I won't be using LLMs - not in my lifetime - it's hand crafted all the way.

abstractspoonon I turn up late to meetings to dodge small talk. Am I wrong?

I used to mute my microphone and camera until the meeting proper started

abstractspoonon Solving a Giant Rubik's Cube with a Quadruped Robot

What's with all the foot tapping? lol

abstractspoonon Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, no privacy, and life's never been better (2016)

It sounds like nightmare to me

abstractspoonon Reforming English Spelling

I read this as satire, it was so ridiculous

abstractspoonon L'Oreal says weight loss drugs are impacting beauty and skin care sales

That's the silver lining

abstractspoonon Need help porting PS2 game into browser as a browser game

AI? /s

abstractspoonon Face of man who lived in Roman Scotland almost 2k years ago

There's a surprise; he looks no different to you or me

abstractspoonon SOMETHING WORTH READING: About the pressure of writing

Writing a blog does not put you in the same paragraph as John Steinbeck!

abstractspoonon Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please? (2026)

Try Harmonic

abstractspoonon Short Class Warfare; Long Age Warfare

2009

abstractspoonon Is Chocolate Still Chocolate?

Memory is unreliable. The thing for me which most affects how something tastes is my mood.

Eg. The same cup of tea I've been making 4 times a day for the last 10 years tastes different both at different times of the day and at the same time on different days.

And yes, I have autistic traits and make it identically every time.

abstractspoonon Fatal Dog Attacks

What does the chart look like if the dogs of mixed breed are proportionally split between the pure breeds?

Eg a cross between German Shepherd and Rottweiler counts as 0.5 in each

abstractspoonon Milos Raonic: Wimbledon finalist to investment banker at Goldman Sachs

Trading on his fame?

abstractspoonon Are Countries with Lower Inequality More Altruistic?

There's no great need for altruism if wealth is already more fairly distributed.

abstractspoonon MS Project – I made my own app finally

You mean everyone can install your possible malware?

abstractspoonon Largest PR in History

Amazing how some people spend their time

abstractspoonon "In every study that considered the question"

In Australia we use our hazard lights in times of poor visibility and this is taught through the road-rules test which forms part of acquiring a driving licence

abstractspoonon Oldest shipwreck found off Kekova Island in Turkey

Only the contents of the ship remain

abstractspoonon Computer Memory Is a Lie

It's an abstraction, not a lie

abstractspoonon Alan's conservative countdown to AGI: 99%

Don't forget that this is a Microsoft progress bar where 99% of the work is done in 99% of the time and the last 1% also takes 99% of the time

abstractspoonon Windows 95 Taskbar on macOS

That is not a faithful representation of the Windows 95 taskbar