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gHA5··on Ask HN: Why encourage creativity in school given most employers don't reward it?
Dealying midlife crises
gHA5··on I accidentally loaned all my money to the US government
A Venn diagram is just a graphical representation of sets. You're thinking of an intersection (of sets).
gHA5··on Why is HN obsessed with Zettelkasten?
I realize it's the opposite of what this site is about, but the greatest enjoyment I've gotten from HN was always from discussions about non-technical, everyday life stuff where things get surprisingly deep. Two posts that stood out to me in recent memory were

1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30161578, a discussion about the hardships of becoming a farmer. I especially liked dpatru's comment: "The natural state of man is poverty.[..]".

2) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27038139, a discussion about the diamond industry. Linked is a comment thread about a guy buying a synthetic diamond for his wife and the ensuing trouble. There were numerous quality discussions about social interactions and psychological differences between the sexes. A salient meta comment by akarma: "[..]it's like you expect all women in your life to be like many people on HN — hyper-rational, utilitarian devs who would never want a mined diamond because a cheaper artificial one with better clarity exists[..]"

gHA5··on Myths about cooking steak that need to go away (2013)
I only recently learned about myth #7 ("poke test") and managed to cook a great steak using it.
gHA5··on Two lines of CSS that will improve HN on mobile (IMO)
What I really would like to have would be to collapse comment threads via a column that runs the length of the comment thread and is indented like its respective comment.

This way I don't have to scroll to find the comment to collapse its thread, and clicking the column is easier.

This is used in some subreddits in the old Reddit style, e.g. /r/de as can be seen here: https://old.reddit.com/r/de/comments/rcc9us/experten_finden_...

gHA5··on Chicken and Egg Problem (2000)
Egg
gHA5··on Light and Glory over Crete
Was this taken at Elafonissi beach?
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