Em dashes are amazing(psychotechnology.substack.com)

306 points by surprisetalk 3 months ago | 266 comments

How to use an en-dash and em-dash correctly? (BrE)(lighthouseproofreading.co.uk)

16 points by susam 1 year ago | 16 comments

'Couple,' 'Few,' and 'Several'(merriam-webster.com)

83 points by cardamomo 3 years ago | 158 comments

Rare and Amusing Insults, Volume 2(merriam-webster.com)

50 points by vsnf 2 years ago | 39 comments

Why do AI models use so many em-dashes?(seangoedecke.com)

43 points by ahamez 11 months ago | 38 comments

I Miss Using Em Dashes(bassi.li)

112 points by Mikajis 1 year ago | 105 comments

Show HN: HTML for People(htmlforpeople.com)

568 points by blakewatson 2 years ago | 200 comments

HTML for People is a free online guide teaching beginners how to build websites with plain HTML and CSS.

A hacker's guide to language models [video](youtube.com)

749 points by rrampage 3 years ago | 35 comments

YouTube video by Jeremy Howard titled "A Hackers' Guide to Language Models," a code-first introduction to using and understanding LLMs.

JavaScript Demos in 140 Characters(beta.dwitter.net)

325 points by themanmaran 9 months ago | 59 comments

Dwitter, a community site for sharing and remixing JavaScript canvas demos written in 140 characters or less.

AWS us-east-1 down

567 points by rurp 3 years ago | 256 comments

Hacker News discussion thread reporting an AWS us-east-1 outage with increased error rates affecting Lambda and IAM-dependent services.

Douglas Adams on the English–American cultural divide over "heroes"(shreevatsa.net)

527 points by speckx 9 months ago | 520 comments

Blog post revisiting Douglas Adams's 2000 Slashdot answer on how English and American cultures differ in their attitudes toward heroes.

The Startup CTO's Handbook(github.com)

551 points by simonebrunozzi 1 year ago | 187 comments

A GitHub-hosted Markdown book by Zach Goldberg, The Startup CTO's Handbook, covering essential skills and best practices for leading high-performing engineering teams.