How to Network as an Introvert(aginfer.bearblog.dev)

315 points by agcat 1 year ago | 122 comments

Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online(t4t.social)

444 points by t4t 1 year ago | 287 comments

Homepage of t4t, a minimalist text-based social network app for trans and gender-non-conforming people, showing recent public posts.

Ask HN: How to be alone?

586 points by sillysaurusx 7 months ago | 462 comments

An Ask HN post in which a 38-year-old, newly alone after a 20-year relationship, asks the community for advice and stories on coping with loneliness.

Fidonet Rules (2014)(wiki.c2.com)

76 points by kimi 3 years ago | 33 comments

Decentralizing Schemes(tbray.org)

24 points by NotInOurNames 1 year ago | 5 comments

No Instagram, no privacy(blog.wouterjanleys.com)

107 points by wouterjanl 1 year ago | 95 comments

How to be a -10x Engineer(taylor.town)

763 points by surprisetalk 3 years ago | 441 comments

A satirical blog post on taylor.town listing strategies for becoming a '-10x engineer' who wastes the output of ten engineers.

How to learn chess as an adult (2021)(alexcrompton.com)

492 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 255 comments

Personal blog post by Alex Crompton describing how he learned chess as an adult, improving from 300 to 1500 Elo in nine months.

So you want to parse a PDF?(eliot-jones.com)

369 points by UglyToad 1 year ago | 199 comments

Blog post by Eliot Jones explaining how PDF parsing should work per the spec, covering headers, cross-reference tables, object offsets and trailers, and its real-world pitfalls.

How I, a beginner developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me(anniemueller.com)

782 points by wonger_ 1 year ago | 363 comments

A humorous blog post parodying how developer-written tutorials full of jargon read to a non-developer beginner.

There is no epidemic of loneliness, but there is an epidemic of scurvy(experimental-history.com)

59 points by luu 1 month ago | 31 comments

An Experimental History Substack essay by Adam Mastroianni arguing there is no loneliness epidemic but there is an epidemic of scurvy.

An intuitive guide to Maxwell's equations (2020)(photonlines.substack.com)

476 points by gballan 2 years ago | 111 comments

A Substack post giving an intuitive, visual explanation of Maxwell's equations and the history of electromagnetic field theory.