hwayne

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• Motif-Index of Folk-Literature (1958) [pdf]

  by hwayne on 8/5/2025, 2:51 PM with 1 comments

• Best Illusion of the Year 2023 Winners

  by hwayne on 6/11/2025, 3:31 PM with 1 comments

• by hwayne on 5/23/2025, 3:52 PM with comments

• Fact of Fiction? The Legend of the QWERTY Keyboard

  by hwayne on 2/11/2025, 4:08 PM with 1 comments

• The Curious Case of Quentell

  by hwayne on 1/27/2025, 5:15 PM with 7 comments

• Orbit Spirograph (2019)

  by hwayne on 1/23/2025, 4:28 PM with 7 comments

• Should we use AI and LLMs for Christian apologetics? (2024)

  by hwayne on 1/21/2025, 3:39 PM with 252 comments

• Engineer eats efficiently for $2.50 a day (2016)

  by hwayne on 1/6/2025, 1:56 AM with 442 comments

• Orbit Spirograph (2019)

  by hwayne on 10/16/2024, 3:07 PM with 0 comments

• William Cowper and the Age of the Earth [pdf] (2019)

  by hwayne on 10/2/2024, 8:50 PM with 22 comments

• Decision Logs

  by hwayne on 8/16/2024, 4:49 PM with 0 comments

• All 24 puzzles ranked by difficulty

  by hwayne on 7/29/2024, 3:38 PM with 0 comments

• Some Meteorite Realities

  by hwayne on 7/22/2024, 6:04 PM with 0 comments

• Why are Midwest grid operators turning away wind power?

  by hwayne on 6/26/2024, 7:47 PM with 2 comments

• F (2006)

  by hwayne on 6/19/2024, 5:14 PM with 16 comments

• The Rapid Growth of America's Truffle Industry

  by hwayne on 6/19/2024, 4:14 PM with 0 comments

• Let Them Teach

  by hwayne on 6/19/2024, 4:14 PM with 0 comments

• Every Power Plant in the USA [XLS File]

  by hwayne on 6/12/2024, 10:02 PM with 1 comments

• Applied Abstraction

  by hwayne on 5/1/2024, 6:33 PM with 0 comments

• The Banana Wiki

  by hwayne on 4/12/2024, 10:28 PM with 0 comments

• Why birds survived and dinosaurs went extinct after an asteroid hit earth (2020)

  by hwayne on 4/11/2024, 5:55 PM with 47 comments

• Kratky in the Basement

  by hwayne on 4/1/2024, 5:32 PM with 0 comments

• The Tale of Daniel

  by hwayne on 4/1/2024, 3:17 PM with 60 comments

• Programming Jigs

  by hwayne on 3/10/2024, 5:03 PM with 0 comments

• 10% of Anguilla's GDP is .ai domain fees (2023)

  by hwayne on 2/29/2024, 5:34 PM with 18 comments

• Shakespeare in the Bush

  by hwayne on 2/27/2024, 2:59 PM with 0 comments

• Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics

  by hwayne on 1/11/2024, 7:44 PM with 0 comments

• Ghostsurn: Generate Hexagon Tilings

  by hwayne on 1/4/2024, 5:23 PM with 1 comments

• Picat: A multiparadigm logic programming language

  by hwayne on 9/26/2023, 8:36 PM with 0 comments

• The art of chicken sexing [pdf]

  by hwayne on 9/19/2023, 10:50 PM with 0 comments

• by hwayne on 9/12/2023, 3:24 AM with comments

• Github.dev: edit any GitHub repo from VSCode, in the browser

  by hwayne on 6/15/2023, 1:31 AM with 0 comments

• Eating Disorder Helpline Chatbot Gives 'Harmful' Responses After Firing Staff

  by hwayne on 6/2/2023, 6:39 PM with 1 comments

• The Reason That There Are So Many Thai Restaurants in America

  by hwayne on 5/31/2023, 1:03 AM with 0 comments

• The Art of the Play Test: Designing Tests and Keeping Records

  by hwayne on 4/26/2023, 9:55 PM with 1 comments

• List of All “Journal of Memetics” Papers

  by hwayne on 3/17/2023, 9:01 PM with 1 comments

• Hypercard Stacks

  by hwayne on 2/27/2023, 6:21 PM with 0 comments

• Ubj gb ernq EBG13 (How to read ROT13)

  by hwayne on 2/27/2023, 4:43 PM with 0 comments

• The Bobbit Worm Chronicles

  by hwayne on 2/21/2023, 5:28 PM with 0 comments

• The Scientific Case for P≠NP

  by hwayne on 2/15/2023, 4:48 PM with 0 comments

• A Social History of Jell-O Salad: The Rise and Fall of an American Icon

  by hwayne on 2/7/2023, 3:20 AM with 0 comments

• Snowflakes, snow crystals, and other ice phenomena

  by hwayne on 1/29/2023, 6:08 PM with 0 comments

• Why the Wingdings Font Exists

  by hwayne on 1/29/2023, 4:37 PM with 0 comments

• Sierra's Macintosh Timebomb

  by hwayne on 1/11/2023, 12:05 AM with 0 comments

• Rosalind: Learn Bioinformatics Through Programming Problems

  by hwayne on 1/6/2023, 10:24 PM with 0 comments

• List of Eponymous Laws

  by hwayne on 12/21/2022, 10:20 PM with 0 comments

• Conservation of the Coffin of Ipi-ha-ishutef

  by hwayne on 12/14/2022, 9:30 PM with 0 comments

• Love and Death in the Cape Fear Serpentarium (2017)

  by hwayne on 12/9/2022, 3:33 AM with 5 comments

• Crunch Makes Games Worse

  by hwayne on 10/21/2022, 8:21 PM with 1 comments

• Interview with a Firefighter

  by hwayne on 8/11/2022, 10:38 PM with 0 comments

• The Other Drug War: Inside the World of Counterfeit Viagra

  by hwayne on 7/27/2022, 3:40 AM with 0 comments

• Custom Google Search Engines

  by hwayne on 7/26/2022, 5:21 PM with 0 comments

• A History of the PostgreSQL Elephant Logo

  by hwayne on 6/16/2022, 8:02 PM with 0 comments

• What do caged animals tell us about our mental lives?

  by hwayne on 6/5/2022, 4:52 PM with 0 comments

• What did Earth look like X million years ago?

  by hwayne on 5/26/2022, 4:40 PM with 111 comments

• Wearable Compass

  by hwayne on 4/23/2022, 1:14 AM with 0 comments

• I Heart Microscopes

  by hwayne on 4/1/2022, 8:08 PM with 43 comments

• See Wikipedia articles of places nearby you

  by hwayne on 3/24/2022, 9:18 PM with 0 comments

• Why Does Windows Use Backslash as Path Separator?

  by hwayne on 2/27/2022, 9:50 PM with 0 comments

• The Great Curly Brace Trace Chase (2003)

  by hwayne on 2/27/2022, 9:45 PM with 27 comments

• Debunking the Stanford Prison Experiment [pdf]

  by hwayne on 2/15/2022, 9:33 PM with 0 comments

• Ordner: Index of Real Numbers

  by hwayne on 1/29/2022, 6:49 PM with 1 comments

• Will Any Crap We Put into Graphene Increase Its Electrocatalytic Effect?

  by hwayne on 1/5/2022, 2:41 AM with 0 comments

• When do people learn languages? (2002)

  by hwayne on 12/24/2021, 6:56 PM with 91 comments

• Fire Code for Software

  by hwayne on 12/15/2021, 4:34 PM with 0 comments

• When do people learn languages? (2002)

  by hwayne on 11/10/2021, 3:37 AM with 2 comments

• When Monks Went Undercover to Steal Relics

  by hwayne on 8/26/2021, 8:59 PM with 2 comments

• Wikidata Query Builder

  by hwayne on 8/17/2021, 7:53 PM with 0 comments

• Spectacle – A Language for Writing and Checking Formal Specifications in Haskell

  by hwayne on 8/17/2021, 6:34 PM with 0 comments

• Show HN: Free, Accessible AI Art Generator

  by hwayne on 8/9/2021, 6:16 PM with 31 comments

• Emotional attachment to robots could affect outcome on battlefield

  by hwayne on 7/14/2021, 3:33 PM with 0 comments

• IT Without Software

  by hwayne on 7/1/2021, 4:36 PM with 72 comments

• Baking a Hello World Cake

  by hwayne on 4/20/2021, 12:42 AM with 0 comments

• TLA+ Graph Explorer

  by hwayne on 4/7/2021, 6:54 PM with 6 comments

• Every Noise at Once

  by hwayne on 4/2/2021, 2:06 AM with 94 comments

• Skycircles: What's Flying Above Us?

  by hwayne on 2/26/2021, 6:34 PM with 0 comments

• Submarine Cable 101

  by hwayne on 2/3/2021, 10:45 PM with 0 comments

• Goblin Bet: Bet on DnD Monsters

  by hwayne on 1/12/2021, 8:23 PM with 0 comments

• The Deadlock Empire

  by hwayne on 1/8/2021, 5:46 PM with 0 comments

• Henry Ford, Innovation, and That “Faster Horse” Quote (2011)

  by hwayne on 1/1/2021, 6:57 PM with 0 comments

• One company reshaped, and kind of ruined, the viral video landscape (2018)

  by hwayne on 12/12/2020, 5:40 PM with 0 comments

• February 30 Was a Real Date (2008)

  by hwayne on 12/10/2020, 7:48 PM with 0 comments

• The Unix Tree

  by hwayne on 11/19/2020, 2:29 AM with 0 comments

• The Pocket Calculator Race

  by hwayne on 11/16/2020, 12:47 AM with 1 comments

• The Debunking Handbook 2020 [pdf]

  by hwayne on 11/2/2020, 4:49 PM with 0 comments

• The “phantom reference:” How a made-up article got almost 400 citations

  by hwayne on 10/9/2020, 6:51 PM with 0 comments

• What we talk about when we talk about color

  by hwayne on 9/30/2020, 11:42 PM with 0 comments

• I Have a Super-Power Memory

  by hwayne on 8/4/2020, 4:44 PM with 0 comments

• When Hubble stared at nothing for 100 hours (2015)

  by hwayne on 7/24/2020, 3:53 PM with 224 comments

• Burritos for the Hungry Mathematician [pdf]

  by hwayne on 7/16/2020, 3:45 AM with 0 comments

• Explore connected papers in a visual graph

  by hwayne on 7/11/2020, 9:56 PM with 0 comments

• The Frink Is Good, the Unit Is Evil

  by hwayne on 7/10/2020, 6:17 PM with 0 comments

• Introduction to Graph Theory [pdf]

  by hwayne on 6/30/2020, 5:14 PM with 0 comments

• The extreme lengths people will go to break the Cannonball Run record

  by hwayne on 5/23/2020, 7:03 PM with 0 comments

• Search All Preprint Archives

  by hwayne on 5/23/2020, 6:50 PM with 0 comments

• List of Optical Illusions

  by hwayne on 4/27/2020, 3:33 PM with 0 comments

• The social side of science seen in the research on programming language quality

  by hwayne on 3/10/2020, 12:24 AM with 84 comments

• Runway: A tool for distributed systems design

  by hwayne on 4/18/2019, 7:50 PM with 0 comments

• Sketch.systems: Formal Methods for UIs

  by hwayne on 5/31/2018, 7:53 PM with 0 comments

• Are functional programs easier to verify than imperative programs? (2018)

  by hwayne on 4/26/2018, 3:57 PM with 0 comments

• Searching for “Production Hell” at Ford’s Kentucky Truck Plant

  by hwayne on 3/31/2018, 8:01 PM with 0 comments

• What does VR reveal about the 4th dimension?

  by hwayne on 3/6/2018, 4:36 PM with 0 comments

• Monad Tutorials for Other Topics

  by hwayne on 3/6/2018, 4:35 PM with 0 comments