Screws weren't standardized until ww2. And even then, they really haven't been.
Related video for those curious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKNB04slCUA&t=3s
Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?
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#72Google Earth Engine's Foundation model via the ITU's seminar! This thing is incredible!
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#73I’m reading Domain Driven Development and learning why so many of my projects have been tough to maintain. I also recently learned that you can get ancient coins for very little money if you don’t care about resale value or need them to be in pristine condition. I bought some coins from kingdoms that I’d never heard of. Many are thousands of years old! It’s fun holding a piece of history like that.
> I’m reading Domain Driven Development and learning why so many of my projects have been tough to maintain.
Oooh, thats a good one. Next read the Architects paradox, Why Greatness cannot be planned and Understanding Variation and your views of the world will be forever altered. Or pick up "Architecture Modernization" by Nick Tune if you want more tools to do stuff and if you do not want to achieve enligntenment.
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Where did you acquire cheap ancient coins? ebay? May be cool to get some for my dnd group
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#74Recently procured an AirGradient air quality monitor and set up the build environment so I can customize its reporting capability and perhaps add some different sensors. Also didn't realize how much CO2 builds up during the night in my bedroom. Will have to mitigate this as I believe this contributes to my poor sleep habits.
Re: Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?
#75I’m reading Domain Driven Development and learning why so many of my projects have been tough to maintain. I also recently learned that you can get ancient coins for very little money if you don’t care about resale value or need them to be in pristine condition. I bought some coins from kingdoms that I’d never heard of. Many are thousands of years old! It’s fun holding a piece of history like that.
Ancient coin collecting is an awesome hobby! I have one that scholars think was made by / designed by Pythagoras himself. For a few hundred bucks!
Recently I learned that only 3% of Latin works from 1450-1700 (including renaissance and scientific revolution) have been translated. Secondrenaissance.ai
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#76I had a great euphoric epiphany feeling today. Doesn't come along too often, will celebrate with a nice glass of wine :) Am doing data engineering for some big data (yeah, big enough) and thinking about efficiency of data enrichment. There's this classic trilemma with data enrichment where you can have good write efficiency, good read efficiency and/or good storage cost, pick two. E.g. you have a 1TB table and you wa…
You mean you discovered parallel arrays?
Whats a good place to see parallel arrays defined. I have no data lake expetience. Know how relational db works.
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#77I've learned that being truthful in your resume as a SWE doesn't work anymore. I've had nearly 0 response rate to my applications, even if I was nearly a perfect match. Dude that we fired a while ago for being abysmally bad and non-productive gets interviews, raises and just got into ycombinator backed company by making up 75% of his resume(which I saw). We need a reset, this is getting ridiculous.
Sounds like you could use some resume review help. And I'm not talking about bs AI linkedin level "resume review". I mean some review from someone who's been in the industry for a while. There's a way to contact me via my profile. If you can find that I'll try to help you out.
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#78I explored the programming language nim a bit deeper for use in game programming with SDL3 bindings, but I came to find out that compiled nim code on Windows often triggers anti-virus because, from what I hear from people, nim is used a lot in malware development currently. Which is a shame because I really like that language. I haven't tested it myself, it's just things I have heard and read. Someone on r/gamedev to…
I don't have any nim experience (sorry!) but I'm also exploring SDL3 with odin. I was able to get a naive battleship clone up and working very quickly, pretty neat. Next step is the new SDL3 GPU API.
Re: Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?
#79I had a great euphoric epiphany feeling today. Doesn't come along too often, will celebrate with a nice glass of wine :) Am doing data engineering for some big data (yeah, big enough) and thinking about efficiency of data enrichment. There's this classic trilemma with data enrichment where you can have good write efficiency, good read efficiency and/or good storage cost, pick two. E.g. you have a 1TB table and you wa…
look into vector databases. for most representations, a column is just another file on disk
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#80My home office gets up to about 1500ppm of CO2 by the end of the workday, which explains a lot about why I often feel exhausted after the end of a long, uninterrupted session in there (especially when I’m on back to back zoom calls).
I now have several plants in there that are supposed to be especially good at sucking up CO2, and my sensor reports that the current level is slightly below atmospheric ambient CO2 levels.
I also wrote up a blog post about the structure of the Washington state legislature, which began its sixty day session for 2026 earlier this week. https://www.brethorsting.com/blog/2026/01/how-the-washington...