Ask HN: How HN helped you in unconventional way?

There has been knowledge shared on HN for year there are stories featuring people used it. Any occurrences where HN useful in unconventional way you encountered?

Resizable Structs in Zig (tristanpemble.com)

How We Rooted Copilot (research.eye.security)

Epic Recall, Epic Fail (taipology.substack.com)

What went wrong for Yahoo (dfarq.homeip.net)

Purple Earth hypothesis (en.wikipedia.org)

Getting into Flow State with Agentic Coding (kau.sh)

Rust running on every GPU (rust-gpu.github.io)

Paul Dirac and the religion of mathematical beauty (2011) [video] (youtube.com)

OCaml Programming: Correct and Efficient and Beautiful (cs3110.github.io)

Test Results for AMD Zen 5 (agner.org)

Tinyio: A tiny (~200 line) event loop for Python (github.com)

Getting decent error reports in Bash when you're using 'set -e' (utcc.utoronto.ca)

Arvo Pärt at 90 (theguardian.com)

Large ancient Hawaiian petroglyphs uncovered by waves on Oahu (sfgate.com)

Algorithm for simulating phosphor persistence of analog oscilloscopes (richardandersson.net)

Torqued Accelerator Using Radiation from the Sun (Tars) for Interstellar Payload (arxiv.org)

Marine biologist for a day: Ars goes shark tagging (arstechnica.com)

The natural diamond industry is getting rocked. Thank the lab-grown variety (cbc.ca)

Font-size-adjust Is Useful (matklad.github.io)

The Sail instruction-set semantics specification language (alasdair.github.io)

Shallow Water Is Dangerous Too (jefftk.com)

CCTV footage captures video of an earthquake fault in motion (smithsonianmag.com)

Inverted Indexes: A Step-by-Step Implementation Guide (chashnikov.dev)

Breaking the WASM/JS communication performance barrier (github.com)

Open Sauce is a confoundingly brilliant Bay Area event (jeffgeerling.com)

The rise and fall of the Hanseatic League (worksinprogress.co)

Bringing a decade old bicycle navigator back to life with open source software (raymii.org)

Ageing accelerates around age 50 ― some organs faster than others (nature.com)

Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection (chiark.greenend.org.uk)

Yes, the Book of PF, Fourth Edition Is Coming Soon (bsdly.blogspot.com)

The Rise of Shippable Microfactories (thesisdriven.com)

Where are vacation homes located in the US? (construction-physics.com)

Svalbard winter warming is reaching melting point (nature.com)

Users claim Discord's age verification can be tricked with video game characters (thepinknews.com)

Do not download the app, use the website (idiallo.com)

Upsides and Downsides (calv.info)

Project Lyra – Exploring Interstellar Objects (i4is.org)

Never write your own date parsing library (zachleat.com)

The append-and-review note (karpathy.bearblog.dev)

Site (Imginn) Lets You Browse Instagram Without an Account (lifehacker.com)

TouchID no longer works after spending several hours sanding wood (mastodon.social)

Why MIT switched from Scheme to Python (2009) (wisdomandwonder.com)

Instapaper Rakuten Kobo Integration (blog.instapaper.com)

Vanilla JavaScript support for Tailwind Plus (tailwindcss.com)

Efficient Computer's Electron E1 CPU – 100x more efficient than Arm? (morethanmoore.substack.com)

Keep Pydantic out of your Domain Layer (coderik.nl)

AlphaGo Moment for Model Architecture Discovery (arxiv.org)

Animated Cursors (tattoy.sh)

Generic Containers in C: Vec (uecker.codeberg.page)

Developing our position on AI (recurse.com)

Ask HN: How HN helped you in unconventional way?

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