Hackernews posts about Litnerd

  1. When Kitty Litter Caused a Nuclear Catastrophe (practical.engineering)
    17 points by chmaynard 5 days ago | 1 comments
  2. Ask HN: I'm an MIT senior and still unemployed – and so are most of my friends
    215 points by MITthrow123 13 days ago | 234 comments
  3. Ask HN: What's a surprisingly useful tech skill that's underrated today?
    30 points by Userrr 8 days ago | 41 comments
  4. Tell HN: AI is cool, but my apps still suck
    7 points by babyent 1 day ago | 1 comments
  5. Show HN: Litnerd (YC S21) – Kids Book Club Meets Gaming
    51 points by Anisa_Mirza almost 2 years ago | 30 comments
  6. A literary history of fake texts in Apple's marketing materials (maxread.substack.com)
    331 points by lysozyme over 1 year ago | 136 comments
  7. A near impossible literacy test Louisiana used to suppress the black vote (www.openculture.com)
    319 points by rcarmo 6 months ago | 430 comments
  8. Writing in Pictures: Richard Scarry and the art of children's literature (yalereview.org)
    297 points by cainxinth 6 months ago | 131 comments
  9. Ask HN: How to do literal web searches after Google destroyed the “ ” feature?
    280 points by 7moritz7 over 1 year ago | 208 comments
  10. Money lessons without money: The financial literacy fallacy (anandsanwal.me)
    228 points by herbertl 2 months ago | 225 comments
  11. Code Is Not Literature (2014) (gigamonkeys.com)
    219 points by fanf2 over 1 year ago | 137 comments
  12. Standard Ebooks Public Domain Day 2025 in Literature (standardebooks.org)
    141 points by WithinReason 4 months ago | 25 comments
  13. Literate programming: Knuth is doing it wrong (2014) (akkartik.name)
    132 points by surprisetalk 3 months ago | 134 comments
  14. Do literally anything (aaronfrancis.com)
    127 points by aarondf about 1 year ago | 25 comments
  15. Love them or hate them, this couple reign in Russian literature (www.nytimes.com)
    125 points by mitchbob 8 months ago | 133 comments
  16. The HTML review is an annual journal of literature made to exist on the web (thehtml.review)
    117 points by nickt almost 2 years ago | 10 comments
  17. The latest fake literary agencies (writerbeware.blog)
    106 points by Tomte 3 months ago | 41 comments
  18. The Norway Model: How the Scandinavian country became a literary powerhouse (www.thedial.world)
    105 points by lermontov over 1 year ago | 118 comments
  19. The rarest book in American literature: Poe's Tamerlane (lithub.com)
    99 points by Jun8 10 months ago | 40 comments
  20. Literate Documentation with Emacs and Org Mode (gitlab.com)
    93 points by spudlyo over 1 year ago | 10 comments
  21. Teaching Algorithm Design: A Literature Review (arxiv.org)
    87 points by belter 11 months ago | 8 comments
  22. Got a spare Pi 1/2/3? Try RISC OS Open 5.30 It is, literally, something else (www.theregister.com)
    86 points by lproven 12 months ago | 7 comments
  23. Survey of Rickrolling in Academic Literature [pdf] (arxiv.org)
    69 points by davikr 10 months ago | 14 comments
  24. Statistical challenges and misreadings of literature create unreplicable science [pdf] (stat.columbia.edu)
    67 points by luu 6 months ago | 52 comments
  25. Planet eBook: free literature for your device (www.planetebook.com)
    64 points by surprisetalk 9 months ago | 20 comments
  26. The emptiness of literature written for the market (www.noemamag.com)
    57 points by samclemens over 1 year ago | 55 comments
  27. JabRef – Literature Management (www.jabref.org)
    57 points by smartmic 7 months ago | 26 comments
  28. About 130 million adults in the U.S. have low literacy skills (2022) (www.apmresearchlab.org)
    54 points by newzisforsukas 9 months ago | 71 comments
  29. Adding Roman Numeral Literals to Python (2003) (peps.python.org)
    54 points by gnueus over 1 year ago | 37 comments
  30. Ossian, the ‘Homer of the North’, the greatest literary hoax (2016) (www.independent.co.uk)
    53 points by drjohnson about 1 year ago | 27 comments
  31. Just here for the comments: Lurking as digital literacy practice (newbooksnetwork.com)
    51 points by horchid 11 months ago | 9 comments
  32. Literate Programming: Articles (literateprogramming.com)
    50 points by ddougj almost 2 years ago | 67 comments
  33. Is Coffee Good for You? – James Hoffmann review of scientific literature [video] (www.youtube.com)
    50 points by taldo almost 2 years ago | 16 comments
  34. Apple TV's Fantastic "Silo" Plays Out Like Great Sci-Fi Literature (2023) (www.rogerebert.com)
    48 points by walterbell about 1 year ago | 42 comments