Stories by rfarley04

The Fantasy Life of Coder Boys (2003)

The strangest Excel functions you'll never use

USR's campaigns for the Password Modem were historically bad ads

Everyone enjoys fewer lunch options (or, why I love pairwise comparisons)

There aren't a lot of Pearson correlations on HN's front page

V for Vendetta Will Return to Cinemas for Its 20th Anniversary in 2026

The Last Messiah by Peter Wessel-Zapffe [pdf]

A (1995) company that made nothing but bad ads

3D Printed "Book" Demonstrates Mechanical Actions

Show HN: Woolean – Pairwise comparisons without any LLM features

A bad ad for a device that photographed CRTs

Data on AI-related Show HN posts

The PowerPad tablet was pretty cool! Its ad in PC World 1984 was...not

E-COM: The $40M USPS project to send email on paper

Famous Authors on Roller Coasters (2022)

Microsoft fires engineers who protested during company's 50th anniversary

The Andrew Project – Multimedia Messaging Before MIME

Double opt-in emails go back as far as LISTERV in 1993

EU regs get Garmin to add encryption to HR strap data

Ask HN: How many apps would it take to reach 90% of the people in your country?