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Hunter Scott
Personal blog · hscott.net · on HN as blueintegralhardwaresciencesystems
Hunter Scott's personal blog at hscott.net covers hardware, science and systems. Since 2013, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 25 times, most often “Analyzing Trinitite: A Radioactive Piece of Nuclear History”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Hunter Scott's posts on projects and experiments, such as a Twitter contest-winning service, a lab analysis of trinitite (radioactive glass), and a hack rifle. Comments praise the contest project and call the trinitite piece fun.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Analyzing Trinitite: A Radioactive Piece of Nuclear History3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-09-29
- I won 4 Twitter contests a day (every day for 9 months straight) (2015)2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-07-12
- Twitter Contest Winning as a Service2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-08-04
What Hacker News says?
This is amazing, is the source available anywhere? The full list of winnings is staggering. http://www.hscott.net/winnings.txt
Comment linking /winnings.txt
on “Twitter Contest Winning as a Service”Submitted Twitter Contest Winning as a Service as a story · 578 points
HN discussionI think I was mostly thinking of the exposed colored wires and screws. It not a clean-faced product. Plus, the science / action combination of hacking and guns made me think of those movies. http://johnkennethmuir.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/banzai4.j... http://www.hscott.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/IMG_6491.jp...
Comment linking /wp-content/uploads/2014/04/IMG_6491.jpg
on “Hack Rifle”Submitted Designing Electronics That Work as a story · 286 points
HN discussionYou can order trinitite from United Nuclear. I stuck some in an HPGe and was able to learn some interesting things: https://www.hscott.net/analyzing-trinitite-a-radioactive-pie...
Comment linking /analyzing-trinitite-a-radioactive-piece-of-nuclear-history/
on “A Chunk of Trinitite Reminds Us of the Power of the Atomic Bomb”Submitted Samuel Colt's “YC app” for the Summer 1851 batch as a story · 277 points
HN discussionEntering these online sweepstakes could be automated. Looks like someone already did it for Twitter https://www.hscott.net/twitter-contest-winning-as-a-service/
Comment linking /twitter-contest-winning-as-a-service/
on “Women who win hundreds of sweepstakes per year”Submitted A 60 GHz phased array for $10 as a story · 252 points
HN discussionNot sure exactly what the OP means by "wrap it", but if you are asking a jeweler to grind it then yes, it would be irresponsible not to mention, even if you thought it was clean. Ingesting/breathing has the potential to be dangerous. Hunter Scott has a fun article where his friend helped him test his sample in a lab -- https://www.hscott.net/analyzing-trinitite-a-radioactive-pie...
Comment linking /analyzing-trinitite-a-radioactive-piece-of-nuclear-history/
on “'Atomic Energy' Book Signed by Einstein, Oppenheimer, Bohr, Enola Gay Crew”Submitted Could the ancient Romans have built a digital computer? as a story · 179 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hack Rifle as a story · 96 points
HN discussionSubmitted Analyzing Radioactive Glass from the Trinity Test as a story · 76 points
HN discussionSubmitted Level RF as a story · 58 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Create Wealth as a story · 54 points
HN discussionSubmitted Analyzing Trinitite: A Radioactive Piece of Nuclear History as a story · 42 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to tell if your UI sucks as a story · 41 points
HN discussionSubmitted The importance of packaging as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted The DSP Behind Bat Echolocation as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted What would it take to build a Pacific Rim robot? as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted How I won 4 Twitter contests a day (every day for 9 months straight) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted I won 4 Twitter contests a day (every day for 9 months straight) (2015) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Moving fast in hardware: how the iPod shipped in 6 months as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted My YC application (1851) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to build a pair of $15,000 sensor gloves for $40 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Twitter Contest Winning as a Service as a story · 1 points
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