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Mark Stosberg
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Mark Stosberg's personal blog at mark.stosberg.com covers programming and data. Since 2008, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Progress towards universal Copy/Paste shortcuts on Linux”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-08-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Mark Stosberg's posts document a 42-key Corne split keyboard layout and its QMK/Vial setup. HN readers link them when discussing split keyboards and layout configuration.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Writing about Mapping, Spatial Analysis and Tech from Bloomington, Indiana
Most-linked posts?
- /markstos-corne-3x5-1-keyboard-layout/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-11-11
- Progress towards universal Copy/Paste shortcuts on Linux2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-05-10
What Hacker News says?
Elsewhere, someone here linked to the national crash data set. Sounds like they used PostgreSQL/Postgis for the backend here to store the data. The web server grabbed it as GeoJSON and displayed with a mapping web framework like Leaflet. I did a crash analysis locally using the QGIS desktop software for some display and analysis, as well as Node.js and the Turf.js library when custom code was needed for spatial anal…
Comment linking /the-most-dangerous-intersections-for-pedestrians-in-bloomington-indiana/?ref=hacker-news
on “I mapped almost every USA traffic death in the 21st century”Submitted Progress towards universal Copy/Paste shortcuts on Linux as a story · 164 points
HN discussionI've done traffic crash analysis at a city-scale: https://mark.stosberg.com/the-most-dangerous-intersections-f... One thing that's striking at is that the fatality locations do nor correlate with the "highest crash rate" locations hardly at all. The intersection where you are most likely to get hit has a high pedestrian volume and often (in theory) low speed traffic. While the fatalities here are more likely to happ…
Comment linking /the-most-dangerous-intersections-for-pedestrians-in-bloomington-indiana/?ref=hacker-news
on “I mapped almost every USA traffic death in the 21st century”Submitted Progress towards universal Copy/Paste shortcuts on Linux as a story · 18 points
HN discussionI recently audited how equitable some funds spend on new sidewalks had been in Bloomington, Indiana. In the process I found that one column in the project ranking spreadsheet had been sorted in the wrong order for the last five years. This effectively scrambled the final rank order. Excel was not fault, there was a lack of peer review and clear documentation about how the formula was supposed to work. https://mark.s…
Comment linking /sidewalk-equity-audit
on “Technical issue resolved after ‘150k police records lost’”Submitted Small modules aren't to blame as a story · 3 points
HN discussionyeah, i type on a corne everyday: https://mark.stosberg.com/markstos-corne-3x5-1-keyboard-layo... having gotten over the learning curve, i definitely prefer it over conventional keyboards, but would i recommend it to 99.9% of people? no. people who use these kinds of keyboards have either 1. extremely niche problems, or 2. find intrinsic value in novelty, aesthetics, or diy/experimentation
Comment linking /markstos-corne-3x5-1-keyboard-layout/
on “Toucan Wireless Split Keyboard with Touchpad”Submitted Darcs vs. git annoyances: pushing specific patche as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMany keyboards use the qmk firmware these days, qmk.fm, which can be programmed with the Vial configurator, get.vial.today . Here's one typical qwerty-ish layout for 42 keys: https://mark.stosberg.com/markstos-corne-3x5-1-keyboard-layo... And for something more weird but still fully featured, Miryoku is a fairly common micro-keyboard layout, https://github.com/manna-harbour/miryoku . Why? Well, I really admire Jonas…
Comment linking /markstos-corne-3x5-1-keyboard-layout/
on “Toucan Wireless Split Keyboard with Touchpad”Submitted Effective bike advocacy in the face of declining city budgets as a story · 1 points
HN discussionVoroni is useful for spatial analysis when you want to assign points to a nearest /something/ like airplane positions to the nearest airport. I used for intersection crash analysis to make sure each crash was assigned to at most intersection. I combined this with a radius around each intersection so crashes too far away were also not attributed to an intersection. More here: https://mark.stosberg.com/intersection-cr…
Comment linking /intersection-crash-analysis-with-qgis/
on “Spherical Voronoi Diagram”Submitted Review of Mojo, a new Perl web framework as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI use this on my 42-key Corne: https://mark.stosberg.com/markstos-corne-3x5-1-keyboard-layo... It's a sensible starting layout that I've made very few changes to. I added a mousekeys/macro layer, moved single quote to put semicolon on pinky, added print screen bind, and added a homerow combo J+K for esc.
Comment linking /markstos-corne-3x5-1-keyboard-layout/
on “My coworker's 36 key Corne open-source keyboard setup”