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nailhed
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nailhed is a personal blog at nailhed.com about history and culture. Since 2014, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The comments do not discuss the writing itself. The one linked comment, in a basic income research thread, argues that denser housing is a people problem rather than a technology problem, citing underground carparks and UK housing quality.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Dedicated to telling the stories of the faded empire of Michigan through its ruins and remote, forgotten places. With attitude, of course.
What Hacker News says?
> applying technology to building denser housing [...] The technology for this isn't anything new, the first underground carparks opened in 1930s [0][1]. It's not so much a technology problem as it is a people problem. People (NIMBYs, the middle classes) don't want massive blocks of housing in the middle of their cities, and what is being built 'affordably' is tiny and/or poor quality (in the UK at least). [2] [0] h…
Comment linking /2015/05/the-worlds-first-underground-parking.html
on “Request For Research: Basic Income”Submitted Henry Ford's Booty Call as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Henry Ford's Other Son as a story · 1 points
HN discussion