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Parker Higgins
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Parker Higgins writes parker higgins dot net, a personal blog at parkerhiggins.net about culture and politics. Since 2012, 22 different Hacker News readers have linked it 37 times, most often “Writing the Prince symbol in Unicode (2013)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
parker higgins is an artist and activist in brooklyn, new york
Most-linked posts?
- Writing the Prince symbol in Unicode (2013)5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2014-01-21
- Writing the Prince symbol in Unicode (2013)4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-10-11
- Cursewords, a crossword puzzle-solving interface for the terminal3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-03-03
- Fill Harmonics, the crossword puzzle music machine2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-09-11
What Hacker News says?
Prince's love symbol: https://parkerhiggins.net/2013/01/writing-the-prince-symbol-...
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on “A comment on Hacker News led to 4½ new Unicode characters (2016)”Submitted 10 Years of Pomological Watercolors as a story · 219 points
HN discussion> Sorry, but how can you not have a name? Good luck getting an ID document without a name. That doesn't make sense. That's what 32-36 are referring to, cases where children aren't given a name for an extended period of time. Even without extreme cases. what about a Hospital system meant to be used to track newborn children? It's necessarily not going to be able to rely on a name, because it's not uncommon for childr…
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on “People with names that break computers”Submitted Ursula K. Le Guin at the National Book Awards as a story · 186 points
HN discussionƬ̵̬̊ http://parkerhiggins.net/2013/01/writing-the-prince-symbol-i...
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on “Prince Has Died”Submitted How the New York Times keeps tragedies ad-free as a story · 179 points
HN discussionNot exactly, but you can combine unicode glyphs for a simulacrum: Ƭ̵̬̊ For an explaination, see https://parkerhiggins.net/2013/01/writing-the-prince-symbol-...
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on “Why Prince Changed His Name to an Symbol 30 Years Ago, and What Happened Next”Submitted Linkarchiver, a new bot to back up tweeted links as a story · 71 points
HN discussionFun to see this up here! I played a role in getting these high resolution images put online, through some FOIA work and public advocacy: https://parkerhiggins.net/2015/04/us-government-release-7584... I also uploaded the collection to Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:USD... And for several years have run a Twitter bot that posts one image every few hours: https://twitter.co…
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on “USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection”Submitted Writing the Prince symbol in Unicode (2013) as a story · 69 points
HN discussionThe Artist Formerly And Then Again Known As Prince had his own single-character font just for rendering His Symbol, and his PR company send around copies of a floppy disk with Windows and Mac versions of the font, along with these instructions for writing about him: https://www.milk.com/wall-o-shame/bruce_font.html http://anildash.com/2014/06/my-favorite-floppy-of-all-time.h... https://parkerhiggins.net/2013/01/writ…
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on “A collection of non-standard punctuation marks”Submitted Cursewords, a crossword puzzle-solving interface for the terminal as a story · 62 points
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HN discussionSubmitted Problems Around Me: Girls Around Me, Firesheep, and exposing underlying problems as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cursewords, a crossword puzzle solving interface for the terminal as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fill Harmonics, the crossword puzzle music machine as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted It wasn't Yahoo Mail that was hacked as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted DRM means missed opportunities for e-books as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Introducing: Cursewords, a crossword puzzle solving interface for the terminal as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted “A Mind at Play” and Claude Shannon’s Grave as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Earlier Amazon backdoor exposed wishlist mailing addresses as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Writing the Prince symbol in Unicode as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Writing the Prince symbol in Unicode as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A modest defense of QR codes as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Britannica, bookstores, and bundle failure as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fill Harmonics, the crossword puzzle music machine as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Writing the Prince symbol in Unicode (2013) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Signal messenger API on your tailnet with Docker Compose as a story · 1 points
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