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Surjan Singh
Personal blog · surjan.substack.comhardwarewriting
Surjan Singh writes Poems from a Workshop, a personal blog at surjan.substack.com about hardware and writing. Since 2020, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 23 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-13, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked posts cover weighing a car using its tire pressures, and an inventor's effort to get his product used by an NHL team (The Uncage). The comments are a submission note and a source citation, with no judgement of the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Artful updates about mechanical creations.
What Hacker News says?
My project involves turning an old Saab into a racecar, and using it to explore moonshot ideas like creating a composite from natural materials instead of fiberglass or carbon fiber. The racecar part keeps it fun, even if the ideas don't pan out. Documenting it here: https://surjan.substack.com/
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?”Submitted The most expensive number in engineering as a story · 501 points
HN discussionOk. Submitted URL was https://surjan.substack.com/p/16-weighing-a-car-with-tire-pr... .
Comment linking /p/16-weighing-a-car-with-tire-pressures?r=64gpc&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=hackernews
on “Weighing a Car with Tire Pressures”Submitted Weighing a Car with Tire Pressures as a story · 171 points
HN discussionHe recently met with the SJ Sharks. They are interested but want to make sure it really works well. https://surjan.substack.com/p/an-inventors-quest-for-the-nhl...
Comment linking /p/an-inventors-quest-for-the-nhl-pt-0ac
on “The Uncage”Submitted In Defense of Bad Ideas as a story · 101 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Uncage as a story · 97 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Uncage as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Decline of Tinkering as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Parable of the Rod and the Rope as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Am I Building Sustainably? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Make a Natural Composite: A Step by Step Guide with a Cost Breakdown as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted World's First Hide Glue Composite as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Experiments in Homemade Composite Tooling as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Does Stiffness Attract Load? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Inventor's Quest for the NHL as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Imagining a Realistic Shelob as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Composite of Milk and Linen as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Way Things Break as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Craftsmanship and Modern Manufacturing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Misadventures in Mold-Making – An Engineering Self-Study as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Composites in Plain English Pt. 1 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cultural Differences on Stiffness as a story · 1 points
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