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Telescopic Turnip
Personal blog · malmesbury.substack.comphilosophyscience
Telescopic Turnip is a personal blog at malmesbury.substack.com about philosophy and science. Since 2024, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “My journey to the microwave alternate timeline”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this post on the history of microwave cooking, including an old recipe book and the idea that microwave ovens were not meant to be only lowbrow cookery. Commenters bring it up when discussing cooking technology.
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.
Nothing in life makes sense even in the light of evolution.
Most-linked posts?
- My journey to the microwave alternate timeline6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2026-02-10
- There is way too much serendipity2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-01-22
What Hacker News says?
I liked this article about an old recipe book and what cooking could have looked like if we took microwave cooking seriously: https://malmesbury.substack.com/p/my-journey-to-the-microwav...
Comment linking /p/my-journey-to-the-microwave-alternate
on “Old and new apps, via modern coding agents by Terry Tao”Submitted There is way too much serendipity as a story · 6 points
HN discussionYou might both be interested in https://malmesbury.substack.com/p/my-journey-to-the-microwav... regarding the history of microwave cooking (not mine). The microwave oven wasn't known destined to be relegated to lowbrow cookery from the beginning, even if that's how it turned out from our perspective, and some of the more advanced techniques developed for it fell out of use.
Comment linking /p/my-journey-to-the-microwave-alternate
on “SANA-WM, a 2.6B open-source world model for 1-minute 720p video”Submitted The talk: a brief explainer of sexual dimorphism as a story · 4 points
HN discussion>Dario and Boris have us convinced that “coding is solved” with their loops. But microwaves didn’t solve cooking. If you want a look at the timeline where the microwave solved cooking, this was an interesting article: https://malmesbury.substack.com/p/my-journey-to-the-microwav... . You can apparently sear meat with a microwave (provided you have the necessary pan).
Comment linking /p/my-journey-to-the-microwave-alternate
on “Anthropic's Method to Losing Goodwill in a Few Easy Steps”Submitted This is already your second chance as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted My journey to the microwave alternate timeline as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted My journey to the microwave alternate timeline as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Experimental Psychology on Roofies as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted My journey to the microwave alternate timeline as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted There is way too much serendipity as a story · 1 points
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