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Dinosaur Comics! is a personal blog at qwantz.com about culture. Since 2008, 71 different Hacker News readers have linked it 85 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.
85mentions?
71HN people?
2008–2026first – last linked?
this comic... might be the best comic?
Most-linked posts?
- /index.php5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2010-03-11
- /3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2009-09-01
- /3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-05-30
- /index.php?comic=9552 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-03-14
- /index.php?comic=26722 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-08-04
- /index.php?comic=18702 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-02-18
- /index.php?comic=4842 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-05-27
What Hacker News says?
Get thon to Dinosaur Comics, which has discussed this before: https://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=2079
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on “How did American “wokeness” jump from elite schools to everyday life?”Submitted Paper: The Grand Unified Theory of Superman's Powers [pdf] as a story · 20 points
HN discussion> Books for babies and toddlers are pretty much all the same: cute drawings and simple sentences. On some level, they're all goofy and inane. If you're tired of that, I'd highly recommend Happy Dog the Happy Dog: https://topatoco.com/collections/ryan-north/products/qw-happ... It's based on this comic: https://qwantz.com/index.php?comic=484
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on “Eric Carle has died”Submitted Bluff your way through conversations about which programming language is best as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWhile this is very cool, it raises the cost to produce and deliver comics by an order(s) of magnitude. Comics have always been a easy low cost way for artists or even people with just idea's to communicate their ideas. For an extreme example of this http://www.qwantz.com/ Where the ideas are amazing, but he uses the same few cells for ALL of the comics. This comes from someone who has worked with 3D content for year…
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on “3D Comics”http://www.qwantz.com/ is pretty interesting as well. the same art every time.
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on “Ever Wished Bill Watterson Would Return to the Comics Page? He Just Did”Just recommended the author check out Ryan North's comics: https://twitter.com/ryanqnorth Ryan North's the guy who does Dinosaur Comics ( http://www.qwantz.com ), and has since been hired to write the Adventure Time comic and the most recent run of Marvel's Unbeatable Squirrel Girl. http://www.themarysue.com/interview-squirrel-girl-ryan-north... This is how I want to see more people solving this problem: not by tryi…
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on “What taking my daughter to a comic book store taught me”>When a kids says, "Hockey. Meh. It is a bunch grown men with sticks chasing a black piece of rubber around a sheet of ice" When somebody says that, you just have to rephrase them a'la T-Rex. "It's a bunch of scientists stating their hypothesis that they're the best at using wooden sticks to direct the motion of a vulcanized rubber puck across a surface with a friction coefficient of .15!" [1] and then hockey become…
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on “Cultivated Disinterest in Professional Sports”Just as an aside, there is a word for "specifically male man", it's "wereman" (just as "wifman", the old version of "woman" meant "specifically female man" -- "man" was short for "human", from "humanous" -- earthling, which both women and men are, despite martian/venutian assertions to the contrary...) I learn all my etymology from Dinosaur Comics, http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=551 :)
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on “HN Office Hours”Americans love cars, but not necessarily driving them. I think this pretty well sums up why most people hate it: http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=2587
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on “Tesla: Introducing Autopilot and Dual Motor All Wheel Drive”http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=14
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on “Existential Depression in Gifted Children”Obligatory Dinosaur Comics: http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=353 "You can't copyright a fact (like a number), but you can copyright a creative work, like a song or a piece of software. But since one can be transformed into another, copyright law is logically INCOHERENT."
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on “File system that stores location of file in Pi”Trying to pick things not yet mentioned. Cooking blogs (I read a bunch more, but these are the best): http://thestonesoup.com/blog/ http://smittenkitchen.com/ http://globaltableadventure.com/ A blog ostensibly about learning Japanese but really about learning anything: http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/ Humor: http://www.qwantz.com/index.php http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/ Programming: http://prog21.d…
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on “Ask HN: Apart from Hacker News, what else you read?”Server rez on a low level wiz build? That's way high level thoughts and prayers to the Top 500 (also a cleric build) or lim. "request" to the Blackrock genie over in Budapest. Besides, 7th? Pff, call "company of choice" to fight for you, save or die server vileness!, and of course "peon:cleanse everything? peon:what do mean everything? cleric:EVERYTHING." Frankly you probably want a PRC, and at those admin levels mu…
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on “Ask HN: Is it possible to make FAANG salaries without working there?”Slightly related: Homographic homophonic autantoyms http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=1104
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on “Auto-Antonyms”http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=1870 Apparently there should have been approximately 2 dinosaur Batmans (Batmen?)
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on “How to become Batman”Okay, that ship is sinking. Time to burn it; Facebook has long outlived the usual online social network lifetime. What's the next one we jump to this time? http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=3240
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on “Facebook User Growth, Time Spent Fall on News Feed Changes”What's wrong with the friend zone? See: http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=2615 (This is a snarky way of saying that friendship is its own reward.)
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on “So You’re Not Desirable”Huh, I was expecting something like this: http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=1870 Thankfully, this link wasn't quite as depressing as T-Rex's Expected Real Life Batman Generation Rate.
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on “The Batman Equation”This reminds me of the recent Dinosoar Comic. It seems like everyone thinks they can make a better dating site these days: "BaguettesAll4Me.co.uk is complete! ... I realized my perfect woman won't say 'ew that's weird' as she watches me eat a whole baguette" http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=2088
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on “What's wrong with OKCupid's matching algorithm.”This wonderful comic comes to mind every time the discussion of sarcasm comes up http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=168
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on “"We need a pony. And the moon on a stick. By next Thursday."”He's also the author of the incredibly long-running webcomic Dinosaur Comics. https://www.qwantz.com/
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on “Cracking the Adventure Time Cipher (2016)”Can't believe this ends up as my first HN post, but http://www.everytopicintheuniverseexceptchickens.com/ <3 Ryan North, creator of [Dinosaur Comics]( https://qwantz.com ).
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on “Wikipedia: Long-Term Abuse”Somehow this seems relevant http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=2602&mobile=1
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on “Lesser-Known Search Engines That Are Worth Checking Out”My favorite treatment of that Garden path sentence, is this Dinosaur Comics strip: http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=204
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on “Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo”Unfortunately the first law of thermodynamics says that, eventually, the sun is going to die. Tangentially related: http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=2033 With an infinite business lifespan, the chance your service goes down due to ANYTHING rises to one.
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on “Client asks for 100% uptime ”> The N64 was a peculiar sweet spot for games and I'm not sure why. That's arguably age-related nostalgia. I feel the same way about the Super Nintendo instead of the N64. http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=1322
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on “Goldeneye 64's inspirational startup story”Or Dinosaur comics, http://www.qwantz.com/index.php . Definitely words as primary focus, since the artwork never changes.
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on “Excel as a database”"Perhaps! But this problem only comes up if you're not the centre of the Universe." http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=1394
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on “Time Travel Simulation Resolves “Grandfather Paradox””http://www.qwantz.com/index.php <!-- ,~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~, ,' You guys!! What ', | does that code | ', even MEAN? ,' '~~~~~~., ,.~~~~~~~' | / | / |/ ' .~-, .' `,> .-' ,> <7`, ,` ,> <7 } { o !> <7 / { j_7` ! : j' `, ] F } F , { F `. rr .F | `=-" _,-` .F `, ,`; .F j : 7 F ; : `^, F` ,' `, `^, ,F` . , / `, `^-^-^-^-` ; | ; `. : .`/ ,-^,- `-. } ,'' `,_.-^ /' `-,___ ; .'` -_ ,7 ``=-....-={ ,/ `-','`Q \ | .-'-.] `, `. .`…
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on “British bookseller hides reading list for developers in its website source code”
