Hacker News with Generative AI: Metaphors

The origin of the cargo cult metaphor (righto.com)
The cargo cult metaphor is commonly used by programmers. This metaphor was popularized by Richard Feynman's "cargo cult science" talk with a vivid description of South Seas cargo cults. However, this metaphor has three major problems.

Programming, History, Metaphors, Science

290 points by zdw 5 days ago | 676 comments

Ohmaps: your image montage is a resistor network (hunsley.io)
Occasionally there’s a lovely moment when I’m working on a problem and I realise I’m also looking at some other thing that seems completely unrelated. It’s like a metaphor made flesh.

Image Manipulation, Art, Programming, Metaphors

78 points by occular 67 days ago | 28 comments

Electric chainsaws and the gorge of misery (lcamtuf.substack.com)

Electric Chainsaws, Metaphors, Writing

39 points by zdw 164 days ago | 71 comments

We need new metaphors that put life at the centre of biology Essays (aeon.co)

Biology, Philosophy, Metaphors, Science

9 points by rbanffy 190 days ago | 1 comments

'It's like I drew a door and disappeared through it' (2021) (meduza.io)

Metaphors, Art, Personal Experiences, 2021, Russia

105 points by NaOH 194 days ago | 13 comments

The Internet Is Like a City (But Not in the Way You'd Think) (novum.substack.com)

Internet, Metaphors, Social Interaction

10 points by thunderbong 260 days ago | 1 comments

Why the Higgs Field Is Nothing Like Molasses, Soup, or a Crowd (profmattstrassler.com)