[basicallydan]

This is excellent.

Was anybody else also hoping for a Victorian HN Front Page with list of parody HN links which one might've expected to see in the 1880s or something?

- New Developments Greatly Increase Steam Engine Efficiency

- Show VHN: I have developed plans for a machine that will travel through time

- Nikola Tesla on Direct Current

- Ask VHN: Is the Trans-Atlantic telegraph cable down?

Any other ideas?

[bee_rider]

- Label Profusion: a framework to employ a great number of unskilled laborers in the creation of art via the use of simple terms

Followed by...

- Getting your in-home servants to work with label profusion

- Will label profusion cheapen the work of legitimate artists?

- I have tricked my butler into producing a great deal of smut via label profusion

[busyant]

The Daguerrotype Prototype (alpha release): Will it obviate the services provided by dear chaps like John Singer Sargent?

[Arrath]

- New study highlights noxious fumes danger from interior gas lamps. (Study funded by Right Honorable Brotherhood of Household Chandlers)

[melonrusk]

Ask VHN: I have recently been ejected from my Gentleman's club without explanation. I am neither a scofflaw nor a charlatan. Do I have any recourse ?

[bee_rider]

I merely wished to engage in a lively debate as to the inherent cognitive faculties of the various races -- and had even armed myself with all manner of statistics to reinforce up my arguments! It seems my erstwhile comrades have mistaken my quest to advance the science of phrenology for a hatred of the Irish...

[melonrusk]

Speaking of such, during a rousing game of backgammon I did have occasion to refer to my opponent as a "Paddy", but I cannot believe that my use of "That Gaming Term" could cause such consternation as to precipitate my removal.

[melonrusk]

Will 1863 be the year of Linux on the desktop ?

[basicallydan]

Hahahaha

[zppln]

I'd expect track gauges might be something VHNers could disagree over.

[CapitalistCartr]

Barring isolated systems (mines, logging) all track should be two meter gauge (78-3/4"). Although the measuring system of our neighbors across the Channel is not widely esteemed here, what we choose here in Britain will of course be widely copied throughout the World. Such a gauge would provide for the future, "future-proof", the Global system of track, allowing wider loads, greater stability for passengers, etc., it being readily apparent that rail is the future of all long distance travel.

[Nextgrid]

- Alternating Current considered harmful

[basicallydan]

Oof yes, this is exactly the kind of beef I would like to see on VHN.

[Nextgrid]

Probably would end up as:

- [flagged] Alternating Current considered harmful

[batch12]

Ask VHN: I have been locked in the pillory for two days and can't reach anyone.

[themanmaran]

Numerous inaccuracies discovered in my analytical machine manual transcript (1882 edt.)

[JasonFruit]

"written in Rust" => "powered by steam"

[Tangurena2]

1. I think that arrow is backwards.

2. This is sort of why steam locomotives needed about 8 hours of maintenance per day. Back when VHS tapes were "in", one of my favorite tape sets was restored railroad training films (ok, nerd pron, so what). One of which showed a lot of what went on behind the scenes in a locomotive maintenance facility - and why steam locomotives were limited to 8 hours of work per day: 8 hours driving, about 4 hours cooling down, 8 hours maintenance and about 4 hours of heating the water in the boiler. When diesel electric locomotives started becoming "a thing", some people said thing like "they're junk - the wheels fall off". Looking at why the wheels had such "bad" wear problems, it turns out that those locomotives were being driven 24/7, not 1/3 of the time like steam locomotives.

[greenonions]

A treatise on the most prevalent falsehoods, commonly held as truths by mechanical instructioners, on the topic of historical reenactment.

[basicallydan]

Hahaha. I see what you did there

[abecedarius]

These are not dissimilar in style from the "100 Years Ago" sidebar in Scientific American in a past now further receding, when I made a regular practice of reading that once-estimable journal.

[baq]

East India Company to acquire Horse Manure Processing (YC 1842)

[smoe]

Show VHN: Light bulb re-implemented using Carbon

[abcd_f]

Show VHN: Light bulb re-implemented using Wolfram (by Sir Stephen Wolfram)

[eth0up]

-Ask VHN: Should Automobiles Be Banned in the World's Columbian Exposition?

-Transgenderism In The Board Of Lady Managers Shouldn't Be An Issue

Edit: -Managing Micro-Aggressions in the Modern Saloon with Lisp.

[eth0up]

-Peak Horse: How and Why Oil and the New Machines will Erase the Carbon Footprint of Our Noblest Beast

[vermarish]

Lightbulb magnetism shown to penetrate solid walls -- may disrupt bloodflow if used outside a bedroom.