[lxe]

The Bartosz Ciechanowski's blog post referenced here is arguably the best thing you can currently find on the Internet

https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/

[IanCal]

I'd just like to highlight that this is one of quite a few things of a similar incredible amount of detail that they have done: https://ciechanow.ski/archives/

[redbell]

Discussed here three years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31261533

With +4K points, it is being ranked #8 of best HN submissions of all time, a true classic indeed!

[marai2]

Where can one see the list of best ranked HN posts?

[matsemann]

Pressing enter in the search field on the bottom of the page takes you to a search with no filters, sorted on popularity. Or like this, I guess: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

[disillusioned]

This is basically true of every single Ciechanowski post. They are true works of art.

[satvikpendem]

As well as the YouTube channel Branch Education's amazing explanation.

https://youtu.be/oEC5fIw0bL0