NEnetfortius·Dec 16, 2024Submission
Ask HN: What Is the Meaning Behind Anime Girls Holding Programming Books
Found on github: https://github.com/cat-milk/Anime-Girls-Holding-Programming-Books
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Anime-Girls-Holding-Programming-Books
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Anime-Girls-Holding-Programming-Books
Anime Girls Holding Programming Books
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Anime Girls Holding Programming Books
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My favorite for several reasons: https://github.com/cat-milk/Anime-Girls-Holding-Programming-...
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Observed mentions: 2020-03-25 00:34:10 UTC to 2024-12-16 16:50:55 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
11 sourcesAre there any that arent?
https://github.com/cat-milk/Anime-Girls-Holding-Programming-... has a subset.
In Appearances of MIT in AnimeI will not be taking questions, but I do find it interesting to see which characters show up in which languages.
Also, it made me smile that we have a Ruby reading about Ruby. [1]
[1]: https://github.com/cat-milk/Anime-Girls-Holding-Programming-...
In Git Repo: Anime-Girls-Holding-Programming-BooksGit Repo: Anime-Girls-Holding-Programming-Books
25 points · Open discussionI knew GitHub is not a tiny website, but I didn't imagine how big it actually is. Each of those dots are giant parts of someone's life.
There are a lot of interests that I didn't know exist. For example https://github.com/cat-milk/Anime-Girls-Holding-Programming-... - someone collects anime girls holding programming books.
https://github.com/tylertreat/Comcast - and here is someone who is amazing at coming up with funny project names =)
In Hundreds of millions of stars turned into a map of GitHub projectsMy favorite for several reasons: https://github.com/cat-milk/Anime-Girls-Holding-Programming-...
In Ken Thompson really did launch his "trusting trust" trojan attack in real lifeThese images have been shared around on image boards for probably over a decade, what you see here is just a group of people who sat down and categorized them: https://github.com/cat-milk/Anime-Girls-Holding-Programming-...
In Ken Thompson really did launch his "trusting trust" trojan attack in real lifeI don't think so, "programming socks" is a LGBT-adjacent meme to my knowledge, while this is related to https://github.com/cat-milk/Anime-Girls-Holding-Programming-... and image board culture.
In Ken Thompson really did launch his "trusting trust" trojan attack in real lifeHere's a repo for all kinds of anime girls holding programming books: https://github.com/cat-milk/Anime-Girls-Holding-Programming-...
In Ken Thompson really did launch his "trusting trust" trojan attack in real lifeAnime Girls holding programming books
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