folklore

Eurisko is definitely part of CS and hacker folklore - but it is not really science.

Also folklore.org is a nice collection of fables on how the sausage got made.

The idea that top-level programs use UCT is just folklore at this point.

But that's not what bothers me - what bothers me is that so many references just take this folklore as truth without any critical thought.

I found it funny that 21th century science is reaching folklore level of knowledge.

Help us document gotchas and find real (not folklore/he-said-she-said) fixes for Windows, Mac, and Linux errors to help make solving these problems easier for everyone out there.

Create a ranked list of HN folklore and traditions.

The UFO topic is verboten largely because of all the bizarre and often silly folklore and quasi-religion that surrounds it, but it isn't hard to strip that off.

In Borges, libraries are a recurrent theme, as there are labyrinths, and Argentinian folklore, timeless, godly structures, etc.

I'm pretty sure that this Mpemba Effect is folklore.

From Wiki: >>A succubus is a female demon or supernatural entity in folklore (traced back to medieval legend) that appears in dreams and takes the form of a woman in order to seduce men I believe that it was as much social as technical issues that held back Glass.

Part of the problem with security is that it's a gut feeling, unsupported "expert" opinion, and tech-folklore driven discipline.

Folklore.org - how more perfect a counter to "we have no lore"?

In folklore/fiction the superheroes are only optimized on a limited set of abilities or if they are too super we throw in "an Achilles heel"/"a Kryptonite".

Folklore is that the seals in the compressors are short lived, system loses the ability to compress the refrigerant sufficiently.

Folklore.org is so great, such a great example of hypertext in addition to the history.

I've read most of Folklore, but I missed this one.