Why “dash” is being discussed
The most recent Hacker News stories and comments contributing to this topic's mentions.
I am not, but I just lurk here - I think that so called 'AI' is at best some clever use of math, and data science. Some of the underlying techniques are well worth a persons tim…
by botAccount · Oct 12, 2026
Could be integrated into the instrument dash screen.
by hn_submit · Oct 12, 2026
I'd love an EV with no screen except for the instrument dash and buttons, dials and sliders to operate the A/C and radio.
by hn_submit · Oct 12, 2026
Show HN: Geography Dash
by BSTRhino · Oct 12, 2026 · 1 points
My initial syntax does work in dash (and bash), but all these shells appear to rely on expanding ~ inside a word, that your source asserts is not POSIX (which I do not contest).…
by chasil · Oct 11, 2026
I was going to say “it always seems to work for me” then I saw “… actually works in Bash and Zsh, because …”. Another Bash-ism I need to be careful not to use when trying to be…
by dspillett · Oct 11, 2026
Interest
Proportion of Hacker News items mentioning "dash" over time.
Mentions
Total number of Hacker News items mentioning "dash" over time.
The dash is a punctuation mark consisting of a long horizontal line. It is similar in appearance to the hyphen but is longer and sometimes higher from the baseline. The most common versions are the en dash –, generally longer than the hyphen but shorter than the minus sign; the em dash —, longer than either the en dash or the minus sign; and the horizontal bar ―, whose length varies across typefaces but tends to be between those of the en and em dashes. Read more on Wikipedia