Why “Looking” is being discussed
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Portia jumping spiders are incredibly smart. People have done experiments where they place the spiders in a complex environment with food in a hard to access location and they b…
by bartread · Oct 16, 2026
I bought my partner a few of those years ago before Google had even announced an intent to get in to the tracker market, and they work great for an individual looking to find th…
by wolrah · Oct 16, 2026
Darebee's a fitness nonprofit. I'm not pitching it. I just think it's the straightest line between zero and working out. You don't have to know how much you weigh and you don't…
by rpdillon · Oct 16, 2026
As someone who has had a Mercedes AMG that could do 0-60s in less than 4s for a few years, it just gets boring so fast, and it makes you question why you bought the thing in the…
by gambiting · Oct 16, 2026
I had an interaction with a raven in California that made me sure it has seen the Weeping Angels from Doctor Who. I was sitting on the ground, and it was behind me. It clearly w…
by technothrasher · Oct 16, 2026
> My objection to the Trolley problem is that it assumes that people are interchangeable like ants and that the only thing that matters is "lifes saved". The problem statement c…
by chmod775 · Oct 16, 2026
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Proportion of Hacker News items mentioning "looking" over time.
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Total number of Hacker News items mentioning "looking" over time.
Looking is the act of intentionally focusing visual perception on someone or something, for the purpose of obtaining information, and possibly to convey interest or another sentiment. A large number of troponyms exist to describe variations of looking at things, with prominent examples including the verbs "stare, gaze, gape, gawp, gawk, goggle, glare, glimpse, glance, peek, peep, peer, squint, leer, gloat, and ogle". Additional terms with nuanced meanings include viewing, watching, eyeing, observing, beholding, and scanning. Looking is both a physical act of directing the focus of the eyes, and a psychological act of interpreting what is seen and choosing whether to continue looking at it, or to look elsewhere. Where more than one person is involved, looking may lead to eye contact between those doing the looking, which raises further implications for the relationship established through that act. Read more on Wikipedia