Show HN: Vegetable Gardening for Engineers
The gist
Hacker News user jrcplus posted "Vegetable Gardening for Engineers," a home-growing guide, drawing modest points and no comments.
The guide targets urban apartment growers and invites pull requests from readers.
How it unfolded
- Nov 3, 2026jrcplus posts "Show HN: Vegetable Gardening for Engineers" to Hacker News; it is listed at 10 points with no comments, and at 16 points with 0 comments on Tangerine Index.
- Nov 4, 2026The same entry appears in Hacker News "New Show" listings at 9, 15, 10 and 4 points across several snapshots, all by jrcplus and all with no comments.
- Nov 8, 2026A Hacker News commenter references the document, saying that when people learn they work in tech they ask what to buy, and the commenter tells them to buy seeds.
Key terms
- Hacker News
- A social news website focused on computer science and entrepreneurship, run by Y Combinator.
- hydroponics
- Growing plants without soil by supplying water-based mineral nutrient solutions, sometimes with an inert supporting medium.
Source: Wikipedia