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by mtlynch 9mo ago
I used to sell on Amazon, and Walmart Marketplace reached out to me to convince me they could offer me a better seller experience than Amazon. I was excited because I hated dealing with Amazon, but I had the call with the Walmart rep and he
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My AI got a GitHub account(maragu.dev)
1 points by mtlynch 9mo ago|0 comments
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Does bitchat work during a phone outage? Range on BLE is pretty low, right, so I'd expect it to not do much unless you happen to live in an area where there are bitchat users every 100 ft or so. I'm in a similar boat to you in wan
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by mtlynch 9mo ago
Cool, those updates are helpful!
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by mtlynch 9mo ago
Thanks for sharing this! I've been experimenting with something similar. It would be helpful if the README explained how this works so users understand what they're trusting to protect them. I think it's worth noting that the
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by mtlynch 9mo ago
> (I’m not sure why the data from my old domain, cyhsu.xyz, hasn’t been aggregated to the new hsu.cy, despite the methodology page saying it should. Must I return the canonical header in addition to a 301 code?) It's a manual proc
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by mtlynch 9mo ago
> I've long wondered how much HN karma I could farm by keeping track of the top-X HN blogs and auto-posting the links with a bot. A lot: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=todsacerdoti
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by mtlynch 9mo ago
> For most of my favorite projects, I write the blog post _first_, then adapt that to a YouTube script. I still consider the written word to be vastly superior to video form. Thanks for this context! I've re-worded that sentence t
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by mtlynch 9mo ago
Thanks, Phil! Updated! https://github.com/mtlynch/hn-popularity-contest-data/pull/9...
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by mtlynch 9mo ago
If you click a domain, you'll see its details page, and there's a direct link at the top as well as direct links to all of the domain's front page stories.
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by mtlynch 9mo ago
Everything is default included, and I have a long list of not-blog domains that are excluded.[0] Plus, I exclude the Alexa top 500. There are lots of not-blogs still in the dataset, but I just exclude them when I come across them in popular
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by mtlynch 9mo ago
> You won't show up unless your site is listed in this manually curated CSV Correction: you'll show up even if you're not in the CSV. The CSV just populates metadata for your entry.
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by mtlynch 9mo ago
> There's some data issues in the full dataset, expectedly. My blog got around 200 points this year, which should be enough to hit #2077, but the blog does not appear at all. Yeah, the minimum for inclusion is 500 upvotes across al
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by mtlynch 9mo ago
Sorry about that! Thanks for the correction. I've updated the blog post and the dataset.[0] The blog updates instantly, but the dataset needs a few minutes for my pipeline to re-run and push to the CDN. [0] https://github.co
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by mtlynch 9mo ago
OP here. Sorry for the exclusion! The minimum threshold for inclusion is 500 upvotes across all posts that reached the front page.[0] It looks like your domain currently has 176 total upvotes, so it misses the threshold.[1] I have the minim
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by mtlynch 9mo ago
With Julia Evans, it's mainly due to her blogging less. She only published six blog posts in 2025, but five of them reached the front page.[0] By comparison, in 2020, when she was #11th most popular, she had 17 new blog posts on the fr
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The Most Popular Blogs of Hacker News in 2025(refactoringenglish.com)
692 points by mtlynch 9mo ago|133 comments
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> What did you find hard to understand about double entry accounting? I didn't understand the point of the two entries. My prior experience with bookkeeping was that I imported my bank statements into some tool and categorized each
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by mtlynch 9mo ago
> the bulk of my traffic now comes from RSS readers. I don't think this is correct unless you mean strictly the number of HTTP requests to your web server. You were the 9th most popular blogger on HN in 2025.[0] Your post says you
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The Most Popular Blogs on HN in 2025(refactoringenglish.com)
10 points by mtlynch 9mo ago|3 comments
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by mtlynch 9mo ago
+1 to OP's book, which is the best beginner guide I've found for understanding Beancount / plaintext accounting. I was also confused about double-entry accounting for most of my life until I read the article, "Accounting
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by mtlynch 9mo ago
Aside from the fact that writing a book about Beancount is a positive contribution, the author maintains a list of Beancount resources[0] and has written several beancount plugins.[1, 2, 3, 4] I have personally benefited from his contribu
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by mtlynch 10mo ago
Dr. Hipp, I love SQLite but also had simonw's misapprehension that the project did not accept contributions. The SQLite copyright page says: > Contributed Code > In order to keep SQLite completely free and unencumbered by cop
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by mtlynch 10mo ago
> Have YOU ever tried interacting with the developers? No? I have. I emailed them a couple of weeks ago and they responded promptly and professionally. > All this stuff is available and just because YOU choose to put your head in t
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by mtlynch 10mo ago
Thanks! I appreciate your more accessible explanation.
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I've been spending a lot of time experimenting with and learning about Meshtastic and MeshCore recently,[0] and I'm also puzzled by the criticism of Meshtastic. In the article you linked, there are three paragraphs about Meshtasti
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by mtlynch 10mo ago
People talk about how productive Fabrice Bellard is, but I don't think anyone appreciates just how productive he is. Here's the commit history for this project b700a4d (2025-12-22T1420) - Creates an empty project with an MIT lic
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by mtlynch 10mo ago
Also, it's illegal in the US and many other countries to not disclose that you're earning money from a recommendation.[0] [0] https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/resources/ftcs-endorse...
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by mtlynch 10mo ago
The mp3 file is malformed but playable. I get different timestamps for the same audio if I jump around.
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by mtlynch 10mo ago
Yeah, as an American, I'm jealous of many aspects of GDPR. I really appreciate you blogging / tooting about experiences protecting your rights under GDPR. I wish we had 1/10th of the consumer privacy protections you have. How

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