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Abenomicon
Personal blog · abe-winter.github.io · on HN as awinter-pybusinessprogramming
Abenomicon is a personal blog at abe-winter.github.io about business and programming. Since 2017, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 136 times, most often “Congress should force FB to share the other half of users' profiles”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers cite Abenomicon posts as sources or related reading on contact-tracing Bluetooth issues, Slack as organizational memory, negotiation, and whether a war-declaring tweet is treason. Comments carry no explicit praise.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
for some reason the assistant is offline. an unrestricted AI with a pirate accent has entered the chat
Most-linked posts?
- Congress should force FB to share the other half of users' profiles2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-04-16
- Slack's core flaws require topic modeling to fix2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-04-02
- Touch interfaces aren't just bad on phones2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-06-10
- Coup-Proofing the Startup2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-06-05
- 12 Months with Big Redis2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-05-19
- Squash merge makes chaining PRs hard2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-09-01
- TWTR/FB have both peaked. Now what?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-07-27
- Slack is the opposite of organizational memory2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-02-11
- Leakage paths for the Apple / Google Bluetooth tracing system2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-04-10
- Lessons in negotiation from Stalin at Yalta2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-12-22
What Hacker News says?
Please refer to the BlueTrace and iOS bluetooth issues, now Apple is willing to open up .. https://abe-winter.github.io/2020/04/10/leaky.html
Comment linking /2020/04/10/leaky.html
on “Apple and Google partner on Covid-19 contact tracing technology”Submitted Slack is the opposite of organizational memory as a story · 461 points
HN discussionIt's from whoever wrote "The coming IP war over facts derived from books" [1] That's enough signal to make me not bother reading this. Writing this here to prevent other from wasting their time. Don't know the agenda behind, but can see the author(s) is/are trying to "pull" the Overton-window in a really really nasty direction concerning many things... [1]: https://abe-winter.github.io/2020/02/11/books-facts-ip.html
Comment linking /2020/02/11/books-facts-ip.html
on “Quarantine will normalize WFH and recession will denormalize full-time jobs”Submitted Quarantine will normalize WFH and recession will denormalize full-time jobs as a story · 437 points
HN discussionNegotiation skills. https://abe-winter.github.io/2018/12/20/stalin.html http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2014/05/the-ultimate-cheat-shee... http://time.com/38796/6-hostage-negotiation-techniques-that-... https://hbr.org/2016/07/how-to-negotiate-with-a-liar https://hbr.org/2014/06/how-to-negotiate-with-someone-more-p... https://www.fastcompany.com/3001209/negotiate-car-salesman-5... https://www.theatlantic.com/business/a…
Comment linking /2018/12/20/stalin.html
on “Ask HN: What skills to acquire in 2019?”Submitted Instead of containers, give me strong config and deploy primitives as a story · 334 points
HN discussionRelated: "Slack is the opposite of organizational memory" https://abe-winter.github.io/plea's/help/2018/02/11/slack.ht...
Comment linking /plea's/help/2018/02/11/slack.html
on “Ask HN: Why do people love Slack?”Submitted Stripe can make automatic LLCs but a wire transfer from Citi nearly ended me as a story · 310 points
HN discussion1) You're assuming this ONLY discusses the possibility of the US declaring war via tweet. The article clearly talks about ANY country that could declare war via tweet. 2) It specifically addresses the question of the US and Congress. https://abe-winter.github.io/2019/10/18/tweason.html#can-a-t...
Comment linking /2019/10/18/tweason.html
on “If a tweet declares war, is it treason to take it down?”Submitted ORMs Are Backwards as a story · 307 points
HN discussionSubmitted The coming IP war over facts derived from books as a story · 211 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mutiny at the big five is part of the future of work as a story · 165 points
HN discussionSubmitted Leakage paths for the Apple / Google Bluetooth tracing system as a story · 162 points
HN discussionSubmitted Automatic categorization of text is a core tool now as a story · 157 points
HN discussionSubmitted Warrantless encryption is a first amendment issue as a story · 147 points
HN discussionSubmitted JITs are un-ergonomic as a story · 145 points
HN discussionSubmitted Slack's core flaws require topic modeling to fix as a story · 133 points
HN discussionSubmitted Only distributed fact-checking can keep up with democratized distribution as a story · 132 points
HN discussionSubmitted Patton's sword and the future of work as a story · 123 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gmail really wants me to say yes as a story · 111 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lessons in negotiation from Stalin at Yalta as a story · 108 points
HN discussionSubmitted Perfection is a modern heresy as a story · 83 points
HN discussionSubmitted Android, evolvability and Comcast as a story · 75 points
HN discussionSubmitted Management and false certainty as a story · 71 points
HN discussionSubmitted If a tweet declares war, is it treason to take it down? as a story · 64 points
HN discussionSubmitted Slack as group mind as a story · 54 points
HN discussionSubmitted One year of automatic DB migrations from Git as a story · 50 points
HN discussionSubmitted Slack is the opposite of organizational memory (2018) as a story · 30 points
HN discussionSubmitted Coup-Proofing the Startup as a story · 30 points
HN discussionSubmitted Picking Rust for Web as a story · 27 points
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