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Adam Koszek
Personal blog · koszek.com/blog · on HN as wkoszekstartupsprogrammingcareer
Adam Koszek's personal blog at koszek.com covers startups, programming and career. Since 2015, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 68 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-12, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this site for a hosted PDF paper on proton testing of Zynq chips, which reports terrestrial radiation upset rates for ICs. It is cited as a source in a thread on a muon detector.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
I'm the founder/CEO of GazeSite, an AI website review service, and the owner of Konobase.com, an AI data platform for regulated industries. I write about AI products, startups, leadership, and software.
What Hacker News says?
I feel like a lot of people in this thread show very flashy websites. But honestly, if your work is decent, some people will notice regardless of how you present it. Since you ask this question, I doubt you'd make your website total crap. Most of the time more people e.g.: watch my github page: http://github.com/wkoszek page than my real website http://www.koszek.com since its harder to find you on a separate websit…
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on “Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?”Submitted How much software engineer should invest in career growth as a story · 37 points
HN discussionYou're absolutely insane and you need help. Seek professional advise from your school counsellor, if required. Below I wrote some paragraphs to help you. If you do this, someone should go, figure out who you are in real life and revoke your MBA. Or you should just request a refund of your $150k tuition. If you really work in top 3 tech firm, your colleagues are Stanford/Berkeley/MIT/CMU grads, who ate rice and ketch…
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on “Ask HN: I will quit my job as a PM to join a coding bootcamp. Am I crazy?”Submitted Use as few tools as possible as a story · 5 points
HN discussionIC vendors do terrestrial radiation testing on their parts and get upset rates. For example: http://www.koszek.com/papers/zynq_protons_r7.pdf
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on “The $100 muon detector”Submitted Which Open Source Projects Should You Contribute To as a story · 4 points
HN discussionYou can take a look at one of the possible reasons in a short piece I wrote about Facebook Paper, and especially screenshots :-) http://www.koszek.com/blog/2015/09/08/copyright-screen-of-fa...
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on “Q: Why Is the Facebook App So Large? A: iOS Can’t Handle Facebook Scale”Submitted What it's like to write software in the hardware industry as a story · 4 points
HN discussionDo you get any results that way? I either do something wrong, or it just doesn't work well for me: https://www.reddit.com/user/wkoszek/ Some of my stuff can be shit, but some articles did well at HN/LinkedIn and on Reddit I got 0 results. Example: http://www.koszek.com/blog/2017/02/06/how-much-software-engi...
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on “Ask HN: How do you promote your blog articles?”Submitted Are you a good Open Source contributor? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSo I added a mailing list a while back. I have 11 people now, and quite a bit of posts: http://www.koszek.com/ but the growth is very slow. I suspect it's because it's not a single-niche blog plus writing which isn't written by a native English speaker. Wondering what else I could "debug" here.
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