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Adam Loving

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Adam Loving's personal blog at adamloving.com covers programming and startups. Since 2011, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “Gamification is not Game Design”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-02-12, and you can follow it by feed.

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15mentions?
7HN people?
2011–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2014

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked in a Gamifying Github thread for a post that separates good gamification, which amplifies intrinsic rewards, from bad gamification, which adds extrinsic rewards or a contrived story.

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.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Gamification is not Game Design
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-03-25

What Hacker News says?

  1. omouse · 2011-05-23
    I'm just going to leave this here: http://adamloving.com/internet-programming/gamification There is good gamification and bad gamification. Bad gamification is slapping extrinsic rewards (or a contrived story) on top of an interaction. Good gamification amplifies the intrinsic rewards of a particular behavior – to increase the feeling of fun, flow, or accomplishment of the player. Players know bad gamification when…

    Comment linking /internet-programming/gamification

    on “Gamifying Github”
  2. adamloving · 2013-02-20

    Submitted Stack of the month club as a story · 25 points

    HN discussion
  3. calbucci · 2016-12-27

    Submitted Using Recurrent Neural Network to Find Startup Names as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  4. adamloving · 2014-12-09

    Submitted Top 6 gotchas with Node.js as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  5. berkeleymalagon · 2023-03-16

    Submitted Magic Shell: Copilot-like auto-complete functionality for the command prompt as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  6. adamloving · 2011-12-20

    Submitted 10 habits of 10x developers as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. adamloving · 2024-04-19

    Submitted What is an AI first architecture? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. adamloving · 2014-12-29

    Submitted Machine learning: “What does the fox eat?” as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. adamloving · 2014-07-18

    Submitted Be an open source dev superstar without writing code as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. joshwa · 2017-09-26

    Submitted Generating startup names with a neural network as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. adamloving · 2015-05-20

    Submitted How to subclass streams in node v0.12.2 as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. adamloving · 2014-03-02

    Submitted Facebook Growth Hack: Flash in your Post as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  13. adamloving · 2013-03-07

    Submitted Show HN: Results of yesterday's Ruby & JS hourly rate survey as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  14. trevin · 2012-06-28

    Submitted Why it’s so hard to get stuff done online as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  15. will_lam · 2011-03-25

    Submitted Gamification is not Game Design as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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