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Ahmad Haghighi

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Ahmad Haghighi's personal blog at ahmadhaghighi.com covers programming and politics. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.

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4mentions?
3HN people?
2020–2021first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2020

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

Why HN links it

Linked in a thread on youtube-dl's DMCA takedown, the post covers GitLab restricting access for Iranian users. The only comment is a bare link with a claim about GitLab, not a judgement of the writing.

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.

Ahmad Haghighi’s personal page.

What Hacker News says?

  1. And GitLab has now banned Iranians: https://ahmadhaghighi.com/blog/2020/gitlab/

    Comment linking /blog/2020/gitlab/

    on “YouTube-dl is now part of GitHub/dmca.git”
  2. Submitted Gitlab Blocked Iranians’ Access as a story · 365 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Free Software, not as in ‘free speech’, nor as in ‘free beer’ as a story · 241 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Free Software NOT as in `free speech,` NOR as in `free beer` as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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