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Alex Recker
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Alex Recker writes Hey Reader!, a personal blog at alexrecker.com about economics and culture. Since 2015, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Sid Meier's Civilization Inspired Budget”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-04, 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 Alex Recker's posts on building his own online banking on top of his bank's API and on a 'Civilization Budget' inspired by Sid Meier's game. The one comment cites the budget post as a source for its own idea.
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.
personal online journal of Alex Recker
Most-linked posts?
- Sid Meier's Civilization Inspired Budget3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-11-13
What Hacker News says?
Thank you for letting me know that you can do this. I'd like to try combining that info with the Civilization Budget ( http://alexrecker.com/our-new-sid-meiers-civilization-inspir... ) that was posted a couple weeks ago.
Comment linking /our-new-sid-meiers-civilization-inspired-budget/
on “My bank has an API so I built online banking”Submitted Sid Meier's Civilization Inspired Budget as a story · 137 points
HN discussionSubmitted Our New Sid Meier's Civilization Inspired Budget as a story · 2 points
HN discussion