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Alexa O'Brien

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Alexa O'Brien's personal blog at alexaobrien.com covers politics and history. Since 2013, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “William Binney Explains Snowden Docs”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.

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5HN people?
2013–2017first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2015

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link Alexa O'Brien's transcribers blog, which hosts a copy of Bradley Manning's statement from the WikiLeaks case. The only comment is a bare pointer to that copy.

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. William Binney Explains Snowden Docs
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-10-01

What Hacker News says?

  1. Here's the copy on the transcribers blog http://www.alexaobrien.com/secondsight/wikileaks/bradley_man...

    Comment linking /secondsight/wikileaks/bradley_manning/pfc_bradley_e_manning_providence_hearing_statement.html

    on “Bradley Manning’s Statement”
  2. Submitted It appears my Google account is slated for deletion as a story · 657 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted William Binney Explains Snowden Docs as a story · 140 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted William Binney Explains Snowden Docs (2014) as a story · 13 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Retired NSA Technical Director Explains Snowden Docs as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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