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Alexander Cobleigh

Personal blog · cblgh.orgprogrammingsystems

Alexander Cobleigh's personal blog at cblgh.org covers programming and systems. Since 2020, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “TrustNet: Using Distributed Chat Systems for Transitive Trust Propagation”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-09, and you can follow it by feed.

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9mentions?
5HN people?
2020–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2026

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this personal site as an example of web pages that look like they are from the 90s, and cite its trustnet article as related to a project idea.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

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Most-linked posts?

  1. TrustNet: Using Distributed Chat Systems for Transitive Trust Propagation
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-06-29

What Hacker News says?

  1. amatecha · 2022-01-20
    So many people make websites that basically look like they are from the 90's (though without all the animated GIFs haha), and use basic features without any strictly-modern stuff. These are just a few off the top of my head: https://cblgh.org/ https://technomancy.us/list https://alexschroeder.ch/ http://100r.co/site/about_us.html https://dataswamp.org/~solene/ https://rgz.ee/ https://www.bsdly.net/~peter/ https://co…

    Comment linking /

    on “Make Front End Shit Again (2018)”
  2. surprisetalk · 2025-10-14

    Submitted The Done Line as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  3. manx · 2020-07-06
    Great to see more people in this space! Your idea seems very related to: https://cblgh.org/articles/trustnet.html

    Comment linking /articles/trustnet.html

    on “Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve?”
  4. KoftaBob · 2023-12-10

    Submitted Trust-Based Moderation Systems as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  5. surprisetalk · 2026-05-29

    Submitted Local Git Remotes as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. surprisetalk · 2025-12-12

    Submitted Smol share – for sharing ephemeral encrypted snippets of text or links as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. detaro · 2020-06-29

    Submitted TrustNet: Using Distributed Chat Systems for Transitive Trust Propagation as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. surprisetalk · 2026-08-11

    Submitted Pizza Box Project Stack as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. surprisetalk · 2026-05-28

    Submitted Alexander Cobleigh / Cblgh.org as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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