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Amin Eftegarie
Personal blog · eftegarie.com · on HN as aminozuurproductivitywriting
Amin Eftegarie's personal blog at eftegarie.com covers productivity and writing. Since 2020, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 21 times, most often “The benefits of reading digital books”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-01-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Comments link posts on school, fame and e-books. One commenter pushes back on the e-book post, arguing that DRM is the real problem rather than the lack of smell or feel.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- The benefits of reading digital books2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-12-15
- One in Ten2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-09-15
- /drugs/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-07-07
What Hacker News says?
I was just playing with building a tiny stock tool for fundamental analysis a few days ago[0]. It's in the extremely early stage and currently uses Polygon's API (made by ex-googlers), although we're looking for an alternative. Polygon's data is often flawed, buggy, absend or outdated. [0] https://eftegarie.com/StockDNA.html
Comment linking /StockDNA.html
on “Google Finance Finally Updated”Submitted How I survive 12 hour flights as a story · 28 points
HN discussionhttps://eftegarie.com/school-2/
Comment linking /school-2/
on “Every person on the planet should have their own website”Submitted How I overcame my hatred for small talk as a story · 7 points
HN discussionI'm glad someone who's a friend and advisor to many famous people took time out of their day to inform us of this (their prior post: https://eftegarie.com/famous/ )
Comment linking /famous/
on “Every person on the planet should have their own website”Submitted The ergonomic mouse that saved my wrist as a story · 5 points
HN discussionYeah, I REALLY revulsed at this one: https://eftegarie.com/epub/ So, I am working on an e-book reader myself and I love e-books as well. But the problem with e-books is not that they don't have "smell or feel" but rather DRM issues. Unless you get all your books in a DRM-free e-pub format, they can be taken out of your library at any time for any reason. Also its nice to have something to pass down from generation t…
Comment linking /epub/
on “Every person on the planet should have their own website”Submitted How to Correct for Confirmation Bias as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttps://eftegarie.com/drugs/
Comment linking /drugs/
on “Every person on the planet should have their own website”Submitted Websites should stop hiding vital information in PDFs as a story · 3 points
HN discussionWhy do I even would need to share this? Sry, I don't get it. https://eftegarie.com/drugs/ https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/File:en-us-fucknigga.ogg
Comment linking /drugs/
on “Every person on the planet should have their own website”Submitted A simple habit to start drinking lots of water as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttps://eftegarie.com My personal blog with random notes, thoughts and blog posts. I don’t update it often sadly, but i like having my firstname @ my last name .com as my email address.
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted One in Ten as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Case for Investing in Vanguard Total World ETF as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Every person on the planet should have their own website as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The benefits of reading digital books as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Confidence is the natural result of positive reinforcement as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Each pair of people creates a unique combination as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted One in Ten as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why digital books are better than physical books as a story · 1 points
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