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Andrew Farmer
Personal blog · andrewfarmer.name · on HN as Xichekolasprogrammingstartups
Andrew Farmer's personal blog at andrewfarmer.name covers programming and startups. Since 2008, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Andrew Farmer's posts for a Greasemonkey script and HN blacklist tool, and for a fuel-efficiency explanation with reasoning and calculations. One commenter says they like his posts.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /2008/04/hn-blacklist-now-with-ui.html2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2008-04-25
What Hacker News says?
Like this: http://andrewfarmer.name/screenshot.png Using this: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25039 Not sure it really addresses any of your issues though. Just know that it wouldn't be hard to implement some of your ideas with a GM script.
Comment linking /screenshot.png
on “Ask HN: How do you consume Hacker News?”Submitted Yet Another Blog about Startup School (This one's pretty good) as a story · 26 points
HN discussionThis might help: Greasemonkey to blacklist sites. http://www.andrewfarmer.name/2008/04/greasemonkey.html I like their posts so far and would not like to see them gone.
Comment linking /2008/04/greasemonkey.html
on “Start a business, not a startup”Submitted Blacklist sites you don't want to see in Hacker News as a story · 17 points
HN discussionFine, I added a UI to it... http://www.andrewfarmer.name/2008/04/hn-blacklist-now-with-u...
Comment linking /2008/04/hn-blacklist-now-with-ui.html
on “Nickb, Are you okay?”Submitted Startup School (from Kansas) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionAs a new user who hasn't yet contributed much to the community, don't you think your post is rude? user : bporterfield created : 30 days ago karma : 38 8 comments, 1.50 points per comment [searchyc.com] That said, you may want to use http://www.andrewfarmer.name/2008/04/hn-blacklist-now-with-u... to blacklist the sites you don't want to see.
Comment linking /2008/04/hn-blacklist-now-with-ui.html
on “My New Instant Karma Plan”Submitted (mis)Education as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttp://www.andrewfarmer.name/2008/04/hn-blacklist-now-with-u...
Comment linking /2008/04/hn-blacklist-now-with-ui.html
on “Ask PG: Shall we ban Techcrunch articles?”Since someone wanted an easy way to edit the list of blacklisted sites, I added a little UI to it. Check out the newer one here: http://www.andrewfarmer.name/2008/04/hn-blacklist-now-with-u...
Comment linking /2008/04/hn-blacklist-now-with-ui.html
on “Blacklist sites you don't want to see in Hacker News”Geez, this is hacker news, how about some data backing up this claim. A much better explanation (including reasoning and calculations) is here: http://www.andrewfarmer.name/2008/06/on-fuel-efficiency.html
Comment linking /2008/06/on-fuel-efficiency.html
on “The magic of low-hanging fruit”
