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Andrew K Kirk

Personal blog · andrewkkirk.com · on HN as andrewkkirkcareerprogrammingstartups

Andrew K Kirk's personal blog at andrewkkirk.com covers career, programming and startups. Since 2012, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “How I Got Unbanned from Hacker News”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.

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4mentions?
3HN people?
2012–2014first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2012

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

Why HN links it

The linked post describes how to request an unban from Hacker News. One commenter links it to a user whose comments were dead, pointing them to the process.

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.

Hi, I'm Andrew Entrepreneur and Technologist I'm an entrepreneur, digital marketer, and startup sales guy located in Los Angeles. I like to write, tweet, and post updates. CitySourced Chief Revenue & Operations Officer I led sales & marketing teams at CitySourced, a mobile civic engagement platform,

The author on HN?

andrewkkirk · 22 karma · member since 2011

Entrepreneurial-Minded Marketer. Spending fulltime learning to program > http://andrewkkirk.com Previously founded content marketing agency, Face The Buzz > http://facethebuzz. http://twitter.com/andrewkkirk

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Most-linked posts?

  1. How I Got Unbanned from Hacker News
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-12-04

What Hacker News says?

  1. @martianpenguin, your comments are dead. Only a small subset of users can see them. You can reach out to pg@ to request an unban ( http://www.andrewkkirk.com/2012/12/how-unbanned-from-hacker-... ). Hopefully enough traffic will make hn reconsider this policy.

    Comment linking /2012/12/how-unbanned-from-hacker-news/

    on “Swiss Post scans your snail mail and sends it to you via email.”
  2. Submitted How I Got Unbanned from Hacker News as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Hope for Non-CS Majors Learning to Program as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted How I Landed a Job Offer After 18 Weeks Learning to Code as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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