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Anton Kovalyov

Personal blog · anton.kovalyov.net · on HN as simanyayprogrammingweb

Anton Kovalyov's personal blog at anton.kovalyov.net covers programming and web. Since 2008, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.

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6HN people?
2008–2013first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2011

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link this post on the claim that news is bad for you. A commenter ties it to the idea that unactionable information is harmful, citing Bulgakov's Heart of a Dog as an earlier source.

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.

Anton's personal blog

The author on HN?

simanyay · 1,007 karma · member since 2007

website: anton.kovalyov.net email: s/\./@/

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What Hacker News says?

  1. aleyan · 2013-12-12
    I first encountered this line of reasoning in Bulgakov's excellent 1925 book, Heart of a Dog when a doctor advises one of his friends: If you care about your digestion, my advice is—don't talk about bolshevism or medicine at table. And, god forbid—never read soviet newspapers before dinner. It seems to me that it has long been known that unactionable information is not good for you. Curiously, another HN reader expr…

    Comment linking /p/soviet-newspapers/

    on “News is bad for you”
  2. calvin · 2012-08-23

    Submitted Never read hacker news before dinner as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  3. simanyay · 2008-04-17
    I've solved that problem for me by configuring rawdog RSS reader. Now, it checks for update and generates a static HTML page. (if you are interested, here is the link: http://anton.kovalyov.net/tools/feeds/ ) So I don't have to visit a website just to make sure that there are no updates and I also don't have to use some big RSS reader with a lot of unnecessary things (ajax, tags, stars, share with friend, etc.)

    Comment linking /tools/feeds/

    on “What sites would you pay to use?”
  4. igorgue · 2011-03-22

    Submitted Tuning JavaScript at Disqus as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. craigkerstiens · 2012-11-05

    Submitted Exceptions are not exceptional as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  6. shawndumas · 2011-09-01

    Submitted Why I forked JSLint to JSHint as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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