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Armand Halbert
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Armand Halbert's personal blog at ahalbert.com covers culture and history. Since 2015, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 32 times, most often “The Ten Commandments of Refactoring”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-18, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
Armand Halbert's personal site of book reviews and summaries, such as The Culture Map and Blind Man's Bluff. Commenters mention these reviews as HN submissions or as sources for their own points.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The official website of Armand Halbert: Software Engineer
Most-linked posts?
- The Ten Commandments of Refactoring5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2024-01-06
- The Culture Map: How to Navigate Foreign Cultures in Business3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-06-04
- Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-07-02
- The Pragmatic Programmer: 20th Anniversary Edition (2023)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-12-19
What Hacker News says?
Location: Chicago, IL Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: SQL, Python, Java, Golang, Kafka, Kubernetes, Apache Spark, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Google BigQuery, Amazon Redshift Résumé/CV: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/6l07cbd0gfzeefbjhvlbk/armand_halbert_resume.pdf?rlkey=3gqw4uw0krr6wq522h5epk6j9&st=icuaqeic&dl=0 Email: armand [dot] halbert [at] gmail.com I am a Software Engineer/Data Engineer with…
Comment linking /projects/ted/ted.html
on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2025)”Submitted The Pragmatic Programmer: 20th Anniversary Edition (2023) as a story · 219 points
HN discussionThe 1998 NYT article "The Sonar War" might be a better submission: < https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/98/12/20/r... > There's a review of the book which was submitted to HN about a year ago: < https://www.ahalbert.com/reviews/2023/07/01/blind_mans_bluff... > (HN: < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36561229 >).
Comment linking /reviews/2023/07/01/blind_mans_bluff.html
on “Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage”Submitted The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century as a story · 18 points
HN discussionI grew up after the open source revolution of the 80's and 90's, but my parents did not get internet until I was in high school. At one point though, I read "How To Be A Hacker" and tried to emulate that world when I started to learn programming. I fell out of love with as I grew up, but there's still a bit of nostalgia for that world to me(false nostalgia - I was never part of it). I chronicled my journey and why I…
Comment linking /technology/2013/04/02/hackerpolitics.html
on “The Anthropology of Hackers (2010)”Submitted The Culture Map: How to Navigate Foreign Cultures in Business as a story · 9 points
HN discussionIn principle, many problems arise from cultural differences alone .. "The Culture Map: How to Navigate Foreign Cultures in Business" https://ahalbert.com/reviews/2023/06/04/the_culture_map.html HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36190015 "In this chapter she starts with a merger between an American and German financial company. The Americans described the Germans as too hierarchical, with a focus on titles and…
Comment linking /reviews/2023/06/04/the_culture_map.html
on “I moved to Germany and regret it”Submitted Is Morality Real? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionMy blog: https://ahalbert.com/ I just got back to public writing, but I like to share summaries of the books I read. My most recent post is the secret history of cold war submarine espionage: https://ahalbert.com/reviews/2023/07/01/blind_mans_bluff.htm... This recently was featured on hacker news's front page: https://ahalbert.com/reviews/2023/06/04/the_culture_map.html
Comment linking /reviews/2023/06/04/the_culture_map.html
on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted The Ten Commandments of Refactoring as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI do it on my college alum slack channel, but I recently wrote one up that made it to the front page of HN: https://ahalbert.com/reviews/2023/06/04/the_culture_map.html I took some inspiration from the book review contests of "Astral Codex Ten" https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/your-book-review-publi...
Comment linking /reviews/2023/06/04/the_culture_map.html
on “Why Write?”Submitted The Ten Commandments of Refactoring as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Saving America's Cities as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Gentle Introduction to Metathics as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Last of the Machine Bosses – Richard J. Daley as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Ten Commandments of Refactoring as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Ten Commandments of Refactoring as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the Aids Epidemic as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Pragmatic Programmer: 20th Anniversary Edition as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted It's Our Turn to Eat: Corruption in Modern Kenya as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Computing in the Era of Doom: What Were PCs Like in 1993? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted If You Write a Series of Blog Posts, Please Link Them at the Beginning as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Invasion of the Body Snatchers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Commandments of Refactoring as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fast Joins in Apache Beam as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Accepting Mediocrity as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Personal Data Architecture for Fun and Profit as a story · 1 points
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