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Arthur Cnops
Personal blog · arthurcnops.blogwritingprogramming
Arthur Cnops's personal blog at arthurcnops.blog covers writing and programming. Since 2026, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Is Show HN Dead? No, but It's Drowning”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-02-17, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's posts on the decline of Show HN submissions, including the "death-of-show-hn" article, as context for debates about the quality of recent Show HN posts.
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.
Personal blog by Arthur Cnops
Most-linked posts?
- Is Show HN Dead? No, but It's Drowning6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2026-02-17
What Hacker News says?
You seem to be insisting on arguing against arguments that have not been made and ignoring the whole point of the original post. I am having to repeat the beginning of my previous comment: >>The trigger for the [original] post was about post-AI Show HN, not about about whether vibe-coding is of value to vibe-coders. The topic is: The drop in quality of post-AI Show HN. It is specifically about this community. Please…
Comment linking /death-of-show-hn/
on “AI makes you boring”Submitted Is Show HN Dead? No, but It's Drowning as a story · 28 points
HN discussionYour site https://microlandia.city and OP blog https://www.arthurcnops.blog/death-of-show-hn/ as well as most personal sites posted on HN are almost always inaccessible via my corporate job's firewall. Does anyone know why this is? Something with security certificate? They're not explicitly blocked, because you get a "this is blocked" page in that case. With these sites they just show a "can't connect" error.
Comment linking /death-of-show-hn/
on “Is Show HN Dead? No, but It's Drowning”I find this very interesting, but am I being dense here? https://www.arthurcnops.blog/images/hn-show-dead-one-point.s... The legend says SHNs are getting worse, but surely if the % of SHN posts with 1 point is going DOWN (as per graph) then it's getting better? Either I am dense or the legends are the wrong way round no?
Comment linking /images/hn-show-dead-one-point.svg
on “Is Show HN Dead? No, but It's Drowning”I think there has just been a bit of whiplash with "Show HN" here lately, it was recently discussed here https://www.arthurcnops.blog/death-of-show-hn/ with much good discussion here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47045804 . That's no excuse for being overly harsh, but it's not really quite "anything is great to share!" either. Show HNs never pleased everyone, and it'd be silly to try, but until recently there…
Comment linking /death-of-show-hn/
on “Show HN: Rebrain.gg – Doom learn, don't doom scroll”See https://www.arthurcnops.blog/death-of-show-hn/
Comment linking /death-of-show-hn/
on “Show HN: WodBlock – the AI-powered workout timer”Another recent article on this topic https://www.arthurcnops.blog/death-of-show-hn/
Comment linking /death-of-show-hn/
on “State of Show HN: 2025”
