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AstroEngineer's Blog is a personal blog at astroengineer.wordpress.com about philosophy and science. Since 2019, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “A Curiosity of Spirit (2010)”. The last post was in 2010, but the archive is still widely read.

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4mentions?
4HN people?
2019–2022first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2019

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

Why HN links it

One commenter gives a bare link to a 2010 post on a Curiosity rover topic, in a thread about the rover needing a reset. The comment says nothing about the writing.

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.

The stories of my slow path to awakening.

Most-linked posts?

  1. A Curiosity of Spirit (2010)
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-02-25

What Hacker News says?

  1. https://astroengineer.wordpress.com/2010/04/07/a-curiosity-o...

    Comment linking /2010/04/07/a-curiosity-of-spirit-full-document/

    on “Curiosity rover gives Nasa a scare, needed a reset”
  2. Submitted Calling NSA to find your encryption key after a few bits were flipped (2010) as a story · 265 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted A Curiosity of Spirit (2010) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted 2 employees think DoD hacked NASA for Faster Than Light comms with Mars Rover as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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