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Asymptomatic

Personal blog · asymptomatic.net · on HN as ringmasterstartupswriting

Asymptomatic is a personal blog at asymptomatic.net about startups and writing. Since 2012, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.

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6mentions?
3HN people?
2012–2014first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2012

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

Why HN links it

Cited for background on Habari, a blogging project started by ex-WordPress developers, in a thread about startups. The comment gives the post's topic and does not judge 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 author on HN?

ringmaster · 381 karma · member since 2011

http://owenw.com/ http://asymptomatic.net/ [ my public key: https://keybase.io/ringmaster; my proof: https://keybase.io/ringmaster/sigs/jCjQMhr3Vl44inlbbpd6qsZ_Nw9gwwfoTpnkUe88Qao ]

From their public HN profile, which links to this site.

What Hacker News says?

  1. westi · 2012-07-26
    Owen wants more people to use Habari instead. Habari was started by a group of ex-WordPress developers - http://asymptomatic.net/2007/01/09/29/whats-up

    Comment linking /2007/01/09/29/whats-up

    on “Why Do Startups Do This?”
  2. ringmaster · 2012-07-26

    Submitted Why Do Startups Do This? as a story · 276 points

    HN discussion
  3. ringmaster · 2012-04-09

    Submitted Technical Books Are Broken as a story · 32 points

    HN discussion
  4. jmilloy · 2014-04-29

    Submitted Your Flat-File "CMS" is not a CMS – 2013 as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  5. ringmaster · 2013-06-17

    Submitted Job, Ideally as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  6. ringmaster · 2012-07-20

    Submitted Things Kickstarter Should Change as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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