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Ben Hyde

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Ben Hyde writes Ascription is an Anathema to any Enthusiasm, a personal blog at enthusiasm.cozy.org about philosophy and culture. Since 2007, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2008

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Why HN links it

The linked posts cover the technology behind Convore, a Python and Twisted chat service. The one comment only endorses that topic and mentions using Python and Twisted for XMPP servers at HipChat.

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.

What Hacker News says?

  1. powdahound · 2011-02-16
    I'd like to second this. Although Twisted's documentation and 5-year-old bugs will have you cursing the libraries name at times it really does perform well once you figure it all out. We're using Python + Twisted for our XMPP servers at HipChat ( http://www.hipchat.com ) and neither have let us down. Hopefully we can reach 500k+ connections on such a small number of servers as well. One specific note about Twisted/P…

    Comment linking /archives/2009/03/python-twisteds-inlinecallbacks

    on “The Technology Behind Convore”
  2. davidw · 2008-09-20

    Submitted Graphical display of VC money disbursed per state as a story · 27 points

    HN discussion
  3. bct · 2009-11-23

    Submitted Self Binding Service (encrypting things to hide them from yourself) as a story · 12 points

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  4. br0ke · 2013-04-22

    Submitted What’s new in Quicklisp as a story · 3 points

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  5. chiachun · 2014-04-12

    Submitted Lisp on the BeagleBone Black as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. bct · 2007-10-19

    Submitted "Expensive Eccentric" - how markets normalize the mob as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. chrismealy · 2013-08-19

    Submitted The Modern Gentlemen’s club as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  8. Morendil · 2012-10-06

    Submitted The Changing Fabric of English as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. robin_reala · 2012-01-16

    Submitted Equality and Opportunity as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. bct · 2008-03-13

    Submitted Defending the Problem as a story · 1 points

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