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Benjamín Diethelm-Varela

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Benjamín Diethelm-Varela's personal blog at bmdiethelmv.wordpress.com covers hardware, programming and science. Since 2022, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “ThinkPad X2100 Review (2021)”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.

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3mentions?
3HN people?
2022–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 1 in 2022

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for its ThinkPad X2100 posts about a replacement motherboard for the X201/X200 and a popular hardware mod. Commenters cite it for pricing and as a source for the mod.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

A site for science, data, computers, and open-source! Welcome # rm -r /universe (commented out for safety) Latest blog posts

Most-linked posts?

  1. ThinkPad X2100 Review (2021)
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-05-05

What Hacker News says?

  1. They only cost this much with the new parts fitted . Various versions have been on sale for 5+ years, often billed as the X2100. https://bmdiethelmv.wordpress.com/2021/07/02/thinkpad-x2100-...

    Comment linking /2021/07/02/thinkpad-x2100-review/

    on “X210Ai is a new motherboard to upgrade ThinkPad X201/200”
  2. Submitted ThinkPad X2100 Review (2021) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  3. https://bmdiethelmv.wordpress.com/2021/07/02/thinkpad-x2100-... This is a popular "hacker"-y mod.

    Comment linking /2021/07/02/thinkpad-x2100-review/

    on “Time to Upgrade Your Monitor (2020)”

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