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Beyond the Frame
Personal blog · schmud.de · on HN as schmuddephilosophyculture
Beyond the Frame is a personal blog at schmud.de about philosophy and culture. Since 2020, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 51 times, most often “Wikidata and Mundaneum – The Triumph of the Commons”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers share Beyond the Frame in lists of favourite and personal tech blogs and RSS picks, and mention the author's Strange Loop talk. One commenter thanks the author for a submitted post on Knuth airgaps.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The metaphysics of information, art, and narrative
Most-linked posts?
- Wikidata and Mundaneum – The Triumph of the Commons3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-09-02
- IBM Stretch, the NSA, and MLK3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-06-02
- How the Consumer Computer Is Consuming Computing3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-08-25
- Fix My Code3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-09-08
- Engineering the End of Work3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-07-16
- Oneness via gurus, psychedelics and the hidden code in Jordan Mechner's Karateka2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-12-17
- Untangling Non-Linearity: How the Linked List Changed Everything2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-01-27
- A Different Internet2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-12-07
- Cowboy Clothes and Sunday Best2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-08-20
- Storing Time – Part 12 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-07-21
What Hacker News says?
Users choose their technology. Technology doesn't choose its users. There's no way to make it impossible for criminals to use some communications service. The same technology that protects the lawful person will protect the terrorist and drug dealer. There's no solution available that doesn't also involve sacrificing the safety of upstanding citizens. In case anyone doubts the above fact: government agents abuse the…
Comment linking /posts/2020-06-02-mlk.html
on “Zoom says it won’t encrypt free calls so it can work more with law enforcement”Submitted What If Data Is a Bad Idea? as a story · 239 points
HN discussionCool people: • https://tracydurnell.com • https://www.benkuhn.net • https://schmud.de • https://brandur.org • https://bytes.zone • https://cassidoo.co • https://www.chrbutler.com • https://sive.rs • https://fasterthanli.me • https://akkartik.name • https://www.todepond.com • https://blog.gingerbeardman.com • https://gwern.net • https://interconnected.org • https://jacobfilipp.com • https://johnnywebber.com • https:/…
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on “Ask HN: Favorite blog in 2024?”Submitted How Ebooks Have Poisoned Electronic Ink as a story · 114 points
HN discussionEach application is still largely a siloed experience. AppleScript/KDE's old DCOP/AutoHotKey (see [1])/others have tried to make tge application surface itself machine ysable, something that can be integrared & worked upon, but these old frontiers fade, & the application is more or less king of it's own kingdom, the sole arbitrator of function once more. Mostly I think we just lack good upstanding examples of positi…
Comment linking /posts/2022-08-23-the-consumer-computer.html
on “How the Consumer Computer Is Consuming Computing”Submitted How the Consumer Computer Is Consuming Computing as a story · 107 points
HN discussionI maintain a directory of small tech blogs with extracted RSS links: [0] https://blogs.hn Here are some of my favorites: • https://sive.rs • https://sonnet.io • https://benkuhn.net • https://schmud.de • https://stephango.com • https://taylor.town (this is me!) Protip: all YouTube channels and Substack newsletters also have RSS feeds :)
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on “Ask HN: Any Blogs worth subscribing to on RSS?”Submitted IBM Stretch, the NSA, and MLK as a story · 103 points
HN discussionTrevor Paglen had a similar project for US military SIGINT. It's interesting how much more "serious" the Russian insignias are than the US patches. I have a few pictures here: https://schmud.de/books/i-could-tell-you-but-then.html
Comment linking /books/i-could-tell-you-but-then.html
on “Decoding Secrets: How military medals exposed Russia's SIGINT network”Submitted The Mothers of the Mother of All Demos as a story · 69 points
HN discussionHey David! It's Taylor from https://taylor.town For those who don't know, @schmudde runs a blog called Beyond the Frame : https://schmud.de He also has an excellent Strange Loop talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SU6NvkkF4Xk
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on “Ask HN: Share Your Personal Site”Submitted Information Warfare Is Without Limits and So Are Its Consequences as a story · 50 points
HN discussionMine: https://schmud.de/ A humanities take on tech. I'm always nervous how the sidenotes render on other webviews. But my favorite part is the automatically generated historical timeline ( https://schmud.de/timeline.html ). It is essentially a meaningfully different ordering of the same writing.
Comment linking /timeline.html
on “Ask HN: Share Your Personal Site”Submitted Oneness via gurus, psychedelics and the hidden code in Jordan Mechner's Karateka as a story · 38 points
HN discussion• my blog: https://taylor.town/feed.xml • lots of blogs with RSS feeds: https://ooh.directory --- • https://www.benkuhn.net/index.xml • https://ciechanow.ski/atom.xml • https://schmud.de/feed.rss • https://craigmod.com/index.xml • https://escapingflatland.substack.com/feed • https://gwern.substack.com/feed (inactive?) • https://www.lesswrong.com/feed.xml?view=curated-rss • https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/feeds/all…
Comment linking /feed.rss
on “Ask HN: Please please share your personally curated long RSS subscriptions list?”Submitted Engineering the End of Work as a story · 9 points
HN discussionThanks for submitting, Mr. Schmudde! I'm eagerly awaiting your next post on Beyond the Frame :) [1] https://schmud.de
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on “Knuth Airgaps and Knuth Buffers”Submitted Untangling Non-Linearity: How the Linked List Changed Everything as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted How the Consumer Computer Is Consuming Computing as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Turning URLs into Meaningful Names Using Clojure as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Authenticity and the Dead Internet as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cowboy Clothes and Sunday Best as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Wikidata and Mundaneum – The Triumph of the Commons as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Wikidata and Mundaneum – The Triumph of the Commons as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Engineering the End of Work as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted MLK and “Domestic Terrorism” as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fix My Code as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gallery 404 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Storing Time – Part 2 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Disinformation Strategies and Tactics as a story · 2 points
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