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Brandon Stanton
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Brandon Stanton's personal blog at humansofnewyork.com covers culture. Since 2013, 21 different Hacker News readers have linked it 23 times, most often “Humans of New York”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (14) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Humans of New York for short portraits and interview-style stories about everyday people, in New York and later in places like Iran and Iraq. Often cited as a comparable model for human-interest writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 14 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Humans of New York10 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2013-10-10
- /post/129574836736/i-hate-pot-i-hate-it-even-more-than-hard-drugs2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-10-03
- /post/64412654576/i-struck-up-a-conversation-with-him-and-he2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-11-07
What Hacker News says?
I think "Humans of New York" http://www.humansofnewyork.com/
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on “Privilege and Inequality in Silicon Valley”Submitted Humans of New York as a story · 133 points
HN discussionKudos! Although it's an entirely different type of content/business, this reminds me of Humans of New York . [1] There seems to be a broad desire for simple, consistent content about the lives of everyday people. I think it may be a reaction to the increasing unreality of most larger media outlets, which have become very contrived and overly-optimized. If I were looking to start a newsletter, I would pick a similar…
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on “My newsletter is making $2k per month with 7k subscribers – AMA”Submitted If you're opening a business just for the money as a story · 5 points
HN discussionIf you could work anywhere, what would you do? - Wouldn't you want to work towards genuinely making the world a better place? - Wouldn't you want to work in a close-knit team alongside some of the brightest engineers in the industry? - Wouldn't you want to work on solving interesting problems that haven't been solved before? --- At Khan Academy, I truly believe that you can find all of those things and more. We're a…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2013)”Submitted “If you are being hunted, this bush is one of the best places to hide” as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIf you like this, you will enjoy this: http://www.humansofnewyork.com/ -- many touching stories and great portraits. The author started in NY but has traveled the world, doing the same type of short interviews with people in Iran or Iraq.
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on “Who’s Sitting Next to You on the Subway? An R Train in September”Submitted The Chess Hustler as a story · 3 points
HN discussionTangentially related: the recent "Humans of New York," blog/book [1] and the various other spin offs [2][3] seem to thrive on this same experience. Something about breaking the ice and making human connections seems to strike an inherent chord within many people, despite the difficulty many of us have putting such techniques into practice. [1] - http://www.humansofnewyork.com/ [2] - http://portraitsofboston.com/ [3]…
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on “Hello, Stranger”Submitted “Yesterday we found an encyclopedia from the Late Victorian era“ as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI think that what you may be experiencing is a heightened sense of concentration toward a passion of yours that you were passionate about before you smoked pot. However, think about children who smoke pot from an early age and don't develop the kind of curiosity that I'm sure proceeded the pot smoking you're talking about. Did you first discover your passions while you were young, impressionable, and smoking pot? Or…
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on “DARE: The Anti-Drug Program That Never Actually Worked”Submitted Humans of New York as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttp://www.humansofnewyork.com/post/65691473318/like-many-pe...
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on “Humans of New York”Submitted Humans of New York as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI remember reading this particular story 30 something years ago. Probably in Reader's Digest. I guess he also read it and made it his own. I hope it wasn't a thing back then. http://www.humansofnewyork.com/post/65933750954/my-first-mem...
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on “Humans of New York”Submitted A glimpse into the hearts of new york as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttp://www.humansofnewyork.com/post/32016876047/the-boxer
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on “Humans of New York”As an engineer at Khan Academy it feels pretty awesome to find this: http://www.humansofnewyork.com/post/64412654576/i-struck-up-...
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on “Humans of New York”Fascinating place! On a related note HONY is currently doing Iran ( http://www.humansofnewyork.com/ ), you should check it out if you haven't done so for the intimate portraits or regular people.
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on “The Tomb of Queen Esther in Persia”I think things like drugs and alcohol are worse for growing brains. From a NYC teacher (One reference point) "I’ve taught high school for 25 years and I hate what marijuana does to my students. It goes beyond missing homework assignments. My students become less curious when they start smoking pot. I’ve seen it time and time again. People say pot makes you more creative, but from what I’ve seen, it narrows my studen…
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on “Cannabis Access and Academic Performance”I'm reminded of this interview with someone dealing with the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide: http://www.humansofnewyork.com/post/179425163901/there-was-a... When crimes are perpetrated by extremely large numbers of people, you can't punish them all. You have to limit yourself to punishing the organizers, and forgive the rest. In this case, the organizers are the leaders in the fossil fuel industry. And it's not t…
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on “Climate Concerns Are Pushing Oil Majors to Look Beyond Fossil Fuels”Not one link in that entire blasted article. http://www.humansofnewyork.com/ Come on, New Yorker, get it together.
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on “Humans of New York and the Cavalier Consumption of Others”Wow, this is really powerful. Way to early in the day to go drown all the feels in alcohol too: http://www.humansofnewyork.com/
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on “‘Humans of New York’ Is Suddenly a War Report From Iraq”
