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CaptainAwkward.com
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CaptainAwkward.com is a personal blog at captainawkward.com about culture and career. Since 2012, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-28, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Captain Awkward, a geek feminist blog, for writing on harassment and problems in geek culture, plus posts on family estrangement, friendship and saying no.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Don't need to be cool to be kind.
What Hacker News says?
There's a lot of "Fox News robbed me of my parents" stories out there. https://www.salon.com/2014/02/27/i_lost_my_dad_to_fox_news_h... (2014, situation has generally got worse!) https://captainawkward.com/2020/12/09/1304-fox-news-stole-my...
on “A shift in American family values is fueling estrangement”Submitted My husband, Doctor Glass, recently went on a weeklong workshop. (2012) as a story · 15 points
HN discussionDo you really exist in such a vacuum that you haven't seen the problems geek culture has with women? Nobody here's going to do your reading for you. Head over to Google, type in "the problem with geek culture", and get reading. There's also a great bunch of geek feminist blogs, which work to educate on problems in the community. Two particularly fantastic ones are Captain Awkward ( http://captainawkward.com/ ) and P…
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on “Sexual Harassment at DefCon (and Other Hacker Cons)”Submitted How to tighten up your game at work when you’re depressed as a story · 11 points
HN discussionHoly moly. I think you need to take a good look at this blog post, and all the blog posts it links: http://captainawkward.com/2012/08/11/the-c-word/ Hopefully this read will clear some stuff up. You need to lose the victim complex.
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on “Sexual Harassment at DefCon (and Other Hacker Cons)”Submitted My husband, Doctor Glass, recently went on a weeklong workshop. (2012) as a story · 6 points
HN discussionPeople in the US have to move fairly often for graduate school, jobs, etc. While some subset of the groups you're seeing are childhood friends, a large number of the people you're seeing have probably not been friends for all that long in the lifetime scheme of things! Creating new friendships is difficult and quite similar to dating. It sounds like you're already part of a few groups, that's great! A good next step…
Comment linking /2011/12/19/question-153-how-do-i-make-and-keep-friends/
on “Ask HN: How to form deep friendships later in life?”Submitted "My friend group has a case of the Creepy Dude. How do we clear that up?" (2012) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionAgreed on the personal contexts - and also where I expected the article to go. I think a better argument for professional contexts is that everyone is expected to maintain a certain level of professionalism and politeness - including CEOs. Or in other words I don't think the obligation comes from the company hierarchy, but from being in a professional context at all (for example working with someone at a different c…
Comment linking /2011/03/23/the-art-of-no/
on “No is a complete sentence”Submitted “My friend group has a case of the Creepy Dude. How do we clear that up?” as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted "My friend group has a case of the Creepy Dude" (2012) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted My husband, Doctor Glass, recently went on a weeklong workshop. (2012) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Productivity Hacks from a deeply unproductive and freaked out person as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted There's No Room in the Room of My Own as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Notes from a Boner as a story · 2 points
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