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Chandler Nguyen

Personal blog · chandlernguyen.com/blog · on HN as chandlernguyenaiprogramming

Chandler Nguyen's personal blog at chandlernguyen.com covers ai and programming. Since 2010, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-26, and you can follow it by feed.

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4HN people?
2010–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2026

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN commenters link his posts and charts on search engine market share, including data on Google's share by country, as sources for points about Google's dominance. The comments do not judge the writing.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

The author on HN?

chandlernguyen · 3 karma · member since 2025

I spent 18 years in advertising. Then I learned to code. Now I build AI products while keeping my day job as VP—and I write about the journey. The wins, the failures, and everything in between. https://www.chandlernguyen.com/

From their public HN profile, which links to this site.

What Hacker News says?

  1. I wonder why Russia and South Korea aren't Google dominated. http://www.ginzametrics.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/searc... http://www.chandlernguyen.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/sea... http://www.chandlernguyen.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/sea... Note that the data is older by a few years but i doubt that it has changed dramatically.

    Comment linking /wp-content/uploads/2015/09/search-engine-market-share-on-mobile-web-for-korea-2013-v2.jpg

    on “Google Unfairly Curbs Web Ads and Skews Search, EU Alleges”
  2. Submitted Codex with GPT-5.4 vs. Claude Code with Opus 4.6 – Why I Now Use Both as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  3. Thanks for the downvotes, HN! >That's certainly an interesting way to look at it, but it doesn't change the fact that Android does make money, both for Google and for carriers/manufacturers. So, again, it's not an artificially lowered price, and while it certainly augments search, it's not subsidized by search. Google's revenue sources from Android are mostly mobile searches that would happen anyway. I bet they make…

    Comment linking /2011/03/search-engine-market-share-by-country-mar-2011.html

    on “Google Responds To Microsoft’s "Gotcha": They’re Diverting Attention”
  4. Submitted I Rebuilt My AI Podcast App in 14 Days. I'm Terrified as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. http://www.chandlernguyen.com/2009/08/search-engine-market-s... Indeed, Yahoo still have a few holdouts around the world.

    Comment linking /2009/08/search-engine-market-share-around-world.html

    on “The 1000 most-visited sites on the web”
  6. Submitted My Database Was Correct. It Was Also 296x Too Slow as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted I'm Using Claude Code for Everything Else but Coding as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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