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Chris Hacken

Personal blog · chrishacken.com · on HN as chrishackenstartupsbusiness

Chris Hacken's personal blog at chrishacken.com covers startups and business. Since 2017, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Starting an Internet Service Provider”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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6mentions?
4HN people?
2017–2021first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2017

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link Chris Hacken's writeup on starting an ISP through NEPA Fiber, a community broadband operation, as a reference for its setup and costs in community broadband threads.

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.

The personal site of Chris Hacken — entrepreneur and operator who founded and sold Loop Internet. Essays and a podcast on building internet infrastructure, companies, and other hard things.

The author on HN?

chrishacken · 1,191 karma · member since 2012

http://chrishacken.com

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

Most-linked posts?

  1. Starting an Internet Service Provider
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-02-20

What Hacker News says?

  1. Here's Chris Hacken's writeup on his NEPA operation: http://chrishacken.com/starting-an-internet-service-provider... Costs here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13689309

    Comment linking /starting-an-internet-service-provider/

    on “Comcast Tries to Derail Fort Collins Community Broadband”
  2. Submitted Starting an Internet Service Provider as a story · 912 points

    HN discussion
  3. Consider talking to chris hacken of nepa fiber: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13688595 , http://chrishacken.com/starting-an-internet-service-provider... . Also, consider looking at https://godigitalmarin.org/ on what they've done.

    Comment linking /starting-an-internet-service-provider/

    on “Ask HN: Advice on bringing community broadband to Los Alamos?”
  4. Submitted The War on Upstart Fiber Internet Providers as a story · 553 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Starting an ISP: Deploying Fiber as a story · 276 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted The War on Upstart Fiber Optic Internet Providers as a story · 29 points

    HN discussion

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