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chrishateswriting.com
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chrishateswriting.com is a personal blog at chrishateswriting.com about startups and career. Since 2013, 23 different Hacker News readers have linked it 29 times, most often “Today my startup failed”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (9) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog, written by 4chan founder Chris Poole, as a source on 4chan's history, the DrawQuest and Canvas shutdown, anonymity, and web performance. Comments cite it without judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Today my startup failed3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-01-21
- Small things add up: 4chan's migration to a cookieless domain2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-12-02
- When a bad day gets worse – getting hacked twice in one day2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-05-06
- The anonymity I know2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-02-12
- Build a company, not a startup2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-01-27
What Hacker News says?
4chan? They've only started to serve static content from a cookie less domain about a year ago http://chrishateswriting.com/post/68794699432/small-things-a... . When it's a known web performance technique for quite some time. Jeff Atwood did this at Stack Overflow in 2009 http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/08/a-few-speed-improvemen...
Comment linking /post/68794699432/small-things-add-up
on “MozJPEG 3.0”Submitted Small things add up: 4chan's migration to a cookieless domain as a story · 444 points
HN discussionIn moot's own words: http://chrishateswriting.com/post/74083032842/today-my-start... I'm really sad to see this, because I saw myself that DrawQuest was gaining traction. That said, I really appreciate what Everpix did, and I'm glad that moot seems to value that transparency as well. Failure is a really important part of the startup process - it happens over 90% of the time - and yet it accounts for less than 10% of…
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on “With Traction But Out Of Cash, 4chan Founder Kills Off Canvas/DrawQuest”Submitted Today my startup failed as a story · 342 points
HN discussionThis is completely and utterly wrong, and only furthers my belief that nobody in Silicon Valley actually "gets" anonymity. I'll try to write a real response tonight on my blog ( http://chrishateswriting.com )
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on “Anonymity”Submitted The anonymity I know as a story · 310 points
HN discussionPer meowface's comment, this code is ~4 years old. It's in a much better place now, but there's still a lot of room for improvement. The vulnerability wasn't in the main application. I'll write more about it on my personal blog in the coming days ( http://chrishateswriting.com ).
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on “4chan Intrusion Postmorterm”Submitted When a bad day gets worse – getting hacked twice in one day as a story · 264 points
HN discussionMy excitement is that Mark, who has been extremely staunch in his belief in "Facebook identity" (First Name/Last Name/Profile Pic, Online == Offline), is starting to consider alternatives to that. It remains to be seen what that will ultimately amount to for Facebook's product/app offerings, but it's a huge shift in his personal beliefs. I wrote up some thoughts on Snapchat's mainstreaming of anonymity/ephemerality…
Comment linking /post/67378144174/ephemerality-goes-mainstream-viva-la-snapchat
on “Am I dreaming?”Submitted My next chapter as a story · 162 points
HN discussionGood point. But isn't Craigslist's lack of vetting a good thing (1)? They're already giving out plenty of safety advice (2). 1. http://chrishateswriting.com/post/76431353368/the-anonymity-... 2. http://craigslist.org/about/safety
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on “Group Matchmaking Startup The Dating Ring (YC W14) Launches In San Francisco”Submitted A pragmatist’s startup spin-down as a story · 88 points
HN discussionLikely it is just a throwaway. If nothing else, this might remind those who see it that you can leak private keys / passwords if you put then in source control. Chris Poole described having this exact problem, in his recent post about 4Chan being hacked - AWS keys in the commit history. ( http://chrishateswriting.com/post/84931829578/when-a-bad-day... )
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on “Show HN: A minimalist event-driven (epoll) framework”Submitted Reflecting on Steve Pavlina's 2011 post, "Why I Shut Down the Forums" as a story · 78 points
HN discussionAnother example from 4chan: http://chrishateswriting.com/post/68794699432/small-things-a...
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on “Using CloudFlare to mix domain sharding and SPDY”Submitted Am I dreaming? as a story · 68 points
HN discussionLooked at your site and it looks nice and your games look good. Hard to say why you failed exactly. But what I can say is that just because you start a business does not necessarily mean it will be successful, even if you have a great product and proven team (see http://chrishateswriting.com/post/74083032842/today-my-start... as an example). You might have answered part of your problem in your own statement when you…
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on “Ask HN: Why my game studio failed?”Submitted Build a company, not a startup as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ephemerality goes mainstream, ¡Viva la Snapchat! as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted My Google Moment as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Social Media as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Personal growth as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Choosing the right path for you as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted It should go without saying as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Branching Points as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Photos as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Productivity and leisure time as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted When a bad day gets worse – getting hacked twice in a day as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Choosing the right path for you as a story · 1 points
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