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Dan Hon
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Dan Hon writes Things That Caught My Attention, a personal blog at newsletter.danhon.com about culture, ai and writing. Since 2021, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “A Proposal for News Organization Mastodon Servers and More”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked as an earlier newsletter piece on whether an organisation should run its own Mastodon server. The comment only points to the post as related reading, with no judgement of its writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Things That Caught My Attention is Dan Hon's newsletter about the internet and life, written since 2014 — indexed, searchable, and browsable by season, topic, and index entry.
Most-linked posts?
- A Proposal for News Organization Mastodon Servers and More2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-10-29
What Hacker News says?
I wrote about this as well, about a week and a half ago: https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/4230/
Comment linking /archive/4230/
on “Your Organization should run its own Mastodon server”Submitted A short conversation with a bank as a story · 532 points
HN discussionSubmitted Anything LLMs Can Do, I Can Do Better as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Proposal for News Organization Mastodon Servers and More as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dan Hon: A proposal for self-verifying social media federation as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Not About How It Looks as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted You don't want an intelligent assistant; Protocols, Not Platforms as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Zoom App Dock: Congratulations, Your App Has Apps in It Now as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted For want of a screenless MP3 player as a story · 2 points
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