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Danny Salzman
Personal blog · dannysalzman.comdataproductivity
Danny Salzman's personal blog at dannysalzman.com covers data and productivity. Since 2019, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “Analyzing HN readers' personal blogs”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its analysis of HN readers' personal blogs, and for the hn-blogs.csv file it hosts. Commenters share the file link and cite the analysis post as a source.
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.
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Most-linked posts?
- Analyzing HN readers' personal blogs2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-04-09
What Hacker News says?
This reminds me of an old blog of mine. "The culture of Googling everything is diminishing innovation and critical thinking." Person A: "I have this great Idea!" Person B: "What is it?" Person A: "Well its ______ for ______!. Isn't that awesome" Person B: (Quickly googles on his phone) "There are already X companies doing exactly that" Person A: "Ohhh..."(Drops his head in shame and moves on" The most innovative ide…
Comment linking /second-order-google-effect/
on “Ask HN: Are you put off building something because it already exists?”Submitted Analyzing HN readers' personal blogs as a story · 243 points
HN discussionI wrote a short meta blog about this thread. I analyzed all of the personal blogs in the comment section using Wappalyzer. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22822401 + https://www.dannysalzman.com/2020/04/08/analyzing-hn-readers...
Comment linking /2020/04/08/analyzing-hn-readers-personal-blogs
on “Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?”Submitted How to Train Your Remote Employee as a story · 2 points
HN discussion+1 to https://goatcounter.com/ o use it for my personal blog https://dannysalzman.com . This is a good reminder to donate.
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on “Umami: Self-hosted open-source alternative to Google Analytics”Submitted Show HN: Interactive HR plot of my wedding day as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI made a graphical map of this PPP data. Here https://www.dannysalzman.com/2020/07/07/map-of-ppp-funding Full screen - https://www.dannysalzman.com/files/ppp_map_v1 Warning - large file download (128mb) doesn't work well on mobile
Comment linking /files/ppp_map_v1
on “Searchable PPP Loan Data”Submitted Interactive Map of PPP Funding as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI use an Alphasmart Neo for journaling. Recently modded it with an ESP32 for wireless file transfer. I love it! https://www.dannysalzman.com/2024/06/20/modding-alphasmart-n...
Comment linking /2024/06/20/modding-alphasmart-neo-for-wireless-ble-transfer
on “The Forth Deck mini: a portable Forth computer with a discrete CPU”Submitted I tracked and plotted my HR on my Wedding Day as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIts here https://www.dannysalzman.com/files/hn-blogs.csv
Comment linking /files/hn-blogs.csv
on “Analyzing HN readers' personal blogs”Submitted Show HN: Status Light for Working at Home as a story · 1 points
HN discussionLink to the raw file is broken - Try this http://dannysalzman.com/files/hn-blogs.csv
Comment linking /files/hn-blogs.csv
on “Analyzing HN readers' personal blogs”More sources: https://hnblogs.substack.com/ https://www.dannysalzman.com/2020/04/08/analyzing-hn-readers...
Comment linking /2020/04/08/analyzing-hn-readers-personal-blogs
on “Show HN: Blogosphere – Discover independent technical blogs”