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David Farrier
Personal blog · webworm.coculture
David Farrier's personal blog at webworm.co covers culture. Since 2021, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “Glassdoor not so anonymous”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link David Farrier's Webworm newsletter for reporting on Substack, Glassdoor, New Zealand government takedown access and other stories. One calls it good for international readers.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
David Farrier's weird investigations, quirks & oddities delivered direct to your inbox!
Most-linked posts?
- Glassdoor not so anonymous2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-07-19
What Hacker News says?
Oh also Webworm by David Farrier is really good too https://www.webworm.co/ Better for international audiences, if you like Dax Shepard's podcast with him, you'll love his Webworm content.
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on “We’re the founders of Substack, we just launched an iOS app. AUA”Submitted Glassdoor not so anonymous as a story · 1147 points
HN discussionAs a New Zealander, I was most surprised to learn we had a daily telegraph. Looks like webworm has covered them https://www.webworm.co/p/badnews
Comment linking /p/badnews
on “Retro gaming YouTuber Once Were Nerd sued and raided by the Italian government”Submitted A fun roundup of modern conspiracy theories: Laugh, cry, wonder at it all as a story · 15 points
HN discussionMight be the allegations such as those made by David Farrier this August[1] > Then, last month, Substack sent out a push notification to some users of the Substack app encouraging them to subscribe to a Nazi newsletter. Like, full-Nazi stuff. Not subtle: followed by a screenshot of a Substack profile full of swastikas describing itself as news for the "National Socialist and White Nationalist Community" [1] https://…
Comment linking /webwormisleavingsubstack/
on “Apple A19 SoC die shot”Submitted Silicon Valley Has a God Problem as a story · 11 points
HN discussionThis https://www.webworm.co/p/glassdoor should have convinced anyone to go ahead and delete all their data and account from Glassdoor.
Comment linking /p/glassdoor
on “Glassdoor is now adding real names to user profiles without consent”Submitted Conspiracy Theorists Are Now Making Deepfakes as a story · 4 points
HN discussionAs usual, the most ridiculous explanation turns out to have already happened: https://www.webworm.co/zach/
Comment linking /zach/
on “There Is No AI (It's Just People) with Jaron Lanier”Submitted While You Shop, They Watch as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThere is evidence of funding coming in for some radical right groups. I’m not sure an instant dismissal is possible order, but the OP giving a link or two would have been helpful. This is what came to mind for me: https://www.webworm.co/p/fakenews2
Comment linking /p/fakenews2
on “New Zealand admits it has access to Facebook takedown portal to censor content”Submitted The Curious Case of the Pearl Jam Posters as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bill Gates on Being Conspiracy's #1 Bad Guy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Never Engage with Toddlers Online as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Cult of Self-Improvement as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Running a fake disinformation Facebook page as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Would you cheat to get home to New Zealand? as a story · 1 points
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