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David Karp

Personal blog · davidslog.comstartupsproductivity

David Karp writes Tumblr, a personal blog at davidslog.com about startups and productivity. Since 2008, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.

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8mentions?
8HN people?
2008–2017first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2010

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link David Karp's blog for Tumblr-related posts, such as one on 200M page views per week. The comments cite it without judging the writing.

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.

Est. 2006

What Hacker News says?

  1. http://www.davidslog.com/2941069729/200m-page-views-per-week Looks like the downtime isn't slowing them down much.

    Comment linking /2941069729/200m-page-views-per-week

    on “Should Tumblr care? David Karp tells users who complain to "go away"”
  2. Submitted Coming soon: Money from your Tumblr as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  3. Are you a Tumblr user? Because the large part of the community occurs on the Dashboard, through reblogging and passing things along. You get some people who comment back-and-forth, some people who act as nodes for large amounts of content. I'd love to map it: you get a brilliant web built up. Tumblr isn't about the individual blog community. It's about the Tumblr community. And I like, actually, that when you look a…

    Comment linking /58675697/where-should-i-get-cupcakes-in-williamsburg

    on “Posterous (YC Summer 08) launches search for every Posterous blog”
  4. Submitted How I fixed my Inbox (Tumblr's David Karp's email filters/sorts rules) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted David Karp - CEO/Founder leaves Tumblr as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted David Karp: What do you actually do at Tumblr? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted David Karp on Net Neutrality as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted David Karp: Life Improvements as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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