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David Lynch
Personal blog · davidlynch.org/blog · on HN as kemayoprogrammingweb
David Lynch writes delink, a personal blog at davidlynch.org about programming and web. Since 2011, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “P(we hire you) =~ 0.0016”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-11, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for a 2011 post on hiring developers, cited for a claim that companies hire under 1% of applicants, and for the Colour Clock toy page. Comments do not judge 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.
The personal website of David Lynch, a software developer
Most-linked posts?
- P(we hire you) =~ 0.00162 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-10-02
What Hacker News says?
Ok, this is a great question (I've faced the same problem as a generalist at times over my career), and I've loved almost every comment. First, let's look at the situation we find ourselves in the tech industry. Everyone is interviewing, but "no one" is hiring. Companies are reporting they hire less than 1% of applicants ( http://davidlynch.org/blog/2011/07/hiring-developers/ ). He probably wasn't the first to menti…
Comment linking /blog/2011/07/hiring-developers/
on “Ask HN: I’ve been applying to a million jobs”Submitted CNN, NYTimes, Mashable all vulnerable to XSS as a story · 154 points
HN discussionAny order, yes, but things like http://davidlynch.org/toys/colorclock/#hsh do not work yet.
Comment linking /toys/colorclock/
on “The Colour Clock”Submitted Why not just use an IDE if you want IDE features? as a story · 53 points
HN discussionhttp://davidlynch.org/toys/colorclock/#hms http://davidlynch.org/toys/colorclock/#smh http://davidlynch.org/toys/colorclock/#mhs Or any other order, really.
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on “The Colour Clock”Submitted P(we hire you) =~ 0.0016 as a story · 42 points
HN discussionI appreciate the pointlessness of being yet-another recreator, but hey, why not: http://davidlynch.org/toys/colorclock/ :D My quirk is that you can stick a fragment on the end to change the mapping of time to hex. e.g. http://davidlynch.org/toys/colorclock/#smh is seconds=red, minutes=green, hours=blue.
Comment linking /toys/colorclock/
on “The Colour Clock”Submitted Switching to Jekyll: you'll need to get your hands dirty as a story · 2 points
HN discussionTopically enough, I just found out[1] the importance of the themes point. A wordpress theme that had been installed on my wife's blog (not even the one she was actually using) included a file for thumbnail generation[2] which had a security hole found in it in August. I just noticed that my second link goes to the same website as this article. :) [1]: http://davidlynch.org/blog/2011/12/vulnerable/ [2]: http://markma…
Comment linking /blog/2011/12/vulnerable/
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