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David Peter

Personal blog · davidpeter.me/stories · on HN as sarenjiculturecareer

David Peter's personal blog at davidpeter.me covers culture and career. Since 2012, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Being deaf”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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4mentions?
4HN people?
2012–2020first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2012

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Pointed to in an Ask HN thread about the author's writing as an example of an emotional personal story, with a commenter saying most readers found the author's stories not engaging.

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.

David Peter writes, sometimes with code, sometimes with words.

The author on HN?

sarenji · 753 karma · member since 2010

site: http://davidpeter.me email: david.a.peter [at] gmail.com github: http://github.com/sarenji

From their public HN profile, which links to this site.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Being deaf
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-05-21

What Hacker News says?

  1. zalew · 2012-07-08Recommends
    If I'm to be completly honest, most people around here are kindly saying that you're stories aren't engaging. Seriously, you probably lived/suffered a shitload of stuff that can be turned into a heartbraking story. Read f.ex. this http://davidpeter.me/stories/being-deaf It's a story, it's emotions, it's not being afraid of sharing what you feel. People around here are skeptic about your content not because they are…

    Comment linking /stories/being-deaf

    on “Ask HN: How can get people to stop gushing at me and, instead, promote me?”
  2. Submitted Being deaf as a story · 676 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Structural Ableism in Tech as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Hacker School as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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