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delicioustacos
Personal blog · delicioustacos.comculturewriting
delicioustacos is a personal blog at delicioustacos.com about culture and writing. Since 2018, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, 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 its online dating stories, including the author's pickup openers and his cynical take on dating apps. One commenter calls the writing good, though not to everyone's taste.
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.
What Hacker News says?
His blog may not be to everyone's taste, but the writer 'Delicious Tacos' pioneered this with OK Cupid years ago. On his blog he shares his online dating exploits along with some nice openers ("You are attractive, and I want to go out with you. Basically" being one that I stole and overused). Anyway, all that online dating made him horribly cynical. But damn if it doesn't make for good writing: > If she doesn’t give…
Comment linking /2014/08/04/okcupid-starter-kit-copy-this-and-tell-me-what-happens/
on “Impersonators who are paid to flirt on dating apps”Submitted Universal Basic Woman (2019) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://delicioustacos.com/2018/01/28/talk-to-her-for-me/
Comment linking /2018/01/28/talk-to-her-for-me/
on “A Matchmaker Who Flirts on Dating Apps for You (2017)”