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Doug's Darkworld

Personal blog · unitedcats.wordpress.comsciencehistoryphilosophy

Doug's Darkworld is a personal blog at unitedcats.wordpress.com about science, history and philosophy. Since 2007, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Chernobyl Slime Feeds on Gamma Rays”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.

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3mentions?
3HN people?
2007–2016first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 1 in 2007

War, Science, and Philosophy in a Fractured World.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Chernobyl Slime Feeds on Gamma Rays
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2007-09-21

What Hacker News says?

  1. Submitted Chernobyl Slime Feeds on Gamma Rays as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  2. Submitted They eat gamma-rays as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted The Battle of Gettysburg, or How the American Civil War Was Lost in an Hour as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion

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