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dumbmatter.com is a personal blog at dumbmatter.com about programming and culture. Since 2014, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “My Obituary for Programming”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked as a Show HN for barbconq, a TypeScript browser minigame cloned from Civ4 and published as open source. The comment is a project announcement and does not judge any writing.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- My Obituary for Programming2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-10-18
What Hacker News says?
Since today is the day of Show HNs, here's a Show HN within a Show HN: For some ridiculous reason, I recently cloned a semi-decent chunk of Civ4 in TypeScript and made a minigame out of it: http://dumbmatter.com/barbconq/ It's open source if anyone else is interested: http://github.com/dumbmatter/barbconq/ Of course it pales in comparison to Freeciv, which is why this is only a Show HN within a Show HN rather than a…
Comment linking /barbconq/
on “Show HN: Freeciv, HTML5 open source version”Submitted My Obituary for Programming as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted My Obituary for Programming as a story · 1 points
HN discussion