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Mike Elgan
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Mike Elgan's personal blog at elgan.com covers culture and business. Since 2018, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-30, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
Commenters cite Mike Elgan's posts on tech platform policy, such as the Dissenter ban and replacing Facebook, as sources or context. No comment judges the writing.
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Journalist and author Mike Elgan on culture, technology and our changing world
What Hacker News says?
Why is no-one talking about the Dissenter ban? Isn't that what prompted this whole fiasco? [0][1][2] 0. https://elgan.com/blog/why-mozilla-and-google-are-wrong-to-b... 1. https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/the-removal-of-the-dissenter... 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0Cc8RpqH1g
Comment linking /blog/why-mozilla-and-google-are-wrong-to-ban-gabs-dissenter-extension
on “Technical Details on the Recent Firefox Add-On Outage”Submitted Google is the new Yahoo as a story · 20 points
HN discussionMike Elgan wrote a post about this: https://elgan.com/blog/how-to-replace-facebook-with-nicebook Perhaps Google will quietly sunset their Photos product in the next fiscal year...
Comment linking /blog/how-to-replace-facebook-with-nicebook
on “Snap CFO Tim Stone Is Resigning”Submitted Google News is just Forrest Gump's shrimp boat now as a story · 5 points
HN discussionWe're building a MacOS app that helps you stay focused and beat procrastination. The app holds your to-do list and automatically adds a timer function. The timer is activated when your to-do item has a number at the end. As in: "Get to zero inbox 30" That means the task is "Get to zero inbox" and the allotted time is 30 minutes. If that's the top item on the list, the timer starts instantly and automatically, with t…
Comment linking /blog/two-free-apps-that-take-productivity-to-the-next-level
on “Tell HN: Today's the day that YC invites applicants to interviews”Submitted Why it's impossible to get relevant news on Google News as a story · 2 points
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