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Elizabeth Tai
Personal blog · elizabethtai.comwritingaiculture
Elizabeth Tai's personal blog at elizabethtai.com covers writing, ai and culture. Since 2023, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Substack writers, you need a website”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, 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 a post on why Substack writers should have their own website and for a userscript that cuts HN link-opening tabs. One commenter says the 2023 Substack-experience post perfectly sums up their experience.
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.
Welcome to my home on the Internet! I'm Elizabeth Tai, a content engineer & tech writer who lives in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Start here or go to the firehose feed to explore the many topics I write about. Latest Where I am on the Internet What I like to write about Far too many things!…
Most-linked posts?
- Substack writers, you need a website2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-07-28
What Hacker News says?
This is slick. 2 things. 1. If you name your script with the extension .user.js it is easier to click on to automatically install at least with tampermonkey. 2. When I went to this link from the main page, on mobile I had to scroll to the right to see the (-) to minimize because the sidebar was too large: https://elizabethtai.com/2026/06/10/substack-writers-you-nee... It may make some sense to start minimized so I c…
Comment linking /2026/06/10/substack-writers-you-need-a-website/
on “Show HN: I was tired of opening 2 tabs for every HN link, so I made a userscript”Submitted Excited and exhausted: life as a tech writer in the AI age as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThe linked article "What I learned from one year of Substack" [1] perfectly sums up my experience. I can't read the article because I only see a coercive demand to subscribe first. Perhaps that's the joke. [1] https://elizabethtai.com/2023/10/22/what-i-learned-from-one-...
Comment linking /2023/10/22/what-i-learned-from-one-year-of-substack/
on “Substack writers, you need a website”Submitted My article was No.1 on Hacker News as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Substack writers, you need a website as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted I am blogging the IndieWeb way as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Posse and PESOS: Better ways to publish content as a story · 1 points
HN discussion